Rockhopper

22 Bantam or a Curado 150 would be my choice.

I typically pick frog colors that match the frogs in my area and that has always worked well. I am confident all that really matters is the underside of the frog. Can't go wrong with all white or all black. But if it can be made to look exactly like frogs in the area, I figure I might as well mimic as closely as I can. Probably doesn't matter much though.

I honestly have no idea and have never cared to check. When I am personally in the most danger of drowning is when I am surfing, not kayak fishing. I surf a dozen times a year or so on various beaches. Don't think I have ever seen a person surfing with a pfd on. There is a lot more danger involved with that than kayaking in shallow, slack waters. You would think of anything, that would be required. But that conversation never really comes up.

Regarding kayaks only: The only time I take a pfd on the yak is when I am on the big river. Heavy winds coupled with huge wakes from the ships and throw in the current...you would be stupid not to have one on. Everywhere else I fish in the yak is small, shallow waters with no boats, and the pfd stays at home. I am typically in my board shorts and a t shirt with no shoes on. Hell, I even purposely jump in sometimes to cool off. But with it being required...I will keep my mouth shut as I disagree with A LOT of what has been said and there is no reason to start an argument. BUT, if you feel the need to have one, you should take one. No one should argue your own safety. Do what you feel you need to be safe and have fun and make it home at the end of the day to your family.

Merry Christmas!

I've been drinking. Carry on.

Synaptic pruning is the medical term. We remember what is fun, important, or impactful to us...and overwrite the memories that are of little importance. I remember a ton of life stuff, but I won't remember what the wife just sent me to the store to get. I make her text me so I have it. I am also crazy good at remembering numbers for some weird reason. Phones...bank accounts...dates...whatever it is, as long as it is a number, I will remember it.

Almost everything I own is technique specific

Fished for a bit yesterday. Had no luck on a jerkbait. Switched to dragging a football jig on the bottom painfully slow. Nailed one dink.

You would think living 20 minutes away from loomis headquarters and having a metric crap ton of fishing stores in the area I'd be able to get hands on a couple of these rods to feel the actions. No dice. Finally found two in stock at Bob's in Longview, WA. 852c jwr and another 822s dsr. Already own the 822s. The 852c had a great action, but too light for a casting rod. Is the 852c jwr and 852s jwr built on the same blank? If so, I think I'd really like that as a spinning rod. Super light and sensitive. Wish I could get hands on the other models I'm considering. Hate to buy rods this expensive without getting hands on. I guess I could try to head to the factory and see if they could let me check some out. Don't actually know if they have a showroom. Been years since I've been in there.

Currently 15u for the coming spring. But I've been with all age groups. Current team has been together since 11u. Hoping to make a run at the world series for 16u with this team. We unfortunately passed on 14u because regionals were in Canada and not all had passports.

Wish the best and speedy recovery. Praying for your family.

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OR...I read my own threads...

Looks like it is a 1 of 79, matching numbers, guessing around 82K miles 😆

GS400

oh oh i know this! 1968

I caved! I couldn't wait any longer! Thank you, Santa, whoever you are! But going out on a limb, using some ninja investigation skills, I'm going to say thank you @Glenn for the very thoughtful gift! I hope I got that right! There are some very cool baits in there, thank you.

The 200 is bigger overall and can get fatiguing over long periods of time. Have not fished the M, only the K, so cannot comment on how it compares to the 150 mgl.

Anyone have thoughts on the 904 mbr vs the 873 crr? Refined list? 1. jerkbait model? (GLX 822c JBR?) 2. 843c mbr (spinnerbaits, moving baits, shallow crankbaits?) 3. 853C JWR (worms, jigs) 4. 904c mbr/873 crr/894c jwr (heavy jigs, topwater, bigger swimbaits) 5. 906c cbr (DD crankbaits, chatterbaits) 6. 852s jwr (do all...senko's, light t-rigs, light jigs, trout fishing) 7. 822s dsr (finesse...I absolutely LOVE this rod btw)

I threw my wedding ring in the trash at work when I took off some nitrile exam gloves. Didn't realize it was gone until a couple hours later. Had to go digging and sure enough, it was inside the turned out glove.

I have had to purposely cut several anchors off in the rivers fishing salmon and steelhead. Sometimes those things get wedged so bad in the rocks they cannot be retrieved against the force of the current. I once threw my expensive knife in the drink when cleaning a fish and chucking the guts overboard. Sacrificed a couple three hats to Davey Jones in the ocean. Can't really turn the boat around quickly and retrieve them in that scenario. Haven't lost a rod yet in my decades of fishing. I am sure I am due for that one soon. Probably will happen after I buy a couple new NRX+'s. 😂

I have two spools each for my Shimano vanford and ci4+ stradic. 2500 and 3000 for both. The base reels purchased were 3000 size because I wanted the faster gear ratio. I swapped the knob on the vanford to the 2500 size. I have one spooled with braid and one with mono for each reel. Its easy to swap them out depending on what I am fishing for and how I am fishing. These reels pull double duty and are also used on a couple of 10'6" river rods for steelhead. Since I do not use spinning reels a ton...this was a much cheaper solution for me than owning 4 reels. I have a total of about $100 extra invested with those three items, and two extremely universal reels.

For me 13" is way too long on a jerkbait rod. I prefer a shorter handle of 9" to 10". Same goes for a pitchin/flippin stick. I do not want the handle impeding with my arm or sleeve.