MN Fisher

I'm so far away from my fly whipping days that it'd take more time that I got left to get back into it....but yes, it was a lot of fun...

For a moment I thought it was a "Clyde's Cranks", but his Ghost Blue has white dividers, not black. Clyde does good work though....I'd check him out. I have a set of his White Crappie pattern - which he doesn't carry anymore unfortunately.

Pic would help.....

Special dinner for Nora's 60th - local Japanese Hibachi restaurant delivered by Door-Dash My selection is Potstickers, Yellowtail Sashimi and Filet Mignon and Shrimp with Mushrooms and Veggies and a side salad.

Same here - though I do feel the tap-tap-tap better if I'm using FC for the leader over Mono....probably why I've gone all FC for leaders no matter the # test.

Preservation - it's been done that way for thousands of years....the Inuit still do it as well.

I just cut off the lure, put a line clip at the end and reel up semi taunt before putting the sock on. No kinks, no tangled lines. Rapid Fishing Solutions Line Clips

^ Braid with leader on all spinning rigs here - and yes, FC added in (15'-18') seems to increase the slack-line sensitivity for me anyway Only two casting reels I have braid on are my flip/pitch/punch rig (50#) and my frog/toad rig (40) - and again, leaders (20# and 15# respectively) but shorter - 8'-10') Ever other casting reel is either straight FC or straight YZH.

I never go lower than 30# braid on casting gear - too much dig in of the thinner line when under tension which causes bird's nests. 20# braid is what I put on MH/F spinning rigs.

You realize of course that I'm stealing this idea from you.

Depends - you can do jig/bobber and cast it on L or ML...that's how I do most of my gill/crappie fishing anyway. Best bobbers to use are Rocket Bobbers - can be used at set depth, or string a small weight stop, followed by small beads and put the bobber between the beads and you have a slip-bobber setup. I steer clear of those string-stops that they sell in the panfish area. Pic of my slip-bobber setup with boober stop and bead/bobber areas circled. Below the left bead is a 1/32 or 1/16 Kalin's Triple Threat jig with plastic or live bait (worms and minnows are killer for crappie and 'gills.) Set your drag properly and hang on - I've pulled in 3#-4# bass on my UL with 6# braid to 4# InvizX leader. ML is my main rod...I save the UL for the 1/32 hair jigs without plastic that I work through the weeds or when I go super light with 1/64 Trout Magnets for finicky panfish.

Walleye rigs are good for finesse techniques when hunting bass...so you got a start anyway. Zimmerman is surrounded by a number of lakes that have decent largemouth potential - Lake Freemont right there in town has what looks to be good structure between the point on the SE corner and the island. Elk Lake has some nice structure as does Blue Lake. Going out a little further - Ann, Eagle, Birch, Mitchell and Big all look promising.

Update: 4 nice size sunnies put 1/2# of fillets in the freezer Spawn is NOT over - three of those sunnies were loaded with roe...so they're still gonna be up close to shore.

No pics - but I went out this morning to mainly go after panfish. Arrived at my spot just after 6am and started drowning worms. Less than half-an-hour and I had two nice bluegills in the basket, and set one 12" LMB free - some reason he liked the worm under a bobber. Switched over to 1/8oz Missile Warlock (shaky) with a Dinger in Carolina Pumpkin/Chartreuse tail - three more LMBs in the 1#=2# range - kept none (strangely enough for me) and switched over to a 1/8oz Booyah Pond Magic in Pumpkinseed. Two more 1#-2# LMB and a 15" 'snot-rocket'. went back to the 1/16oz jig with worm under a bobber 2 more keeper sunnies (1 bluegill, 1 pumpkinseed) and a couple more inquisitive yearling LMBs and I called it quits for the day. 4 sunnies about to be filleted and added to my freezer stash.

I have to agree with the above - sounds like you got a nick/kink in the line. Whether it was from a guide, the spool edge, backlash, or even the gill plate of a fish - nicks in FC line are a killer This from someone who's going on his second year with InvizX on his jerk-rig.

It's not wind-knots he'd be dealing with - it's the line springing off the spool by itself before he even casts that'd be the main issue.

12# FC on a Pflueger 30? Not going to be a fun time. 30 size in Pfluegers is a 2500 for everyone else, and going above 8# test is going to 'test' your patience. I would go 30# braid to 12# FC leader on that rig if you're dead-set on that heavy of FC line on the reel.

I teased Matt Johnson earlier - he was out on the lake cause he was MC for the Denny's tournament that happened today. Asked him if he had a hard-hat for his rain-suit...his reply was that he got a short pounding (he was out on his boat this morning).

I have a link that opens the NWS station in my area in the FireFox on my phone. Since everyone else gets their data from NWS, I just go right to the source.

I got a few Victorys - but got them on sale/used for about the same as a new (prior gen) Mojo....so our upper limits are about the same.

I dunno - but I carried one in my canoe and I had an AGM for my TM and electronics.

Not always, but if it does happen, the fire caused by this can be put out with a standard Class ABC extinguisher - which every boat should have instantly accessible. A Lithium-Ion fire would need a Class D extinguisher to put it out as the metal itself is burning.

My biggest 'step away' point on the Seviin is that it's a composite frame, not aluminum. I'd go with a CA-80 before the Seviin - at least it's an aluminum frame reel.

Lithium-Ions are the ones that catch fire readily, Tom - LiFePo4 batteries are considered 'incombustible'. Drop them in a fire, smash them with ton+ weights, shot a magnum round through them....all you'll do is make them unusable....they won't catch fire. EV's still have issues with fires cause the majority of the batteries they use are Lithium-Ion, not LiFePo4.