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If we get to pick our names, I want to be Mr. Green Pumpkin...

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Ok, I'm done. Peace.

The only way to find out if a particular rod will work adequately for any particular lure or presentation is to put it to the paces. Reading about what others use, or their opinion on how well it works is a recipe for frustration and disappointment.

Could you do all three on one rod? yeah, would one want to? No. A cranking stick is by design not very versatile.

Keeping a balance of the number of bass and size distribution is the goal so "taking out the smaller bass" may or may not be the right course of action, oh and a 10" golden shiner is like crack for a 4 lb bass, and a 1/0 hook is way too small.

ok.

For smaller cranks, I like a 6. something. But, as long as the gears are available, it's just a matter of swapping them out to achieve a different ratio.

I am the danger!

Fish it, and then leave it out in the sun, it will turn white eventually.

Realistic heads, eyes, gills, and paint jobs are for fishermen, not fish.

You've grabbed the pebble from the hand, and now you must move the kettle and earn the dragon and tiger "tattoos" on the way out of the temple grasshopper...

Not sure which one that is, but what I would do (or more accurately have done) is to find a body of the same weight and wire dimensions (both lengths and gauge) and slide those blades and hardware on it, and do the skirt while you are at it. Now you can experiment and find out what about that bait worked for you. I find with spinnerbaits, the blade combination (type, size, and spacing), and dimensions are usually what makes the difference. I have a set of blades that have probably been through 20 or more bodies that catches better than most, but when I get close, it works. Confidence in what a bait is doing is much better than confidence in a "magic" bait, and that applies to all types, but spinnerbaits lend themselves to tweeking. I'm considering kidnapping Munkin, and chaining him to a melting pot Jesse Pinkman style, while he "cooks product" for me...

Fishing for a living, in it's many forms is not for the "OMG, there is a scratch on the gel coat, I gotta wax the boat today, let me show you a picture of my boat" crowd. I'm not beating up equipment on purpose, but whatever happens while using it, be it rod, reel, boat, truck or whatever, that just builds character...

So sorry for your loss. May time help bring the memories of your times fishing together above the pain an grief.

I've seen many average Joe's take on the pros and end up with this dazed look on their face sitting in a corner and muttering something or other about fishing over and over...

There are a few out there.

As needed. Sometimes it's after one trip, sometimes it's 3 years or more.

I don't throw baits I don't have confidence in.

Top one looks like a Bandit Max shallow, the bottom one a Mann's maybe.

guide feet, handle components, and reel to rod interface can be the culprit. Also the sound can travel so that it appears to come from somewhere other than where it originates. Intermittent clicking and pinging sound in expensive road bikes make me a lot of money...

No one can, they just think they do...

I'm color blind, so I dunno...