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It's hard for them to write out the sums cause the paper just tears when it gets wet.

This reminded me of the first time that She Who Must Be Obeyed and I went fishing together. We were on opposite corners of a big dock, fishing out opposite each other, and my back was turned the entire time for this. As best I can recall, she had tried to catch a fish way up in the top of a tree with this little plug she had tied on, and, finding no fish, the plug caught the tree instead. I heard her cussing it, and the next two things I heard were THWACK followed by louder cussing. Apparently the plug came loose and rocketed back to whack her in the shin. She had a squarebill-shaped welt on her leg for a few days.

I think @TnRiver46 and I've talked about this before, but one of the reasons I use a leader is because I like fishing braid, but I also acknowledge that, the way I fish and where I fish, I'm gonna get hung and I'm gonna have to break something off once in a while. So the leader, for me, is as much to create a designed failure point as it is for any other reason. The same logic applies here as it does for...I dunno, say building a drag car. Something's gonna break, and you're better off if you can choose what breaks when it does. It's a whole lot easier (and cheaper) to replace an axle than to rebuild a differential, for example. I'd rather break off a length of leader than chance an entire spool get stretched and buggered up, or chance breaking a rod tip trying to muscle braid loose.

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Made a small order a couple weeks ago and sprang for two-day shipping. It took a day or so to get it packed and picked up, but it was at my house by the end of that week.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Odds are good this would just be a nice, wet hairball. Neither of mine can catch anything; and, in any case, the closest they get to outside is the screen porch. Bean really thinks she's an amazing huntress, though. The only way she'll take a treat is if I wing it across the house so she can chase it down. I'm so glad neither of mine are big shedders. Lily sheds bad when she rides in my car, but I think that's stress shedding. She hates Corvette rides, and hunkers down in the passenger seat (Roger rides in the hatch) with her head on my right forearm the entire trip. Won't even look up until we get where we're going. Every trip, the passenger seat and me both are covered in yellow hair.

Depends on who you ask. I would submit that neither they nor the cats are reliable witnesses. According to the furkids, they're neglected on the regular and they've never once had a decent meal. Talking to the snake is probably the closest thing you'll get to the truth, but he sleeps during the day so it's hard to get an appointment. By the way, the dogs' subscription toybox is coming today (we get the Super Chewer box because they'd both bite through a brick if we let them). But it's only got two toys and a buttload of snacks in it, so they think I'm a skinflint and just enjoy watching them suffer while they sleep ON THEIR OWN COUCH at home SURROUNDED BY TOYS all day while I work and play with them and whatever. P.S. Morrígan says that she and her awful sister don't get enough attention on here, and I better fix that before I find something squishy in a shoe.

I have some pocket rockets and throw them occasionally. I haven't been bit yet but they sure boogie in the water.

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Now it is!

I appreciate the help. OP needs to use better knots, or use line that's more forgiving of crappy knots.

That's a good while, bro. When I stopped, I'd say I quit, but I didn't even put enough thought into it to have declared -- even to myself -- that I'd "quit fishing." I just put my stuff up in the shed at my friend's dock I usually fished off of, locked it back, and walked away. Didn't even think about fishing for all that time until a year or two ago when I was playing a game on my phone, and my girlfriend was playing the same game, and she said "Why don't we just go actually fish?" After saying that she's maybe gone three or four times with me, and she's caught exactly one fish. Mostly she's annoyed at all the headspace I give to fishing. lol

I'm confused. Is the break at the mainline connection or at the terminal end?

I would be surprised if it's as thick under the mat as it looks from above it. I would be further surprised if there weren't pockets that weren't as thick, and that you'd have a good chance of finding the big(ger for this particular pond) fish sticking close to or under the mat edges at these pockets. With a 1oz bullet weight and an appropriately streamlined soft plastic that doesn't slow your fall down (either by friction against the vegetation or by just being so big and floppy that it acts like a parachute), I'd just about bet you're gonna get through the mat where you wanna be.

I used to live near Oak Ridge.

A female largemouth will lay somewhere between 2,000 and 40,000 eggs at a pop once they're on the bed. After the fry hatch out, the male will only stay there for about a week. At best, if you keep a fry-guarder, you're only depriving the fry of (what little) protection they get for a max of seven days (and that doesn't take into account the fry that become lunch for the fish doing the guarding). Fish species survive based on numbers, not on how great and attentive a parent they are.

Absolutely.

Depends on how you look at it. If you're catching fish, you're honing a presentation. If you're not, you're in a rut and wasting your time.

The fish really don't care. I've done extensive testing, and not only can fish not read, but they're really bad at counting.

And that's how you do it.

C'mon, man. You can't just call attention to the fact that there's a weedeater in the boat without telling the story of how the weedeater got into the boat. @TnRiver46 is that your PB weedeater?

The C5s don't actually have truly round taillights-- they're just a little bit oblong. The C6 went back to properly round taillights, though.

Siebert Dredge Dock Rocker is the business. I've done everything from swimming to punching to dragging across chunk rock with one and never had reason to second guess myself. In addition, it makes me look like I know what I'm doing when I skip. It ain't the perfect tool for every job, but it's close enough that I don't sweat the details.

I can't nail it down to the day, but I'd reckon my longest gap is right around 20 years.

Throwback to yesterday when I didn't work and all Lily the yellow house hippo wanted to do was sleep.