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That's what I use. My gauge reads about 5 pounds high, but it's consistent and I'm used to accounting for it now.

It might be pretty sweet to put one on a scrounger head, now that y'all have me thinking about it.

One of my favorite memories from Chick was SWMBO and I stopping at the dam there whilst out sightseeing, and we got to watch a pitched battle between a dude catching white bass from the spillway overlook and a heron that really wanted something to munch on. That bird was not giving up.

Evinrude/Johnson did a lot of that kind of stuff.

The book says .030, but personally I think 2 strokes just make for ugly spark plugs compared to what we're used to seeing out of modern 4 stroke engines. @Way2slow had a good suggestion with switching to synthetic.

I just about guarantee they're Eagle Claw, and they look like this: If that's the case, the weed guard hasn't been a problem for me the times I've used them. Check the hook to see if the point's rolled or something. Eagle Claw doesn't really have great quality control, in my experience.

So your thinking isn't bad (seemingly pressured fish > smaller/slower presentation), but I have know what caused you to land on dropshotting, of all things. Try...literally any other presentation and see how that works for you.

I gotcha. Yeah, that cylinder's in a bad way.

Has UT tried not being bad at football?

This is an important consideration. Most locks and locking systems are really just gonna keep honest people honest.

Newer bass boats have a lot for me to be jealous of, but chief among those things is the front casting deck. I barely have room for myself alone up on mine. When I look at the new boats it feels like you could land a helicopter on them.

It is, but scarcity does funny things to people, and makes them okay with taking a bath on an item that will never be worth what they're gonna pay in the end.

I think -- whatever you do, however you store your stuff -- you really just have to learn to be careful about where you are and what you're doing related to everything else that's in the boat with you (especially for smaller hulls like you and I have). Sometimes it's like trying to dance in a phone booth.

Yeah. I dunno about new car pricing, but used car prices (since I only buy used) are up about 35% from last year. Used truck prices are up 45% on average for the same period.

I wanna know, too. Cause he described a misfire. And that ought to not take more than some new ignition coils and plugs to be good as new.

I just kind of lay them wherever they're not immediately in the way. My boat has zero rod storage, so we just kind of lay them with the butts on the deck and the rods themselves leaning against the lip of the front casting deck. There are some vertical holders on the console, but we've had to stop using them after a couple... incidents when SWMBO caught a rod during her back cast. To keep the gear safe (and save our sanity), we try not to take too much stuff. We pretty much max out at 6 or 7 rods between SWMBO and I.

It was tough deciding between Star Trek and Rocky Horror Picture Show, to be honest.

I guess as long as they don't violate the Temporal Prime Directive we're all good.

I don't think jighead colors matter much to the fish, but it makes me feel better to have a jighead that's got pretty high contrast. If I'm fishing a ned rig, especially, I really like having a chartreuse head -- particularly because I find myself fishing fairly murky water. Color of the plastic is whatever I grab because it suited the situation. I've used them with GP, black, junebug. Doesn't matter. I like having that little dot of high contrast for the fish to focus on, whether it matters to the fish or not.

I don't think we have mosquitofish where I'm at, but I just read up on them and they're about the same size as the minnows that a lot of people down here love to use for live bait. You got a bunch of options in that case. Small paddletail swimbaits, curly-tail grubs, small poppers and crankbaits, stuff like that.

My old XP100 has a pretty dang thin line, too; even though I have to imagine that a lot of it's due to me being just a hair too slow on learning what it likes. I don't have any suggestions for the OP, but I empathize.

Man there's cat and dog hair all over this house. It's just a thing you learn to live with.

As long as the drag's pretty smooth (and, in the vast majority of brand-name reels made in the last 5 or 10 years, it will be) just about all fishing is all about the rod.

Work? Deadlines? Debugging? Begone with these ridiculous trifles! Morrígan cares only for the screams of dying warriors, the smell of a blood-drenched battlefield, and scritches.

I only use one terminal knot, and that's a trilene knot. I do use snaps on my hard plastics. I still tie to the snap with a trilene.