Alex from GA

I prefer the AT Aero after trying others. I don't do the Comfort just the plastic with no front cork. The CRB palm swell is about the same.

Got out @ dawn and threw a Chug Bug on a point and caught 2 nice, 1 1/2 - 2 lb, Alabama bass. One was hooked way down in the gills so I invited it home for dinner. Caught several more different places on worms, couldn't get any more top water bites. Come in @ 10:30 when the wake and surf boats came to play.

According to the pictures the hubs are 4 bolt so the spindle is either a 1" or 1 1/16th" straight. Look @ the seal surface on the spindle and if it's worn/grooved you'll need a Speedi Sleeve to repair the surface and an oversize seal

With Buddy Bearings the main reason why grease comes out the back is pumping them up too much. Yes LED lights last longer, use less current and they're more waterproof.

All your fellow fishermen will hate you for the rest of your life. Personally I take one home every couple of weeks, and yes they're delicious.

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My long time partner found a new partner when I started spending my winters in FL, which is great. We fish several times a year though. He's several years younger, 75, than me and front seats me but I still enjoy his company. 95% of the time I fish alone.

I carry their poncho in my kayak and have worn it a few times but never in an all day rain.

Our daughter bought a Toyota Corolla with a stick shift and I had to drive it home for her. We lived in a very hilly area and I gave her some instructions and pointers. Within a week she was driving all over town @ 17 years old.

I run an anchor line out of my front handle with a carabiner for the line. I used 3/16" rivets for the clam cleat that holds the anchor line. 1/8" rivets pulled out. I tried a trolley but it didn't work any better than the line out of the handle. I only use a kayak for running water so the wind doesn't affect me.

I only fish rivers in my kayak and use an 18" section of 3/8" chain. If the flow is strong I use another piece of chain in parallel. I use a clam cleat to snub the anchor line and run it out the front through the handle. I don't have to put the anchor in the boat to paddle just pull it up to the handle.

Personally I use a T/R finesse worm for 80% of my fishing and usually out catch my buddies. The only shakey heads are the ones I've found and I drop shot with a T/R.

Bought a Kastking Versus reel that Glenn recommended. Don't know what I'm going to use it for yet. 5.7 oz and 8:1. Bought a Pacifisun reel and 8 lb fluorocarbon goes between the frame and the spool. Not recommended by me.

King fisher's way is the closest what I do and I've caught my share of freshwater stripers up to 24-12. Be careful of bumping the trolling motor is the line is close to it.

I had a slide-in camper and pulled my dirt bike trailer with it. Any correction ended with a jackknife if I wasn't going very very slowly. I could see an inch of the trailer wheel in the driver side mirror if I was going straight so what Tom said worked for me. I had a larger boat with 8' guides that I could get crooked and just bounce back and forth to load if I hit it crooked. It's harder to load my tin bass boat than any other boat I've ever had.

I put Seafoam in my tank about once a month, about 6 oz. My tank is only 6 gallons and I use about 5 gallons a week.

Lip grippers are another option but a rubber net is the best. Stripers don't hold still when lipped like bass.

During deer season the processors will usually give me all the tails I want. I tie 1/4 to 3/4 oz heads with from 2" to 6" tails. During the winter I'll throw the larger ones to the banks later in the day for stripers and during all other times points and rocky walls hold bass, mostly Alabama bass where I fish.

Finesse or trick worm T/R.

At Lake Castaic bass used to follow the trout stocking trucks.

Great when you catch a PB, congratulations.

I use a triple surgeons knot for leader to braid in the boat or kayak. Easy for me to tie but not as strong as others. If you're using 20 lb leader nothing breaks anyway.

Early this morning, before sun up, threw a Chug Bug for 2 smallish Alabama bass. Went to several points for naught then a point down the lake a buddy showed up and we talked for 15 or 20 minutes. He said he caught several on top water earlier where we were. He shared a lure he was using for deep fish, jighead and a fluke. He left and I fished down the bank with a worm, lots of docks with poles. Caught 5 Alabama bass between 2.13 and 2.87 and took off to another place. Used the lure he recommended and caught another over 2 lb Alabama and had a hook up with the below fish. Ended with a pretty good morning.

A few years ago my wife and I were on a trip to Maine and stopped @ a park in NY by Lake Erie and walked along a path to the lake. A fawn was lying in the grass beside the trail and didn't move while we walked by and was still there on the way back. Our property in N GA has a herd of deer and we see many fawns but never this early. BTW there's a bluebird box on our porch with 5 pretty blue eggs.

My wife had cataract surgery this morning so I didn't go fishing for the first time this week. We just saw a newborn fawn in our front yard in N GA. It was frolicking around it's mother and was less than a week old. Really cute.