cheezyridr

i have to echo the trash thing. i HATE that. i also don't like days when i see lots of copperheads, or wasps. the thing i hate most though, is what stops me from going fishing entirely. stuff like: when a good friend calls me to help do stuff. i won't say no, because that's not being a good friend. but i sometimes wish i could. or when i have so much work to do around the house my conscience won't allow me to go fishing.

the last time i saw a gar that big was 40 yrs ago, in the nanticoke river. good for you! that's an awesome catch!

i just bought a ruger american .45, it is my first pistol. i literally just brought it home 2 nights ago. next week i am going to the range with my brother. i doubt i will hit the target much at first ? i bought it for a "house gun". i wanted the 9mm, but you can't get ammo here, so i went to the .45 instead. later on when i get my ccp, i will get the 9, but i have time to shop around and see what i like, and try some stuff out before then. i have lots of training to do before that.

i get metal or fiberglass splinters in my fingers and hands all the time. i always do my own surgery. there reason for this is, an incident that happened when i was an apprentice. a metal splinter went into my palm. it traveled around my hand, and then across the top of my middle finger, eventually coming out of the tip, almost a year later. now i take them out, no matter how much digging i have to do

back in the 80's i held the state record smallmouth in my hands...for a few seconds. i was standing on a rock, shaking in disbelief. rod in one hand, fish in the other. i turned to hop from one rock to another so i could head back to my car and get the fish to a scale. instead, i slipped on some moss, and fell backwards into the river. fish went one way, rod went the other way. lost 'em both. the place i was fishing is a spot i rarely see other people fish. but the next day, there were 4 guys fishing that spot. there was no one to be seen when it happened though. but they obviously saw me, during that critical moment. that fish would have smashed the record by at least a pound, probably more. i would still hold the record right now, had i not slipped.

reminds me of the time i REALLY ticked off the first ex. one of my buddies came over so we could go fishing. she was in a bad mood anyhow, i don't remember why anymore. so my buddy walks in and says hi to her, and she sneers at him, and makes some dismissive gesture as she walks by. he looks at me and says "what's wrong with her?" without thinking, i replied "don't pay her no mind, she ain't been the same since that house landed on her sister and they took her favorite shoes". the look on her face helped me decide to expedite our departure. hahahaha

so, how many of you have seen the movie "jumanji"? this year, when the clock strikes midnite on new year's eve, instead of shouting "HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!" instead, please shout "JUMANJI!!!" as loud as you can. maybe that way, we can get the hell out of this game, and 2021 won't be like this year was.

as a sheetmetal guy, i see similar scenarios all the time. i know on your end, it's frustrating as hell. i only wanted to point out that the contractor may not have a choice. he may be dealing with a customer who is pennywise/pound foolish. i see that alot. someone along the way decides that not updating old or obsolete equipment is somehow cheaper. they have no clue the mess they are creating for everyone down stream. hell, they may not even care, for all i know. the stories i could tell you about systems patched together with soup cans and hose clamps (metaphorically speaking) would probably sound pretty familiar to you by now. being the guy who has to repair and make those systems perform to standards expected of newer equipment, drives me up the wall sometimes. often, the equipment was the cheapest available junk when it was new anyway, and the fact it's lasted as long as it has, is a miracle in itself. hang in there, i hope you have lighter days ahead of you soon. (it can't be like this every day, can it? hahahaha)

i used to hang out with an old blues guy, when i lived in canada. he was the one who gave jerry this guitar

i've never seen ghosts, or ufos, or bigfoot, or any of that stuff. they might exist, i don't know either way. but i never saw anything lke the stuff some folks have subscribed

my name comes from when i bought my first bike, loooong ago. the guys i was working with saw me coming in one morning and said "man, that bike fits you perfect, you look like easy rider." then one of them said, no way! it should be CHEEZYrider!" then and there, the name stuck. i had no choice. inside of a month, no one in the whole state called me by my first name anymore. then one day, the internet was born. i tried to make my screen name cheezyridr, but someone on aol already had it. i didn't want to add a number to it, so i dropped the last E. i wonder if you already knew this: (copied from google) You have probably heard of the term "Shinobi" used to refer to what you know as ninja, written as in kanji. Each kanji character can be read in many different ways, and so ninja (忍者) which basically means "shinobi person", can be read as both "shinobo-mono" or "ninja". just a piece of trivia that i thought of, when i saw your post

same here. i used to use a spinning set up for throwing lite lures, but i don't now. i have a st croix mojo 7' casting rod it's MLM paired with a nice bfs reel and 8 lb flouro. i can throw tiny lures for the long bomb if i want, but more importantly to me, i can put them where i want them accurately. it would be nice to have just a smidge more stiffness, but i haven't found anything like that so far. most of the season though, i'm throwing bigger baits, and don't use that rig as much. i use my regular bass rods most of the time.

now you know the open secret, with first hand, tactile experience. when people say "pound for pound, smallies fight harder than anything else." it's true. a 3lb or bigger smallie, fights like mike tyson in the 80's. i think rock/red eye/warmoth bass are a close 2nd, the big ones are pretty insane, but rare around here. ymmv

this has been an interesting thread for me. right now, i don't have a boat, so there are lots of local places i can't fish, or would be pointless to try without one. it never occurred to me to hire a guide for local fishing. now i have something i can maybe do next season that won't require me to go on a long trip. it's always been a bucket list thing that one day i would hire a guide in fla to catch giant bass, or some northern state for big pike. now i might look into hiring a local guide to catch bass in a place i couldn't otherwise fish. thanks to the o/p for giving me a good idea.

i lost my keys once, they were clipped to the belt loop on my cut offs while i waded in the brandywine, with my 1st wife and my son. had to call the wife's youngest sister to bring us the spare set of car keys. when she got there with a few of her friends, they decided to go swimming. we went home. her little sister came by the house that night with my keys. she randomly stepped on them in about 3' of water, and picked them up with her toes. some of you guys talked about catching the same fish multiple times. once i caught a 3½ lb bass on a white spinnerbait. it had a balsa bee in it's mouth that was in pretty good shape. it also had a tail stickin out of it's throat that probably belonged to a 6" long sunfish. i caught lots of other bass on the bagley's before i eventually snagged it. another guy mentioned bass tracking things that fly over the water. i was talking to a buddy while fishing, and for whatever reason, i watched the lure fly as he cast to a spot in front of some pads. not intentionally, it just sorta caught my eye as i was standing there. by completely random luck, i was able to watch as the moment the lure was about an inch or so over the water, a bass jumped out and grabbed it.

i'm not into superstition. but luck? i don't think it can be denied. some people have it, some people don't. i have a buddy who has won raffles, draws, cool door prizes, lottery money, etc. i rarely do. otoh, there have been times i was speeding down the hiway, lifted my foot for unknown reasons, and breezed through a sped trap at a far more legal speed than just a few seconds previous. a few times, completely random encounters have filled a need in a completely random fashion. but not all luck is good. i have terrible luck with women. the surest way to find out if a woman is dangerously insane, is if she likes me. the more she does, the greater the probability that she likes to eat live puppies or she secretly rides a broom on moonless nights in a pointy black hat.

as if!!! you'd never have time to fish with 5 honey do lists! hahaha ever seen the movie "big fish"? in it, a one-eyed witch gives edward bloom a very important piece of advice. "The biggest fish in the river gets that way, by never being caught."

a baitcasting reel would fix 75% of the problem, side arm casting would clean up the rest. the lob from a spinning reel is rarely your friend.

the section of the brandywine i fish most, is rocky. this is good news

i picked up some of those, too. looking forward to trying them out come spring

great example! double the horsepower for only 31 mph more top speed, with a price difference of $98,700

one thing i would add about high end gear: if you ain't fishing the tour, you don't really need that level of performance. BUT that doesn't mean you shouldn't buy it. the real reason (in my mind) to buy high end gear is, the refinement looks good to your eye, and feels good to your hand. the non-linear improvements you get for your money feel good. you work your butt off for the money you make. why shouldn't you have a few small trinkets? * what i mean by non-linear improvements is this: guitars and fishing gear have something in common. after a certain price point, the ROI drops off. the more you spend, the less you get for the extra money. is the improvement i get from my curado dc worth the extra $140 i paid compared to my mach 2? not really, when you consider just how much reel i got for $139. but it makes me happy to have those refinements, so i gladly paid it.

i am also a bank fisherman. i own a daiwa ltd sv lite, a curado dc, and a lew's mach 2. the daiwa is for casting tiny stuff. the curado dc is my all-arounder, and the mach 2 is my knock-about. i don't have any issues with casting distance with the curado dc. however, the dc part of it is so very subtle. i like it, but i could get by without it just fine. this is just my opinion, ymmv: if you want casting distance, buy a spinning reel. that's not the advantage of using a casting reel. they are for power, accuracy, and sensitivity. imo accuracy beats distance 99% of the time. my recommendation would be youtube. search the reels you are considering, and see how far others are casting them. the reels you've chosen are not really that similar. they are all intended to do slightly different things. for an all arounder out of your list my choice would be the metanium.