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@ol'crickety

What’s the name of the podcast?

@TOXIC My wife also used that book when training our first dog, a beautiful female German Shepherd named Savahna who was without a doubt the most well behaved dog we’ve had.

@Bazoo maybe you can include a photo so we know what yore working with. I’m only familiar with the gulp alive crickets.

Welcome from a fellow Illinois member, I’m in New Lenox myself.

As I just posted in another post if you’re comfortable buying from Japan you can get either a SLX MGL or a Tatula 80 for at or just above the $100.00 price point from Japan Lure Shop at least and both will have the ability to get you into some smaller trout lures, or you can buy a bfs spool for the Tatula from Ali Express for sure as @bulldog1935 has shared the listing with me and have a dual function reel that can be used on species appropriate rods.

@dixiemagnum80 As long as you’re comfortable buying from Japan my suggestions are either a Shimano SLX MGL or a Daiwa Tatula 80, the SLX is at $100 and the Tatula is at $107 available through Japan Lure Shop. I have both bought from Japan Lure Shop. If you do go to the site the SLX MGL is listed as the 24 SLX. JLS has the Tatula 100 listed for $111.49 also if you want a larger spool, their shipping is reasonably priced and with express shipping at $12.50 for my location I received my reels in under 7 days.

🤔 In this case is it better to ask for forgiveness rather than permission 🤷‍♂️

One of my favorites is Mavis Staples and Jeff Tweety covering Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Wrote a song for everyone” her voice is so gritty on that track.

@ol'crickety That is definitely a slice of heaven imho. Thanks for sharing the photos and of course your reporting makes it feel like being in a canoe next to you, at least for me 😃

@NorthernBasser Great picture 👍🏻 I love Steve Harris and Iron Maiden .

Got out for about 2-1/2 hours Monday with the ultralight setup and caught a mixed bag.

I’m using Kast King 4 pound monofilament on 2 reels, I like that there’s a few different color options, although the blue faded quite quickly the red is holding up extremely well.

I’ve mentioned this place before but my favorite local to me shop is The Anglers Outlet in Tinley Park Illinois with my second favorite being Fishing Connection also in Tinley Park Illinois. The Anglers Outlet carries a wide variety of lure choices from panfish to musky lures and a great variety of rods and reels to fit most any budget with a friendly staff and a sandwich board with the latest area fishing reports greeting you outside the door. Fishing Connection on the other hand is in my opinion a little smaller in size and a sizable portion of the store is geared towards musky or at least was when I was in there a few years back so the selection is not as varied but they still have what you need and again a staff that is more than knowledgeable and willing to help you catch fish locally. Lastly Fishing Connection has been operated by by the same owner since 1995 in the same location which for me shows his love of the sport and although I shop at BPS and Wal Mart I try to make as many purchases from these 2 establishments as I can as I really don’t want to see either go away any time soon.

@Skeeloco Although I don’t target carp even though I have 2 retention ponds near me where they are BIG and would be a great catch as I foul hooked one in the tail a couple years ago and it was a blast before the hook finally broke free, I’ve heard/read they are super smart fish so if you had a cicada hatch near you they may have been tuned into that or whatever else is flying/floating around on top. I just hit a local retention pond earlier today and I only had a mighty mite jig with me and the carp refused my offering even when I put it literally in front of their faces as I was watching them surfacing to suck in the bugs that were enjoying a cool drink from the water. If yours are surfacing maybe try a fly, small popper or even a foam spider. They used to and I’m pretty sure still do make an adjust a bubble made to fish these lures with spinning gear and from the photo you shared I’m sure it would work with baitcast gear although I used to use a tiny round clip on bobber with the foam spiders for bluegills. Just make sure the hooks are super sharp as they are pretty thin. Lastly that is one good looking carp with not a blemish on it and I’m sure one heck of battle 👍🏻

I’m going to agree with the above advice and I’ll add to it with underspins/road runners both with “hair” and “plain” which you can add tubes, curly tail grubs or my personal favorite gulp alive minnows onto, everything in my ponds will eat the roadrunner/gulp alive minnows in my ponds.

Please don’t take this the wrong way and I’m not trying to defend the guide but I don’t get that from his comments at all. I think he’s showing concern that his business is going to go belly up and probably has slowed down considerably since ffs has become more common. I think it’s a serious concern especially as pointed out that crappie have become far easier to catch due to their schooling habits and a reputation for being aggressive feeders. I’m reading the ffs debate as someone who doesn’t boat/kayak fish or fish for food but still finds this conversation very interesting as it’s the biggest fisher person advantage I’ve personally seen in the way it’s changing how fish especially crappie can be caught imho.

I love the look you’re getting there like” what are you looking at”, too cute 😃

The line capacity doesn’t change for the pound strength even the pe/braid which is definitely thinner compared to its mono/flouro counterparts 😬

I’m going to offer my .02 cents for what it’s worth. I’m all over the map with my gear both rods and reels and if you’re patient and don’t mind surfing the web as many others have pointed out there are definitely deals to be found especially during holidays, I have a Favorite Soleus I bought for $50.00 pre tax a handful of years ago on Black Friday on DSG’s website and a Daiwa BG from Midway for $67.00 last year, both were extremely good sales that I was happy to find. In terms of brand new if you’re comfortable with non name brand reels I have recommended and use 3 Piscifun Carbon X spinning reels in both 1000 & 2000 size and absolutely love them, currently $59.99 on Amazon. As far as bait casters I don’t think you can beat either the Daiwa CA80 at $99.99 although for $20.00 more you can get a Fuego which has a much better braking system or and I don’t think I have to sell you on it the Shimano SLX is a great value imho, although I don’t own a Fuego and I sold my SLX I currently have a SLM MGL after having sellers remorse from selling the SLX. As far as rods I love my BPS panfish series spinning rods which although I realize you’re probably looking for bass rods I bring these up as I for one think they have some nicely made rods in the $100.00 range including their walleye prodigy series rods that you can use for bass at $99.00 currently but they do run sales throughout the year, I also think the BPS pro qualifier for $99.99 both casting and spinning models are nice especially when on sale. But my favorite bargain casting rod is my Wright & McGill/Eagle Claw “Pro Insight Advantage” 7’-0” medium powered rod for $52.00 I purchased from Wal Mart, although my local Wal Mart no longer carries them I have found them at another Wal Mart in stock 34 minutes from my house. I just saw BPS is offering their “Fish Eagle” casting rods for $49.98 which brings me to my earlier point of surfing the web for deals.

I got 2 wonderful hand written cards from my children, a wonderful card from my wife with a cool looking bracelet and a $25.00 gift card to BPS and this shirt from my kids that I asked them to get me😃

I’ve also used Japan Lure Shop and highly recommend them.