Tackleholic

If I'm in my boat, alone or with others, I'm wearing my PFD and the remote is in my pocket; always.

Your story reminds me of my tour of the Ranger plant back in about 2012. Watching the production line, one boat would be a Ranger, the next might be a Triton, and I believe there was a third brand which I don't recall the name. Each brand came from a different mold, with minor differences in the boat's shape. From there to the finished product, the same hands and same components were used, but the Ranger had an $8,000 higher price tag than an identically equipped Triton.

Does anyone know if the Egg is still in production, but under another name?

Best wishes to you and your father, Glenn.

I live near the Ranger plant. I have heard dock talk that recent Rangers and Nitros are very similar. It was also said that Nitros have been improved and Rangers have gone downhill in quality since the two have come under the same ownership; like I said, it was dock talk , but a lot of Ranger employees live here. I own an all fiberglass Vexus VX21 and would not consider switching.

Deadlifts, squats, or bench? Impressive for any of them.

Only the knees are a little stiff on cold mornings. I do have a few old injuries which will never heal; shoulder, elbow, back. You?

I thought I was done, bought everything on my list a couple weeks ago, but.......2 days ago I dug a crankbait out of my garage that looked like it had never been in the water, the storage box was covered with dust and a little bird poop. I gave that lure a christening yesterday and slayed the Smallmouth and Walleye; wow! When I got home I thought I should buy some backup before losing it. Rapala Glass Shad Rap, size 5. It must be discontinued; I searched about a half dozen sites and all showed out of stocks on most colors with reduced prices. Finally found what I wanted at TW, but prices were a little higher. Result was a Bait Monkey attack and I ordered 6 in size 5, and 3 more in size 7; during the battle I also succumbed to a few more items which were absolute necessities.

I was seriously into body building for about 35 years; I still hit the gym nearly every morning I'm not on the water, even though I am now 82. By far, in my opinion, Beverly Nutrition's Ultimate Muscle Protein is the best tasting and best quality available; it has been my choice from beginning to present. Egg whites are the purest form of protein and very low in calories. During the years I was seriously training I would hard boil 12 dozen jumbo size eggs each week and throw out the yolks.

I have a lot of reels, all baitcasters are Daiwa, which I have accumulated over the years; 5 are Zillions. If I were to start over from scratch they would all be Zillions in a 6.3. Reels perform and adjust differently, but having them all the same reduces mistakes and time adjusting; plus I always know how to change up the tempo without downtime or experimenting.

WOW! You must be the Champ!

I did that today but no bites; all bites came from strolling.

We were off shore from Naples.

I love wakebaits; I have two very full boxes and use them a lot. My all time best producer is the Berkley Wake Bull, but wouldn't you know it is now discontinued; if not, I would add more to the five I still have.

I have never used underspins and I hope you will give me an education; I do have a sizeable assortment of them, unused. Lets say I'm in 40 feet of semi clear water, 55 degrees, no grass, tons of shad balls near the bottom. What is your retrieval method and choice of trailers?

Fishing for snapper and grouper off the Florida Gulf Coast. A Goliath Grouper was grabbing nearly everything we hooked and breaking our lines. The guide gave me a rod with straight 100# braid and we used a red snapper for bait; he snapped the line like a cobweb. For round 2, my partner and I each used rods with 100# braid, hooking another snapper through the lip and under the dorsal fin. The grouper snapped both lines, we couldn't turn him even with the guide engaging the motor to keep up.

I got off track; Trilene XT, Trilene XL, Big Game, and Maxima Ultragreen are all on my shelf.

I keep seeing people with broken rods and even more so I hear people talking about them. I've not broken any since pre-puberty, and that was from shutting a door on two of them; (my Dad was so happy about that). More recently a guide shut the rod locker on the tip of a new Loomis rod, but that's it. Your answers should make some entertaining reading.

6# Tatsu is a great performer, however, it is very limp and hard to see, making it difficult to tie knots with.

How did you do? I told myself there was very little I wanted or needed and would not yield to temptation. Six separate orders from four different sites, and I knew my self discipline had failed me again. Anyone else?

99% of the time I choose my Border Collie as the perfect partner.

My downside to the Megabass 110 is fear! When casting to the bank sometimes I will instinctively stop the lure short for fear of bouncing it off a rock, but I won't change brands. They are the best, and I "may" have nearly as many as A-Jay has.

I'm with A-Jay. I have other brands of Jerks but Megabass is all I buy anymore. Bass in the lake and Brown Trout in the River, Megabass outproduces the others.

My lake doesn't freeze, but I do. Pull my boat from the slip around New Years, have the motor serviced and the boat detailed; remove every last item of equipment and tackle, install any remaining Lowrance updates. Upon completion of these tasks I perform necessities on tackle, then begin loading the boat back up for return to the slip around March 1st. This winter, mostly due to my tackle addiction, I will be adding another 24'x8' section of vinyl slat wall in my man cave.

For you old guys who may remember Homer Circle : I remember him writing about how everyone leaves a different "acid" on their baits just from touching and handling them; the fish would prefer one over another.