CountryboyinDC

I will hate spending the money on it, but I'm probably going to get the box @roadwarrior mentioned when it comes out in 3600 size. I keep weights and hooks in 2 waterproof Plano boxes now, but they don't keep small things like small hooks, snaps, strips of shrink wrap, etc. separate well enough. And since I already have the pouches for 3600 boxes under the kayak seats, the other ideas are neat, but aren't going to work for my situation. They are some good ideas listed, though.

This is awesome, I'm loving the hating on the team formerly know as the Redskins. They are terrible, they are poorly managed, and they are in DC. At least they had a name before.

So far my favorite. Although we could also say "Go home" when they're home, and "Go away" when they're away.

For Washington, DC is the now the Washington Football Team. We used to say, "Go 'Skins!" Not sure what we're supposed to say now.

I reckon not.

I think this is pretty similar to a Mojo weight, but I used these in a couple of places with chunk rock bottoms, and now I pretty much use them everywhere. https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Vike_Tungsten_Carolina_Weight/descpage-VIKECAR.html These are just the ones on TW, they have them on auction sites too. I never seem them come in more than 3/8 oz size, so you'll need a couple, or maybe 3 where you're fishing.

I knew that would get answered. My truck is actually the most stock, long bed, boring truck ever. Every time I go to Home Depot or certain gas stations, day laborers assume I'm a landscaper or contractor (I'm not) and try to climb in the cab. I'm just glad @Harold Scoggins wasn out picking up women in that fancy new ride of his.

If a person is ready to kill and the others aren't as ready, it's completely possible. I've seen cases where the second man in a stack kills 3, 2 dying with rifles in their hands, when I was I the military. I'm not imagining that 3 people planning to go fishing were thinking things would go this wrong this quick. This is just terrible for those 3 men and their families.

I had to put a turbo on my 3/4 ton Dodge at only 30,000 miles. They said they found 4 Powerstroke and 3 Duramax trucks had gotten sucked into the inlet pipe. I go past them going a little easier on the skinny pedal now ?

That would be what I use. I use Power Pro green for all my baitcasters. The yellow line (I use on my spinning gear) doesn't fade as bad as the green. I also used some yellow Tufline Force, and it's very similar.

I can only speak to the pedal drive on that one, but I think it's was good as any besides the Hobie drive. You'll be amazed at how easy 3 miles pass pedaling. I think I've seen you posting about using power boats before, but if you're in a place where only kayak and canoes are allowed or feasible, the pedal drives really are game changers for propulsion and positioning purposes.

They're handy - in a kayak the most popular place to install them is around the seat frame because it's round. Of course it doesn't work so well when you actually go to cut the line because it's out of your sight. I get the adhesive type and put them in a spot I can get to. If you get the 'ring' sort, using it as a ring may be the best way.

I haven't tried Boomerang cutters, but I don't know how they could be better than Pitbull cutters. Braid is the line that gives you the most trouble, and with Pitbulls, you don't have to even hold the line under tension. In the kayak, I have Line Cutterz attached. You have to hold tension for these to cut braid, but I don't find the need to cut braid that much on the water. I also carry a knife (sometimes it's actually sharp). For any of these, I wouldn't recommend them to a mohel.

For a couple of summers, I worked for a framing contractor. The crew and foreman were a mix of locals and Yankees the owner was related to or moved with him when he moved south; really good group to work with. Probably not one us weighed 180 lbs., but we used 8 1/4" (not the standard 7 1/4") worm-drive Skil saws which probably weighed 20 lbs. It was a beast, but for someone making parts (jacks, jeaders, etc.), you could keep ahead of the rest of the crew banging walls together. The battery tools are amazing in their own way, but those heavy Skil saws were the fastest I ever saw. I still have an old US-made Milwaukee skilsaw that will probably last me the rest of my life and I don't have the forearms I once did.

I fish both rip baits and topwater plugs on the same rod, I just use flurocarbon for the jerkbaits and I'll use spinning for either bait type if it gets real windy or I have a plug with potatoe chip castability. I think it depends on your personal preference. I know some people that fish topwater plugs on much slower rods than I do (like a moderate action) while others use faster. Many can fish topwaters better than I can.

For me, I'd probably lose a lot of fish with so little tip or flex with that setup. But I use a 6'6 M/F Premier with 10 lb. mono for topwater plugs.

What line do you use for topwater? I don't think I'd want an XF action, but it may okay for some people with monofil.

I think it was Jason Christie that said clear water scared him to death. In really clear water with no cloud cover, I'll probably spook all the fish with a drop shot or anything else I try, but dropshotting, spybaiting, and other techniques that require lots of patience sound like something you'll need to learn. For dropshotting, my hooks are usually Trokar size 1 to 2/0 for the baits I use. I've tried Gamakatsu and I had to buy some Berkley Fusions when I ran out of hooks once, and I can say that I more hookups on the Trokars. They do tend to tear baits, so you can use a Owner CPS secured by a piece of shrink tubing to hold the bait by the nose (learned that trick on this website). For weights, I usually use tungsten cylindrical or teardrop shaped weights 1/8 to 1/4 oz. I'm not one that has developed the skill to target fish suspended at 30+ feet with a dropshot video game fishing; the opportunity doesn't present itself enough where I fish. So I don't know if I have any weights over 1/4 oz. For baits, there aren't many I use. The last time I got into them good dropshotting, I was using a Missle Baits Bombshot. This was in relatively shallow water, maybe 4-6'. I have found the straight-tailed Roboworm to be the best in most places. I feel you really want the bait to assume a neutral attitude, so it can't be super buoyant like the Z-Man baits, but if it assumes a tail straight down attitude, that's bad too. I have had reasonably poor results with flukes, paddletails, and craws including the Missle drop shot craw. I'm not the best drop shot angler by any stretch of the imagination, but I end up fishing it as a desperation measure quite a bit. It is usually good for getting the skunk off.

Hi Jim - lots of central VA guys on here, especially around Richmond. I've been 'displaced', but am originally from Bedford County. Briery Creek is one of my favorite reservoirs to fish; I was planning to spend a long weekend there early April before all this COVID business.

Seems like this line has been on sale everywhere, but there's a St. Croix Premier Crankbait rod at Tackle Direct for less than a $100, shipped. It's a 6'6 MH. https://m.tackledirect.com/st-croix-pc66mhm-premier-crankbait-rod.html

I use anywhere from 10 lb to 20 lb braid on my bass spinning outfits. Mostly yellow Power Pro, but I've also got some Tuf-Line 4orce and XP in yellow and green. I use leaders with all of them and I do put backing on them to use cheaper monofilament as opposed to braid, not for any slippage issues. I would probably start at 15 lb and see if there's any reason to change, based on what you're doing with the outfit.

I bought a single pack of the Missle Baits dropshot baits, and caught some fish (dinks) when I couldn't get the fish interested in a straight tailed Roboworm, my normal go-to dropshot bait. These looked so similar, I thought they may be the ticket for Ned rigs too. I guess not. Which is good - the small Roboworm stickbait works well, but you go through a ton of them. If you're looking for a non-TRD alternative, I use the Nikko ZaZa helgrammite. It lasts 40 fish or so, and works well on river smallmouth. The TRD works better for me about everywhere else.

There's something magical about a Jeep. They break down all the time and leak oil in the driveway like no other, yet they have loyalists, enthusiasts, sorority girls, and suburbanites that buy them up at a rapid clip. My prediction is these go the way of the 'reborn FJ Land Cruiser' that came out a little more than a decade ago. Bring back the International Harvester Scout! 50 years ago that had Dana 44s front and rear and a transfer case that was the envy of all Jeepers. We had one to pull tine harrows and hay rakes to keep the hours off our tractors. It was a beauty in the eyes of few, but I'm not sure I don't prefer it to this Bronco.

I don’t know if you live in DC proper, or the MD/VA burbs. I live in Vienna. So about 8 miles from the DC line. My commute is normally to Rockville or Bethesda.

I probably wouldn't unless I could stop working. Every direction I go just leads to more bumper-to-bumper traffic. Driving more probably would have helped the issues I've had, but it just isn't feasible in my case.