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Yup, I use number 3 through number 6 inline spinners for pike and pickerel, and some days I end up catching more bass than Esox, some good ones too, specially in the cold.

That's a penish thing to do....

Yeah, of all the "will catch them when nothing else will" presentations, scrubbing a grub has to be one of the most forgotten. I was taught to scrub a grub in the 70s by a really old guy who learned it from his grandfather when he was a kid, according to him they used hair jigs back then (he didn't called them hair jigs), one of the ways to scrub a grub is what folks think of when they fish a ned rig. I remember having a pack of grubs that were actually labelled Scrub Grubs, but those tiny beaver tailed ones and cut tailed ones is what we mostly used. The inshore salt water guys in NYC did something almost identical for insanely large weakfish as well.

I catch thousands of pounds every season, mostly using 60 lb Ande leader, usually clear, but green and pink sometimes, striped bass don't care. They are literally the dumbest thing that swims.

That's the first time I've heard that.

LOL

To me a scrounger is a finesse naked chatter bait.

If you are saying the canoe turns or doesn't track as desired when paddled, that's on the person in the rear, he/she paddles and tills. It is up to them to keep the canoe straight (or going in the desired direction) by either paddling more or less, switching side paddled, or using the paddle as a tiller. If you are saying the canoe spins while at rest, yeah, they do that.

Most 1.5 sized square bills will run 3' or less with big line and a high rod tip. The SK 1.5 comes in a "shallow" version that will run in the depths you want with 12 lb. I'm really liking the Crush 50, I have some older Daiwas that will wake or run down 2' depending on how they are fished. I don't use a crank in really shallow water often, I prefer a chatter or swim jig most times, but there is no shortage of them.

All lures work sometimes, and no lure works all the time, wishing some did or didn't doesn't even enter into the equation for me.

No reason why that won't work, but I'd forego the skirt if I'm imitating an eel. We used to liveline them and catch big bass in LI, a 7"-12" curly or straight tail worm in black or other dark color should work well. Someone just texted me some big bass pixs from your way on a big shad colored swimbait.

It varies, sometimes fish get skittish and won't bite for minutes or hours, and sometimes the louder the rukus, the more they like it. Water clarity ofetn has a big bearing on this. If I hang up in a spot I think is good, I'll leave the lure there and pick up another rod, and get my lure back when I'm done fishing the spot.

Yes, yes, and yes, depending on where and how I'm fishing. Sometimes I even pluck out some or all too. At a minimum, I grab them and bend them back and forth, to make sure they aren't stuck together, or stiffened by the paint at the base of the jig head.

Ande, specially if you are using it for leader. Curious, which Berkley lines are you having issues with?

Find yourself an old silent one, if you run your fingers though it and you can feel a slight indentation about mid way that is visually almost imperceptible, (not a sway back), that's the one you want. When they are biting any walking bait, any walking bait will do (sorry Yogi), but when they get selective in calmish water, I'll put it up against any other walking bait, any other walking bait.

The only time I use a snap swivel or an inline swivel is with an inline spinner.

LOL. Piscataway Charters Kool Aid. "The red tri bead goes before the orange round one, and the green oval one goes on top"...

Most likely, I don't use an FG or similar knot for fresh water fishing, but do quite a bit in the salt, and there should be nothing sticking out of either end if done properly.

Something knot right, that combination should not hang up on anything but the tiniest micro guides.

Liberace wants his spinnerbait back, ASAP!....

I caught one about 5 1/2 lbs on a # 12 black stone fly, 5 wt, 4 lb tippet, while fishing for sunnies, now that was intense. The PB came on my wife's 5'9" Compre, 2000 Stradic, and 6 lb xl, didn't put up the kind of fight one would expect from a big fish, just had to keep it out of some pads a couple of times, then it just basically gave up.

T-rigged black/blue fleck 4" Senko, but that's a fluke. Most of the 7+ lb fish I catch come on Jigs, Spinnerbaits or really large versions of other varying baits, Striper/Musky JBs has been the one so far this pre spawn.

I've pretty much settled on the same hookset for most baits, I point the rod, reel the slack until the rod loads and rear back with the appropriate stroke for the bait at hand.

Nope, don't take my word for it, try it in a pool.

No, the same jig with less strands falls faster.