VolFan

Nah, Raider's more of a weed/meth chaser/Molly kinda guy. He's excited about being laid back in a smoooooooth sort of way.

Hold it in a flame and see if it darkens the chrome. It may hurt the temper however, but you should get a blue/black with just a hint if flash...or get some gun bluing and dip in that.

Shimano Curado D DHSV. If you can find one on The auction site that shan't be named.

His butt has a crack in it.

I use 15 or 20 lb yozuri hybrid for baits up to 6oz. I mostly use 15 lb for 68s, Mini to 9" Slammers, 175s, and Bullshads. Never lost onethat wasn't my fault. The 15 is great unless you're getting up over 4 or so ounces.

What you're describing is that the glasses don't fit your face, hence the gap. Can you take them back and try on different pairs?

They changed the formula of Slim Jims to be more vegan-friendly about 3 years ago...more spice and soy, less meat and fat, so they're less effective as catfish bait. Night crawlers or chicken livers would be your best shot, in that order, to see if anything's around. Fish where a stream or culvert enters the pond. PS: I made that up about Slim Jims. Why would you waste a perfectly good processed meat-like product?

I have the Orvis Battenkill large arbor and it's done what you want for over a decade, with no problems. Very solid.

Planet of the Apes.

.22, slow stalk through hardwoods. Set up a ground blind if here's a good area.

White or bone colored spook. Or white buck tails with a white curly tailed grub. Or as big a Roostertail as you care to throw. Don't get me started on swimbaits...

I would do 1/16 or 1/10 oz on the spinners/spoons or 1/8 at the most if you're talking small trout. My favorite is a 1/10 oz rooster tail in grasshopper, but white or black with a silver blade or brown and yellow with gold are good as well.

Diagonal stripes alternating in quadrants?

All these things are true. (bluebasser's being a little different situation as a lot of his subjugated are or will be in hand cuffs). But, as a manager (and maybe a father) part of the challenge is getting the most out of your employees. If you're expecting everyone to bend to how you want it, then everybody's going to end up frustrated. Better managers tend to be more willows than oaks. I have no idea where Raider's going with any of this.

I think we're feeding a troll....Kobe, is that you?

I'll stay out of the LebronMJ discussions; they're different players in different eras. I can't stand Lebron, but he absolutely carried that Cleveland team to six games in the NBA finals. He just didn't have enough gas to finish it. That was with the next 2-3 best players on the team out (I'm throwing Verajao in there). He took a bunch of "never was" players and made it to 6 games with GS, one ov the best teams in several years.

Yeah I caught my biggest in early March...water couldn't have been over 45 degrees.

What he said. Biggest freshwater fish I've ever caught was a Bue out of the Potomac near DC on a spinnerbait. Used to catch them within some regularity on swimbaits as well. They're big, voracious predators that handle temperature and salinity changes much much better than the other large predatory fish in the Potty. They are a hoot to catch, but they're multiplying quickly and out competing everything else.

My "itch" is really more a "chronic rash". And the treatment gets expensive with Dr. Monkey.

Check (especially) your top guide and make sure the insert is there, and not cracked or worn. Secondly, is this appoint in lakes with a shale/sharp rock substrate? I'd bet on your knot pulling, but after that I'd guess one of the two above if it's breaking at or near the knot.

I had a suction cup mount on my sit-in kayak. I put it towards the back of the boat, behind the "waist" if you would. It works fine, not wonderful, not terrible. Make sure you tighten the nut holding the transducer, and zip tie the cord to something just in case the cup lets go or gets scraped off.

Stay in Crystal City, pentagon City, or Old Town (or near the Eisenhower stop). You'll be on the Yellow/Blue line which will get you everywhere you'd really want to go. If you want to stay further out to save $$ on a room, drive to either Reagan National Airport or Pentagon City Mall, and park there. You'll pay for the parking, but it's comparable there to areas further out, and you'll be right at the Metro stops. You can park in the neighborhoods around King street metro, but there's a 3 hour limit on parking. We always liked the Marriot on Duke street in Old Town Alexandria. Easy metro access and you can walk or free trolley to a lot of the sites in Alexandria. They charge about $25 a day for gated parking, which is fairly standard. Stay away from the Green line, unless you're going to a Nats game. Also, do not try to drive in Georgetown. Just. Not. Worth it.

Look at Widewater and many places along the Billy Goat Trail. There are quite a few ponds that are public, accessible, and loaded with bass. I know you're just a kid, but you're literally telling people to trespass to fish that pond. Buyer beware.

Great blue heron?

Yeah...your problem there is that without permission you're trespassing. There are plenty of ponds in the Potomac flood plain in public areas around there that can spit out similar numbers of bass.