J Francho

I've heard so many great things about this shop. I'd love to visit sometime, but it's a little far from me.

You've obviously never seen a pike pick up a jig.

Kueka is also VERY good. Two of the largest tournament caught bass that I've ever seen came from there - an 8-5 LMB and 7-8 SMB. Funny part, same bag! The thing about Keuka is it's size. You can't run to one end or the other like you can on Conesus. It's the perfect size, big enough to support a good population, but not so big it's impossible to learn. Canandaigua is beautiful on the south end. Was just there yesterday for the grape festival in Naples. I wish I could have been fishing.

Way to go James and Daniel!

It's the taste of fear. Delicious! And celery? That's food for my food.

There is a tournament of some shape or form there almost every day of the week. It receives a ton of pressure, and yet, churns out big bag after big bag. I love that place, though it can break you on a tough day. Spring time prespawn and spawn are best bet for a trophy brown fish.

I noticed you can buy "hook an line caught" canned tuna fish for five times as much as chunk white albacore. I also noticed they were selling $18 organic peanut butter right next to the $3 jars of Jif. They keep these products right at eye level. The less expensive options are on the bottom shelf. You have to be a smart shopper these days. Crying about TW or BPS raising their prices won't change a thing, if you keep buying them there. Order from Siebert's where it's less expensive.

There are smallmouth in the lake, but Conesus is a big green bass factory. It generally fishes typically: docks on sunny days, deep weed edge, jigs & T-rigs. When it's stingy, it's really stingy.

It's not what you throw, it's where you throw it. Big fish is a location game, not really a bait game.

Woah, I hope everything is okay!

I use the internal on a 5 and 7 just fine.

I am actually hoping for a Patriots win (I know, what is wrong with me) next week. Bills fans are insufferable as it is. 3-0 ain't making it any easier.

That must have been fun!

Good luck, and get well soon!

I used to feel like this. Organization was the key. It helped me see what I actually had, what I was low on, what I was using or not using, what I could scratch, and what I could add. Figure out a plan to organize it all. Personally, I arrange the boxes to match up with the rod I use to throw the baits. Obviously, there's crossover, but essentially, I'll have topwaters, poppers, and some jerkbaits in one box. Another box will be jigs, bullet weights, and flipping hooks for my heavy cover rod. Another box might have stuff for DS, SS, sliders, and ned rig stuff. Makes it easy to put my crate together for a kayak trip.

My six pack turned into two forties.

I always had trouble with my deep-Vs trying to float them on and be perfectly straight on the trailer. Then again, they were both not Lunds. That would stink not being able to launch. If you knew ahead, you could just bring the canoe.

You are awfully deep with that trailer. It looks like your fenders are at least 6" below the water. Any boat I've had, you'd be a few inches above the water line. There's a few ramps around here where you'd be off the ramp going that deep. Getting a trailer unstuck like that isn't fun. I'd like to see how the bunks perform on a steeper ramp, where you can't dip that deep. I'd also love to see loading the boat under slight power. Not power loading, but drive on trailering. At any rate, it looks like this is gonna work well for you. Not sure it's the end all solution. Thanks to you both for the detailed video! Nice work camera woman!

Mine is light grey. It doesn't get very hot.

Vexus, Xpress, Gator Trax and a few others offer it as an option now.

I have it in my Hobie. It's pretty awesome. Much more comfortable than bass boat carpet.

The newer products like Marine Mat and Sea Deck are actually more comfortable to kneel on than just carpet.

It's funny, I picked 6-8/M because I use this most often, and figured I could adapt other things to it if needed. I didn't want to sacrifice this rod for what ever advantage length and power gave me. I would also accept the fact that I would not be able to fish heavy cover. Pretty sure I could still find biting fish in other areas. I don't recall what hook I chose. They all work for me.

The only issues I've ever had with fluoro is using cheap line, or line that wasn't really 100% fluoro. Knots I've tied that all work well for me: Triple Surgeon, Alberto, Albright, Uni, Palomar, and Improved Cinch.

Turtles like the taste of fish.