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That will work, and if the knot is tied correctly it should not be slipping in the first place.

RIP Stuart. He really was as cool as the other side of the pillow.

Buy a Pfluegar President and use the extra money you saved to buy line for it and some baits to fish with it

Trilene XL

And now, a word from our sponsor..lol. Hootie

Nice catching. Not to taint your opinion, but wild fish, or ones that have been in the river/strem a long time, seem to tast better to me than stockers. Stockers always tast grainy! Jeff

The "overflow" will creat a circuit between the battery cells or posts and cause it to discharge. Take a straw, dip it into the cell, put you finger on the end to hold the fluid in the straw, and remove the straw to dispose of the excess. Do that until the level is at the indicater in the cell. Clean up the spilled fluid so the battery is dry. Rinse the caps with water and shake out the excess so they can "breathe". Keep plently of water nearby to dilute what you spill. Wearing rubber gloves is a good idea when handling battery acid. If you have one, a battery hydrometer can be used for the fluid extraction instead of the straw. "Been there, done that, have the T-shirt"

That is not true a bit, not all ponds are the same as some call 60 acres a pond while others call a mud hole a pond. Also the jigs aren't a good pond bait doesn't hold water, you just haven't used the right jig, now if you say a 3/4oz flipping style jig isn't a good pond bait, I'd still hesitate but I would tend to agree with you for the most part but if you match the size of the jig to the cover and the size of the fish, then it can be very effective. As I said before, my grandson is learning and I got him on the small finesse type jig to the point he is good with it and we started off in ponds and then moved to larger bodies of water so jigs certainly can be great pond baits as long as you use the right jig.

I don't get the purpose myself. If the proper knot is tied on the proper line, slipping should never be an issue. If it is, then you need to learn a new knot .

It was a long time ago, but I'm pretty sure I caught my first largemouth on one of those early, pre-rigged rubber worms. It was orange, rigged with two or three weedless hooks, and had a couple of beads and a small propeller on the front. I was about nine or ten at the time and that lure is long gone! I remember being very surprised when the fish hit it because, up until then, the only times I had tried using a rubber worm, I had threaded a small piece of one onto a size 2 Eagle Claw snelled hook and dead-sticked it, just like I did with real worms. Darn things didn't work well at all! :-) Tight lines, Bob

San Diego Jam. All I use with fluoro

As a fan of ESPN, I'm saddened by the news Stuart fell to cancer. Enjoyed his reports and commercials. RIP http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/12118296/stuart-scott-espn-anchor-dies-age-49

I was going to do a post on this, but I decided to write an article instead: http://www.bassresource.com/fishing/why-we-fish.html. Here's to a great year, guys!

well it was a cold rainy day with 40 degree water but I got my first fish for 2015, happy New Year everybody! 3/8th ounce black&blue jig with a Tiny Paca Craw

Spring: shallow, deep, & every where in between Summer: shallow, deep, & every where in between Fall: shallow, deep, & every where in between Winter: shallow, deep, & every where in between

and one of me is more than enough on here.

That's a toad-lber

I bet it really upset you when they did that to your barbies.

All Lew's here.. I have a couple of BPS pro qualifiers cause of pricing, but now that Lew's has a new Speed Spool LFS at $99 thats what I'm sticking with. I have never had any issues with Lew's.

Bitsy Bug Flip, excellent head design, quaility hook, good weed guard, decent price. Rage Tail Chunk Colors: black-n-blue & greens Other lures: lizards, craws, & creatures

The sad part of uneducated consumers buying chinese is the fact that they, the chinese are destroying a huge portion of asia's environment while they make their profit. Our business had to leave our country to avoid stricter environmental laws among other reasons. Now we simply manufacture the stuff elsewhere and destroy the earth there. Thousands of miles of Siberian and middle asian rivers and lakes ranging almost to Iraq have become void saltin seas from run off directed there from china.

Since buying Cavitrons, I no longer want to throw any other buzz baits. You can't beat them.

Trilene. As stated above, if you can wait a day or two, walmart.com some red label site to store and live happily ever after

Lost it years ago. A orange Rooster Tail. I put it my pocket one day when I was about ten y/o. I had to cut it out with scissors which left a hole in my shorts pocket. I forgot about the hole and put a $10 bill in the pocket to ride rides at the fair. Needless to say, I lost the $10. Lures have been costing me money every since, lol. I think the Rooster Tail ended up in my pond.

The shimano saraha or the pflueger supreme would be my choices.

I caught my first bass on a night crawler. I guess you could say, it is long gone.....

Fishing history can destroy you more times than not. That was a tough one to break for me on lakes I only get to fish 1-2 times a year

Ned Rig flat out catches fish. You can use a weedless jighead, and some do, but part of the philosophy behind the presentation is to bypass obvious bass cover that most all other anglers fish, and instead focus on open "nothing looking" water that others bypass, as well as fishing rocky banks and edges of sparser weed growth. Open hook jigheads work fine in those areas. For more specifics on "how," check out Ned's page (Midwest Finesse) over at In-Fisherman, or some of the many videos now out there on YouTube. -T9

Holy shyt using a mallet on a reel.even a reel that aint any good dont get a mallet.its either fixed or gets a sledge hammer.NO IN BETWEENs

I hope it was plastic. I caught my first on a Heddon Crazy Crawler many moons ago...don't have the lure, but a great memory instead.

First bass was on a bobber and night crawler. My first after I started using artificial lures was on a black and blue jig and yes, I still have it. Only been 5 years though so it's easy to keep track.

Its been so long I can't remember what was the first bait I caught a bass on. Dang memory....its so....um what were we talking about?

If you want to experience reels truly different from Lews/ABU look at some Daiwa, Shimano or Quantum models. Maybe a Pinnacle. Everything else is pretty much based off one of the other platforms.

I have a bad habit When the creek beside my home floods I can not resist the urge to toss in a bait and let it float away half a spool or more I don't know why Every time I lose it I've lost 6 baits this year but I keep doing it And every time I tell myself how stupid I am Over and over

I would start with making a day box with just a few things. A few hooks, weights, jig heads. Maybe a few crankbaits and spinnerbaits. Put them all in a plano box and stick it in a backpack. Then take along a few plastics. Switch it up at times. If you dont have a whole lot with you, you are forced to use what you have, which will help you develop your skills and confidence with certain lures.

get a bigger tacklebox

The most recent was when I was trying to lob a drop shot rig up against a retaining wall that juts out a little into the lake (part of a green belt area). I was so focused on the cast that I forgot about the huge oak tree on said greenbelt that hangs over the retaining wall. I made a horrible cast and the rig ended up in the tree, about 25 feet in the air. Irritated with myself, I gave the line a quick rip and snapped my rod in half. Now I'm really ticked off, I grab the spool of the reel (to eliminate the drag system) pull down & away from me so I don't fire the weight into my head. Instead, the branch breaks & falls on me. Leaves all over me & the boat, I just started laughing...

Cold water and cold air temperatures. I hate cold weather.

But I harvest and return a bass... I try it with a deer and well...... it doesn't work.

Swimbaits are dumb. Drop shot a pink buzzbait for the fish of a lifetime!

Far as weight is concerned, it's the price you pay for more durability with flexcoat. I personally don't care if a rod weighs .2oz more (conjecture) for more protection, especially since I'm very hard on my rods. Rather have a knick in some clear coat than on the blank.

Alex Langer's Flying Fish Lures.

Size 7 Original Floater Silver/Black. Staring at it right now...

senko... long gone

Puppies

I caught my first in little burns, calcasieu river run off. It wwas on ol faithful. Johnson silver minnow uncle josh #11 pork rind

This is just one of my jig boxes, I have 3 total. I usually try to organize them by color but I also put the ones I use the most in one box. This is that box, my favorites.

Choose the colors YOU LIKE, actually in low visibility conditions colors matter very little, bass do not need to see the bait in order to strike it.

3700 size box,sorted by size/style/weight and color. This is what I carry in that box, and use, and catch plenty of fish on: Finesse flipping jigs, 5/16 + 7/16 oz. Both in black + blue, and green pumpkin/brown Grass flipping jigs, 3/4 + 1oz, also both in black + blue, and green pumpkin/brown football jigs, 1/2oz + 3/4oz.......black +blue, an green pumpkin/brown Swim jig 1/4,3/8,+ 1/2 oz.....Bluegill and White 3/8's oz bladed swim jigs..........bluegill and black/blue Simply, yet effective for me, and I'll let my results speak for them self.