BrianMDTX

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stoning Magical school kids get upset over bad grades and kill their professor in a time-honored fashion

I thought that was “Snow It won't be long before we'll all be there with snow Snow I want to wash my hands, my face and hair with snow Snow I long to clear a path and lift a spade of snow Snow Oh, to see a great big man entirely made of snow” Bing. Shaddap!!!!

Hopefully not the kind where you can see slivers of wood in it lol! No woodsy single-ply for this guy!

Actually, beer, cigs and TP will get me through a blizzard lol.

You’re forgetting that milk, bread and TP is the blizzard trifecta!

I’m in the Houston area. You’d think this was the forecast!

5” Senko WR or weightless TR Zoom Trick Worm weightless TR Mann’s Jelly Worm TR That's my true confidence bait list. I catch bass on many other baits (Whopper Plopper, some jigs w/craw trailers, etc.). But if I NEED to catch A bass, that’s what I’m tying on.

Agreed. I tie direct to the hook as well.

Hard to beat a sausage, scrapple, bacon, egg and cheese on a Kaiser roll breakfast sandwich! Add some sweet peppers, too!

Yes, it’s a CT. When I casted the swimbait I thought the spool was going to empty lol. Very easy to adjust.

I bought my first Fuego recently. Before I made my first cast I took a few minutes to adjust the spool tension to where it just stopped making noise when I moved the spool side-to-side. My first lure was a 2 oz. swimbait. It casted perfectly with zero issues. The next was a 3/8 oz. TR. It also casted perfect. They are easy to dial in.

“Naegleria fowleri infects people when water containing the ameba enters the body through the nose. This typically occurs when people go swimming or diving in warm freshwater places, like lakes and rivers. The Naegleria fowleri ameba then travels up the nose to the brain where it destroys the brain tissue”. https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/naegleria/general.html So...NO!!!!!

That’s a stunner!

Same for me. Or a Bomber Water Dog.

I wish I had my chili recipe written down but I don’t. All I know is I brought 5 gallons of venison chili to work one day years ago for a holiday meal and everyone loved it. I will say that yes, my chili has beans. Red and dark red kidney beans and black beans. And I use a little cinnamon. As well as cayenne and dried chili peppers. It is good! I upset my wife as I would much rather hand wash dishes than use the dishwasher. Maybe I find washing dishes as therapeutic? I dunno, but I do not mind washing dishes in the slightest. You cook, we eat and I’ll do the dishes. No problem!

Never ever on a hard jerkbait, lipless crank, square bill or a frog. But...as of March 2020 I never ever caught a bass on a plastic worm of any type, a spinnerbait, a jig, a fluke, any topwater, a craw, and I’m probably omitting something. And all those “never evers” are now dust. When someone is looking over your prostrate body and ending his words with “In nomine Patris et Filii, Spiritus Sancti.”...that’s never ever time. Until then, keep casting!!!

I have one of those as well, but to be honest, I only use it for baitcasting reels. When I spooled spinning reels the twists and loops were horrid. Simply placing the spool label up, running the line through the first guide and using a folded towel sprayed with water (or KVD) to dampen it and used to keep tension on the line seems to work the best for me. And bulk spools (which are smaller in diameter) are much better than filler spools.

I feel your pain, as I never caught a bass (not counting 6”-9” ones on small panfish poppers) in my life. Never even had a strike or a swirl on one. Until 2020. Bought a Whopper Plopper 90 and was ecstatic when I got a swirl lol. Even more so when I finally caught bass on it! So, don’t give up. Topwaters do catch bass lol. I have one black Jitterbug. Must be 45-50 years old. Needless to say, never caught anything on it. Yet...

I guess you could say it’s almost like a weightless TR with weight. Sounds stoopid, but that’s what it looks like. The plastic moves weightless but there is weight for it to drop faster. Might have to give that a go.

Are you closing the bail manually or by cranking the handle? Start closing manually if not doing so. After a cast, close the bail and make sure your line is tight when you start reeling in so you don’t introduce any loops. Just pull the line with your fingers a bit before reeling to make sure it the line lays good without any loops.

I now have 6 rigs (3 baitcasting and 3 spinning), which is the most I’ve ever had lol. Two are Black Max’s on Daiwa Aird X’s (MF and MHF). They do the job IMO.

I’d say if you have the $$$, storage space, etc., it’s great to have a myriad number of rigs set up to fish particular baits and styles to their absolute best potential. But that’s not every angler. So there are a few rigs that can be used to fish different baits and styles and pretty decently.

That’s a hawg. It could swallow my cat! Congrats on a great fish and new PB!

Welcome Jeff. Stick around. You will learn more than you think on this site. It’s a good mine of info. And s thanks for your service. Ft. Rucker. Aviation?