padlin

Being a city boy I too grew up on canned, my wife grew up in PA farm country and grew up with fresh, so of course we get fresh all the time, which to me are just okay, I prefer canned. We do grow and freeze most of our own veggies, much more so now in retirement. I do manage to stop out and get a steak after fishing, occasionally. She’s not a red meat eater either. I agree, Brussel sprouts are down right terrible, in smell as well as in taste.

My wife uses and is happy with progressive Costcos.

I have WileyX and couldn’t be happier with them, these are my 3rd pair in something Ike 10 years. I used an optician that deals with WileyX as opposed to online as being progressives I wanted to make sure the purple was centered, which I brought up and had measured by the optician. Mine came out perfectly. I’d suggest you work out the price online, then find an optician and see what their price is. The prices were the same comparing the WileyX site to a small town optician. FWIW, I 1st priced them at an optician in the downtown of an expensive town where a family member lives, they were double the small town guy. For this pair I got a price from a local optician, they were cheaper cause he gets his lenses elsewhere and puts them in the WileyX frames, as I’ve had good luck with WileyX’s lenses I passed on that deal.

I don’t keep track so can’t do the numbers thing. First off, I only put in 4 or 5 hours when I’m out. Also the pond I hit makes a big difference, ponds with pickerel produce more and bigger, no pickerel, fewer and in general smaller fish. I have noted that April’s and Sept’s can vary, a lot. Unlike summer, seems weather plays a bigger role, some days I’m lucky with 3, some days 12 or more. Summers are something like 15 to 20, again, depending where I go. Up until Covid, I had days like you do in ME.

You didn’t give us much to go on, where you are, what you are using, and where are you fishing from, I.e. boat or shore, depth of the pond, etc. Don’t fish the bottom, use Texas rigged plastics. When I get somewhere I don’t know I go to a Mepps, seems everything will grab one depending on the size of the lure. I just have it move fast enough to NOT catch the crap on the bottom. It’ll let you know if there is anything in the water. Even a worm on a bobber works.

I think we just did this but roughly $300 or $400, not counting gas for the truck.

I do mine yearly but started sending a couple at a year to DVT, peace of mind if nothing else. For the ones I do there are videos online that walk you through it, but I have no idea if this is comparable to what DVT does. Still, ending up with an extra washer or searching the floor for a small something or other is not unheard of.

Thanks folks, looks like there will be a couple decent evenings late this week, if you put stock in the weather forcast.

This time of year the nights get down into the 40’s and the day up to the 70’s. Where I fish the water is say 5-8’, when I go out early, like daybreak thru noon, the fishing is lackluster. I’m not an evening fisher as the wind kicks up in the afternoon blowing around the canoe so I have zero experience that time of day. Question is would the late day bite be better under these conditions?

I have no where near the experience of most here so take this accordingly. I use lo vis green braid, flouro leader when fishing around toothy fish, pickerel in particular, and early spring when the water is crystal. Straight braid works fine other times although I don’t remove a leader if there is one is already in place. I tried hy vis yellow last year, I didn’t care for it, but that could be a confidence thing. our water is clear compared to water I’ve seen in the south.

My new ones are bronze with blue mirroring, previous were Lao bronze but not mirrored. I lost some of the color enhancing of the straight bronze but have better glare reduction. Both in polarized. So for fishing, the mirrored re nicer, for everyday wear the straight bronze, I could wear the bronze indoors without issue.

Until recently we camped a lot, backpacking, canoe camping, and a 5th wheel. Also hiking has always been a passion, have camped and hiked in most states. Age is catching up so camping has gone the way of the Dodo, but we still hike 2 or 3 times a week, just shorter. Besides fishing these days my hobbies are woodworking, gardening, watching the 2 yo grandson 2 days a week, watching whatever sports matches/games the rest of the grandkids are involved in. That in itself sucks up 1 or 2 weekend afternoons, and at least another weekday afternoon. If you have a bunch of grandkids that you re involved with, there isn’t a lot of time for hobbies. Once a week we take the 2 year old to soccer practice 🤪

I can’t say I agree with number 5, but thanks for posting, just in case I run into the Coast Guard patrol boat on any of the ponds i fish. I’m one that didn’t know there were rules for paddlers.

If you’ve not had progressives before, you might want to hold off shelling out $$$ till you know if you can. Maybe go with Cocoons till your used to the clear everyday glasses, if that’s what you re getting.

My progressives are WileyX Omega’s in bronze with blue mirroring. I’m on my 3rd pair in something like 12 years. I like the wrap around design with curved lenses so they block the side light, which they do. Well worth it or I wouldn’t be on my 3rd pair, the down side is the price. You can get them online but I went thru a more or less local optometrist, progressives can be tricky to get right. When I bought my 1st pair, WileyX was the only company I could find that did progressives in wrap around. There may be other options now. One of my favorite points to them is I’ve never gotten a scratch on them, don’t know what they do but it works. I did have a different optician quote me. Lower price, but they put their own lenses in the in Wiley’s frames, which I didn’t trust.