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As I understand it, sm/lm hybrids are exceedingly rare because they have pretty drastically different spawning site preferences. Dude shoulda bought a few scratch tickets the day he caught that.

I find myself in agreement with @BassWhole!, @A-Jay, @BrianMDTX, et al. Most of my discussions in other fora regarding the possibility of an industry-wide embrace of electric vehicles comes from a performance standpoint, because I like fast cars and trucks and all that good stuff and I don't want to see them go away. First, the petroleum industry, and its products, are both gonna be around for a long, long time. But I think it's good to embrace electric as the kinks continue to get worked out and they start looking less stupid. Electric vehicles are gonna have really crap adoption rates until charging stations are as common as gas stations, and charging is as easy as filling the tank. And that's just the way it is for now. I just...hate Teslas so much. Every model except the S looks like a guppy. But I digress! The reason embracing electric vehicles as they enter a given market segment is that money means everything to every corporation, and government regulations and subsidies are only so big a stick (or so tasty a carrot). The more units move, the higher the R&D budget goes up. The higher the R&D budget goes up, the more useful and less stupid they get. Most of us discussing it will be dead and gone before anybody wakes up to discover there's no more gasoline to be had. To summarize, I want electric vehicles, but it's gonna be a while and there's no reason for anybody to spit out their dentures just yet.

I love a chartreuse and black lipless in dirty water.

Feels like there's a lot of truth in that. Why do I keep throwing junebug? Cause it gets bit! Why does it get bit so often? Cause that's what I keep throwing!

That'll work. I've used -- and continue to use -- all kinds of colors. White, white/chartreuse, crappie, bluegill, junebug. Like everybody else said, the only wrong way to fish it is to not fish it.

Junebug or white.

I had one! It was even a 4x4! The Corvette's more funner. If I were to find a squarebody Chevy with a manual trans that's in any kind of decent shape I might ****** it up, though.

The whole reason I bought a base model C5 instead of a Z06 is because I wanted a hatch and not a trunk. It's shocking how much junk I can fit in there as long as it'll go far enough forward to clear the window slope. As long as I can break it down off the floorboard for transport, I know for a fact I can fit the seat.

I don't have a pickup, but that would fit real nice into the hatch on the Corvette. Knowing my own physical limitations, I can promise you that you wouldn't see me out in it on big water or moving water (but that's what the big boat's for anyway), but it would be money for a couple places I like to bank fish.

Basically, yeah. I don't have any reels with the new pinion, but looking at the schematics, the only differences I see in that pinion is that the Tournament MB pinion is shorter and unsupported, and the Tournament MP (and, I assume, other P2-equipped reels) are slightly longer and have a bushing that fits inside the clutch cam (see part 33 on both diagrams). Note the absence of part 155 in the Tournament MB diagram, and the design change for part 40 in the MP diagram. Tournament MB: Tournament MP:

Good machinists are a lot like good developers. Observe from a safe distance and let them work. Do not startle them. If you have to approach, throw their favorite snack into the opposite corner of their cage.

Dude, that looks rad.

Howdy from Knoxville! The water being clear is a pretty good sign for a pond. Means at least it's not getting choked out with weeds and slime. @Sam has a bunch of great ideas for both presentations and helping the population. I especially like the thought of stocking it with additional (and more substantial) forage species, such as bluegill (honestly, just about any sunfish you like -- redears, shellcrackers, etc) and crawfish, all species that largemouth love to eat and provide lots of calories to help them get bigger. TWRA has prepared a PDF that may be of interest to you. You can download it here.

I won't buy anything else that Abu makes. Dunno if that works towards the topic. I don't mind mixing and matching, though.

I'd've thought your hate for the species has to do with the fact that you spend your weekends putting worms on the hook for yankees so they can catch them.

Do you have a player? Edit: Betamax or VHS?

Oh man. I have so much to do but I really want to spend a while watching Bill Dance blooper clips.

I don't even remember the model number, but it was a bottom-tier Shimano combo with a 6'6" pistol-grip rod. Wanna say I bought it in 1997 or so.

I think there's probably a lot of truth in that.

My experience with Z-Man jigheads is that they just snap at the shank. I think I've bent one or two, but I don't trust them anymore after that. There are other brands that I do trust and have bent back into shape a handful of times before they get trashed.

Kinda reminds me of a san diego jam. I like a trilene knot. I've never had it break at the knot outside of having to break it off, easy to tie, uses the least amount of line.

Should be an option in the settings menu to disable the automatic lift gate. Get to that through the arrow keys on the left side of the steering wheel.

I've read a couple of Dr. Bass' books. I'd love to hear him speak one day, but the timing never works out.

I'm Lil Jug of 2 Stroke Oil

Did y'all hear about the explosion at a cheesemaker's? Da brie was everywhere.