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I was reading something about them a while back, IIRC their business model doesn't require the Gander Outdoors portion of the business to make money. But I think you are right, at some point they'll get tired of pouring money into it. Call me crazy, I like my shops to make money.

What size is that straight jacket?

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Watch old episodes of Bill Dance and do the exact opposite... Counterintuitive I know, but most of the time, fish are going to pull 180º opposite from where you are pulling, and they will only pull while you are pulling, so pull less, pull steadier, pull straight up and down.

If you pour a little Sprite® on that hole you blasted on Bambi it will stop the bleeding, it's still twitching, so it will probably survive, leave the bullet in there it will rust out...

I throw the 1.5 and the smaller RES with the same rod. The 1/2 RES I use a beefier stick for. None are cranking rods, as they are too soft (slow) to rip lures out of grass. I also like a shorter rod for working squarebills shallow around hard cover, and a longer rod for covering grass with a lipless, I'm hardly ever throwing either in open water.

You honestly think one can cast a 7 cm balsa bait with a MH BC?

Wait, the big one that got away? never heard that one before.

It's a phase, you'll get over it. Junkies don't love Syringes. I'm Jonesing, gotta go turn some tricks...

Can't imagine why that would be. Oh, and it's Juliet Zero Niner, not Juliet Oscar Niner, How copy?

In my experience, bead above the clevis (or on a buzz bait) just collects goop and locks things down at times. I've tried all combinations, and that's just what works best for me, and I'm OCD. Most spinnerbaits come with one, and I take them off.

Panama. The fishing is as hot as the weather.

I do it the same way, but just with my hands. I do use a needle nose to gently pull the ends before twisting. I find that if you hold the inner skirt against the hook, and hold vertical so the outer hangs down, the collar is exposed for wrapping. Takes maybe 30 seconds after you've done a few. I use naked copper wire from the craft store.

For the most part, I like my blades closer together than how they come out of the pkg. A good rule of thumb is to have the blades not overlap when held vertical. I use 2 solid metal beads against the clevis, and then whatever else to get the spacing I want if needed. I don't like a bead above the clevis.

You guys fish near the power plants?...

Leaving aside the J09 for pike thing, that's a tall order for any baitcaster, BFS, Better Fish Spinning®

No Pop Max? Maybe slide a dipsey sinker in front of it?...

Catch a fish on an A-rig, catch a fish on a Plopper, break off a fish with BG, fish with a milennial, None are looking good in the foreseeable future...

True statement, but that speed is much greater than that found under casting conditions. The limiting factor is going to be the initial force applied to it during the cast. Now if the spool's deceleration matches or better yet, is ever so slightly less than that of the casted object, then that, combined with trajectory will result in the longest cast.

This is silly talk. Q: What does the Coast Guard call the P-100? A: Main Propulsion. Go Navy! Beat Army!

No bead on a t-rig, ever.

Yes.

You won't see BCs in the surf for 2 reasons, one, they don't hold enough line, and two, they won't hold up to the abuse. Back when mono was the line of choice, I carried both conventional and spinning setups in the surf. With braid, spinning is just abetter choice all around.

That ship has sailed. "They" have more information on everyone than they know what to do with it.

Gonna try to time the weather this fall and will be up there Sept-Oct. The Admiral will be at the Harbor Hotel in Clayton, I will be in a cabin on Wellesly. Hopefully I can find my passport between now and then, so I can hit some water across the river as well. I wouldn't hold my breath on lower water, unless you plant your own dynamite at the base of the dams. That's going to be an ongoing thing me thinks. I still need a technique name for live linning gobies...