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The thread is about ponds. Ponds are all bought up and posted private. Access to rivers is becoming more and more difficult because of private property to get down to them to fish. As far as bank fishing an actual lake, that'll never happen for me. Boat only. The odds of being able to be in the right spot for bass on the bank of a lake are slim. Sounds miserable honestly.

If you can find them. All the water is being bought up and posted private. They're making it as impossible as they can to fish unless you're a boater. It's ridiculous.

Daiwa Aird-X ^ This rod is in a league of its own in the $50 range. Other good options include the Fenwick Eagle, the Abu Garcia Vengeance, and the Berkley Lightning Rod (NOT the orange Shock rod, the reel seat is garbage on that version).

Nope. I'm as right handed as right handed gets, and working a bait and rod and hooksetting and fighting fish with my left arm and hand is far more unnatural than reeling with my left hand. It doesn't make any sense to me that righties prefer to do a lot more work left handed rather than just turn a handle left handed.

That's what people think about my home creek, but big girls are there. Ya just gotta know where to look.

The Lew's KVD Casting Reel. It's the best sub $200 Lew's reel in my opinion, definitely flies under the radar.

Yeah so anyways my obviously poor analogy was meant to say you need to know how to make the reel work for you and not knowing what brakes it has will not let the reel work for you. Don't need to be any sort of tech guru (and I am definitely not myself) to know you should know the basic functionality of the reel. Now you know to look in the future.

It's not a big problem for me at all, and I wasn't coming from a mean spirited position. But since you went there I think I'm in good shape if someone who doesn't know what they bought thinks I'm the idiot.

Would you buy a car you have no idea how to put into drive? Would "I'm not a car guy" be an excuse for such a thing? Most people aren't "car guys (or gals)" but you still need to know how to operate it.

I definitely think you should know if your reel has internal brakes or not because that's really vital if you want it to function. I don't get fancy with it either OP, but there's a middle ground in which you should know how the reel sets up but where you also don't get caught up on the fancy manufacturer-speak.

Most of my rods are variations of Dobyns standard 3, 4, and 5 powers. Thus, most of my rods throw some kind of top water.

I started growing tobacco and rolling my own cigars. I've been launching them into my local waters like stielhandgranates to make sure the bass will keep hitting my Senkos. I noticed the cigars stopped naturally growing in my local waters. A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.

Several years ago I had a friend join me for fishing and he did this. Teaching him that you can change the side the handle is on is all it took to correct him.

Definitely, and without the clamshell packaging it turns me even more off towards them. Half of most everything from them is instantly unusable unless you try to fix it with boiling water. If that's the case, and they're upping the prices, why bother.

I have met people from a faith based forum, and I'm good friends with a few of them. Then the world went quite a bit more insane over the years and so I have not tried with any new people in a long time.

This thread reminded me of the Randy "Everyone is an Idiot but Me" Blaukat video from a month ago. Only his way is the right way. LOL Gearing up this morning so I was able to look. Like this for me.

Thanks for mentioning this. I looked into it and it's true. I hope they get sued into oblivion. St Crook is the new name from now on.

Me relationship with Senkos: Step 1: Go to the store. Step 2: Locate the Senkos. Step 3: Buy whatever color is in stock that I think looks good. Step 4: Fish the Senkos. Step 5: Catch bass all the same. Watermelon Red is the only color that I will go out of my way for and that I find to be best. Also worth noting that while I buy all sorts of different colors according to the label, greenish, brownish, blackish is what I tend to stick with. The exact variation doesn't matter, except for Watermelon Red of course.

Fall can't come soon enough. The summer heat has historically always been super productive for me, but this summer has been the worst summer bite of my fishing life. It was so hot for so long.

I could make masculine kitchen and cleaning jokes. Problem (not really) is I love to cook and I love to please my woman by taking the load off. She comes from a conservative Jewish family but is Catholic and so am I. In the traditional sense. We believe in gender roles as it should be. I also believe in making her as happy as she makes me, and that involves taking the load off her even when I'm tired. Because I'm a man and I can do that.

I'd take a fork because we're boiling fish.

A ML is more than enough for black bass, current or not. The real question comes down to, is X rod enough for X cover and X lures?

I do not do well with a spinnerbait in the open water, windy and choppy and overcast or not. However, a spinnerbait has been killer for me, and here's how: I hug the bank with them. I'm talking 36" or less from the bank. Bass who are ambushing prey alone the bank can't help but hit it. I do the same with cover/wood/weed lines. Even better if you can bump the weeds or wood. Overcast and RAIN (couldn't care less about wind) make it even better, wind never matters for me here, but it will work even on sunny calm days. A spinnerbait, at least for me, is the epitome of target casting and combat fishing. You're truly hunting with a spinnerbait, choosing the most likely areas. Chuck and wind into open water is not where a spinnerbait shines.

Women not worth being around, yes. Any woman using that language has purple hair, hairy armpits, and isn't interested in my side of the fence anyways. Luckily mine is just a blonde who has watched me freeze in late fall and winter and thought that I wouldn't want to do it again, but I'll always keep doing it again.