jhoffman

Kevlar thread go to a fly tying supplier

I was in one at a show, nicer than a tracker in build in my opinion. I'd own one

Get the ardent, get the gift card, ebay the ardent, buy a lews

I prefer to not taste them

If anyone thinks mid day mid summer isnt a grind, id like to go fishing with you. Ive had days where its so hot I debated bringing an umbrella to stand under. So hot, when you weigh in and get in the ac of the car you think you might not make it home youre so exhausted. Coolers full of drinks and trying to stay cool is just as hard as staying warm. You can only shed so much, you can always put more on. Heck at some point you gotta stop shedding clothing or risk being burned/fined. I cant run a propane fired air conditioner to cool off.

50 gal /$4 gallon = $200 What are you towing that massive thing with? Its gonna eat fuel too.

I think its like anything you gotta get one to bite(fire up the school) and then you can lay into them. I dont fish a lot of cold moving water for bass but id go ultra small and slow moving if theres no warm water to up the appetite. My first choice would be a tube or suspending jerkbait on smallmouth. When I was on them at the warm water discharge we drop shotted them.

The majority of fish face upstream in moving water, it requires less movements to hold position. Fish pitch and yaw like a plane in current to maintain position. A fast current is actually less taxing on a fish than stagnant water. In water thats not moving, every fin must work to maintain position. When it appears a fish is not facing upstream in water its usually a tumble or eddy effect below the surface that is pushing the water up current.

The majority of my friends have boats. I still give them money or baits, they back my boat in and I back their boats in. When we go on longer trips its usually money, at home I take them and they take me but I always feel obligated to give money. Theyve got 150's that DRINK fuel. I have a 40, we can run mine for days on $20. Youre right, Im going fishing with or without a person to share expense. Its different when its a trusted friend vs a total stranger. Ive done it where the stranger didnt give me anything in return. No matter how good of a time we had after 2-3 trips of nothing more than thanks I quit answering the phone. I shouldnt have to ask, you should want to offer.

If you can find a power plant on the river or treatment facility that has a warm water discharge it will stack every bass in the river for miles. I know of one that no joke three men including myself hooked over 200 bass one morning. The fish were sooooo aggressive I caught one on a piece of pepperjack cheese off a sandwich and a red piece of a plastic bag. I have never in my life seen anything quite like it. I talk about going every year but its a 2.5 hour drive from my house and my fear without having liquid water at home is the boat wouldnt crank. If I had a fuel injected motor id not worry nearly as much. Im sure you think I am lying, I mean who would believe what I just told you. But I lived it, if you can match that condition it will be a day you will never forget.

A private farm I have access to has a pond stocked with bass and bluegills(close family friend). When we were young I put two and two together and hooked up a live gill. We hooked this fish once a week and could never land it. Kept increasing hook sizes, configurations, line strength. My buddy whos in the family of the pond went out and bought a catfish rod with 50lb test on it, we still never landed that fish, couldnt control it enough. It would wrap you in the cattails so fast you couldnt react. Id like to have a swing at that one again with some real bass gear id jack her jaw as hard as possible and never give her an inch.

Swings are free, if youre not swinging youre missing.

What did we learn here? Fish eat fish head first

Unfortunately money makes people do really bad things in all walks of life. If youve never been in a tournament and leveled fish only to get to the weigh in and not make a top ten you start wondering at times how someone sacked up 18lbs when the rest of the field struggled for bites all day but, it happens so youd really never know if you were cheated till someone was busted.

Id like to find a carbon element myself but I need to find one with 50lb limbs. When they come up I always have something else I need to buy. I think ive got my west gear ironed out except for a spotting scope so maybe a new bow is coming soon. I need a magnum rife, I can always shoot the 50cal muzzleloader which has a bdc reticle but I want a mag caliber rifle for the west. A 400yrd shot with a muzzy is a pipe dream.

95 grain, sorry so late getting back to you

Started off the week before the archery opener moving to our new house. An hour from the last one, so I got a full blown go into the season blind. Opening week I was on deer, till the pressure started. I spent a lot of time scouting more than hunting. I bumped several respectable bucks but never had a shot. I took it down to the last morning of the rifle season before I filled a doe tag, I wish I couldve held out that morning but it was a long season. I was in the core of a big buck and Im fairly certain if I wouldve restrained myself he wouldve come by. But, in the 11th hour you put the 1lb fish in the box. Changed up how I hunted and went to a treesaddle for running and gunning, cut weight in my pack as well. I actually shot the doe on the second hunt in the saddle. It worked out amazing, she came in and busted me, I swung to the back of the tree and got ready, when she looked away I slammed her in the chest with a hornady superformance in .243 and she made it 10 yards. That bullet flat leveled her, I couldnt believe it. Im working with 25,000 acres of public not including the state forest so I have to be able to go deep. The saddle, was the best move I have made in ten years, Ive known about it that long and never made the leap... stupid. Im already scouting for next season, im on the core of another buck that is rubbing pines the size of my thigh. I want spring to come to fish but Ive got so much archery work to do before next fall its not funny. I decided to hold off one more year on going to Iowa. Might go to southern maryland to get a jump on a longer season. Hope you all did well! If youre not familiar with the saddle... http://newtribe.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=144 I run 4 muddy sticks(dual step) and a band of ameristep strap steps are on the way.

Not even all have power trim, some its simply power tilt. My last boat had power tilt, good for nothing more than lifting you couldnt trim it under power.

So when the cyl blows it costs you five times as much to fix it. Jk... not really. They both have ups and downs. 4 stroke, no need to burn oil constantly the newer two strokes are nothing like the older two strokes thats for sure. Whatever you get, #1 is fuel injection.

I need to back peddle a tad. If this is a points race then you must bring in 5 of any size

1oz or less, most often 1/2oz or less. I really like how stiff it is for walkn baits.

Spinnerbaits, texas/carolina rigs, topwater now and then

In my opinion if you have even remotely decent competition you better go wherever you think you can put a good bag together. I dont know what that fishery is capable of, but my tournament this weekend, if you dont have 15lbs you wont even make a check and this is in the highly pressured NE and PA of all places. Most people would think 15lbs should win it this time of year but dont for a second doubt someone bringing 20+. Ive personally never had a bag like that, if I break 10lbs I feel like I have done ok but in reality thats only a 2lb average. Why waste time weeding through 50 fish to come in with not enough weight, if you know those big fish arent there, dont bother.

Ive tried scents thousands of times, I can think of three times when I know it did something. 2 of those 3 reactions happened before archery became popular. If every time you walked into your house and you smelled popcorn someone took a shot at you what would you do after a while when you smelled popcorn walkn through the door? You would be anticipating and looking for someone to shoot at you. I hunt with the theory the less you can let them know theyre being hunted the better. The army doesnt call up bagdad and say... Just wanted to let you know were gonna fly in today and drop a couple precision missiles into hq, you better get out. I once took 6 different kinds of scents including no scent and made a scrape line in a travel cooridor then monitored them with trail cams. My most productive was pure 99 cent amonia off the shelf followed by pure dirt with no induced scent and third was human urine. The deer scents didnt even get noticed and neither did car air freshner. I have to wonder if some bottles get just the right combo of secretions from all the glands. If they dont rub when they urinate theyre missing a piece of the puzzle in the scent as those tarsal glands have all kinds of bacteria signals in them. Know this, Id bet my left one that if you get a bottle that works, refrigerate it and it will work until you run out, your next hundred, probably wont even elicit a reaction. On more than one occasion I have seen everything from mature bucks step right over drag lines I created in the rut to walk down wind of where I placed scent and never even change their posture or vary a step off course. Ive tried them all from extracted from the deer with a hose to elevated refrigerated floors poured into one bottle. Its probably a billion dollar industry.

I never back my drags off, never, not even end of season. I do however tear them down completely every winter, clean and put new lube through the entire reel including bearings.