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If the visibility is fairly good, all you need is a wetsuit and a snorkel. You might want to try a dive shop, there should be someone there willing to do it. I have a buddy who has recovered all sorts of things in 4-30 feet in near 0 vis. If you were closer, I'd do it for you. Good luck.

Toxic in 2020!

$100k? Might need to start referring to him as the bait gorilla!

Yeah, but that story would require the "Big Box" to be manually printing shipping labels and not having them automatically generated from the purchase transaction. Impossible? no, but highly unlikely.

Sounds like identity theft gone wrong to me.

How's your Mandarin? Guangzhou is where you want to look.

If you find the FG easier to tie than the mod Albright (Alberto can kiss my butt, and he knows why) you are doing something wrong. I tie a couple of half hitches on the braid to finish off.

It's way early for frogging, but let me know when you are ready to go, I'll get you all squared away. Yes, you can frog with 20-25lb mono, but 40-65 braid is the way to go. If your line is digging in and coming to an abrupt stop and backlashing, that's an easy fix. We can also do a little P90X for the breaking off thing.

LMAO. when we first moved in together, my wife complained about me taking her nail polish, nail clippers and nail files, then she started hiding them, and then she started buying them for me. We'll be celebrating our 20th next month. My ex fiancee used to say I fished too much...

Oh, I don't know about that. We're fixing our pitching staff.

My best swim jig tip is throw one. If you have a swim jig and 2 or 3 different trailers, you can cover a lot of situations. Fish it like a spinnerbait, a jig, a wakebait, or any other way you can come up with, you can even pitch it into cover, if its not too gnarly, (or even if it is, you only live once). It excels when you need a subtle presentation in clear water, but it so much more. You can fish it to cover, or cover water searching with it. I really like snaking it around pads or tules, sometimes they come from a ways to crush it.

You too?! What are the odds...

That's got to be my least favorite type of lake to fish. In my experience, the fish will be concentrated in areas or pockets, sometimes for seemingly no rhyme or reason. Also it seems that they turn on and off at somewhat regular intervals more so than in other types of lakes. I usually have a lipless, a spinnerbait and a jig tied on, along with a weightless plastic of some sort. The green water in this type of lake is a plus I think, allows for a closer approach and more aggressive lures.

You hold him down, I'll bring the rope. So I found a fairly consistent pickerel/crappie bite, which held up for a week. So I go targeting pickerel again yesterday, but only found 2 of each, and 7 bass, ( 2 on a jerkbait and 5 on a finesse spinnerbait) go figure. Froze my butt off Saturday and Sunday, but it's amazing how a hookup warms you up.

If your tackle is hodge podge, then hodge podge is what you should fish. Tournament time isn't the time to experiment or try something different. Most good coaches regardless of sport will tell you " practice like you compete, compete like you practice". Fish your strengths no matter how strong they actually are.

This is true of all fishing, but for some reason recs seem to have a bias against this truth. As to catching a PB, find the best water near you and fish it hard. There are lots of large bass in GA. A spinnerbait pre spawn, a frog mid summer early or late in the day, or a swimbait (as well as many other baits) will catch you a good one if you put your time in. Or,... get some good weed, and make friends with the assistant grounds keeper.

Nope, tackle is for using. I'm not going to purposely mistreat or abuse (actually I go full McEnroe every so often, but its rare) rods and reels, but when something breaks, it breaks. If I wanted something to cherish, ogle and treat daintily, I'd buy art and hang it on the wall.

One of my favorite baits, kind of like ViseGrips®, I fish it like a senko, buzzbait, frog, or swimbait depending on what's going on.

Yeah, I used to fish them with a fly rod, got a couple about 2 lbs or so. Amazing how hard a little fish can pull. Oh, here is some of my favorite forage, Palta Rellena (shrimp salad stuffed avocado).

Depending on the cover and conditions in 45 degree water, I usually have a finesse spinnerbait, swim jig, squarebill and liplless tied on, as well as maybe an inline spinner and jerkbait. (of course I'm watching the temp the whole time) The plan is usually to find some fish willing to bite these lures, and then go over the area with a slower presentation, a t-rigged smallish craw with as small a sinker as I can get away with usually works well for that.

If you add something (or take away something) from a lure, you are not adding a secondary action, you are changing the action of the lure, I think we aren't disagreeing, we're just looking at it from a different perspective. In my head, a swim jig with a grub is a totally different lure than the same one with a paddle tail or straight tail, (not to mention craws, chunks and the like, which are even more different) I'm not adding secondary anything, I'm changing the presentation, somewhat or a lot.

I'm not buying into the "secondary action" thing. Feathered hooks, skirts and other enhancements are part of a lure, a swim jig without a skirt is a grub on a jighead. Will it work just as well? Yes, and sometimes better, and sometimes not as well. A skirt will add bulk, and enhance bouyancy, which may be the ticket on a given day or not. Another thing to keep in mind is that some lures rely on a fixed action, where others have varied possible actions, and yet others have no action but what is imparted by the angler. YMMV (but it won't).

Downeaster Alexa.

Impossible to determine accurately, since we don't know the magnitude of your hook set force, and to a lesser degree the arc .(or whatever other shape the rod tip ends up traveling) But can we at least standardize the units of distance.

I think you should fish more of these lures before committing to a rod, unless you are in the NBA or WWE, I doubt you'll enjoy fishing poppers, spooks and jerk baits with that much rod. A 7', or even a 6'9" rod makes for a better all around rod. YMMV (but it won't)