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My suggestion would be to get Opera or Chrome. I personally like Opera a lot.

I'm not sure what went into it but a friend made jerky with Carolina Reapers back when I ate red meat. It was great! Habaneros are my favorite peppers, tasty and decent kick. I would also try Scotch Bonnets. They are similar in heat but the Scotch Bonnets have a little sweetness, so they mix with sweet things well and that can be real good. If you can find fatalii peppers, they have a citrusy flavor and a whole lotta heat. Finally the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion, people love or hate the flavor but I love it, Hot though so be careful!

I got mine in July. My fiancée is a medical worker and was able to get hers early, and she felt like crap for a couple days after each shot, worse after the second. Due to my schedule (work and vacation schedule, don't wanna be sick on vacation) I wasn't able to get mine until July. I basically fell asleep around 8pm the next day after each shot and that was it. I haven't got Covid lately, but I haven't really been a social butterfly either.

I generally dislike winter. But my youngest son is back to travel hockey (although fewer games due to fewer teams, somewhat covid related but more the older age group in this area). Then I have been working on my jazz and fusion guitar skills and finally getting it down. I've played a lot of rock and metal so this is new and fun.

I tend to use a T-Rig to cover water a little more than a shaky head, which I usually use to target fish on or near the bottom of a certain area.

War Eagle spinnerbaits have been one of my go to brands for spinnerbaits along with Nichols and River2Sea! Good call. I am not entirely sure yet to be completely honest. I expect to book a cabin by the month's end when I make my final decision. Basically, some place where it's warmer where I can take the kayaks out and fish in April.

I really started fishing in 2017. My youngest son was always like "should we bring the fishing rods" when we went camping, and we always had the car packed literally up to the roof as it was. Finally, I got a bigger car and I went out and got us some better fishing supplies, and I suddenly had a second hobby (music/guitar and fishing)

+1 for the Deep Little N. I have one but should buy some more. Getting some good stuff here, keep me coming. A few years ago, I did this with crankbaits and got a bunch of good ones.

Thanks guys! This is what I'm talking about and should provide some fun time on the water next year for sure trying something different. I'm not opposed if they work. My go to poppers are the Megabass. They are expensive, but they pop and walk real well and I rarely lose them. Honestly at this point I'm game for anything. I haven't really thought about this so much lately to be honest, but I can look at a couple of vacations I'll be taking for an idea. I'll be heading to North Carolina in April, and likely doing a good amount of structure fishing. I imagine I'll probably go out with a jig or maybe a T-Rig along with various moving and reaction baits when I'm down there. In June, I'll be at a lake which has a shallow weedy side and a deep not so weedy side. I imagine deep diving crankbaits might see some use on the deeper side, but anything should be fair game really. I picked up some of the Nichols Pulsators with he colorado blade last year and had some success with them, but I haven't got a Covert yet. I'm especially interested in the double Indina blades. I have the River2Seas with a large Indiana and small colorado blade and those are my dirty water spinnerbaits.

The 6'10" Tatula is a little bit stiffer than anything I'd use for a jerkbait personally although they are good rods, and from experience I would say the 6'10" MH/F is the most sensitive. I would be more inclined to go with the 6'6" M/F or the 7'2" MH/R (either the graphite or glass version) in the Tatula line. I use the St Croix Mojo Bass 6'8" M/XF "Topwater" rod for most of my jerkbaits. The tip is soft but short but there isn't a whole lot of backbone, but I like a faster tip with jerkbaits because it helps greatly with bite detection on a twitch. The 6'8" M/F Jerkbait or 7'1" M/F plastics rods are also decent for jerkbaits, but I like the M/XF which is a little lighter in power and a faster tip.

Well it's unfortunate about the boat, but at least you got it back largely intact and made it back in one piece which is most important.

Since I don't really need any new rods or reels this year, I thought I would make this Black Friday or general offseason more interesting by adding a few new lures (that I don't really need). Of course, I have a few that I do as well and a few others that I just want to try. Name me a specific lure (model and color etc) that you would suggest to a fellow angler to try out. I'm going to add a few to my list to make things exciting next year.

I took my kid fishing for his birthday and my fiancée joined us later on her inflatable kayak. We had MH-H and heavy powered rods and were targeting every laydown we could find. I had threw a T-Rig on her MH/F spinning rod, since it's a little bit lighter powered. So she got there late (typical) and we were in a corner of the lake that has some good drop offs but not a lot of laydowns, and meanwhile my kid had snagged a rod tip in a tree, which is pretty easy to do there. So I'm helping him get unstuck and my fiancée catches a 3-4 pounder. She had no idea they put up such a fight and freaked out the whole time. I'm still stuck in the trees and she's afraid to unhook it. Eventually I was able to free myself and she took this picture. Then she caught a two pounder right afterwards. This was one of them, not really a good picture.

What do you mean cooler temps? This morning was 24 degrees when I woke up!

I could not agree more. Plus the forums are well content modified - for example no random posts about politics and religion that show up all over some other places, that frankly I don't come here to see and generally want to avoid and focus on positive things etc. Glenn & crew do a really amazing job.

RIP Aaron Martens.

My original gen Tatula is easily the most sensitive of all the Tatula rods that I own (the rest are second gen). However I am fairly sure that it's the particular model, the 6'10" MH/F more so than the first vs second generation. The 6'10" MH/F Tatula would be a good recommendation here. Add in a Daiwa Tatula SV and that's a pretty solid combo.

Both, but I do tend to use larger lures often earlier in the fall and later in the fall, I will transition to smaller lures (and use lot of 1/4oz poppers). But that is more of a generalization than a hard rule as well.

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I've heard some mixed about the speed of Shimano's warranty, but it's not like Megabass where all the fine print pretty much voids the warranty before you even used it.

We'll survive, it's only next May

We have a date set. We didn't do it this year because we didn't know if we'd be able to have people at a reception.

That's probably true. Regardless, I spent half of my day browsing opportunities (day off) and there's a couple that sound promising. Some directly in my area (.NET, full stack) and some in other areas I have experience in (ruby on rails, PHP) and another with a cloud based audio streaming service that looks very interesting - and that claims to value building proof of concept apps and giving developers time to complete projects to their satisfaction before releasing it which from what I'm used to is hard to believe. When we rebuilt our email system a few years ago, we looked at using SendGrid, which is often generally recommended as an email provider especially with Azure hosted applications and they offer some good functionality as well. However, our product team scoffed at the idea of sending email through someone else. As they put it, "if we don't send emails ourselves, then what do we do?". So we made an in house service to handle sending mail which handles bounces, open and click tracking, unsubscribes and feedback loop tracking and so forth. This would be the second time I created a system like this (did one for another product some years back on Ruby on Rails). We even added a built in throttling system that throttles how often we had an email address and can be by domain as well if we have issues with a particular domain, and limit it to one email per day per email address. It took a little while from launch, but we were able to get our domain reputation maxed I believe about a year ago and every now and then it takes a dip, but it's becoming more rare.

Neither, exactly. Basically you have a cafe with cats and people can pay to visit the cats and drink coffee or use it as a shared work space (with cats!). It's often big with people who can't have cats (like college students), but this way they can spend some time with cats. And of course you adopt out your cats too and relieve space issues at local shelters as well. Not really. I've passed up many because I'm getting a little too old for a 90 minute one-way commute and my fiancée doesn't want to move. But with more and more places let you work remotely these days, I should be able to find something else remote. And given the pandemic, the number of remote positions has increased even more, although a lot of them may expect me to go into an office at some point. I wouldn't be opposed to moving myself, but the rest of the family might object. A lot of it revolves around the area I live in. There used to be a handful of startups, most didn't pay very well and a couple of larger employers and that's it. Well I'm remote full time now (they closed our office) so at this point I might as well be considering other remote opportunities.

So with a lot of both recent, not so recent and just old events, I've really been questioning my life choices a lot lately. Now before I get into this, I know you're all thinking "well you're almost 40 go out and buy a Ferrari and be done with it", I guess that isn't too far off only if I could afford a Ferrari, I'd own a really nice bass boat. Basically, I've worked the same job since I graduated college, sending marketing emails to people. Now I've known for a while the company's days might be limited, but with recent events I suspect that timeline is moving into the short term. One of the reasons I haven't left is because I've been there so long, I get a lot of vacation time and tend to take at least three weeks of fishing and camping time in the summer plus time for my kids hockey tournaments, out of town appointments and so forth and two weeks would be a drag. But more than that, I realized the other day if I was to introduce a bug that stopped sending emails for three months, people would probably thank me. The way that people are so focused on every little detail, you would think we are designing nuclear missiles or something a bit more critical. I can't help thinking it would be nice to do something that maybe I believe in that maybe puts smiles on people's faces or brings people some sort of joy. My fiancée has said for a while now that her retirement plan has been to open a cat cafe and honestly that sounds like a good change of pace, but I would probably have to move to the eastern side of the state (higher population) to succeed. Massachusetts does not even have one to boot (we did, but from what I understand the lady who ran it was a little crazy and tried to put the cats in an unheated, unventilated empty basement, so that didn't last long). One in DC was quite successful. Or maybe I'll stick with software engineering but find something interesting. Anything related to fishing perhaps? I wonder if Garmin or Hummingbird is hiring...