Tackleholic

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I've broken 2 rods, about 65 or 70 years ago; both times I closed a door on them. The lesson has never been forgotten.

I've been hooked past the barb twice. The worst was when I swatted at a horse fly and drove a 2/0 jig hook deep into the base of my thumb. I was wet wading at 5:00 a.m., about an hour from my car and another hour to medical treatment. I pulled that hook out with pliers and remember feeling sorry for all the fish I'd done that to. I always wear glasses and a cap with a bill on it.

I often fish with barbless hooks, but can no longer find barbless trebles. If someone knows, I would like to hear. Thankyou.

Tackle Warehouse is an advertiser on this site. It may be good business for them to post a reply on this subject. Tackle Warehouse>>>>??????

Maybe it is a new cost cutting procedure. More reels packed into a bulk shipment could cost less to transport from Lews to TW. TW may find they save $ by placing each in a generic box without a plastic bag (and a wrench and oil). They sell a lot of reels , and most likely record the serial numbers; Lews probably has the schematics available on line. If it works for them, others will follow.

Does it work properly now?

When you need a skilled tradesman, and can't find one, "who ya gonna call, Ghostbusters"? Go ahead and repair your own broken sewer line, replace the HVAC unit, re-roof your house, and get your 10 year old Mercury running again.

Those kids coming out of college with the huge student loan debts are being influenced into believing someone else should pay that off for them. This belief has magnified since 2020.

MMB, you nailed it. People like my deceased father and grandfathers would die a 2nd death if they could view the general work ethics of today. Another point to make is that people living on Social Security, who have put in up to 50 years on the job, oftentimes only one job, are dealing with the prices of goods and services created by the new wage scales. Social Security does not even come close to keeping up. What's more, when these older citizens go out to eat (if they can afford to) they are often made to feel like 2nd class citizens if they don't fork up a 30% tip.

This is more related to Bass Fishing.........I am retired and live in the heart of Bass Boat manufacturing. I'm a few minutes away from Ranger, Triton, Vexus, and Bass Cat. If anyone wants to work, and can submit a "somewhat clean" application, they could move here and receive 4 immediate job offers. These companies are offering sign on bonuses and other incentives, along with insurance and just about any other benefit I can think of. How about a 40% employee discount at Bass Pro? They are always short handed and try to carry extra employees because of the turnover rate and the ones who only work long enough to qualify for unemployment. On top of that, much of the younger generation believes there is nothing wrong with showing up late or not at all. I see kids looking like starving urchins while the parents have money for booze, drugs, cigarettes, and tatoos while they sit at home. I'm getting carried away again, signing off. .

Business owners pay up 50% of each employees social security; the higher the wages the more they pay. Unemployment Insurance is required of employers, and based on the amount of payroll, it also increases with the rate of former employees being awarded unemployment compensation. Don't know about today, I sold my business 12 years ago, but if I hired a high school or college student who wanted to work full time during the summer, I was required to provide him, or her, the same Health Insurance package which I fully paid for long time full time employees and myself if he worked over 29 hours per week. Add up those $ and you may get a feeling of what a Business owner is faced with and most people don't understand. The people who really make the huge incomes could understandably lose their initiative to grow a business and create new jobs and higher incomes for employees if regulations regulate their ability to progress. You are right, it's not easy being in business.

The ease of quitting a job and drawing unemployment is a large part of the problem; some make a career of just that. Employers have difficulty getting "clean" job applicants; so does the military.

Those exorbitant wages, people being paid for not working, lack of interest in a respectable career, etc., etc., seemed to grow by leaps and bounds since 2020. Cities cannot receive applications for police officers and fire fighters. Some people are even being led to believe they can borrow money and not have to pay it back. I'm 81 years old, disgusted, and I'm curious which younger age groups feel as I do; where is the age break? Many whose wages have doubled and tripled are wondering why things suddenly cost so much more and their standard of living has not improved. Some of those people are raising children, imagine what their attitudes will be going forward. I'm going to sign off, this is a Bass Fishing Forum, but this thread hit a real sore spot.

Any lure with a rubber collar gets 2 or 3 wraps of fluorocarbon and a good knot.

I live high in the Ozarks and I am often criticized for removing every tree which could cause property damage if it ever fell; 35 trees in all.

Google "Theft Proof Bolts", you will find what you need.

I'm a big fan of 3/8 ounce swim jigs and use a variety of trailers. One trailer I always have rigged is a Zoom Z Craw Jr..

I eventually inherited my grandfather's Phleuger Supreme, spooled with the same Cortland Camo you show, and probabably the same rod. Old memories, aren't they? I'd forgotten about those Hawaiian Wigglers, used to borrow them from my Dad in the late 1940's.

Pfleuger Triumph, spooled with 50# black dacron line, and mounted on a 5 foot, four sided steel pistol grip rod.

When wet wade fishing I have had leeches get inside my shoes and attach to my feet, also to the outside of my leather wading shoes. They make good bait.

Top one you are holding is a Bass Oreno; 2nd is a Creek Chub Minnow; I'm stumped on the 3rd.

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So do I.

Smallmouth, Largemouth, and Spotted Bass size records have not been broken in 40-50 years on my lake, which is always a top 100 lake. 45,000 acres which never freezes, loads of baitfish and other forage. I think of this every time I see a 4 pounder headed for the fillet table. Each year of survival = a larger fish and increases it's chances of eventually being caught and killed by mishandling or targeted for dinner. I'm strictly catch and release but know I'm a minority. I respect others, especially the guides who do the same.