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I talked with a man who was out in his boat not too far from where I was fishing and he said his rod was arching to his hand too. He got off the water muey pronto. Spooky

I had a weird experience day before yesterday and haven’t been able to stop thinking about it for some reason. I was fishing a 3” paddle tail swimbait on 10# Vicious mono on the docks. My rod was a 7’ Shakespeare Excursion graphite. There was a storm coming from the North, but it was still 10 miles away. I shifted my hand on the grip and POP ! What in the world ? POP ! That time I knew I wasn’t imagining things. I told a man that was sitting on his cooler what had happened and he told me to lay off the drugs. We both laughed until my rod started humming. Oh crap. Instead of drooping down my line was floating in the air. I laid my rod on the dock and it stopped. I’ve never experienced that before and was wondering if anyone else had.

For the jigs with beefier hooks I like 20# mono or fluorocarbon on at least a medium heavy rod.

I kill lots of rattlesnakes every year. Biggest one I’ve seen was almost 6 ft long and as big around as a beer can. Never rattled once.

Feel better soon

A net is the way to go. Lifting a sow with the rod ends badly for me more often than not.

Your back yard is gorgeous. Welcome to the forum !

The classic pro

Right now it’s the Pflueger President on my spinning stuff and Lews speed spool on the casting stuff

Sounds like you’re fishing the right spots to me. This time of year I catch a bunch of catfish beating the bank with a 3” paddle tail.

Vicious

Purple worm

I built one of these for my wife. She’s vertically challenged.

Wow

I fish at night a lot more in the summertime.

I’ve got 4 sons. There’s no way I’m touching that mower till they move out.

My fishing stuff is worth more than my car. Priorities.

I bought a Mother’s Day card today and realized it says happy birthday at the bottom. She’ll probably get a kick out of it anyway.

Last night my chair blew in the lake when I got a bite. I flopped on the deck like a walrus and grabbed it right before it sank out of sight. When I let go of it to reel in my white bass it blew in again. A good friend of mine caught it that time. Long story short it blew in four more times and I have a rash on my butt and a full cooler of fish. True story.

I went to the optometrist about a month ago and they didn’t have my bifocal lenses in stock. They said they would mail them to me. Oh no. Danged if I didn’t come home and find them thrown down in my yard. I’m not sure who delivered them but it could have been the paper boy. Nah he gets closer to the door.

Maybe the high school coach thought Todd’s name was Richard Cranium.

I need a bone through my nose and a disk in my bottom lip.

I’ve eaten quite a few friends.

I prefer a trick worm when wacky rigging.

I would have thought it was more than 5%.