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There is no wrong way to fish a trick worm, but weightless t-rig is still my favorite.

No owl yet, but I've had ospreys, eagles, seagulls, pelicans, terns and bats take or try to take my lures over the years.

That looks like a pickerel bite off. If you didn't apply pressure on your end not likely it cut through on something sharp, but not impossible.

Cause the monkey said so.

I've always liked a bit of a foregrip. For certain presentations, I slide my hand way forward, and it's just easier to grip and support the rod with the index finger with the added diameter and gripier surface.

It isn't common, but I have seen bass spawning mid summer here in some local lakes. Seems to be specific to some bodies of water.

This is one of the most common misconceptions. Yes, because fluoro is "harder" than mono it will resist abrasion somewhat better, however, once damaged, even slightly, it will loose strength much quicker, ie mono and fluoro of the same strength with the same damage, mono wins. So unless you are going to retie with every little nick, it makes more sense to use mono. This is on top of fluoro's lower knot strength and propensity to deform when strained. I like BG and Ande, but most good quality monos will do. Don't forget, BG was designed to fight large salt water fish often rubbing the boat's bottom repeatedly while doing so.

Needle nose pliers, pretty much any decent ones. Bass have large hard mouths that makes hook removal fairly easy for the most part. When one gets trebles way back in the gills, I just reach in through under the operculum and snip the hooks with diagonal cutters.

Chart. dot and white dot, but I like the gold original better most of the time.

What stylus on your turntable?...

Depends on where and when one is fishing doesn't it? But no matter how many outfits are laying on the deck, you are still only fishing one rod at a time, so that's not really where the difference is. We fish a lot of salt water tournaments, with all sorts of rules, and for the most part bring some scratch home no matter what sort of silly rules they come up with. Those who understand the challenge and adapt accordingly will more often than not come on top, everyone else will make excuses.

I think it's a combination of anglers focused on bass, and the fact that small ones are at times abundant and aggressive. There seems to be a subset of fish that are for one reason or another considered undesirable. In addition to pickerel, carp, bluefish, and cudas come to mind. I enjoy catching anything that swims and has fins, and in the case of pickerel, chasing big ones is one of my favorite things to do. I'm lucky enough that between me and south Jersey (and beyond into NY actually), there is a bunch of good pickerel water.

17 grams...

They make 3600 size boxes with squareish compartments that hold spinnerbaits and other things pretty well, fly boxes, altoid cans, and double cd cases also work well. In a pinch, a piece of corrugated cardboard cut to size with the hooks stuck in it works good too. No sense over thinking it.

LOL. One of our salt water fishing buddies was a mattress guy, and would tell us about the industry. This is before space foam, and number dialing, and all the new glitz, but there were only 3 main models in 4 sizes with different covers, that they would rebrand for different retailers and department stores, so the mattress you bought from Macy's was the same as the one you didn't quite love at the mattress store with a different tag on it (that you would go to jail if you removed)...

Nope. clean out the ARB of the grease, and put the least amount of light oil you can on it, then try to wipe it all off, then it's properly lubed.

Wow! That's got to be the longest post/rant thing here, no? OK here is the answer; STOP READING. You (as do most younger folks these days) have a good cognitive understanding of the situation, and yet seem to lack the ability to translate that into an effective plan for the task at hand. Assuming you have a rod and reel and some lures now, use that as the starting point (what else could one do). When you go fishing ask your self these simple questions based on YOUR (at this time not extensive) fishing experience: -What do I like about this [fill in any rod, reel, line, lure etc that may apply] -What don't I like about this ......? -What would make this ... better? Then make your tackle choice accordingly, then your equipment will by evolution not only be well suited to the way YOU fish, but will continue to over time as your experience increases make those decisions more efficient and focused. Now if you want the "perfect" combo today, I can't help, (nor can anyone else) YMMV (but it won't)

I don't envision it. I vision it, in a pool or really clear lake I have near me. I started doing it to tune crank baits, and it evolved to seeing how different lure react to different retrieves.

Same here. If you look at sinkers of different weights, they are different shapes by weight, not proportionally larger scaled versions of each other.

That's what my reels do when they are set just right for long casts with lighter lures, like living on the edge. I either feather with the thumb, or raise the rod tip at the end of the cast to speed up the spool a bit, and snap it shut while it's still paying out, (cause the quicker this one breaks (or is it brakes) the quicker I get a new one)).

It's been good this past week every time I've gone out. Frog, popper and t-rigged craw has been getting it done. I wouldn't approach the crazy rain we've been having as a normal front. I'm thinking of becoming a mushroom farmer!

This ^.

FIFY.

I had one which I modified the handle and threw poppers until it broke. Fished ok, but most boron rods (and tennis rackets) didn't last long for a good reason.

Yeah, but it's moving in the same direction, your perspective has changed, not reality, and hence the relation between the reel and filler spool is the same. Try this way or that, rather than left or right or up and down, and make sure they are the same no matter which direction. What shape is the earth?..