fishhugger

sounds totally reasonable... maybe your boat needs to be organized better, hence more uniformity??? just a thought. then you can save money in da man cave with a hodge podge... if you had all plano in your hodge podge,............maybe that would be obsessive??? lol......depends on what guys prefer...

i'll go ahead and order a couple more plano 3700's , cause i need 'em now. just wondering about lower cost alternatives... the spro seem a lot harder to find, altho TW carries them. next time i'm at one of the big shops --- like bps, i'll look at their in house brands to see their pricing and quality... most of the brands available online seem priced similar to plano, so i guess i'll think of just sticking with that...

so, i'm all plano, and it is a huge plano world. i just looked briefly online at kastking --- their price for their 3600 size seems...... exactly the same as plano. if so, i can't see why i'd consider another brand..... so i'm figuring i'll stick to plano, cause then you can swap parts, dividers, etc etc.... and they just seem so reliable. and, i guess there's nothing else that's as good? or is there..... i'm liking the 3700's for big, 3600's for smaller than big, and i've got some smaller ones, which are also nice. or do people just get whatever is on sale, mix and match, and call it a day?

um........... there's things that qualify as 'fishing' vs 'not fishing?' guess so.... i think richard gene is interesting... not sure what he's uh.... doing when he does his --- psycho-routine??? and i'm definitely 'not fishing.' i'm sitting out til it warms up. ok, i'm in california...

naw... she's a woman... she'll forget about it by tomorrow....... and you're back in the dawg house... or fish hawse... oh, i ain't never been married..wonder why, lol..... happy new year though!

havne't been fishin' long...i had a hiatus of 50 years! i've bought a bunch of new reels, never quite sure what kind of not to tie, or whether to just plop the line on with no not... i feel your story is a reason to tie on with a darn solid knot. hopefully the line will bust at a not or something, right on or near the fish.... agreed, not a good feeling to injure a fish. everyone have a good 2022...!

you guys sure complain a lot..... personally, i'm still waiting for titanic 2... uh, it's where a couple of the passengers who managed to get into one of the lifeboats find a life of happiness together, white picket fence, a dog (mongrel), and...well,,,..oh, he gets a job as a life insurance guy..... she takes up sewing... . nothing happens much....... they got two bratty kids............ titanic 2. coming soon.

Don't seem hard at all to switch, although I am an inexperienced Fisher guy. Iam a rightie, my first bait casters I decided it made sense to get a leftie reels. Perfectly happy with that decision. Now I'm learning too cast leftie. Not hard. I thought actually the thumb might be hard to get, but that's fine. Release point can be off, but that will come with a little experience, I'm sure.

i am barely a spinning guy, (i didn't fish for decades). i'm 65 and got my first bait caster in late fall. i started fishing with it days after i got it ---- i've used it exclusively since. i got an slx and slx st... they both seem fine. the slx xt, afaik, differs in that it has it's centrifugal brake that can be adjusted on the outside of the reel, or from the inside cover... i actually have not figured out exactly how the brakes work; i leave them off, often. now i'm learning to casting leftie (i'm rightie). i learned to cast using mono, 10#. someone suggested mono was either more forgiving, or that once you learn on mono, braid is easy. now i use braid or mono. i'm glad i got 'leftie' slx's. (uh, i bait cast with rh, and reel w left hand, like my spin rods) i don't see why people switch hands while casting (ie, a rightie who casts leftie and then has to switch hands after the cast. i think most guys do that? makes me dizzy just describing it) oh, i got my slx's as combo set ups --- people told me they were a great deal. i'm totally happy with them.... this forum has helped so much...! have fun w your dad..............!

i'm 66... yeah, computers is hard. the internet is confusing... the good old daze? those old hp calculators with reverse polish notation? omg... what a hoot. actually, they were pretty neat... cute, nifty, i assume american-made little things,,... now those were cool. then the ti (as in texas instruments, are they still around? oh, they are...i have one, lol) calculators, which to me were like the hondas of the calculator world... now, i got a raspberry pi, running unix, which until 1998??? or so, ran only on 'big iron.' so i'm running unix on a tiny teensy little raspberry, and now i'm getting into arduinos. those are these uber-cool microcontrollers... maybe i'll train mine to catch a bass while it opens a beer for me. technology right now is kind of pretty inviting - finally. and i worked in computers. but i can barely work my cell phone. i think cell phones are basically pieces of u-no-what. steve jobs was right: he wouldn't let his kids use them. they make you stupid. but like everyone else, i drink the kool aid. oh, merry christmas,

got my moderna booster dec 8. a little tired the next couple nights, but that as about it.. my friend had to fly to minnessota earlier in the month. his brother in law and sister weren't vaccinated at all. the brother in law died from covid. my friend attended the funeral. the deceased was around my age.

you guys............ jeezus............. yer babies! (i mean, you are younger than me...lol, tho not by much). yes, cell phones, etc, the internet, it's a learning curve. i think, especially cell phones. they can do so much, and so it's --- yeah, confusing, imho. no doubt about it. for me, it's a certain amount of research and getting used to the darn things. also, just what things are useful to you - such as weather apps, fishing apps, buying tackle, etc... i don't just download any apps. i don't need that aggro.... i get what i need, and figure it out. not unlike these forums, which take a little bit of study to use! and of course, the internet is so darn useful. right now i'm watching videos put out on - i guess vhs, but they;'re on youtube... doug hanson, i think... all about bass fishing in the 70's. i can get that anytime i want! incredible.

it's an hour long 1985 video, "doug hannon the bass professor", that i found on youtube. at about 15minutes, he begins talking about seeing colors, how night hunters don't need color vision (owls) but that bass have excellent color vision... so they have evolved as day light hunters - he says. he advises that bass don't strike during the day light hours because they might be able to see flaws in the presentation easier. his own records indicate big bass are mostly caught in the middle of the day.... (uh,... when i rarely fish....lol) at about 20 minutes, and a little before, he talks about the bass hearing vs lateral line... interesting.... so does anyone here try to fish for bass in the bright daylight hours?

as a newbasser, i'm a little confused by this thread... is it how many strikes one felt the bass make on your lure, which i guess would be a guess-timate based on strikes felt per hours fishing? or is it how many strikes does the bass make ---- which one might or might not be oblivious to. now that would be an interesting number, at least to me.... for me, bass strike about 50% of the time... i miss 49.9% of them. i mean, i'm totally clueless that they struck....... that bigmouth forever video is pretty neat -----------------!

I learned bait casting maybe in September, and I'm a rightie. I decided it made sense too buy leftie reels (lh works the reel handle). I'm used too spinning reels, which for me, and I guess most, are left hand reeling. never looked back, at least for bait casters. Now learning to cast my bc leftie... Sucks to have to switch hands too reel...... Idk How people are ok with it. But I'm a newbie.

yeah, agreed the bay area sort of reeks... entertainment here is sideshows, guns, shootings, and being mugged. even my van has been shot, lol. the creek fishing you're doing seems so tough --- that;'s my personal bias (aka laziness). good luck in the delta. i haven't fished there much... no boat, etc... i'm a bankie.

that seems so tough.......... why not any of the variety of little ponds within 20 miles of san jose? or maybe 10 miles... the perc ponds? what about fremont...? shinn pond, etc? a nice thing about ponds is you walk around them, and then you're back at your car! a creek, you trudge along it... now you get to trudge........all.........the..........way.....omg....back..................to..............your....................oh man...............................................c............a...............r.... oh man.....................it is so cold....

i fish at a neighborhood lake, and one benefit is all the people i meet there. they'll often ask if i've caught anything, etc... i also meet the occasional birder, painters, etc... and fishermen. it's a 7 acre lake, so very small, and when people are there, they're all in a good mood. i felt that when i was surf fishing, that people aren't nearly as friendly in that environment. it's very noisy, dangerous (you can get swept out to sea), lots of sand and space. not conducive to talking or chatting, etc...

yeah.... i forgot to mention, i had one rotator cuff surgery. i'm pretty obsessive... i probably consulted half a dozen guys --- all shoulder guys. i was able to tell the dr's - i hurt it doing (this) and it hurts (right there). i think that really helped. a quick injury, not a lot of chronic stuff (although i'd had the injury a couple years, but it wasn't bothering me a lot)... yours is a lot more serious than mine was. yours might go fine, with a short rehab time... but i'd bet the longer you wait, the longer your rehab might be... the cortisone shot for me i looked at as a diagnostic, not something to let me do stuff iwth less pain. my shoulders been great ever since...

you might be able to get some sort of disability, re: work - since you're contemplating typing with one arm.... i'd see a couple more specialists - who only do shoulders. wait, this lady who messed up --- i hope she's just a gp..... and NOT a surgeon. oh, wait, she's a surgeon.... omg. since you can't type or even use your arm to reel ------------- i'd put this as a first priority. yes, over bass season. i'd speculate that chronic injuuries, which i assume yours is, are much harder to fix than ones where there was some event that caused pain in a specific spot. my podiatrist (okay, wrong limb) said double any recovery time the orthopod says... he knows what he's talking about. oh, and since your injury is chronic, yeah.... you'll have to deal with the recovery. but, bright side: imagine if it were a leg, foot, ankle, knee ---- now that is hard. bass season may be over for you............ gl!

why if you get skunked, you have no right to buy fish at the store, or at that great cafe down the block, or fish and chips on the way home.....or anything that will please and delight you, food-wise .... --- why you should wallow in being skunked... it builds character and moral strength. personally, i always failed that. i'd be hightailing it to my favorite fish taco place whenever i got skunked.... oh man, those were good.... their fish and chips were darn good too......... oh man.... like, perfection.

yeah - i watched that one... it's a little advanced, but probably in a week or two, he'll make sense to me... one thing is clear: that man loves his weeds...................... i've never ever been on a lake like that...

all this stuff mentioned has really helped... - especially about working quickly and efficiently gtk flipping is a good fall back tactic... my fishing, the past two days, has picked up, actually, since i been flipping... or pitching, ... i been having a turrible time the past two months. but i enjoy the pace of flipping --- it seems to be the opposite of most other styles of bass fishing?? still getting used to how --- CLOSE it all happens. jeeze - i'm sure guys have had hooks fly past them on an attempted hookset, but do you ever have a bass go flying past you??? just wondering.

thanks for the post... yeah --- efficient. working in grass has been a little intimidating, but the answers here have really helped... and the reaction stuff.... that's a new concept for me too. uh, it's a little hard waiting for tomorrow to go out there again...

will watch more of seth fieder on YT... he explains very well, thorough, detailed, concise... thanks! well, went out this afternoon with a heavier weight (1/2 oz), still pitching, but not relying on 'holes' anymore... have had a terrible time since the seasons changed, almost biteless, actually. but tonight, relying solely on mats, went much better... lost a fish (i suck at hook sets), but had a couple bites... really interesting.. used something like a rage craw, or something.... green pumpkin w red specks.. i actually found it last week where i fish.