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I use Blue, no complaints, it does what I bought it for. I use it in spring when the water is crystal clear, and the rest of the year in pickerel waters. 8, 15, and 20, mostly the 15 and 20.

An OG uses all my reels so I guess they all count.

Some of yours pertain, I can add. Going to the gym to try and improve my flagging strength and balance. Went to bait casters as arthritis in the fingers prevents casting heavier baits from spinning gear, at least for more than a handful of casts. I now sit on a Purple seat cushion, cane seat in the canoe is too hard now. For the first time in my life I wear more than a ball cap to avoid the sun. I’m talking long T shirts, long pants, and actual sunscreen. I tell my wife where I’ll be. Make pit stops. The biggie is always having on the life vest, and yes, I tried swimming at the Y a couple months ago, no way would I make it out if I were in the middle of the pond. I do carry a whistle for all the good it might do. No homes where I fish and luckily few if anyone else on the water.

Senko’s sink too fast for the depths I want to fish, I’d need to use a bobber. That and the blunt nose catches in the weeds more then I want.

As in all fishing, what works one hour might not the next, but after ordering year after year I can tell you I go thru the most Pearl and Green Pumpkin Rage craws, size 2/0 and 3/0 Owner J hooks, 1/16and 1/8 Neko worm weights, Freedom Tackle bobber stops, and 20 lb floro leader. I fish mostly shallow weedy water, leaders due to pickerel.

I worked with a guy from Pelham that fished the shore a lot, but always at night, actually it was wade fishing. FWIW, you need a night pass for such, I think it’s for gate access, whether that’s for parking or some such I don’t know.

FWIW, when I went hunting down WyleyX shades some years back, the manufacturer site listed a place in the town I grew up in and visit family a lot so I stopped in. It’s located in an upper crust shopping center, 45 minute from home, she wanted just over $1000. Needless to say, I didn’t get them. Found another place 45 minutes in the opposite direction in a small town. Same exact pair were under $500. There be crooks out there.

Not the same but a couple years ago arthritis in my right hand fingers made it very hard to cast heavier weight lures using spinning gear, can’t hold the line tight enough to cast, and I think the rod grip for the pointer and middle fingers causes a lot of stress. My fix was to start using casting gear for the heavies, which I didn’t own. That seems to have eliminated the issue last year, although I then came down with carpel tunnel in both hands. Maybe you could back off on the casting gear and do more with the spinning. Wishing you the best. i had the 2 surgeries for the carpel tunnel this fall and winter.

Looks just like the Shepard’s Pie we had tonight, good stuff.

Both are 1/8-3/8 6-12 lb Something is messed up here, American Legacy and Cabela’s shows a 7’ F and 7’1” EF as I mentioned. The 7’ bing out of stock. Diawa shows both as F, as does Tackle Direct. They show a 7’3” as EF.

I had another thread about needing a new spinning rod, one of the suggestions is the Diawa Tatula XT. They make a 7’ ML fast with the same specs as their 7’1” ML extra fast. All my rods are F, mostly SC Premier’s, if I get the EF, which is available at Cabela’s and I can use gift certificates to get it, am I going to notice a difference? This is for small spinners and small T rigged plastics. A happy mix of distance and accuracy is the goal. I do understand the differences, I’ve just never experienced an EF.

Maybe vessel and fisherman size. When I sit backwards in my Kevlar 2 seater the now front still sticks up, I’m just too heavy to get away with it. I’d need to tote along ballast.

Guess I won’t skip my gout drugs again, didn’t know it could get like yours. I feel for you.

Replaced/reversed the line on my reels today, ordered a bunch of tungsten, think I’ll do some reel lubing during the games on Sunday, so it’s starting.

Is that a Bass or an XT?

I was thinking about this thread yesterday, seems a good number of the ones with a bad taste from canoes have done so after fishing in 2 seaters, kind of like fishing from a tandem yak, executed the front resin at least has leg room on a yak. I would agree fishing the front seat on a 2 seat canoe is for the birds. Sitting bass ackwards in the front to go solo is only marginally better. One of these days I’ll borrow my son in laws fishing yak and try it out, not that I’d get one, I think.

Those would work, although the Diawa isn’t cork. The Lowrider is a back order, which would be okay as so is ice out.

My bad, I goofed up the link, went back to TD and copied t again, but I didn’t look very close the 2nd time, darn it. The broken Premier is the 3rd time I’ve broken one. Two were stupidity on my part, the 3rd broke on a too big fish, at least that’s the moment it chose to snap. 1st break, that I won’t address, SC replaced for shipping, 2nd time I paid $70, last time, this past spring, it just went in the trash. The original was something like 10 or 15 years old, maybe even more. No complaints with their warranty, I’m just jinxed with this size rod, hence one of the reasons for a lower end rod.

Looking for a sub $130, I’m thinking a LEWS LFS70ML, just cause it fits the specs and price point I want, and is cork. https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Lews_LFS_Casting_Rods/descpage-LFSC.html Is anyone familiar with one of these? As I’ve never seen or held one it’s a crap shoot so I’m open to other options, if they match the specs and don’t go over the price. A few inches shorter would be fine too. This will be used for small plastics, and small spinner baits like beetle spins and Mepps early in the season. I’ll be pairing it with a Stradic if it matters.

Good question. Used to be skiing, snow shoeing and such. Now once the holidays are over it’s hiking if the weather is up in the 30’s or more, along with shoveling that’s about it for outdoors. Inside it’s too much time reading a couple forums, and probably too much tv. I too read a lot, mostly a handful of series similar to Longmire. I get em electronically from one of the libraries. Not many left so I’m filling in with all the Sherlock Holmes while I wait on the others. We cook a lot over the winter, which of course means I eat too much too. This year I’m trying the gym a few times a week.

I have my favorites, some work better then others, but I wouldn’t call them lucky. Too much time and effort goes into finding what works to call it luck.

The closest I’ve gotten to game since I was a teenager is attending a few game suppers put on by volunteer firefighters in NY state, and those were all casserole type dishes, stews, chili’s, etc. Not much you can tell about the meat in that form. Grew up a city boy, you wouldn’t care to eat the available game. I just mentioned the Black Bird Jambalaya to my wife, she thought I was kidding. Spent this afternoon making the base for Paul Prudhomme’s recipe.

We only got 4 or 5”, cleanup was quick which is good as it was -14 here.

Sorry to hear this, hope you can find some peace in the days to come.

I got a set of those from Wally World a year ago for the times I leave my good ones home and need something for a drive. The issue I have with them, other than not fitting in the overhead sunglass holders is they slide down, I’m forever pushing them back up. But they do work, ugly as they are.