DanielG

Hmm. A certain percentage are destined to die from it. Even if we get on the illness right away, they still die. So, get it over with? Plus, the hospitals would become not just overwhelmed but extremely overwhelmed with desperately ill people. Even more dying in that case. As it is... statistically, some of us on these forum right now will not be here in a few weeks/months because of this. So sorry to say this but the math.....

Well, I don't extend the fight by releasing the tension and prolonging it. I just enjoy a rod that will give lots of action when getting the fish to the boat. There's always enough line out that it's extended enough as it is. Where I fish it's often very deep with little cover an uneventful bottom. So, the fishing is trolling and stop and cast in an area. So, very little short distance casts.

Filling shouldn't hurt but even if you do the debris will still follow the line down and get caught between it and the bill wouldn't it?

Thank you. It seems you have the pulse of the rest of the planet.

You kidding? With people cooped up at home and afraid to go anyplace with people, they're all going to be on the water where you don't meet anyone and can't catch anything from the fish. And... you can wash your hands whenever you want to. Regarding the toilet paper.... No more Sears catalogs. But then again, only the yellow table of contents in the center was of much use. The rest was coated and like waxed paper. Still, it would be better than nothing... I think.? And on another note: For those with septic tanks. Don't use paper towels. There are small baffles at the tank entrance that the towels will catch on and not dissolve. You'll be calling the poop truck if that happens. As for me.. a new, replaced septic system a couple of months ago.... without TP like being all dressed up and nowhere to go...

Silly little observation here.... First of all.. I'm a very casual fisherman. I fish a lot but have some good but minimalist equipment and my stuff fills multiple roles. And my fishing knowledge base is humbled by many of the people here. It's about all the talk about rods. Other stuff too but right now rods. I know that you don't throw a heavy weight on a light rod or vice versa. You can but it's not great. I find that some rods are fine for many applications but can be used for things that are far outside their intended use if need be. Some of us with limited equipment, purchase it for the bulk of the type of fishing we do and sometimes use it for the type of fishing we usually don't do much of. And yes, I understand the point of being able to sense a bite and the right rod and line enhance the ability to do that. But in the end, if I'm fortunate enough to get a fish to take the bait, the real value of a rod comes after that point. I've got one of my rods that I use whenever I can, even if it's not the appropriate rod for the situation simply because I love pulling a fish in with it. I've described it as a rod that fights back as much as the fish does. Am I the only one who chooses a rod more for the fun of reeling it in than for getting the bite? Often you don't even know that this will be the case until you first get a fish with a new rod. I've gotten a rod before that is sweet to fish with, but the after bite is like... just okay. Letdown....

We went from 1 to 3 testing positive here in Maine. Late to the party but I'm sure it will ramp up. Gas still at about $2.40 Maine has the oldest population and even though we don't have a ton of people, 80% of them are concentrated in two of the sixteen counties in the southern tip on the NH/Mass border areas. So, when it eventually ramps up it might get ugly. Good news though.... If I go out my back door it's about 10 minutes to town... but if I go out my front door it's 20 seconds to a large lake. As has been the case lately, the ice is going out about a month early. Looks like it might be a week or two earlier than that this year. It's been a very, very mild winter with spring coming early. It's been that way for several years now but this year it's especially good. I might be getting the boat ready in a week or two. As I understand it... you can't catch a virus from a fish so, right now they are my friends.

They seem to be okay on my lures. One thing I found out when I started tying them was to keep the feathers on the lighter side and not make them too thick. Thinner ones seems to not matter to the motion.

First case here in Maine just announced. We're late to the party but the party begins.

Long ago cancer was a lot rarer than it is now. Granted people didn't live as long and cancer is primarily a disease that is more prevalent with age but it's the environment that triggers it.

You have a launch fee? Wow, first I've ever heard of something like that. Our state maintains launch points on all major lakes, some minor ones too. I think probably boat registrations, fishing licenses and the like go towards that.

This is true, almost everything is. What if they're right?

I'm retired and have fished a lot in the past couple of years. My boat is about 30 ft out my front door tied to a dock so fishing is easy. It doesn't interfere with anything as I'm up at about 5 am and after about 8 or so the fish really aren't biting much. So, I'm up, and done it pretty much before the day starts. Often before the wife is even up. I don't fish every day but mostly every other day, especially when the water is glassy and the weather is really, really nice. Since I can go whenever I want if they day isn't nice, or good for fishing, I can always go the next morning. Sometimes I go out for a few hours at dusk. Then again, here in Maine I don't fish year round. The ice gets in the way. It is great. I do love it, even later in the season with the biting gets harder. Just the act of fishing is good. Better with fish but good either way.

Maybe I'm talking out of my league here but when I do swimbaits I often just pop on a Berkley one from Walmart. They come 5 in a package for $2.99, have embedded hooks with weights and come in a few color options. 3 or 4 inch. I think they work great. I've had others that were much more expensive and I had to hook mount myself but the Berkleys seem to work just as good.

I use one of these. Easy on, easy off. At any box or hardware store.

I have not answer for you but it's is a bass related question. You need to build that nest in the area, job, home, etc. in order to get on to the bass. It's an appropriate question because lots of people here in all walks of life and some undoubtedly live in that area. I have not answer for you but it's is a bass related question. You need to build that nest in the area, job, home, etc. in order to get on to the bass. It's an appropriate question because lots of people here in all walks of life and some undoubtedly live in that area. Click the 'member map' link at the top and see the people who live in that area. Maybe you can sent a private message asking about the area. Good luck with your potential move. It's always a big deal.

Hmm... the real thing. If I purchase artificial ones I think they are inexpensive enough and would pretty much be of decent quality since they are manufactured. The real ones are the ones that are hard to decide on. Just like other feathers. Some places have decent ones and others look good in the pictures only. But if you have a good, cost effective plastic version from a reliable supplier I'd be interested too. Thnx.

Just starting to tie flies. I've made a couple and it's going okay so far. I've collected a few feather items as I've needed them but I'd like some jungle cockeyes. There seem to be so many grades and prices. Can anyone tell me where, maybe from your experience of being satisfied, I could get some? Price is always important but just knowing they'll get here and be decent and in one piece is too. So, personal recommendations would go a long way. And yes, I know that an order can always not be what someone else's was at a previous time. But, pointing me in some direction would be appreciated. Thanks.

When I was just old enough to remember, barely, around 1960 my family would put worms on a hook, and at sundown the white perch would start to bite. They'd catch a 5 gallon bucket of them and we'd eventually clean and eat them. After dark we'd put a kerosene lantern on the dock and a ball of worms on a hook on the bottom and begin catching hornpout, a small catfish type thing about 6 inches long. We're of Canadian French heritage (in Maine) and we'd call them budabout. That's phonetical spelling I have no idea how it's spelled. Pronounced bud-a-boot. When I was about 12, my neighbor and I each had 8 ft boats and electric and 3 hp motors and we'd travel the lake fishing and snorkeling. We did an awful lot of it. My parents would just let us go and say, be back before dark. Bass and pickerel back then. Not awfully big though. We had a Red devil spoon, a mooselook warbler, hooks and worms, and I had a red and white jitterbug for shallow cove lilly pad areas. On days we really wanted bass we'd stop along the edge and pick up small crayfish, hook them in the tail and watch the bass go crazy over them. Today, I'm 65, living in the same place on the lake (see my thumbnail) and fishing the same areas that I know from fishing the past times and the bottom from snorkeling. I consider it 'my' lake. 4.5 miles long and 1/4-1/2 mile wide. mostly clearish water, no cover and up to 90 ft deep. Today I'm on an electric converted sailing catamaran (lower thumbnail). At 5 am, when the water is like glass, the boat travels silently, and the sun is coming up, and hardly anyone's around, there's nothing quite like it. Sometimes I even catch a fish.

I think this might be sort of like a "who's is bigger" kind of question.

I'm not going to count mine, but I keep mine in a 14x11" double sided type plano box. It has 46 compartments. It's about half full. Mostly hard baits. I do have two plastic packs of soft baits. So, as you can surmise... I'm a minimalist.

I just like to catch fish. Should I pull one up that looks like a PB or just a big one I think, "oh, cool", then plop it back in and keep fishing. Fishing is just pleasurable and fun. Just figuring out how to get them that day is the PB part when it works. Then a big one hits out of know where and .... oh, cool.

I have two rod holders on my boat. One for each rod..... I was a guy who used to have a fishing pole. Anyone remember those days? But, now I have two. Then again, I don't see the point. I tried fishing with two and with one in each hand I found that I couldn't reel anything in. Seriously, I've got a decent spinning and a decent casting setup. They work just fine for the fishing I do. My wife collects clothes. I don't want to be that kind person with fishing stuff.

Actually we don't cayah to lose it. If the rest of the woald can't talk right then it's not ouah problem. Weah talking just fine around heah.

Here in Maine, even if we have the pronunciation correct we often leave out the 'r' in the middle or ends of words. There (theyah) is an unwritten and learned pattern (patt'n) but some words (woauds) that have the same r in the same places might be pronounce correctly (like correctly). We use a Leada instead of a leader Battry instead of battery Mota instead of motor We put our lures (loas) in a draw instead of a drawer (actually saying drawer feels like a mouth exercise to us. If we try it ends up coming out drawa-er.) Watah instead of water spinnah instead of spinner And of course everyone know that around here we eat Lobstah. Etcetra, etcetra (etcetera) Around heah it just sounds nommal to us.