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LOL. Don't make me go up there and flail on you with my custom Lindenhurst B&T jetty stick Lawn Guylander, POTVIN SUCKS! GO RANGERS! Patchogue, missed your stop....

LOL. If you guys can walk him up to 20 minutes and retying once or twice next time, I may reconsider...

The whole hard fighting school sized striped bass thing got coffee all over my screen. He is on fire.

7'

I had a 30" girth in High School.

Those are so sexy, I might need some private time and a happy sock. I got my start as a surf rat, and 6500s and 7000s were always getting hot rodded. Penn Squidders and Newell's 229s were also work horses.

Discouraged after fishing for 5 minutes and getting stuck? I got nothing for you...

Yes, it all ends up in rivers, lakes, and other waterways. How much it affects fish and fishing varies, but it's not good. Bass are very tolerant to salinity and contaminants. Other fish, (and amphibians) not so much.

For the cranks mentioned a 6 something or even a 7 will do. For larger deeper cranks, something that starts with a 5 would be my choice. I use a 200 sized 6.3 reel 3/4 filled with 10 lb mono for square bills and mid diving smaller cranks. Folks who can cast prefer 6 pin, those who can't magnetic... Large bucket with extra butter please...

N/A. I don't fish walking baits, or most other top water baits with braid.

Stand corrected. One gallon, no problem, 2 gallons maybe, but I chickened out of really leaning on it. Haven't had that rod in my hand in probably 15 years, maybe more. I'll probably use it for swimbaits, and maybe a little striped bass fishing. The handle is longer than I remember it, and it was one of the first no fore grip rods with that giant bullet shaped lock ring. I might actually go flipping with it in the summer.

I'm pretty sure I can lift 2 gallons with my Daiwa Greenie and 30 lb BG without letting any slip. Wouldn't try it with today's sticks.

Yeah, but he thinks an unfinished particle board ceiling makes sense, so...

The moon influences fish and fishing in both direct and indirect ways, some are crucial and significant, some are not. As far as bass fishing, except for the periods around the spawn the effects are secondary to other factors. The striped bass mantra is "3 days before and 3 days after", we went out yesterday in that window, and along with other good factors, it got us a 48" 56 lb one,.

Mono.

I googled what is the least fluorocarbonish fluorocarbon and BG came up...

Let he who is without TW discount code throw the first (flimsy lipped ) crankbait...

Oh, I know, we sell sporting goods in the Empire State.

"should exists only between the ears of man, there is what is, and what isn't" If one is ok with picking and choosing which laws he/she follows, then the same applies to others. drawing an arbitrary line along the spectrum is illogical, and takes us to the legal v ethical. It becomes an analysis between ROI or the perceived probability of enforcement. As far as the tax thing. The codes of most states require the payment of sales/use tax on all applicable sales. What varies is the responsibility for the merchant to collect that tax at the time of the sale. In the case of sales not requiring the merchant to collect the tax, the purchaser is responsible to report and pay the tax. Obviously few if any do. Should they?... Merchants do not charge sales tax, they collect it, and the remit it , usually quarterly to the state, or other applicable municipality.

I like the uni-uni on lines of the same or at least similar diameters. With mono, more turns for lighter lines 7 for 4-6 lb, 6 for 8-12lb, 5 for 15-20lb, and 4 for 30 and up. When joining mono to braid, a couple of less turns on the mono than above, and 9 turns on braid.

Yup, I bend my single hooks up ever so slightly, I find you get "more meat" most of the time. Big difference with frogs too.

No, but I kinda live it. I own and have access to anything and everything, and I fish with the same 4 rods and 6 lures 99% of the time.

Yeah, if the average lifespan was calculated for fish like humans, it would be a few minutes.

Sharp one anyway... One of the thing I see a lot of salt water guys do, and it applies to bass as well is load the rod progressively from tip to butt on the hookset, and then wonder why the fish shook them off.

What I found works is when I get bit I point the rod at the fish reel in the slack until tight and then come back to the side hard without using too much wrist, this loads the base of the rod on the set as opposed to the upper portion. I find that for whatever reason, they hit it and swim towards me most of the time more so than with other baits. I use heavy mono, and don't usually loose many. Usually they choke it. I use a n MH rod with a soft tip but a stout butt section. I don't really like fishing chatters, but the dumb things catch fish, so...