CrankFate

I was thinking I should use a screw, the teeth will probably hold better than a nail.....

I’m going to call my Ned rig a reverse neko rig from now on.

I did burritos last night. From dry black beans, with guacamole, charred steak, cheese and everything else. I do this about once a week, but usually from canned black beans. Spending more time at home, I can work on the beans longer.

Yeah, I watch those videos all the time. Quarantine has me working on the BBQ Pit Boys Beard right about now, too. I Shoulda took pictures, but I’ve been off line busy from work and cooking. I did some ribs, bacon cheeseburgers with onions, chicken legs and wingettes over the last week. All I have to post is this picture of the leftover wings. They would’ve looked awesome fresh off the BBQ. Smoked with cherry and applewood (my favorites).

Toll collectors are a thing of the past. Sorry about the people that lost their jobs. But working as a toll collector is pretty hazardous, sitting there all day in a box filled with auto exhaust is not good for people. It causes emphysema, COPD and lung cancer. People will be better off with almost any other job at this point in time.

If you play your cards right you’ll be younger at 40 than you are at 30.

I’ve only seen this happen when people dead stick with bait.

The far casted senko is the hardest hook to set. And its even worse when it gets hit one centimeter below the surface.

The more I know, the more I find myself making the wrong assumptions.

I haven’t put a hook near anything taking or breaking a rod, so you’re doing something right.

My wife does not cook. I do all the cooking. My Grandmother (RIP) always said I had “French tastes” when it comes to food. According to my family history and the ancestry DNA results for me and several relatives, my grandfather was really French, not Italian like my grandfather. Obviously, my grandmother must’ve known that all along.

Same here. Saw one last year while we were taking a walk. Craziest thing I ever saw. I had no idea they fight like that.

If this happens thank the fish gods. Where I fish, any bass gets hooked any others anywhere nearby see it and disappear.

I am not going to say I know what they are doing. But at this time of year they are impossible to catch when they do this. Once they start migrating around, instead of staying in one area, then they get more catchable. I sometimes think some bass do not spawn. Not big enough, not smart enough, not bad enough, couldn’t make a bed, no beds left, or they woke up late? I assume there are bass like this and these bass probably do nothing during the time that all the breeders spawn.

I once (or twice) put a multi purpose grease in a reel thinking grease is grease. One long day out there in 90+ degree weather and the stuff was all over the reel, including on the edge of the spool and edge of the hole the pinion gear is in. Not good if you are casting less than one ounce.

Just go out and fish. After you’re out there enough you’ll know if your rod’s too heavy, too soft too stiff or not balanced or whatever. If you obsess over gear, you’ll be fishing for baitmonkeys more than you’re fishing.

I agree with the advice that says keep them. I prefer 7 speed reels. In fact, just about every reel I Fish, for every single application has about the same retrieve in inches (about 30). From a 7 speed reel I can slow it down easily. I rarely ever need to speed it up. I have 6 speed reels, but only use them for certain things.

Kistler custom magnesium casting rod (made from the lightest spinning blank they had) with a Shimano Aldebaran. Perfect for my purposes. Exactly the action I needed. I will probably go for a heavier helium in the not so distant future.

Yes. Never had one fail that I could ever remember. I can hear my father saying, It’s not the knot, the fish aren’t gonna break your line unless they’re big.

If this is a reel with a V like spool or a spool with rounded sides, this is more likely to happen. If the line is spooled loosely, it doesn’t lay flat enough and can roll over on itself when you spool it. If you spool it as tightly as possible, this doesn’t usually happen. This is a guess, though, because there are a lot of variables and it could still happen if you throw something too light for the rod or the reel settings or if you drop the rod tip quickly on the retrieve, because doing that can send slack into the spool. So can casting very light lures into the wind. I get this problem a lot when fishing fluorocarbon instead of with braid because of how I fish. Which is why I prefer braid.

There were large pods of unprotected fry everywhere. I’ve never seen that this early. And I’ve never seen this many of them.

I keep them in their bags. I now use a clear tackle box (which is really a sewing supplies box) with 3 clear Plano style boxes inside. It’s big enough for 4, but I just put the soft plastics bags on the bottom.

I always have seaguar fluorocarbon with me no matter where or what I am fishing for.

If that’s an advertised thing, that is just wrong. Very, very wrong. I have some reels that have that fraction of a second weightlessness where I pray I hear the crack of the dog kick in after the hookset.

It’s impossible to say what’s best here. It all depends on the rod, the reel, the line, the hooks. There’s only so much you can dead lift before something fails. You have to know how hard you can pull on what you’re using. I agree with @Cdn Angler & @RoLo that beaching is the best option. Otherwise, use a net. I recommend tightening drag on the fish. But last time I did that, my son lost a big fish he had on, because I couldn’t feel what was too tight. This situation is all about the feel.