J Francho

You can date the rod as .ghoti. shows above. These predated the LTB rods I own, which have the same real seat with split grips/no fore grip but were still on the shelves. They were around $230-250, so you got a great deal on it. Avids topped out at $190, so they were a considerable upgrade at the time. Pretty sure IPC was already out then, so the blank should the same as modern LTB. Nice pickup!

Sits in the gap and I don't worry about it. I started making them around 7 years ago (based on the date of that pic) and never had an issue.

Heavy cover.

Will is correct

Fun Sized.

The main ring is either Hyper Wire or Spro and the small weight ring is Lazer Claw oval. These are really heavy at 1 oz. FOr lighter rigs, I just use the Owner Jika rigs, usually lead because they're reasonably priced.

No I haven't, but I'm glad you got the reference.

This is a great deal!

Just long enough to collect interest.

Live well space.

I was waiting for @Glenn to pick up on this thread. Your comments about uniforms were spot on. Our garage scene (a little later in the mid 90s) was black or whit T, Levi's raw denim with bottom tucked and cuffed, and red or black 9-hole Docs.

Angle on the fish - angling. Cmon @Paul Roberts this is dad level punnery!

Nirvana and AIC don't even register on my radar from that era. Somewhere I have a Fluid/Nirvana split 7" from the Sub Pop singles club. The song might have been Sliver. I'm sure it's worth a few bucks. It didn't impress me then. I've learned to appreciate PJ a little more than just enjoying Matt Chamberlain's drums on Ten. I saw them with RHCP and Smashing Pumpkins back in 90 or 91, and they stole the show. Screaming Life and Badmotorfinger are two of my favorite albums from that scene, along with Mud Honey's Superfuzz Big Muff EP. I recently purchased 180g pressings of both SG records. Probably the last one on my list would be Band of Horses. We cover Funeral, though it's a little different with a woman singing. More a slow boil. That was a fun era. You could do the same thread with the DC scene, though maybe not as many are aware of it.

More often than not, in a light craft, you're moving the craft to the fish in the slop. Even then, it's pump and reel, but I'm using side pressure, not from above. From shore, I'm upping to the heaviest tackle I own in slop, since I have to get the fish out. I haven't seen a Cardinal in at least two decades, and I doubt there's but a handful of people still using them on these forums. I've read plenty of stories about fishing and fishing gear, and many are just that. If it's working for you, no need to change because someone on the internet said so. You're words on fighting a fish from shore are spot on, especially when it comes to getting the angle on the fish. See what I did there?

Do your kids play hockey?

If I broke the state record in NY on a small lake, I'd probably never go back, and be happy to have everyone loaded up somewhere I wasn't.

If you're interested in the wrong way, YouTube has plenty of videos of goons doing it.

It's something I learned to do when I was kid fishing on my uncle's salmon charter. I remember learning to do it then very vividly, and it worked so well, I've pretty much applied it to every fish I catch, even little guys.

That binding is something you see out of lesser crown and pinion gear sets from the past. It's actually been my experience that it's flex in a composite body causing those gears to get out of alignment, and bind. My dad still has and uses a DAM Quick 5000 size reel for nearly everything. I've seen him winch anything from big browns, to northerns, to bass in slop with it. It's paired up with an old heavy Garcia boron rod. Is it possible you have the two gear sets reversed in the story? At any rate, I move the fish with the rod not the reel, regardless of reel type.

Thanks! Finally able to get my son via text, lmao. She was 6-10.

Yes. I've been slowly replacing any non stick with their stuff. I'm keeping my 20 year old stainless pots and pans because they're fine still. Seems like I get about 10 years out of the non stick. There's probably nothing I can do about it. I expect this to last at least as long. It is THE BEST for doing bacon. This drives Michelle nuts, but I drag it out to melt slices of cheese for my BLTs. Nothing sticks!

I think this was around $100. It is one of the nicest pans I own.

My point is that there is swath of records all in double digits surrounded by single digit records. The forage is one (albeit a big one) component of growing big fish. Records are always freakish, and there's always some extenuating circumstance that contributes to that freakish size. But, the fact exists that there is a high protein source for a geographic region, which helps explains the large fish in the region.