Bassin Bruce

Double Uni for line to leader and Double Davy knot for terminal, can't be any simpler.

In NYS you're not required to wear one but you must have one with you. I payed a lot of money for the PFD so I'm going to get my nickel out of it and wear it as intended.

I lived on a small lake when we first got married some 35 years ago. It was a great largemouth bass lake and I caught my PB there but I too love to go to different bodies of water and found myself doing just that more often than not.

Interesting, I read that to mean it's not legal to even use your fish grips for the release. Not sure a game warden would enforce that strictly, maybe. ?‍♂️

Trout is king here, Catskill region, but I love to fish for any and all species of fish to include pan fish and such. Never gave any thought to what others might think or say and never cared what others were fishing for. I don't fish with anyone except my son and he doesn't speak so I'm not sure of his opinion of my target fish but I think he's okay with it.

I have , and still use, a 1988 Coleman Scanoe. The canoe version of the Crawdad. As someone stated above, the Hull ID is melted/branded into the plastic, not the easiest to find.

That's what I'm doing as well, no crate just my tackle bag that carries 3700 series boxes. This way I can move quickly and easily between my kayak or over to my canoe if my son os coming with.

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Got out today with my son on my first trip of the year, Yeah I know I'm way behind most, too d**n busy at work. Anyway I got one and only one bite today and it produced a nice size large mouth for around here, 19". Caught him on my new rig, a shamano Poison Adrena coupled with a Metanium reel, lined with 30# braided and 10# flouro leader and a 7.5"culprit (actually now that I see the pic, I believe that was a Berkley worm)Texas rigged to that.

Question to all that use a leader, how long of a leader do you tie on. Do differing circumstances dictate different lengths. Coming from a fly fishing perspective the leader holds a vital roll in the lay of the line and how interacts with the fly line. I always tied my own segmented leaders that tapered down to the length and thickness that the river, wind and fly dictated I use. Is there that much consideration in the bass fishing realm or not so much. I read one person mention 6'-8' of leader, is that just a ball park figure, do you adjust from there or is it just a set it and forget it type of thing. Sorry to the OP if I am hyjacking your thread, I thought maybe this would fall right inline with your question of leader thickness as well.

Thanks a bunch for your thoughts and a link to that concise answer from ZMan themselves, very helpful.

Question to y'all Zman guys(or elaztack) guys. I've never fished it as they weren't around yet when I went chasing a different species of fish 20 years ago and so I'm just now bring myself up to date. My question is on storage and that is can I store the ZMan products in their own plano box but have the plano box stacked right with other soft plastic baits in their own separate plano boxes. I guess the question is does the melting affect leach out of the plano box that is containing the Zman baits and affect other boxes.

That sounds like a heck of a lot of fun, maybe worth the price of admission.

Thank you very much for posting your experience with the 48" wide boats. I'm going to say it probably won't be a major concern then going off of what you have found. Thank you very much for posting your experience with the 48" wide boats. I'm going to say it probably won't be a major concern then going off of what you have found. And for reference we're now fishing out of a 1986 Coleman scanoe, it's one of those flat bottom square back canoes. And as long as my little buddy up front doesn't move around too quickly we're surprisingly okay with the stability of that, I really just want more casting room.

Did he want you to deposit a mere $10,000 dollars in a African bank and he’d repay with $100,000. Plus a bass boat.

So I’ll take that as they were inferior back then and I should probably keep looking. any thoughts on stability once you get into the longer boats, how does your 16’ handle. thanks for all the info as well, a large help.

Yeah I'm sure we're seeing the same listing, It does seem too low of a price for what it is, maybe your right some sort of scam. still interested in anyones thoughts on this narrow of a boat for it's length

What do you all think of a 2002 18" 48" grizzly tracker, too narrow and unstable? I'm looking for a Jon Boat to build into a platform bass boat that my son and I would fish off of. He is 230lbs and basically a bull in a china shop and I'm 200lbs. I've read a few people saying to stay away from this era grizzly boat as the welds are inferior and the aluminum is thinner than industry standards, any truth to this. Meant to type 18'(foot) 48"(inches)

That’s actually what I really intended to do but as part of that system will be a sort of home base bag that will hold all of my lures and I would do as you say and use a smaller carry bag for my day trips. I am retiring within the next 9 months and from that point we’re blowing the water lines out on the house and packing the RV for maybe up to a year away. this first bag would need to be able to pack away in that RV and serve all my fishing needs.

That's great info for me , Thank you. Based on all the discussion and input from you guys I'm pretty assured that going with the 3700 series bag will be the way to go. I appreciate you all sharing your experiences.

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Thank you Ken, very helpful

Fishing Dad that is a really nice bag you have there and I just might be a good solution. One thing you do mention and it could be a problem with the PB bag I listed is that it holds the cases vertically in the bag instead of horizontally like your wild river bag, I'm wondering how much of an issue it is for tackle migrating from compartments when stored vertically or just getting all in a ball, I dunno.

Thanks for the replies so far, they are helpful for sure. I should have included that I will be fishing from a 1980's Scanoe (possibly upgrading that this year as well, we'll see) On lakes and sometimes the Upper Delaware. One other issue I see is crank bait storage(I like crank baits as well), how do you guys overcome that. Right now they hang off the side of my folding trays, not a good place for sure.

Hey all new here and I'm going to consider myself new to bass fishing as well, I've been away from bass fishing for 20 years or so( got wrapped up in fly fishing for trout in that time) Anyway I still have all my bass gear and I was using it last season when I decided to get back into this. Presently I'm using a 35 Year old Plano open tray type tackle box, I fish a lot of soft plastics which are all jumbled up in their bags in the bottom of the box and also a lot of crank baits. It's all just an unorganized mess and there is not enough room, I am a gear junkie and like to have a lot on hand. This will most likely be my last tackle box of my lifetime given that the last one hasn't been replaced for 35 years. I was looking at the Plano hard case tackle boxes then started to look at the soft cases the hold all sorts of 3750 boxes. Question to you guys that have migrated to the soft cases that hold these boxes, are there any unforeseen downfalls to these type cases vs the old style hard cases. I see the hard cases of today also hold the same 3750 boxes but not nearly as many, but they also have the top tray to hold extra reels/line/pliers what have you. Is that a missing piece in the soft cases. I'm specifically looking at BassPro soft case https://www.basspro.com/shop/en/bass-pro-shops-advanced-anglers-ii-magnum-tackle-system and this Plano hard case. https://www.basspro.com/shop/en/plano-787-guide-series-angled-storage-system I think I already know the Plano isn't going to be enough to hold my assortment and am leaning towards the soft case but wanted to hear any downfalls to this before I commit to it. I am certainly open to any and all other suggestions, and thanks in advance.