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so i have a shimano citica and an okuma stratus, both freshwater reels. but i think there is some good bass fishing in a brackish inlet. well after i fish in the brackish water, should i rinse my reels out? can i just run them under the hose? or will this take out the greese and oil and stuff and make the reels not work properly? what should i do after i use freshwater stuff in brackish water? thanks guys.

moths freak the hell out of me. im cool if theyre on the other side of the room or somethin, but when theyre right next to me it just freaks me out cuz they always erupt into flight and always manage to fly into my and down my shirt or somewhere near me. i hate that. aside from moths, i hate mosquitoes, idiot teenagers, and snapping turtles....d**n things always manage to bite my lures and break um.

im having a problem w/ my jointed minnow. when i reel it in it just does barrel rolls across the surface, it doesnt dive and wiggle. it will have a swimming action if i reel it very slow, but at that pace, i cant get it to go subsurface! whats the problem here!?!? i tried adding a split ring thinking maybe since my line was directly tied that took away from the action. well it didnt help. i wonder if i tied a rapala knot if it would work better. any suggestions?

you mean they will actually allow you to fish??? all the courses around here kick ya out if they see ya out there!!!

aahhhhh that sucks! the day before i got bit by a pickerel, i was changing hooks on a rat-l-trap and the front hook wasnt going on so i pushed harder and it slipped free and my left thumb (opposite from the pickerel bite) went straight into the bottom trebel!!! it went thru the top corner of my thumb and out the other side!!! luckily the barb didnt go all the way thru!

ok thats what i was thinkin. now what are the hooks called where the entire bend is tilted to the side and not inline with the rest of the hook?

thats a huge azzzz pickerel!!! i caught my first of two pickerel today and i know what ya mean when you call them "snotrockets"!!!

that things totally over 3.5. judging by the looks of it i'd put it at between 4.5 to 5.5 pounds! congrats on the new PB man! i fish jigs all the time cuz they catch fish like that, but i cant manage to catch crap on jigs. the three fish ive caught on jigs were about 12 inches long and one pound each. sigh.

so true. :-/ anyway, how do you handle pickerel? i tried just grabbing it like around the girth of it, but theyre the slimiest fish ive ever held and they are so fiesty that they just slip right free. so i tried putting my fingers under the gill plate and my thumb on the side of the jaw, but they when it freaked out my thumb slipped inside of its mouth and i got a boo-boo so how do you safely and securely hold a pickerel?

went out for some bass fishing today and didnt end up catching any at all. just as we were about to leave i caught two pickerel on a t-rigged junebug yum dinger. this was my first pickerel. 16" long. when i was holding it the thing freaked out and one of its teeth got my thumb. it immediatley started bleeding and within a minute my entire hand was covered in blood. PICKEREL HURT!!!!! i did end up catching another one later on and that one didnt get a chance to bite me. my second one was a little bigger, 18". they sure do put up some kinda fight tho! that first one jumped like 3 feet into the air!!!!

so the lure is sitting on a photo? well how big is the lure?

if it has no instant anti reverse.....DO NOT GET IT!!! you wont get very good hooksets if you have 1/2 to 3/4 of a rotation before it stops moving. i think manually opening the bail is a small compensation for missing alot of hooksets. plus, ive used them things and after a while, it puts a hurtin on my index finger! specially when the trigger gets stickier to open.

what types of blades are on there? if theyre colorado those things put up a hell of a lot of resistance. willow leaf blades will go thru much easier, because of the shape. i think its pretty normal to feel resistance when you work a spinnerbait. so heres a little break down for you: colorado=lots of resistance willow=not much resistance big colorado=whole lot of resistance big willow=some resistance so the shape and size of the blade has alot to do with resistance. hope that helped a little!

how big is that bhudda statue thing??? cuz the way you have that lure on that statue makes it look like its 4ft long!!! ;D looks pretty nice but its too deep for my fishing. if they made a shallow runner i'd like to get one

i have some gammy ewg offset hooks. i know what the ewg is (extra wide gap) but its the offset that puzzles me. for a while i thought that offset was when the hook point/bend wasnt lined up with the shank/eye. but on these gammys, everything is in line. the only thing i could think of as being offset is the little kink near the eye that holds your worm on (whats that thing caled anyway?) so, is the "offset" when the point isnt in line with the rest of it, or is offset when it has that kink behind the eye to hold on the worm?

tooth picks?????? :-?

sorry but goggle eye are rock bass and this is nothing like a rock bass. rock bass are more like bluegill than spotted bass. Rock Bass (goggle eye) Spotted Bass

good point bizz thanks and catt, thats what i meant lol, i should have specified. i was pretty sure they didnt spawn in the exact same spot, but i was wondering if they spawned in that general area.

hey i was just wondering, do bass return to the same place to spawn each year? i was wondering that because i remember the exact same bed i caught my PB off of and i plan on returning come spring

HOLY CRAP!!! i wonder what kinda fight that thing put up!!!!! that musta spooled you!

Man thats cool stuff right there. the most ive ever seen was a bass head looking at me from between some sticks at my local park and a very dead very rotten beaver floating around in a different pond which i cant seem to find the pic...sorry guys : ;D

yeah thats a pretty darn common way of fishing a crankbait. alot of times i'll reel it in, then just kill it, twitch it some, and get bit then.

haha this one is funny in a gross way!!!!

$25 (sigh) i dont need one yet but next year i will

storm kickin minnow