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First fish of the year! Partner had one go 3.

Like 15 degrees out…may as well watch someone fish . What I’ve doing past few nights

Match made in heaven. Really looking forward to this one.

Still on my 2022 jerkbait grind, definitely gaining a lot of confidence over the past two weeks. Today was the first ones with any decent size to them. Managed a 3lb 11oz and a 3lb 9oz on the Rapala Shadow Rap Shad I found last week. Got a mess of tilapia on it, as well. Also managed a 4lb 10oz on a Toledo gold One Knocker, biggest of the year so far. No giants yet but 2022 is still young, just happy to be getting decent quality fish early into my jerkbait venture.

holy cow ?

Just got the new 2022 Zillion TW HD 1000XHL First thing I had to do was swap out the huge EVA power knobs, other than that I like it alot more than the silver one I got.

I never mentally tire of it. After 4or5 days straight my hands, wrists, elbows and back are screaming for a break though.

Ones I make myself, as much as possible.

My Sierra Trading Post order arrived. I noticed while shopping for christmas presents that they had received a some 13 fishing plastics and some Evergreen cranks. I figured I'd wait until they went on clearance, and they finally did last week. Scored a heap of bubble butt, rabbit ear, thin rabbit ear, and some swimmers. Evergreen..... 9 cr-4's and 3 cr-8's. Yo-zuri 'noisz' wakebaits.

When Sunline 1st introduced sniper was limited to 4 to 10lb test targeting finesse spinning market, Shooter was 10 lb to 20 lb test for bait casting reels. Over time Shooter was offered in 3 lb test groups and Sniper 4 to 20. Shooter being more expensive per yard. Today Sunline is offering Super FC at a lower price. Assassin was introduced at 25% lower price point then Sniper, now equal price. What is important to bass angers is knot strength and Abrasion resistance, Sniper excels over Assassin in both. Tom

Pretty substantial step up from my little Lowrance with the 4" screen and no SI or DI that I had on it.

I grew up fishing with my grandpa and when he passed away it bothered me so bad I stopped fishing for close to 15 years.I started fishing again around 10 years ago but due to OT at work and family commitments I didn't have too much free time to go. Ironically at the end of May I was almost killed at that job that kept me from fishing as much as I wanted to. The injury caused me to have a stroke and as of now my left hand still doesn't work much except to grip things. I do all of my fishing from a kayak and I was able to fish a few times after the injury, I just had to change and adapt as I went but it somewhat worked. To answer the OPs question, not now. Im grateful to be alive and cherish every second that I will get to fish and will never take it for granted.

I'm 73 and will be 74 in March so that's where my perspective is coming from. I have never consciously been tired or bored of fishing. But my interest has waned as I get older. I find I don't have to fish as frequently as before to satisfy my fishing urges so I rely on hopefully quality outing when I do go. The fact that I no longer have my own boat makes it more difficult to when I want to without advanced planning. Physically I have been blessed with relatively good health except for a cancer scare a few years back. I still get tired & somewhat stiff but can fish all day casting in the heat with guys much younger than I. I always chuckle when I hear younger guys complain about this ache or that after a days fishing. I have learned not to complain.

John Browning's Win 1885 low-wall with Creedmoor sights, 75-yd 5-shot group Sight view through my favorite front globe insert no squirrel is safe inside an acre

It's my secret recipe!

I have used both and ended up liking Assassin over Sniper. I'd recommend trying both and see how they feel to you. If there is one thing I have learned about line, it is a very personal choice.

Im sitting at my desk tying up some jigs and as per usual just watching some Youtube in the background (fishing of course) and this particular video is a video of some highschool anglers who are fishing a tournament on one of my "home" lakes. As i'm listening to them talking while fishing the one angler mentions several times about practice fish which in even in high school circuits is allowed but there are some rules to it, each organization is different but from my recollection when I was fishing high school the Boat captain wasn't allowed to officially practice for the tournament without his anglers being with him. However as the video goes on one of the anglers says "so when you were practicing here is this one of the spots where you sent me the pics of the fish" and then several minutes later at a different spot he asks the boat captain "is this is the point you caught the big one off last week". So I would have to assume that the kids were not fishing with him while he practiced for the tournament. Obviously we all know what assuming makes you but with the language used its pretty indicative they were unable to practice with their boat captain. As i mentioned earlier I fished in highschool as well as a matter of fact the first time I ever bass fished was in 2017 when I was a sophomore in highschool, I practiced with my partner and boat captain for almost every tournament the weekend before if possible and if not possible we just showed up and fished, no skipping school or leaving classes early I just played the cards I was dealt. My whole point about this rant is that I feel its not only unfair to the kids who parents or boat captain cant afford or unable to take them to practice for a tournament but its also unfair to these young anglers. They obviously have a skilled boat captain who was able to put in the time and money into practicing and providing them the ability to fish but with that comes the fact that the kids just showed up and used what he told them and where he took them. Sure they could have learned from their day of fishing but at the end of the day their captain was telling them what to throw and where while also taking them to spots that he found, Obviously its 10x harder to try to get on the water while you're still in school but the fact that their tournament day was more of a guide trip and less of a learning experience for the kids involved through no fault of their own. Perhaps i'm just a little salty because I was regularly fishing these tournaments against kids who parents were local sticks who could take 2-3 days off to practice for their kids tournaments. Im just curious what others might think of this... oh and no practice didnt keep me from winning two state championships and a trip to the nattys

I know I'm fishing too much when I get way behind on chores around the house. I get feeling guilty...but I eventually get over it.

^^^^this^^^ Add 5 years and the tragedy of losing my only son and desire to do nearly anything but haven’t lost my love of fishing. My agility has dwindled but fishing skills are still OK. I never fished more then a few times a week during my later working years usually 1 day. Younger years I lived on a lake and fished anytime I wanted to sun up to sun down. Age slowed me and don’t look forward to 0’dark 30, cold windy days to go fishing but will if invited. Tom

It’s very hard not to help when they are in your boat but rules are rules. Many times I would have the same anglers in my boat that I took out to practice. They would tear them up in practice and then struggle tournament day. I would also give seminars at their meetings and I preached that you have to fish the same way tournament day that you did in practice. When tournament day rolled around, they would fish twice as fast, tie on twice as many lures and move twice as many times. They didn’t even realize what they were doing. I gave the same speel to regular tournament guys who hired me to prefish.

Take a step back for a second...You say that every trail has their own rules (which is accurate) and that this trail is not the one you participated in. So its entirely possible that these anglers were 100% within the rules of their trail. There's nothing inherently unethical in what I read in the post, HS fishing is not the Elite Series - There's got to be some provisions in there to allow the boat captains to provide some help/info to the anglers. That's sort of the point of the whole boat captain system, right? Also, you'd think if they put a public video out there they wouldn't do so if it showed them violating rules. The boat captain is an angler himself too, he could have been practicing for his own tournament or just fishing on his own. You can't expect these guys to be locked down outside HS events or no one would ever volunteer to do it. Finally, if you're going to keep tournament fishing you have to get used to this type of thing. There will ALWAYS be someone that gets more practice time than you and/or obtains information/locations from others (99% of the time with in the rules too)...If this situation gets to you, wait until one of the guys you're competing against starts hiring a guide the day before the tournament ?. As sort of a separate point, I personally think high school bass fishing is insanely unfair overall...Not by design or anything, but just due to the fact that some HS anglers will have clear advantages over others if their dad/relative/friend/etc in an avid angler with a bass boat and is their captain for so many obvious reasons. Nothing can really be done about it, just the way it is.

Is the tax money on a "few" grand really worth trying to hide? Not sure it's really worth the risk. I know what you're thinking; JF10 is super conservative. He won't even pull the tag off a mattress. ?

I missed the part in the OP that says they posted video of prohibited or illegal activities. I may be misinterpreting, but I see the primary point is that the captain may be ethically challenged, resulting in harm to the overall competition and depriving his students of learning and improving opportunities. Do you agree? Or is winning (within the rules) more important than even competition and learning/improving?

I'll have a new project to keep me occupied next week. I bought a new Polar Kraft 1648 mod v. I wanted to get a lowe 1852 aura, but I can't even order one until March and it wouldn't arrive until September or October .... Maybe.? It's crazy. There's about two weeks a year you can order a new boat, and you might wait a year for it. I found the 1648 in stock a couple hours from me. Leftover 2021. Gonna pick it up Tuesday weather permitting. That should keep me busy for awhile wiring it and building it out.

My starting lineup that's taken many, many years and lots of overtime at work to acquire. Spinning: -MB Addermine w/Twin Power 2500- drop shot -NRX 822 syr w/Stella 1000- neds, small shakeyheads -NRX 852 w/Exsence 3000- wacky senkos, neko -SC Legend Elite 7'6MF w/Exsence 3000- tubes -IMX Pro 892 w/Stradic 2500- small swimbaits/underspins Casting: -GLX 842 w/Aldebaran- small swimbaits on 3/16 or 1/4 oz head -NRX 852 w/Aldebaran- small jigs, tubes, shakeyheads -Expride 6'10MF w/Chronarch 50e- jerkbaits -Orochi XX Flatside Special w/Curado 70- topwater -NRX 893 w/Met- 1/4-3/8 oz jigs -NRX 894 w/Bantum- 1/2 oz jigs, 5-6" swimbaits -NRX 903 w/Met- dark sleepers -Curado 7'5HF w/Curado 200e- alabama rigs -Fury 735 w/Curado K- frogs Cranking: -Dobyns XP 765 glass w/Curado K- all purpose -Levante EMTF w/Curado K- all purpose -Dobyns XP 805 w/Tatula Tactical- deep cranks Swimbaits: -Dobyns XP 795 w/Curado K- magnum topwaters, rats, slammers -Fury 806 w/Cardiff 300- midsized glides -IMX Pro 965 w/Tranx- midsized glides -MB Onager w/Tranx- all purpose -Dobyns XP 807 w/Tranx- Hudds -Dobyns XP 867 w/Tranx- large glides

You would be astonished at the number of immoral and worse, illegal, activities that get published on social media, sometimes I think that people's brains are often wired in reverse with facetweetgram, they turn the social media on, brain goes off.

I also organize by type. Every type of bait I own is on the boat every trip. Overflow of the same baits is kept in storage indoors. I always tie on the night before depending on conditions and what body of water I'm fishing and go from there.

Forgot the pic.

One day the doctor told me I needed to slow down and take it easy. I immediately went back to the boat ramp and told him to get off my boat.

FYI, I just got a reply from TW. The 20% for the losers on rico blems ends last day of April.

Yes ~ And although Tax Fraud may be what all the cool kids do, deliberately misrepresenting my actions to the Internal Revenue Service, doesn't sound like a good plan to me. YMMV A-Jay

I bought a set of Conair clippers 20 years agonfor about 25 bucks. Wife slaps those comb things on the clippers and cuts my hair in 15 minutes once a month. Haven't paid for a haircut in decades.

Man, I need to fish your lakes. My fish don’t tell me what brands they prefer I buy.

I can't take anymore rod related financial blows, Im 50 bucks away from seeing Elizabeth!

I am looking for a new home. Do you mind reaching out to your family and gauging their interest?

@Mbirdsley What I like best is the hook keeper function - keeps your rod staged in kayak and your line is never twisted on the rod guides

You win the internet in ‘22.

i appreciate that but let’s settle something really quick…… coke > pepsi

I use Sniper but have used pretty much every mid to high priced fluoro on the market. Outside of some of the stiffer high end lines, if I fished most of them blindfolded for a day, my odds of guessing which one I was using would probably be low. It’s kind of like Coke or Pepsi…Ford or Chevy.

They attached to a vacuum cleaner didn’t they?

I used to make a visit to the local Great Clips about once every 45 days for a haircut. Did this for as long as I can remember. Spring 2020, Covid started and they shut all the barber and salons down. Well crap, I need a haircut and now it’s really starting to bother me. Wife says “I’ll do it if you find me some clippers.” So I start looking at major retailers. Completely wiped out on store shelves. Dammit Lets check online. Sold out, sold out. eBay has some and I start bidding. Eventually win one for double the msrp price. Well now I just use that set of clippers for most of the year as long as the weather is warm enough for the wife to give me a haircut on the deck. I still go to great clips about twice a year in the middle of winter but the clippers I paid double for on eBay have more than already paid for themselves.

I may actually have enough open water to catch a couple tomorrow. Gonna try anyway.

Just in case you've waffled in the past hour, I'm with @Choporoz. I have one and hate it.

I'm giving away $50 in @Siebert Outdoors merchandise. Just cost you $5 to enter for a chance and the money goes to a great cause.

I thought you kidnapped my dog for a second

I hear ya brother. Very cool.

Guy went to DR for his physical and told the Doc that he didn't drink, smoke or mess around and then asked the doctor " you reckon I'll live forever " ? The Doctor replied " what the hell for ?"

TW just got me for a Kaden 713C. Was done buying rods this year… monkey wins again!

Some more goodies from the TW sales And some stuff from Japan Got this from Japan Lure Shop as well. Have not yet had a chance to get it out but man is it a thing of beauty!