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I 've fallen into that same thing myself, I try and try, but keep going back to the huddleston NGaHB

I thought it was a pretty thorough review. He said he would rank the lews above the curado G but behind the old curado E or the new chronarch (arguably the same reel)...that's fair. He put a lot of detail into his review which may help someone....your post on the other hand was useless.

June Rain in Texas... Yeh BABY!!! I got all wet for her, but she was worth it Jig n Rage Craw, St. Croix Rage Rod and 25lb Vicious Pro Elite Fluoro "Yummy"

The main thing is - you're on the water and off the bank... I have outriggers on my canoe and take flak from the canoe purists, the kayakers, the bass boaters, and just about everyone else. My canoe doesn't look very elegant...BUT, I'm on the water and can stand and fish all day long. I might fall out of the canoe...but it will never roll...

I did ask for,and I got my entry fees back. But why would I deserve anything else? It's not a know it all attitude, it's reality. I jusy don't get what I'd even be asking for. There isn't any guarantee about a tournament result, so why would I claim that? The property is insured, not my tournament results, or "potential" results. It's not like I'm a professional athlete. By the way, my rates aren't really that high, about $150 for $1mil in liability. I must be low risk...

For simplicity sake, if you make 400 bucks doing one job for 40 hours. Then took two jobs making 400 bucks combined for same the hours. 400 bucks is 400 bucks. of course some harm could be the benefits receive or lackthereof. I don't know if you receive benefits for being full-time at your current employment or not, but that could change. Some part-time job offer benefits, but generally speaking it's not as good as full-time. Don't worry about the wage part if you think you can make the same money with two jobs for same hours compare to one job. Just factor health insurance, retirements, and those kind of things into your deceision. Edit: Also, it just occur to me, part-time is part-time. Depending on the employer, you may not work a full twenty hours. If you're pay by the hours you could have a cut in hours. Too many variables..Your deceison cannot be solely base on tax implication, there a lot more to it than just taxes.

Dude, your comments are totally irrelevant. Rates are high because of fraud. For most liability insurance, there is a ton of history to draw from in determining rates, repairs, and claims. It isn't about "unknown future," it's about known risks. More risk, higher rates.

Deckhand. I learned what grinding bait, filling bags, and baiting pots was all about. It is miserable back breaking work. I did it right after I got off of active duty, I was in d**n good shape at the time. Plus, being the low man on the totem pole gets you all kinds of other "fun" tasks to do...... Toilets get clogged often.....

I'll disclaim any information by saying I'm not a CPA. It is my belief that taxes are paid on ones total income regardless of how many jobs are worked. This may be the caveat, 2 jobs at 20 hours each mean they are part time jobs, depending on the employer that may disqualify you to any benefits that a full time worker gets.

Our Melvern get together went down this weekend and was a good time but we had to earn it, thats for sure. Wind wasnt too bad until about 9 AM and then it was just bombing the whole north side of the lake. The moving bait bite was pretty much over after the first thing in the morning for us, then we just had to pick em off with plastics. My partner Chris is good with a shakeyhead and picked up quality fish with it throughout the day. I thought we were going to pick up a couple more coming over the side of the boat driving back across the 3 foot breaks at the end of the day. Chris Schauer was the only one lucky enough to camp out and fish it twice... since he wasnt as pressed for time he took a break to get a piercing done: Even with that in his finger he still toughed it out and stayed out in the chop longer than us... I think the big bass of the day went to the Chris on my boat, a smallie just shy of 3 pounds. Picture doesnt do it justice, the thing was raisin hell coming into the boat and just real healthy. I've had easier days on the lake by a long shot, but it was good to meet some of the guys, and the beers, brats, n burgers afterwards were all the better cause we earned em..

She got bored quick trying for catfish. So she just rigged up a senko and boom. She has not settled down and I am thinking she is pretty much hooked. Caught ANOTHER a few minutes later. Pretty nice nice for a beautiful lady

For punchin I use a bobber stop, 1oz. tungsten weight, paycheck punch skirt, gamakatsu heavy flippin hook 5/0, and either a havoc craw fatty or pit boss on 65 lb sufix 832. Comes back clean every single time and it's really streamlined use a snell knot and it will kick your hook out to the side for good hooksets.

Finally a chance to take a real break from the everyday world, and it can't come at a better time. I'll be thinking of some of you guys while I'm sitting on the lake for the next couple of weeks. With nothing to do but chasing LM and SM Bass, Walleyes, and Pike, is going to be really rough. I might even bring in a few messes of bluegills for the dinner table for a change of pace. I don't even care if I never hook into something worth a picture. The mere fact that our destination is an hour long round trip to find a cell phone tower, and the internet is still nothing but a rumor is going to be well worth it. If everything goes as planned, I won't see anyone other than the four of us in camp for the whole trip. The one thing I WILL NOT miss will be getting called a spam shoveling kid on here simply due to the fact that I can post an "In Before Lock" reply before a newbie's inquiry about another so called fishing club is found by the mods. Nor will I miss being called a fool by some rump sore member just because I don't buy his rant about a property owner's right to use his property as he sees fit. It has gotten to the point that I hardly dare reply with a truthful answer to many posts for fear I'm not stroking some guy's bruised ego. I think it's time for me to leave before I start racking up warning points. Adios!

what ya catching them on RW

Fish reported and weighed last week at the Grove: Wed 9.6 lbs, 7.6 on Friday, 5 and a few 3-4 on Saturday. Sunday I fished with 00mod without much success.

I may want to meet up and fish a little... im only 16 but i can drive so...

For me it is my jig rod. I forget to put it down sometimes hahaha

The pump house, if it's a floating pump house, is where the big bass hold when not feeding. The aeration system is there to break up the thermocline so the lake doesn't stratisfy and leave the deeper water without disolved oxygen. Debris sinks to the lake bottom, the aeration creates a man made turnaover, allowing the decaying matter to break up. The shad feed on the organic phytoplanton, the bass feed on the active surface shad. The bigger bass let the small bass do all the work chasing the shad; they stay under the school and pick off the wounded shad. Flutter spoons or shad swimbaits should work. Tom

FWIW when I was 18 I would have jumped at it. The experience and chance at a big paycheck would have been all I cared about.

Awesome Mike!! Bet he had a great big kool aid smile on for the rest of the day. Sounds like Lox is starting to heat up.

Yea I have a "secret bait" when using carolina-rig, I have yet to not land bass on.

I got into a rut with a spinnerbait, it has been my favorite bait since the first time I caught a fish on it at a young age. My problem was knowing it wasn't the right bait for the conditions but still not being able to put it down but I have learned how to be able to get away from the one lure rut as I call it. You need to look at the lures in your box the same way you look at the tools in your tool box, you may have a favorite saw but you aren't going to use it hammer nails and the same with lures. If the fish are hitting the one lure you're hooked on using then it may be the right tool for the job but when they stop biting it you need to look and find something else and when you catch some on another bait it will give you confidence in something else and give you more to choose from.

If nothing works, a split shot rig with a 6" ribbon tail worm or baby rage craw will. I can catch fish with pretty much any lure in my tackle box if I work at it hard enough. But with the split shot rig seems to fall right into there mouths.

After spending a week at Capitol Hill for a training seminar (which was really cool by the way), I was ready for a good trip this weekend. Howard and I planned to plop the ol’ Crawdad into a lake on Maryland's Eastern Shore for a change. Plus, we knew that Black Hills would be a zoo. Temperatures were predicted to be in the upper 80’s to low 90’s, so we knew it would be hot. But, would the fishing be hot? Our goal on this trip was to get into a good largemouth and chain pickerel bite. In the past, chatterbaits and lipless crankbaits have been hot on both species, and I had hoped for a similar bite. After arriving at the ramp and putting in, it wasn’t long that I tied into this chainside on a white chatterbait…it wasn’t a big pickerel, but man do they ever hit hard. Not long after that, I tossed my chatterbait around a big deadfall and hooked into a big largemouth. I’d say it was 3 to 4 pounds or so, but I can’t prove it, because after leaping twice despite my efforts to keep that from happening, the green bass threw my chatterbait back at me in defiance. Yep, that big bass tore me a new one… After that, I tossed hard baits for quite a while without another bite while Howard experimented with various soft plastics and chatterbaits. Neither of us got into them much along the main lake, so we decided to head up the lake into the skinny water. I really like it up there as it’s like the Maryland Bayou with cypress trees everywhere. Sometimes the fishing can be good, and with the temperatures increasing quickly as the sun became higher in the sky, the shady cover of those cypress trees felt pretty good to us. And we thought that the fish would like that as well. So, with the prospect of cooler water and perhaps a little current, we hoped to get into them up there. After tossing chatterbaits all the way up, we both switched to finesse plastics. Well, we found the chain pickerel. I think that I landed about 10 percent of the ones that bit, the rest bit me off or jumped and threw the hook. Meanwhile, Howard got into a zone and began systematically thumping my butt catching one nice largemouth after another, as I kept getting bitten off or catching dinky bass. During that time frame, Howard also lost a big bass that lept a few times and finally took to the cover and broke Howard off. We estimated that bass to be in the 20”+ range, maybe 5 pounds or so. Howard put on a clinic up there on finesse bassin’ After spending some time in the skinny water, we moved back out to the main lake again and worked soft plastics around the cover that we worked with the hard baits earlier. We managed some more bass and pickerel, and eventually I was able to make a comeback. We fished the shady woody cover and the bass were willing once again, chewing on our plastic worms like candy. We didn’t catch a lot, we caught some quality fish. We saw a critter swimming across the lake and determined that it was a raccoon. We caught up to it and I tried to get a picture, but my Droid picked an inopportune moment to act up and prevent my camera from operating properly. I cursed so danged loud when that raccoon got away that the zillion turtles nearby all ducked under the water’s surface all at the same time. Now I was really ticked off about the way the day was going. At least you’d think that the camera would permit me to record something! NOT! Meanwhile, Howard was getting quite a kick out my moment of rage, cracking up at me in the back of the boat… …kind of like earlier up in the Maryland bayou when I tied on a new Zoom Baby Brush Hog and snagged a branch on my backcast, then after peeling that off the limb proceeded to do it again above my head followed by some foul language on my part. As if that wasn’t enough, my next cast to a cypress tree base promptly zoomed right for the middle of the tree 10’ above my projected target, and wrapping around a tree limb. I went ballistic. Thank goodness that St. Croix makes stout rods because I think that I nearly ripped the tree down in my fit of cursing rage. The lure came out at lightning speed and thumped me right in the chest. Howard was in tears laughing, I think. Here’s the first fish of my comeback, not big by any means, but he thought he was a 5 pounder and fought that way…which brought a measure of happiness and calmed me down a bit. Two casts later I tied into this nice one, my biggest largemouth of the day. This fish made me forget all about the raccoon incident. Well, we caught some nice quality bass after that, but nothing picture worthy. I had one more decent bass hit a chatterbait and a nice chain pickerel do the same, nearly ripping the rod from my hand. In summary, we finished a beautiful day with some pretty decent numbers, but we worked our butt off for them. Each of us caught a dozen bass and our share of chainsides. I think that I finished with nine pickerel (out of a zillion bites and bite offs), and we each caught a couple big bull bluegills. I’m not sure how many chain pickerel that Howard caught, but I believe that he caught a few more than I did. I know that he also had a huge one bite him off at the upper end of the lake. I tried to fish my panfish set up a few times, but the pickerel kept biting me off, so I gave up on that. I might as well have dumped my jigs into the lake. The bluegills were feeding on the surface all day across the lake. It probably would have been a grand time with a fly rod and a small popper or dragonfly imitation.

The only thing wrong with 8# line on a baitcaster is that you're not taking full advantage of the baitcaster's heavy tackle handling characteristics. Try some 15# mono or hybrid and throw some jigs/T-rigs in and around heavier cover.

Up here in NJ They make us take off the props to fish all electric lakes but this is rediculous

An invisible gear box so it doesn't spook the fish. What will they think of next?

It's nice to have a deli sandwich every now and again and I too like Cuban sandwiches. BUT nothing, and I mean nothing, beats a well made pb&j sandwich.

Check out Solar Bat. They have been around a long time and are very reasonably priced. Their top of the line PNVXD lenses are $140 for the Mossback fishing tint. They also have patented gradient lenses which are not available anywhere else. They have either Mossback or Amber tint on the top half and gradually change to high contrast yellow at the bottom. If you come into shaded areas, you can tilt your head slightly and look out the bottom High Con Yellow. I wear the Amber gradients on flat light days and early in the mornings.

I have used both Oakley and Costa in the last few years, and the difference over $20 shades is incredible. Oakleys are good, and much better than el cheapos, but Costa 580Gs really are significantly better than Oakleys. The 580 glass lenses are stunning. And, since they are glass, you don't have to worry about scratching quite as easily. I realize they're like $50 -$100 more than most Oakleys, but it really is worth it. Until Costa produces something better, I have promised myself they are all I'll use. Llifetime warranty. https://www.costadelmar.com/ If you're looking for some great glasses in the $120, check out the Guideline Elite glasses. They are glass lens shades made for fishing. I've never got to try them, but

Review? You play with a reel at the store after a thousand schmoo's handled it and can give a review? Opinion maybe, review, come on. Lews is like a Pro Qualifier? Absolutely. It is the same reel along with the revos, the Brownings, the Phfeluger, the Banax, the Fox and all the others that asian factory makes. Just like a Mercury is a Ford and Cadi is a Chev with more bling. Sadly the fact is is isnt worth buying, but neither is the Shimano.

If I get another, it will be the Coosa. Your other two choices won't likely disappoint, either. Those are all nice rides.