MN Fisher

Primarily looking for a good frog rod - still using my Aird-X 7'0" H/F for that application.

Yep - anywhere you'd use grease on a reel, you can use Cal's.

13 casting rigs, 3 spinning bass rigs, 4 spinning panfish rigs - so 20 total. If I'm out on Bass Trek, I usually start the day with 6 rigged up and on the deck...adding as the day progresses. Shore fishing it's 3-4 with me. I'm a keeping an eye out - much prefer split-grips to full cork....ya, I'm weird that way.

1: The lower the oxygen saturation in the blood, the darker it gets...so while bass blood is a bit different than human blood, it does react the same based on oxygen content...I'd declare that possible. 2: Like Brian said - that's an old wives tale. Eating crayfish - even in their red stage - won't stain the mouth. Does your mouth get stained red eating cooked lobster?

In the canoe I took 10 rigs with me, in Bass Trek...double that. Shore fishing it's 4-5 rigs.

Cal's Tan - nothing else goes on my gears and carbontex drag washers. https://www.amazon.com/Cals-tan-Drag-Reel-Grease/dp/B08FGG26FX It may seem expensive - but you use very little. That 1oz 'tin' will probably grease my 13 casting and 7 spinning reels close to a decade if I do them yearly. For oil, I've been using 'sewing machine oil' - it's thin and formulated to last a long time under severe use. The difference in smoothness of my reels from using Abu grease and oil to Cals and 'sewing machine' was enormous.

I've had monsters like that.

Definitely turned a negative into a positive, Clayton...well done.

I wouldn't know what to do with a lefty....even my spinners are right-hand retrieve.

Basically the same pliers in my boat tool-box..which is a removable tray Stanley, Truck's tool-box is much more involved...3 drawer Torin unit...and it's pretty stuffed.

Wait...,the Olympics is going on? When they allowed the Pros in - that's when I gave up on it.

Sorry, buddy. For me, one day of this crap is one day too many. Having suffered both heat stroke and heat exhaustion in the past, I've no desire to repeat those. At 64 I'm kinda with you there, pal...just wish we could have summers like I remember as a teen - where 1 or 2 days got into the 90s....not dozens of days.

I've always been a believer in selective harvest...and I do so with bass. My own training in Aquatic Biology along with thoughtful comments by Al Lindner way back when made my mind up for me on that front. I would much rather them use a net than to heave them out and let them bounce on the deck like too many of them do...would be much LESS stressful on the bass.

More than ready, pal. Even my early trip a few days ago was despicable...a person should not be sweating that much that early in the morning. Last evening's trip was just as bad...even after sunset it was too hot to be comfortable...only catching fish kept my mind off of it.

@A-Jay - you should send that to Mr. Yankovic - he could probably expand it.

Braved the heat - 90+ heat index here even at sunset - and hit my normal shore spot. Slow twitch/drag of a drop-shot (1/8oz, #2 hook, Live Minnow) yielded several small crappie, one small perch and these two Walleye - 1#4oz Bullhead - 14oz

For most hook removals, I use a curved-nose hemostat... If it's a larger fish that's swallowed the lure/hook - a multi-joint pliers lets me go deep.

Agree with Bulldog about the lay - while it is bottom biased, it's not terrible and definitely 'usable'. Given the shallowness of the 20 size reels (500 for everyone else) I doubt that backing would solve the issue. @bulldog1935 - Pflueger never came with shim washers like the Shimanos do...occasionally you'd get soft-grips to go over the handles, but that was it. Oh, and raising the spool (more washers) would make it worse...he'd want to lower the spool to even out the line lay

Omnia leases Navionics - so if you weren't impressed with Navionics, I'm not surprised.

Pflueger doesn't send extra parts like spacing washers with their reels. I'm assuming you're talking Part# 8 from the following schematic You can try to find a thinner one at the local hardware store....or even remove it as a last resort. #9 is also a washer, so it's double washered at that point....but I'm not guaranteeing the function if #8 is removed entirely.

Any of the Z-Man plastics - maybe a CrawZ or Hella CrawZ for something a little bigger.

Spot Lock would be under 'motor control' - so nope...would have to engage that from the motor control, not the Echomap...but yes, the Spot Lock GPS in the motor would hold your position as well as other TMs.

Transducer is compatible with some Echomap units - but the Echomaps can't control the motor.

Went out early this morning for a couple hours...only thing I caught was the sunrise