Darth-Baiter

100%. Google sunspots on hands. Blech no thanks.

Okay. Summertime. Baking out in the sun, while floating around on a kayak sucks. I don’t even get reprieve from the heat, skating across a lake @ 60mph. It’s hot and just stays hot. I’ll sometimes pull my iPhone out of my pockets and just go overboard. two years ago, I bought swimmers tights. (Don’t go calling them leggings!). To hide my….err “junk” I wear shorts. Is it a good look? Debatable for sure. But skin cancer isn’t a good look either. I also lost weight. My swimmers tights are droopy. Haha. So I’m shopping and will drop a size or two. I look like an old lady in black pantyhose haha. I just saw Simms has a version! Shorts with built in tights! Genius! Should eliminate the escaped butt-crack. Me vs their version. Mines cheaper. Haha.

I ordered a paddle. Surf launches are no joke. Coming back in is 5 seconds of terror. Haha.

I say FMJ is perfect for a 10” worm following a 3/8th weight.

@PGA Dropout reminds me of a good point. I don’t love the BanderSnatch for jerkbaits.

I have one. I throw mostly square bills and maybe 6 foot deep cranks. I don’t love fishing a deep diver since it always pulls me around on my kayak. But I go try occasionally to run them deep. (Exhausting too) my single rod is the Orrichi Bandersnatch. It’s been pretty good. Very good actually. It multi-tasks like a boss. It gets such crazy distance in casting : effortlessly

The best knot you can tie.

Half eaten. The crime is always at night. I’m using fertilizer the pot growers use. I hope to eat some tomatoes. A few.

I think they are. Suspect #1 for sure. I’m tempted to dust around the plants later and check the paw prints.

Great point. Yes snap traps. I put them in rat friendly spots. Like inside a smaller broken clay pot. Or behind a shed. A larger critter can’t get to it. Not at least yet.

I set a few traps in my backyard. I butt up against a creek / jogging trail. im pest free mostly except when my tomatoes ripen on the vine. They show up then. Right now I’m living a Tom/Jerry life and using cheddar. Talk about cliche. I don’t have any Snickers Bar. I let my snap traps get weathered and human scent free. what’s you bait. ?

Holy EEF. That’s a long post. And all over the place!!!! Haha. I just fish. If I get a biggie I’ll post a pic. Haha. was there pottery pieces? Wow

@Bazoo you are overthinking this. How did you arrive at your mono line size? You just went for it, right? I just started at 12lb and tried. Turns out it’s an awesome jumping off point. I still use it, for most applications. I catch plenty of fish and I’m happy. I move up to 14lb for some things. 16 even if it’s a bigger swim bait. Forum members are crazy opinionated. Haha. I sometimes just like to discover my own way.

to be clear. my wife sometimes listens to music sung in another language alltogether. me: "is that French?" Me: "since I am driving, doesnt that make me the DJ?" "okay, is Mexican rap better?"

I'm like you. probably because I get so bored of throwing a Senko. ha! I used to be the opposite. this resulted in me owning a surveyors bag full of Beavers. it will take me 3 seasons to burn thru them, since I have kinda wandered away from them a bit. nobody tell my wife this. I am trending towards moving baits.

lts not let facts cloud the conversation. good question actually.

my wife universally loves all music. I am the bottleneck.

I've heard some of you all say it. winter is big bass time. why? I am going to fish much more this winter. I know where, I know how. I am going to stare the skunk eyeball to eyeball and throw big jigs and bigger swimbaits. just target the biggies. I will wear a dry suit and just paddle out in the to cold. my PB came in November. just unclear why and if it isn't just a myth that bigger bass are caught in winter. I do not have FFS. those guys target winter bass suspended out deep right?

I lived!!! I asked my wife if we could leave for family dinner early so I could stop at the store for some more Daingerous. I even showed her a picture of my fish...to her eye-rolling. hahaha. the big thing...she said, cool. hahhah...

I shop the sales for my flouro leader. i have been using Daiwa stuff lately. no issues.

bones are a pain in A. I feel the same way about a trout. but thankfully, a fish anatomy is 100% the same. I can get around the bones, since they are always running the same format, fish to fish.

I will prob buy the 6" max for now. I am lacking rods burly enough to huck a 7.

99.99% of fish that are deem inedible are proclamations from people that heard it from a cousin of a guy, that works out with a sister's coworker. it is rare if someone says, "oh,..I tried it, and it was gross:. me: when it cools off again, I am catching a pike-minnow, butchering it, and cooking it. I can cook (very) well...I think I have a plan to make it delicious. and good looking in a photo kind of way. (pending). I'll probably never hook into one ever again... right now it is too hot and the drive too long for the ice in my junkie ice chest to survive.

this is Zen level profound stuff. hahaha...I love it.

bass are my primary target. LMB, Smallmouth, Spots, if I had to list them. I am catching lots of Pike Minnow these days. and I love it. so fun. it is usually obvious what just bit my bait. the Pike Minnow hits harder with a sharp rap. like it came running at it full speed. and sometimes it is two raps. I think it misses the first hit and it comes around for a new try..or there is a second fish following up right behind it. (watched this happen today). a lady called out from her pontoon boat..."yuck..trash fish!"..I didnt pay attention to her, because this particular pike-M had gotten off the hook and was on the deck of my kayak thrashing like a Halibut. it was hitting my legs with power!! I was giggling with fun/joy. I scoop him out and look at the slimed boat.. I cast out, hoping to nab the buddy. what a cool fish!!! now if I could only catch one of those 3 feet long carp!!