GreenPig

That pic makes my finger hurt. You were right to go to the clinic because it's incredibly difficult to push hooks through small bones like phalanges. Are you familiar with the braid hook removal trick?

Excellent.

My most used colors Glimmer Blue Bluegill Flash Houdini White Pearl Baitfish Lemon Shad Green Pumpkin Black occasionally

I'll add lead wire to cranks to make them slow risers or suspenders, lead wire to jerkbaits when I want slow sinkers. Roughly half of my glides and multi jointed swimbaits get a weight adjustment. Jig skirts get various adjustments too.

Nope

It depends. I always out fish my 84 year old fishing bud that was a Bass/Hybrid guide for 24 years. But with that said I always listen intently because I respect my elders and they've seen so much more than me.

Nope. I couldn't afford to feed it.

A cross between Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson and the Hulk. Because I go all out and sometimes HulkOut according to friends.

In 1999 I was 19 and fishing on a 15 acre farm when I caught a 7lb 2oz LM on 2lb mono. That girl hit a Renosky Keystone minnow. I was already consumed with bass fishing but from that point I started using more appropriately sized gear.

Unethical? No. I only use artificial for bass. I will use small Spots for Flatheads.

Surface Eel grass. Nothing more invigorating than having 8 or 9 cast out of 10 fouled up with big swim baits you've cast 40 - 60 yards.

Excellent. It's great when an educated judgement call pays off.

Use? Yes everytime I catfish.

Thank you Glenn

1 to 5+ depending on the day. Some days it's bank or wading a creek, fishing with a single rod and a handful of lures. Most of the time I'm on my 14' camo metal sled with a 25 Mercury, Solix 15, 360 Imaging, 80lb Terrova, 10 - 15 rods, and a silly amount of tackle under the deck.

Low 20's! Wow, I literally can only imagine. I lost a couple low teeners but you're speaking of a different class of bass.

Always refill at Tractor Supply.

I want to see if it's actually a bass and not a big Carp/Cat/Striper. That way I can return to the area and hunt her.

Welcome to the forum.

Welcome to the forum.

Welcome to the forum JJP.

It'll be fine with a deck. I built my deck literally on the top of the rails on my 1448. It's going on 20 years old and for years carried 2 or 3 folks with bows a gazillion miles of shoreline. Nobody ever accidentally got wet. Here's some pics.

I can't bring myself to shoot our freeloading Fox Squirrels. Too big, pretty, and rare, so we share the garden. Grey Squirrels on the other hand receive no such mercy.

Professional Pear/Tomato thief

Excellent. $14.97 on Amazoon.