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OBX?

Yeah, that's actually the one I meant above, not the megalodon.

If you're using it in that orientation, then that's why you're getting twist on a spinning reel. Those spools are perpenduclar to each other and the reel has to twist the line to put it on the spool. Turn the line spool 90 degrees so the faces are paralle to the reel spool face. Or better, don't even use a spooler like that. Put the reel on the rod, lay the line spool on the floor, and start reeling. Reel for a dozen turns and see if line between the rod and the spool on the ground is twisting or not. If its twisting, flip the line spool over.

Then you haven't paid any attention to boxing or MMA in the past 3-4 years. He started as a youtuber and trained his way into the sport. He certainly doesn't need visiblity. Then again, who hasn't heard of mike tyson. Watching Tyson's training video on ESPN, he certainly looks like someone I don't want to fight no matter how old he gets.

I do at times. Mostly deeper weedlines when I want to fish a horizontal bait but deeper and a spinnerbait isn't doing it. Also if I an fishing heavier cover like dollar pads and want the jig to stay down in it while I bring it back. Look at the meglodon grass jig from siebert. I think up to an ounce with a pointy nose. I have a 3/4 rigged in the box right now.

Since you're a first timer I assume you're going for some casual 'chuck it out there' type surf fishing and not a serious "I'm going for the redfish run in February". We've done that a bunch the past couple years in OBX. I would take a couple rods and chuck out some bait to soak while we hung out on the beach and had some beers. Super casual type stuff. I started with a big heavy rod that I already had which was way too much for that. I also brought a smaller medium bass sized setup with a 4000 sized reel which wasn't enough, though I grabbed a cheapie 9' rod at the local store for $20 and threw the reel on it and was kinda good until the reel crapped out from sand and salt (it wasn't meant for what I was doing to it). Since we were doing it more, I decided to put just a little more money into a setup and I landed on a Penn fierce. I'm super glad I did. Its the proper tool for the job. Most of the time its 3 oz plus two chunks of meat. I've gone up to 6 oz with it and down to 1 oz with it. Mine is the 9' MH, 1-3 oz and a 6000 sized reel. Its enough to throw 3-4 oz plus bait out into the trough or first bar, but definitely not enough to get past the second bar with anything. If you want to throw lures on it you can. Grab a 600 yard spool of 15 -20 lb big game and you're set. The you just need a couple bottom rigs, a handful of weights (I'd carry one 6 oz, 2-3 each 3-4 oz, and two 1 oz) and local bait. You'll also need a good sand spike. I went with the longer aluminum type from bass pro to keep the rod up higher. rick

What bottom weights does he use? For a 3/16 or 1/4 oz you could even go up to a medium, something 1/4-5/8 rated. If he’s fishing 1/8 oz on the bottom then you’re going to need to look ML unless he’s throwing heavier worms. I’ve done what you’re talking with a ML/MOD and 8 lb line. It works, but I like a little faster action at that light of power.

Agreed, but that's not how most engineering schools were teaching 20 years ago and it sounds like not now either. Speaking with friends at the time, what we did was very different to most. Most were given equations and facts and meant to memorize them. Everything we did was open book, open anything. Bring in last year's test if you want. It might have a similar question, but the answer isn't the same. The process was disecting a problem into its basic parts first, understand what 'rules' govern it, and then using the correct technical 'rule' to find the numerical answer. At CMU this method started back in the early 1900's under James Doherty (head of the technical school then) and was called the Doherty Method or the Carnegie plan. As a problem solver type, I absolutely loved it. Some of my friends absolutely hated it. We all made it through together though because that's the only way we'd have survived.

All through school I worked side jobs with my dad in addition to lifeguarding in the summers. He was a union laborer (bricklayers) but on the side he did roofs, siding, concrete, and framing. My parents always said that I'd finish college and not work with my body so they made sure I learned how hard manual work was when I was still in school. I always had good grades (I was a valedictorian), so there was no question of going to college, it was just what I wanted to study. In high school I loved chemistry and problem solving, so that meant chemical engineer. I had a wonderful intro to ChemE professor (RIP) who explained that chemical engineers can do anything. It's not about chemistry or piping like traditional chemical engineers, it's about using problem solving skills to figure out the big picture. ChemEs from CMU went into traditional ChemE areas, but also went into medicine, finance/accounting, consulting, research, and tons of other careers. I was hooked. During my time I did a year in industry in a research group at a fortune 500 company in Cleveland. I hated the work (the fishing was awesome). Doing research was so boring with no payoff. I need to make things, I need to solve problems right now, not some theoretical solution to a problem that might come to market in 10 years. When I graduated a year later I took a job in the consumer products industry for a FTSE listed company that owns tons of brands you have in your house now but that you've never heard of the company. I was technically in R&D, but it was mostly 'D' and a whole lot less 'R'. We would make the formulations that go into the bottles, design new bottles, do all of the testing to make sure it was the best thing on the market, etc. I'm still at the same company 9 months short of 20 years. That said, I've had a winding path. After 2.5 years here in the US, we moved to the UK with the company. In that time I moved from product development to upstream technology identification and development, through flavors and fragrance development, and ultimately into project management. When my wife moved companies and we moved south (still UK) I was able to stay with my current company, but moved from R&D into supply chain leading custom manufacturing. The second time she moved companies which brought us back to the US (I'm the follower career) I was lucky again and managed to stay with the company and found a perfect role where I was designing the custom manufacturing process for a new division. Shortly after, my boss was in a bind (someone left) and needed me to lead the entire program so during COVID we built two warehouses, put in new warehouse systems and processes in 2 more on top, and started them all up. I'm now in third party manufacturing for another division yet, so I just keep moving from open role to open role. I don't intend to leave the company if possible, and with 20 years here it would be costly for them to get rid of me. I'll keep taking the interesting roles that give me some flexibility.

My go tos when I know where they are are the bobby garland baby swim shad and the lunker city fin-s-shad. I'll put both on the same 1/16 or 1/32 jighead and fish them through the schools. https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Bobby_Garland_Baby_Shad_SwimR/descpage-BGAR.html https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Lunker_City_Fin-S_Shad/descpage-LCFSH.html

I don't fish football jigs much, but I always have a few in the box and I can tell you that Mike's jigs are awesome. Look up the extreme G2 and pick your favorite color. https://siebertoutdoors.com/

good luck. I have a half dozen of them from last night in the fridge to get filleted later this afternoon.

If humminbird had a similar app for display, I would try it for $300 in glasses. In a heartbeat. Tonight I was making casts behind me over my head (aka reverse) so I could line it up with the mega live and still watch the screen. I could land them, but not fish them that way.

Three 12v50ah is the same as one 36v 50 ah. So the first option in your trolling motor set above is twice the second. A single 36v 50ah is going to be plenty in a ghost, however you need a charger that can do 36v. If you have the space in the bilge, 3x 12v batteries will make for easier charging. three graphs plus active target is going to draw about 10 amps. For an 8 hour day, that’s 80 ah usable, or about 100 ah total capacity for the house battery. starting battery and bilge/live well can be it’s own battery and a smaller group 24 size lead acid cranking battery. you probably already have this one. Given the above, I’d just make it easy and get 4 of the same 100 ah 12v batteries if you can. Then they are interchangeable if you have issues and all are the same age/size. It makes charging easy (a two bank and a three bank, though you probably won’t have to charge the starting battery if you are running it at all). given how much cheap lithiums have come on in recent years, I’d probably pick up a set of the lower priced but highly rated lithiums. There are quite a few in the $250-300 bucket. For $1k you’ve got your batteries sorted for everything for a long time.

We are 50/50 whether we have ice in a given year. Either way, I’m usually off the water in October due to hunting season. Hunting season is done in February so come march-ish I’m ready to get back to fishing. I fish and hunt because I need to have some alone time and ideally quiet time. I look at early season as high potential but low expectation trips. Early season can be tough. Really tough. At 45 degrees, fish aren’t chasing a whole lot. If you put it in front of them they very well might eat. But a bass isn’t going to come rocketing off the bottom in 8’ of water to hit a topwater or wakebait. And if you do get one to do that, count yourself lucky and move on. On top of that, the weather can be tough. Tonight it was 45 degrees and raining at a rate of 0.25” per hour at times. The wind wasn’t blowing too bad, but it’s picking up tonight. My rain bibs leaked, I didn’t have enough clothes on, and I forgot my wool socks. All of these are on me, but think about the other trips you made last year where you forgot something, something broke, or something went wrong. When it’s 85 and sunny, the boat can break in half and it’s not the end of the world. At 45 and miserable any little thing is just that much harder. In all these ways, early season sucks. Go out with the expectation that you’re at best going to be in a place to enjoy the outdoors, get soaked, cold, not catch anything and maybe if you’re lucky you get back safe and sound. If you do all of the above, then some days you get rewarded. You never know what it will be. But when you’re out at a time when few others will go, you’ll see things few other will. Even tonight as I was soaked and skunking on a lake 400 yards from a highway, I watched a bald eagle pick dead fish off the top of the lake that no one else in the world could see. Last trip I had a lake to myself and watched red tails, deer, beavers, and another bald eagle, none of which would have been there if there were any people around. And sometimes the fish cooperate.

I usually carry a 7' light spinning rod in the truck with a small handful of jigs and plastics, maybe a spinner or two and a small rapala. I'll throw a small chest pack of trout hooks/splitshot/eggs in there as well since I have to cross a trout stream every time I leave the house.

They needed to, they were in rough shape... That said, RW was done in seattle. His time had come to move on anyway and seattle made the most of it for sure! You're in the about the same place we are (Steelers). Half decent roster top to bottom, a few standouts, but still need a QB.

Same. Grandma had a baitshop in the basement from before I was born until nearly when she died. Every year about this time of year my dad would stock her up on worms as much as he could. There was one particular soccer field that was absolutely the best place around. Some weekends he'd pull all nighters on friday or saturday and fill up a pair of wooden boxes he had made just for the purpose (they were 18"x18"x24"). I'd join some times, though not often on the all nighters since I was so young. Most weren't easy pickings though. On nights where it was warm and pouring they would be out crawling on the surface. Those were my best nights and when you could get the biggest nightcrawlers by just walking around. Most of the time though, it was down on one knee (your dragging knee, usually the same side as your picking hand and the right side for me), flashlight in the left hand up by your ear and partially covered by a finger or two, left elbow on the 'up' knee for support, and right hand almost always on the ground or very close. You'd slide your knee across the damp ground until you could just reach a worm coming out of its hole. Pin it with your thumb (gently!), wrap your fingers around and under it, and straight pull out of the hole. Much easier said than done. You'll break a bunch before you get the hang of it. With the big ones they will contract immediately when you grab them. Don't pull! That breaks them for sure. Let them finish contracting and relax and they will slide right out. Nowadays I only use them when I'm taking kids or going for trout. About this time of year I'll make up a batch of worm bedding and put it in a tupperware in the fridge to even out moisture. Then on nights like last night when there are worms just out and on the ground I'll grab the easy ones and throw them in the bedding. I'll carry 3-5 dozen this time of year until the summer or when I'm done with kids fishing. That said, there's a pond nearby that they stock catfish in. I bet on a nice day it wouldn't be so awful to sit in a lawnchair with two rods cast out and crawlers on the bottom.

$120 for a reel or $120 for a rod and reel combo?

In completely "unreleated" news we were sitting on the couch sunday night with the doors all open (it was 65 dergees) and I heard bird ruccous. There are about 1000 robins that have started roosting in the back woods and eating in the lawns. Surely they didn't anticipate the worms coming up... I just go out on a rainy night and pick them with a flashlight. I don't tend to get good variety in the yard, its either full sized nightcrawlers or tiny redworms most of the time, but I can get enough for a good couple hours of trout fishing if I want or more than plenty if I'm taking a kid for bluegill.

In another sign of a waning winter, I heard the first frogs/toads last night and saw the first earthworms crawling tonight. That means the soil temps are up enough for both to be out and about.

could? sure. did it for years when we fished ponds and when I backboated. But right now I have no need to and thus won't (aside from if I go to a pond).

You're right, his numbers weren't bad for the full season. His TD/int ratio was good. He was playing behind a bad line and on a bad team. With last year's numbers he would be an upgrade for at least half of the teams in the league. Yes, maybe. It depends on what he asks for. I don't think he'll go to a team to be a backup QB. For the coming season he has to be paid at least the veterans minimum by the new team (about $1M) and Denver will pay the other $38 not offset. For the following year/years he will want $40M/yr. So would he sign a deal for 2 years and $41M? That's the question. A team would be foolish to sign him for longer at this stage. And that's WAY above backup money. I think the most realistic landing spot would be a team that can contend right now who is also drafting a QB. Wilson plays 1-2 years as the nominal starter before the draftee comes in. The raiders and patriots could be good options for that scenario. edit: I should note that the patriots are not ready to contend, but having a veteran QB on the cheap for 1 year would mean being able to ease your draftee in. The raiders are closer, and RW would be an upgrade on what they have for sure. Whether they can get from their draft slot up to get someone is a question.

I've not noticed a difference in lead shapes. For the most part I'm using the Yum sonar minnow designed heads because I have them. Once you get the FFS dialed in I'm fine seeing a 1/8 oz head and a 3" sonar minnor which is about as small as I'm throwing for bass. A 2" twister tail on a 1/32 lead ballhead is tough, but if you're right on the cone you can do it. A 1/32 maribou jig was impossible for me to watch. Maybe it was the wind and maybe I could dial up the sensitivity more, but that wasn't happening.

I truck bed my autopilot 120. You’ll have no problems with a 106 pdl. I think mine is about 150# as I load it. I use a bed extender but not for support while driving. It’s for lifting into the bed. I can get the nose in the right spot, lift up the back, and take three side steps to be between the extender and bed. That lets me set the kayak on the extender (covered in pool noodle and duct tape) without having to twist and set it on the truck bed. Then I walk to the nose and slide it up. Bed stays down while I haul. The boat is stern first into the bed. I have a strap that slides over the nose but only to just past the transducer. I use a pair of ratchet straps from the nose strap to the steel hooks in the bed.