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I’ve been told to stay away from that type of seat, don’t know if they are changeable.

I wear progressive amber wrap arounds, they work great in all but the brightest sun. 1 in amber and 1 darker would be ideal but I’m not forking out for 2 pairs at these prices. A good thing about the amber is I can forget I have them on and see just fine indoors. I don’t know if the polarized amber cut the glair off the water as well as darker polarized do as I’ve never compared them.

I’ve wondered about falling out into heavy weeds, can you swim in them, how about trudging thru muck bottoms? The stuff you think about as you get older. Glad your okay and ended up having a great day.

Ditto on the magic eraser, look like new after a minute or 2. I was considering U40 till I tried the Magic Eraser during my preseason maintenance.

I use 15lb FC leader in pickerel ponds, pretty much took care of the bite offs.

I use one for striper and blues off jetties. Wanted a rod I wouldn’t cry about when it gets beat up on the rocks, a cheap Bigwater fit the bill.

When the health and weather allows, twice a week. Once by myself during the week, once on weekends with a grandson.

I’ve always been straight spinning and had no reason to change till last year. Getting older and arthritis in the hand joints causes a lot of pain after a few hours throwing heavier baits and pinching the line to the rod to cast. In an effort to continue fishing spinbaits and jigs I borrowed an old baitcaster setup to try out. Big difference, no more joint pain, also no more accuracy! So I use both now, BC for heavy lures, spinning for everything else.

I peg when using a small enough weight that fits thru the tip guide, drives me nuts when I reel in and it goes thru.

This is me too, except I won’t be 67 till Dec. Covid strikes again.

Don’t know that there is a bad aspect to the actual act of bass fishing, there can however be other things that can interfere with my enjoyment of it.

Banana boat, comes in little sub 2 oz tubes and spray bottles. I’m in a canoe and go for the smallest I can find. I’m rarely out past 11 am so I don’t worry about it much.

For a one day trip, normal is an hour +/-, once in a while as far as 2. Anything farther is an overnighter, come to think of it some of the 2 hour trips are overnight too.

Sentencing today, 10 days in jail, 18 months probation, $2500 fine, loss of the $130k boat, and loss of fishing license for 3 years.

Not answering the question but we had a donut shop that opened at 4am, for 20 years on fishing days I’d be the 1st in the door, pick up a plain crawler and a coffee for the hour ride to a pond. Covid took care of that, they now serve from a booth in the parking lot starting at 6. d**n that Covid.

Back when I bought such if it was for work I’d ask for assorted, for home it’d be whatever I’d been told to get.

1/32 up to 3/4 bullet and some odds and ends. Tungsten only on Ma.

this is the only one I tried.

I tried wire last year, couldn’t get a decent knot in it and gave up. As I had been using straight braid I went to a 20 lb fc leader, much better at handling pickerel teeth, just need to check it after you catch a few as it does get nicked up.

Yes, the head was rotated. It may well have been while turning sharp, didn't click if it was.

On a different note, I tried the 55lb on the front, worked okay just putzing around but if I gave it a lot of power it'd lift up at the mount, tried stair tread but still no gobso I moved it back to the rear. Hard to steer with it on the front too, even with a rudder. Anyone have a better way?

That’s what I have too, the extendable throttle is nice. With the motor down to just clear the pontoons the control head is about 12” up from the motor mount. If I were to do it again I’d probably get the 45 or 50, I don’t use the motor much, mostly anchor to fish.

Posting about such helps. Sorry to hear about Fenway.

I noticed this on a couple of my reels, a Stradic 2500 and an older Capricorn 2500, 15 lb PP on one, 15 lb 832 on the other. On mine it’s more beveled on both ends, more pronounced right during spooling, not so much after some use which is what is shown here. As the line is centered and it doesn’t appear to effect my fishing I’m not going to worry about it. Ya, I take crappy pictures.

I’ve never had luck buying used so it’s new for me when needed, needed being defined as no longer reliable. The day a vehicle strands me is the day I start shopping for its replacement. I take good care of my vehicles so 12 or so years and roughly 140k miles is fairly normal, getting rid of the old is when I give them away to friends or family that is in need of an old car. Living in MA with no garage, they don’t last forever.