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9.43 I'm about to start at 7 and guess every single possible weight in mathematical order lol

It's true, I haven't. That's how we get the funnest people.

I have an aversion to bath salts.

And see, when I bite people somehow I'm the freak...

I caught a child's life jacket at a river dam last year and it really messed me up for awhile. Probably nothing bad happened, but just the thought, and why it was there...

This. I ordered a reel from them in January, took it out in March and it had issues. I called them and they said I can take it to the store for an exchange. The store was Bolingbrook.

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Roland Martin dropped a video on casting a few minutes ago LOLOLOL I just noticed Roland has that chest exposed, showing off the gold chain. What a G.

In my opinion, and for me, it isn't so much about a rod having one specific task as it is about certain techniques needing certain requirements out of a rod. And that's the way I roll. All of my rods do more than one thing.

A bass tries to swallow another bass almost the same size as it. Such a cool video.

Lipless: Red Eye Shad in Sexy Shad, 1/4oz-1/2oz Rat-L-Trap in Perch, 1/4oz Squarebill: KVD 1.5, Black/Chart and Delta Red KVD 2.5, Gizzard Shad

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Senko rod

Google says the average 25 inch LMB is around 9.3 pounds. Gotta be somewhere around there... I'm sure someone has pretty much guessed it. OP may be looking for the correct second number in the ounces part of the weight. Like 9.37.

YZH with KVD L&L is just amazing. I've been on the YZH train for awhile but never did the L&L until this year. In limited experience with it so far it turns YZH into almost a different line, for the better, and it was already great.

There is no real world in which a Fury or E6X is low end; they're just not high end by some standards. I have an "all around" E6X and 5 Fury rods (which are new) and they're great. I have some regular Tatula rods which I really enjoy. They're not Elite Series so I can't comment on that and this probably therefore isn't any help at all, but anything Tatula has been solid to me.

I'm very ignorant of salt water fishing. I've never even seen the ocean in person. Is squid fishing with a rod and reel actually a thing?

And when you start pitching, you may find that you pitch more than you traditionally cast.

Typically the only things I'm absolutely bombing are lipless crankbaits, squarebills, Whopper Plopper, and such. I can send those things darn near out of sight (not quite so literally), especially a lipless. Casting a lipless is like throwing a baseball, casting a squarebill is like throwing a football, and casting a spinnerbait is like throwing a basketball. My pitching distance isn't as far as I'd like it to be but it is very, very accurate.

I've only had one encounter with an officer here and she was just checking licenses of people fishing the Kankakee River at the Kankakee State Park. I've never had an encounter with one at any other river at any other time. I've never had an encounter with one at any of the lakes. Illinois is a deeply flawed and troubled state however.

I was browsing them in Walmart a day or two ago because of the ad that's been at the top of the forums. I didn't pull the trigger but I probably will next time I go.

So much of this is tough to enforce. Typically someone doesn't like to be seen leaving trash (when I do catch a bonehead it's just unbelievable that they really just don't care) so they do it sneakily or away from people, or they are alone. And nobody would ever know if minnows were given bottled water. Honor code is broken anymore.

Add Fenwick HMG, Okuma EVX, and I've heard good things about the Shimano SLX.

An all around spinning combo for bass and crappie isn't really "all around". It's very whippy and finesse-y. Casting crappie lures and catching crappie on a medium powered spinning rod is going to feel off because you're going to want a medium light powered rod; meanwhile casting lures a 1/2oz or more in total weight (which is a lot of stuff) for bass on a medium light powered rod is going to push your rod to the limits and feel bad. The compromise is finesse bass fishing with a medium light powered rod, which covers both species and more and is a ton of fun as finesse fishing catches tons of fish with some good sized ones too - but that isn't "all around".

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