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A little bottle kill tonight. I've been trying to limit my drams to weekends only, but it was needed tonight. This JJB pick has a lot of graham cracker and vanilla on the nose and palate, with a nice sweet oak to the finish.

Do they do the Tackle Warehouse deal where they take off 20% in your email confirmation, but not in your checkout cart?

Nope

Spring peepers are out in force along the C&O canal and my local pond. Time to throw the frogs!

I'm a professional pencil pusher (CPA). I started in public accounting, specializing in corporate tax, and I'm now in the corporate tax world working for a publicly traded company. But I'm still a pencil pusher.

Productivity in the US just went up by 40%.

Hit Little Seneca Lake on Sunday around 10AM, mainly to help a buddy launch/load his new to him (used) Tracker. This is his first boat, so it was pretty exciting. We hit the big gradual point/drop off on the right before the bridge, looking for bass moving up in the 7-20FOW range, but the water temps were around 47 so I don't think they've moved up quite yet. Then we hit a couple other drop off areas, but nothing and left by 1PM.

I keep rods in my garage which frequently hits 100+ in the summer and the rods, reels, and lines (braid, mono, fluoro) have no issues.

I have the AirdX 7'H and I've used it for Toads (Horny, Ribbits, and Noisy flappers). In close quarters, it's fine, but if you want to launch them, this rod is better suited for 1/2oz+. That being said, a 3/8oz toad, and an experienced caster will not have a problem adjusting the reel and line length to launch it.

@Delaware Valley Tackle Send it to DVT. I just sent him a Curado 150MGL that had "geariness" and Mike diagnosed and fixed it. It was a rusty pinion bearing, and he replaced it with a Boca ceramic bearing and it's quiet again.

You can hold off buying that license for a while...we've been trying to get together for several years now and it hasn't happened yet!

Yep, electric only with lots of deep drop offs.

Thanks for fixing up my reels, they're silent again and got them back quick!

May 11th work? I've always done well at Little Seneca Lake in May.

Ditch both the 12v bow and stern mount TM's and go with a 24v bow mount TM with one single LiFePO4 24v battery. The AH size depends on how long you need to use your TM. I have one electric lake that is 15 minutes from my house that I'd absolutely need 100AH batteries to fish 5+ hours. But on a river I just run and gun on my big motor and use my TM mainly for spotlocking. It never hurts to go with more AH though.

Mistakes were made coming off Dry Jan to drink a 131.1 proof spice bomb.

Where do you primarily fish? Ponds, rivers, lakes? Is there a lot of grass cover, pads, or wood? Bank fish or from a vessel? Some more info would give people more data points to help you decide. That being said, I don't see a jig rod for cover. The 7'1 Mojo Bass medium could probably work for light cover jigs. I think you're missing a MH rod that can throw heavier lures, or deal with heavier cover, but again I'm not sure what kind of water you're fishing.

Pretty light, like Owner Light Weighted X gauge. The weight definitely will not slide down. What plastic are you putting on these? Edit: This brand has a 1/0, my guess is that the wire is lighter for the 1/0 than the picture shows. https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Ichikawa_Weighted_SP_Offset_J_Jerkbait_Swimbait_Hooks/descpage-ICOJ.html

https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Hayabusa_WRM958_Wide_Gap_Screw_Lock_Weighted_Hooks/descpage-H958W.html 1/0 is their smallest, I use the 1/16 and 1/8 for small paddletails over grass cover.

Go with the blank rating, he says it's 4-10lbs in his video too.

Great rod, hopefully you can get it replaced with a new one.

TW won't show the discount for big brands like Daiwa, Shimano, Megabass in the cart, only in the email confirmation after the checkout is completed. Give it a shot, if your email doesn't show the 20% off, call or chat with them to cancel the order.

Maybe call them and see if you can get a credit back? It worked for me. I added the coupon to my cart, then added the rod which showed full price. But then I checked out and the email confirmation took the 20% off.

You may want to actually complete the checkout process then. TW doesn't show the 20% off for Shimano, Daiwa, Megabass in the cart, but will show the 20% off in your email order confirmation. Except for items that specifically say they don't qualify for advertised discounts, such as the MK Quest. This Shimano spinning rod is $79.99, and is that price in my cart. But then it shows as $63.99 before taxes in my email confirmation. Give it a try, and if it doesn't show the discount in your email confirmation, go ahead and cancel the order.

Anyone else doing Dry January? 10 more days...it's pretty awful, I don't recommend it.