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The type of cover you fish should be considered, but the MF will handle that size jig nicely. MH/F if the cover is really heavy. HF is overkill here imo. St Croix power ratings tend to be slightly understated compared to other brands.

Just want to say Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and wish everyone the best for the holidays. We haven't been out much since Thanksgiving Day at Sharpsburg Pond and Middletown Pond...did no good at either place. The Flea Market looks like a good idea. Would only be able to do Sunday and I'm sure Saturday would be better. Sometimes I work late on a Saturday but don't know my schedule too far in advance. If you are going Sunday let me know. Breakfast sounds good, too.:-)

Yup, makes me wish I'd quit typing right before I said "Just Kidding". Unfortunately for PSU, he came on here to pose a question for which we all had an answer. And it looks like none of us gave him the one he was looking for!

I really don't understand the reason for inquiring on advice. This woman is not a wife and it doesn't seem apparent she relies on you for financial support, what you do with your money is your business. If the 2 of you are planning a future together, she seems to be the one with a good head on her shoulders, I'd be listening to her. IMO a person spending 20% of their income sounds a bit excessive. It's one thing to make (net) 500k a year and spend 100k on an activity, there is money left over to live well. I do think taking care of their obligations and planning for the future comes ahead of spending money on an activity. Making only $4000 a year, doesn't leave much even if you spent nothing on fishing equipment. I'd be digging up my own worms

I really don't like either player, and this was the only game that I have ever and will probably ever find myself pulling for Brady.

Don't expect her to change, unless you are willing to change. This is what courtship is all about, determining compatibility. It seems your fishing expenditures are a thorn in her side. Unless you can reach some sort of understanding, it will only get worse. Some people get married hoping to change the other person. That's a bad gamble that rarely pays off. There is only one person you can change, and that's you.

I put 20# Invisx on my first pitching stick when I first got it and have no reason to switch. Mike

This is a very enjoyable thread; I'm getting to know you all a little better. Well, our holiday starts (will start this year on Friday night. We'll cook a small turkey, have supper, read the Christmas story from the Bible, and open gifts here at the house. My wife and I buy my daughter a few gifts from us and let her open them a night or two before Christmas (she's not spoiled or anything) :. Sunday we'll attend church service and then travel to my grandmother's house. On Christmas Eve (Monday) we will have supper at her house and watch my daugher open some more presents from family (as if she doesn't already have enough). We'll then drive home (about two hours) and get her to bed around midnight. On Christmas morning around 6 or 7:00 a.m. we'll get up and see what Santa brought (for some reason I'm always very tired on Christmas morning) After she gets to play for awhile, we'll get around and drive up to my wife's grandmother and have dinner there. This will be her first year without her husband of 60 years. After visiting there for awhile, we'll drive back home. This is pretty much our routine every year.

Christmas Eve, I stay at my sisters house down the Cape (Cape Cod). We cook a 7 course dinner for the family. My brother and his girls all come down and spend the night, we have a blast, like a camp out We sure do miss the parents though, they are down in Fla. for the holiday but at least we started a new tradition when they got older. My sister and I can throw down a meal and a half! For the morning, I make a cake (2 packages of blueberry muffin mix)(whipped cream cheese/sugar frosting) and we plant a single candle in it and sing "Happy Birthday"

We normally go to Colorado. (Garndparents, an Aunt, an Uncle, and two young nieces). The two young nieces have really made Christmas much more fun over the past 3 years. Afterall, that's what the whole "gifts" thing for Christmas is for. I just enjoy being around my family. That's what Christmas is for me these days. Usually on Christmas Eve we have a big non traditional dinner. Last year we had steaks, the year before I smoked a few slabs of ribs, etc. etc. Then after that we open the majority of our gifts at my grandparents house. Then Christmas morning it's up at 5am and over to the Aunt and Uncle's to watch the nieces wake up to the gifts Santa left them. Funny thing is he always tends to leave something for my sister and I. ;D For some reason my nieces look at my sister and I as kids still (even though we are 21 and 24). The first year they were able to talk, the girls were furious that Santa didn't leave us any gifts. One even started to cry a little. Sweet girls. Every year since Santa has left us a little something. YAY!!! ;D ;D Almost 25 years old and I still get gifts from Santa. Then about mid afternoon we have a HEATED Crazy Canasta tournament. These things are viscous and cut throat. My grandfather and I have never lost the Christmas Day tournament. That's about 10 years running. Then we usually have a more traditional Christmas Dinner.

Everyone is happy of course because it's Christmas but there is a little bit of chaos and panic mixed in because Santa did not label things rights or forgot the batteries and the bulldog is trying to get the ripped off wrapping paper out of the garbage to play with it. We also watch Christmas Vacation over and over and over again.

Things have changed over the years. It was great when the kids were little and would come into our bedroom about 5:00 a.m. wanting us to get up with them. This was usually after I had sung at midnight Mass and had only been asleep for a couple of hours. I'm too old for midnight Mass any more so I sing at an early Christmas Eve Mass. The girls are grown now so we just sleep in on Christmas morning. Sometime in the morning they come over with the grandbabies and we open presents then go to one of the daughters' houses for the extended family get together which includes food, a nap, and football. By the time we get home early in the evening at least one neighborhood child with a new bike will be at the door asking me to adjust something.