VolFan

Good to see you still kicking around! Yesterday was definitely amateur hour on the lakes around me too - and the wind made it even worse!

These are what I wear if Im floating a river and/or for general out of water usage. Plenty of structure and grip and the speed lace system is phenomenal. I've been wearing a version of these for 16 years now and always have a pair or two in rotation. Salomon also has a water shoe if thats what youre going for.

I have a modified Dodgeguy technique - especially for re-spooling braid. Take it to an open area of your choice. Walk the line off. Tie end to an old towel or tshirt. Reel line in. Great tension this way, you get exercise and can stay socially distanced.

While I do not have a pair of the Soft Science water shoes, I do have a pair of their boots that I use to do yard work and any other heavy work. I have troll feet and degrading joints at the second metatarsal on both feet. Those boots are fantastic - probably the most comfortable pair of shoes I own for outside wear. I even occasionally wear them for backpacking, but they dont have an aggressive tread.

MY NAME IS AC!! YOU KNOW WHO I AM!!! Over the whiiiir of 55 lbs of thrust...

Very functional for 1/2 ounce. One ounce it'll handle great. Over three it really starts to bog.

I have the Citrix heavy and XH in the ttavel rod. The H will do what you want but isnt going to be the most sensitive stick for dragging soft plastics. Its freat for bigger frogs and I also use it for 3/8 oz spinner baits in heavy shallow cover.

No info about the rods or the car or why/where you're leaving them or really the whole purpose of the question. There's a saying: "Garbage in, garbage out."

My TW order shipped today, fwiw.

I drink Counter Culture made in Durham NC. Big Trouble to be exact but its all pretty good. It really changed my coffee life.

What kind of car?

You could use a thinner snap or clip between the blade and hook eye to free it up some.

It really is one of the most versatile, catch-everything lures ever made. When fish are deep you can even carolina rig it. Im partial to the gold version but have caught a ton of fish on the silver as well. Shad area=silver, no shad=gold

Just so we're clear - I took the lowest mortality rate, with some estimates putting it at 2 to 3 percent. It's still several orders of magnitude greater than the flu, even at the lowest demostrated levels. If 1% of the US population gets it, that means there would be 150,000 hospitalizations and 15,000 to 30,000 deaths. MERS and SARS presented earlier and killed more quickly - they weren't hanging around for several days before symptoms. People also took it more seriously because of the dramatic effects.

You're missing the math of it. Asymptomatic but contagious for several days, then onset. The issue isn't how deadly each case is, it's the .6% mortality rate and the 5% ICU hospitalization rate that, if happening in volume over a short term, would overwhelm our healthcare system. We need to flatten that exponential curve into summer.

Thanks Glenn - sorry about that. Please wash your hands, cough/sneeze into your sleeve, and stay home if you are sick!

I'm not sure what you're going for there? If we're talking about the lost income or store closures - that is not what I was referencing, and that side affect of the closures and quaratines is certainly awful. I was referencing the potential deaths of thousands if not millions of people. If this really reached full epidemic in the US, the economic impact on top of the health impact would indeed be even worse.

I think the forethought and preparation being shown is for the most part commendable (except for toilet paper...). If this turns out to be nothing...well darn. When confronted with overwhelming numbers, strategy is the way to beat strength.

OC - while I appreciate what you're saying - consider this like a forest fire. It will mostly burn the dead and dying, but will take healthy trees and houses with it. If it is contained, it is minimally damaging. But if it grows, it has the potential to kill a few percent of the world's population. The deaths arent part of the normal death toll of life, they are an addition to it. At peak, it would pull medical resources away from many, many other things.

I had a lady snake my cart at Costco while i waded through humanity for some pistachios...polite society is falling apart!? However she did have the decency to leave the things that were in the cart, so I guess there's hope.

12 lb CXX with line treatment.

Bear Creek was always good to me with swimbaits. Fishing hudds and glides across points and on underwater humps was consistent, if not overwhelming. Youd be shocked what you can catch fishing wake baits at night in the rocks at Chatty. Catfish? Walleye? Smallie? Largie? Its like a frickin' grab bag.

Holy poop! That's a ton of water! I used to fish that from a kayak in college. A lot of big fish in/around the current at normal releases - one of my favorite places to fish. I had a 20+ lb striper take me about 3 miles downriver on a fly. I had a love/hate relationship with that fish.

If youre in Denver proper - Quincy, Wash Park, a number of city ponds and even...gulp...Sloans Lake have been better to me than those Boulder ponds. Even the S. Platte east of the city has better fishing to my taste than the drive for those ponds.

Tough time of year, and I never loved the Boulder ponds - good on you for trying.