J Francho

Black Pacu?

That’s cool.

That Blade Krate looks great.

Check your view new options settings at the top. There's a bunch of preferences you can set to suit your needs.

Sounds more like catching than fishing

Either nose or thread works fine. Just be sure it's perfectly straight. With a Roboworm, it's the tail moving subtly that seems to work the best. It's a good "do nothing" DS bait.

Looks you can tuna trolling motor.

I keep mine in a shady spot in the yard year round with no issues. At least one of my kayaks has to be a decade old. Don't let them fill up with water, and keep them out of the sun. The cold won't hurt anything.

I have braid loaded on as few setups as possible. That means one spinning reel, and less than 6 casting reels.

Jira > everything else. Mural is cool too.

As an Agile Coach and Scrum Master for a couple dev teams, I'm gonna have to ask you to limit your WIP to two items at once.

Looks awesome on my laptop. Haven't had a good luck on mobile, but shrinking the windows shows a nice look.

It's going to be in the 70s for the next week here in western NY. Plenty of fishing left. I have been known to shovel snow off the ramp to launch, if needed.

Like said before, it's not a fastener, but a spring and clicker that works with the ridged, black, plastic disk the goes on top of it in the stack. those three parts make the clicking noise when adjusting the drag. Tweezers help my dumb fingers place it on top of the spring. Then hold that black disk while you put the rest of the handle assembly together. If you lose it for some reason, it can be ordered from Shimano directly.

While I think the fish will be fine for the short term, crayfish can and will eat fish, usually at night when the resting at the bottom, asleep. If that doesn't give you nightmares....

I use the five-fillet method for northerns and make stock out of the carcass.

So did Dalmer.

The last two I cooked, I couldn't finish. These were for my friend's mom. She loves all fish. This smallie died during a tournament, so I released it into hot oil.

You can get a Gator Grips handle for $13. Bearing free, easy maintenance, lol. (it's not CF)

That's really cool. I like spotting the lakes I've fished from the plane on my trips to NYC and Boston. Oneida looks huge compared to the rest of the Finger Lakes.

In NY, their status of gamefish was removed in order to allow farming and commercial sale to restaurants. This misguided move has resulted in increased poaching for resale. It's hard to verify the source, and prove that meat wasn't farmed. It's especially bad near NYC.

Because the likelihood of a deep hole having ANY species of fish is much higher than an shallow riffle. It isn't a guarantee, which I've noticed you often look for.

I'd say that where the came from made a difference. The smallmouth are from Lake Ontario, which is much cooler and has far less dissolved nutrients than where most LMB come from. You don't find LMB out in the main lake too often. Other than that, there's was no difference in prep. LMB always taste like garbage when I've had it. We have plenty of panfish, perch, walleye, pike, salmon, and trout to keep our bellies full, and they taste much better than the best bass I've eaten. I'd lump LMB with carp and suckers as far as edibility. I'm sure there plenty of recipes people love, just not me.

I've had LMB. Tastes like barf. I've had SMB that were delicious. I don't keep either to eat.

Jeez dude, ply the spot, no bites, move on. It's called fishing, not catching, for a reason. For as many spots I felt like had fish, that actually did, there were untold numbers more spots that did not.