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@Koz: That song never gets old. I was at the local Costco and they had a piano on display so I thought I’d tickle the keys. I played a variety/medley of tunes in Eb (completely random) Misty, Kissing a Fool, How Deep is Your Love, and lo and behold, Survivor’s The Search is Over. 😳😱😝 I always appreciated bands that could rock it hard and still pull off decent ballads. The Eye of the Tiger mentality is a plus in Bass fishing for sure. 👍

Wishing you the best of luck, it have a great time overall. We’ll be rooting for both of you!

If that is what they believe and they don’t impose it on you, then I’m fine. And you’re right. Some of it borders moronic, lol, particularly the “nevers”. Never say never, 😂

@GlennNow why would I want more casting distance, 😂? Joking aside, I am writing this before I delve into the video. As a shore angler, any extra distance could spell getting to the dance floor with the fish. Update: Great video. I did a lot of practicing in my cup de sac and through cold and gloomy weather to practice all kinds of casts and I learned quickly. That was probably around 2005-6. The video gave me the feel of a getting back to basics and fundamentals and that’s always a good thing. I even practiced in the dark going only by the sound of the spinning spool to know when to feather to a stop, lol. I went from padawan to Jedi knight quickly. 😂 Maybe this coming winter I’ll try going zero brakes with my bc reels that are the old curados as in the green BSF(201) and gray curado Ds (101 and 201) and a Cardiff 301A. Thanks, Glenn! 👍😎

Sorry, I didn’t get a chance to fish as a kid. The memories started at age 34, lol 😝 I did have the tables turned however. The usual story is that the parent takes the child. In my case, it is the opposite. I took my dad so he could fish. I learned he had always wanted to also. I got him into some smallies and on one trip he caught two species of salmon, a pink and a coho! Unbelievable and amazing. Update: I can’t believe I found the photos of my dad fishing for salmon the for the first time. Fishing along the banks of the Green River, WA. Pink and Coho salmon were running at the time. If I recall correctly, it was late October, 2009. Here he is with one of the pinks he caught. The last fish he caught this day smashed his jig so hard that I knew it couldn’t be a pink salmon. And to our surprise it was a magnificent coho. Unfortunately, it wriggled out of his hands and fell onto the sand and so you can’t really see how bright the fish was, but the smile on my dad’s face said it all.

@Koz: that’s a nice list, but there is just one thing I would change… DODGERS!!!!!!!! lol They were my first MLB team I was a fan of when I was a kid. (The days of Ron Cey and Steve Garvey) Not really a fan of the Dodgers these days but I’m rooting for them in this series and I have no dog in this fight. May the better team win.

Too far imho is when the lure is a distance that your ability to control the line and set the hook are compromised to the point it’s costing you fish. This why you see surf and salmon (river) anglers with longer rods. Better line control and set the hook from a distance. That said, a bomb cast in bass fishing is not that long really (eg, compared to a surf angler’s cast. As a shore angler myself, sometimes I need to make those bomb casts because I can’t sneak up to it from a floating device.

@Koz: If you’re going to go on vacation, it’s time to go to Mexico and hit one of those lakes know for big bass. Now that would be a vacation, lol. 😂 But given your choices, I think I’d pick Texas this time around for the same reasons you’ve already deduced.

Welcome and greetings from the Pacific Northwest!

@TOXIC: Thanks again. I am going to check some stores and see if they’re there.

@TOXIC: Thanks! I have been experimenting with finessed T-rigs and have been super pleasantly surprised and encouraged by the results. And that is why after seeing your post my mind started imagining, hmm… There might be some use to the bait Toxic is using and this is a potential addition to the article. The bass in the WA state are a different character altogether, and maybe it’s just me, but it sure seems that way. They’re stingier, and seems every caught bass is a badge of honor, lol. Oh yeah. Just western WA. The bass on east side of the state are normal, lol.

@TOXICI am liking what I’m seeing! Just a question though. I see how you rigged them but do you have any idea how they would fare on a simple unpegged Texas rig? I’ve been having success with the unpegged Texas rig style and I have a gut feeling that this could be a winner for me. Anywhere from weightless, or split shot up to 3/16oz.

Keep the rubber side down. Oh wait, that’s cycling 🚴‍♀️ wisdom, lol. Translation: If the rubber side in not down, you’ve crashed, lol. Fishing Advice Use the lightest line you can get away with. Try to learn something new on every outing (This came to me via personal discovery). Let your rod and reel do the work for you when casting and fighting fish. They are tools after all. Take care of your equipment and they’ll take care of you.

Great idea! @Columbia Craw: have you tried other colored tails for variety or have you always had the color of the tail and crankbait. How cool of you to mention this. I fished for about 30 minutes this evening floating raps and then inline spinners. It was already night when I got desperate to try to catch a fish and too dark to cutoff the duolock snap to try another. I had a 3-4” senior type worm (might have been a singer) and set it wacky on the inline spinner’s single siwash hook. My plan was to make the blade of the spinner to its thing on every pop and hop. I did not catch anything but I am going to experiment and fine tune this next year. The bass window in the Seattle area from the shore is closing so I’ll have the winter to do this.

I don’t use FB so I don’t understand what happened. 🥹

@Bazoo: well done!!! It is always a great feeling to catch a pb. 👍😎

And our garbage disposal is hardly used since we put the scraps in the trash, lol. One thing I have learned about plumbing is sometimes when you put take things apart and reassemble, leaks magically appear and I’ve almost always had to replace parts. I certainly wasn’t going to mess with those given the condition of my arm. I can’t even brush my teeth with that arm, lol. Doing any kind of plumbing or similar requires the work of two functioning arms so I opted to not disassemble.

My reels need to be dual purpose so 200 sized for me. I do however, have one 100 sized curado. If I strictly fished bass then I think I’d like a 150. Line capacity is very important to me because I am a shore angler. If I’m forced to make a few long break offs from snags and such, the reel is now in a less than ideal condition and useless to me for all intents and purposes (casting distance, retrieval rate are compromised). I don’t have the luxury of floating up to the snag to minimize loss of line from a break off.

Update: I finally got it done. There were 3 main options: 1) Hercules under sink brace system 2) Brackets that anchor to the sides of the cabinet 3) Brackets that anchor into the granite via a slit. I decided on option one. I liked 2 and 3 but I didn’t have to patience to find this type and if I mess up the granite, I’m the one who’s screwed. In addition these methods are far easier to do before the sink was in place and the work space underneath the sink is too ding dang tight. Even my small profile drill was too big. I could not square it up. And it sucks to be me but my sink was already in place and like heck if I was going to remove the pipes and garbage disposal. I got around the inability to drill the screws perpendicularly by drilling at an angle instead. It also helped because the screws I used were 1” and going diagonal helped me keep most of it in the side vs poking through. I not use the screws that can with the system. They weren’t bad but the threads didn’t have the “bite” I wanted. I applied new silicone under the sink and supported the sink with a left over lumber and pvc pipes from old projects cut to exact length needed to keep the sink upright. I then installed the braces and had to call it a night. I completed installing the Hercules systems the next day. I also added a strong adhesive and planks as the original installers did, replacing the one that fell and adding two more. Left side Right side I added shims to so that the wire wouldn’t have an opportunity to rub against the sink Brace has been installed and shortly afterward I removed the pvc. planks glued in place. In the picture below, the dark plank is the original from the initial installation. As an inline spinner maker, I am not pleased with how I wound the wire (downright shame) but for this entire project my right arm is injured (anconeus muscle out of commission) and in pain to the point it can’t do much if anything with it. I had to do everything left hand. I will be keeping the pvc and planks (marked with a sharpie stating why to keep them in case I forget) for the next time this happens. I did learn that my daughter was the culprit. Not mad or upset. Things happen. @DaubsNU1: I would highly recommend going with option 2 or 3 because imho, they are solid choices. My injured arm and my uncharacteristic behavior in this case of being impatient (I’m normally calm, cool, methodical) pretty much drove my decision to go with the universal under sink brace. I can now vaguely recall now when the installer gave me the option to be over or under and I chose the latter because the counter would be flush. Screw that. Next time it’s going to be installed on top… unless the wife says otherwise. Anything inside the house “her” department, lol.

I hear you on how hooking fish outside the mouth as stupid for us bass anglers but, unfortunately, there are really bad people who intentionally snag fish to catch them in my state which is why my state has them. These idiots throw out their “lures” into a school and yank away. One method is a large egg weight on top of a large treble. Throw it into a school and yank away. Another is to use a longer than needed leader with a hook at the end. Then you drift that line with the current so it lands in the fishes mouth and then you reel up the slack and yank back. Of course the hook will be outside the mouth, a clear sign the fish did not willingly take the hook. So yeah, stupid is as stupid does (learned that from an old timer lady who loves to fish) it makes some states have to make such rules to curb the idiocy and shameless punks. To the topic, I imagine these rigs are effective. I just haven’t gotten around to trying it yet.

@MN FisherExcellent work, MN!😎👍 As a permanent shore bound angler myself, I’ve built a similar contraption and I dubbed it my rod quiver.

Thanks to everyone! Using a car jack did cross my mind when I made the post. I forgot to mention that I can vaguely recall that the guys that installed the granite top used an adhesive that was applied with a caulking gun. Further research (you tube videos, lol) show that something called a Hercules universal sink mount is one of the best ways to go. The other bracing systems require anchoring braces to the granite which clean looking for underneath, is not the way I prefer to proceed because I don’t want to have to drill a hole or cut a slit into the granite. I think I’ll be going with the Hercules system but will see if I can also find the appropriate clips locally too as a back up (I’m anal that way). Meanwhile I think I have spare 2x4 to support the sink until I can get the needed items. Thanks again to everyone! This is one of the other reason why BR is an awesome place. Now may all of you catch a double digit bass for your help. 😎 -ib

Hello, everyone. I just got back to the US after a 3 week trip and when I came home I noticed my kitchen sink looked off and closer inspection shows that it was! The left side as you face the sink is definitely lower than the right side. Further inspection revealed that there are two spots, one on each side of the sink that kept it in place and flush with some type of adhesive and a small piece of wood. As you can see on the left side, there is a gap between the sink and marble counter top. what a gap! It seems that two pieces of wood and some type of adhesive were used to keep the sink level and flush with the marble counter. This is what the right side under the counter shows. The piece of wood with an adhesive holding the sink up and flush. The corresponding one on the left side has come off completely and before my trip I noticed it on the floor of the sink cabinet but was too involved with getting ready for my trip that I couldn’t investigate further. I am glad that I kept that piece because now I know what it belongs to. This is the left side (missing in the image above) that fell off that I kept. The gray side is where it was attached to the sink. You can see the translucent adhesive that was used on the other side. The repair seems to be straight forward, to just glue another piece of wood on the left side and put a layer of silicon around the sink. What I would like to know is: 1) what type of adhesive is best for the application? 2) I also suppose that there could be a better way (that doesn’t involve drilling into the counter top) to get the sink in place and is so what you might recommend if it is not too complicated? It also seems strange that the sink was only held in place just like that but it has held up for probably over 10 years. The adhesive does not look like it was liquid nails and I personally don’t care for liquid nails as it never holds up for any long period of time in projects I’ve used it for. Thanks for any input.

I certainly don’t mind fishing with good company. However, that is not my reality. None of my friends who still live in the area fish. My kids who used to fish with me have their own lives. My wife wants nothing to do with fish or fishing (and that is not necessarily a bad thing). Consequently, I fish alone 99.9999999999% of the time. However, I am an introvert so I don’t mind at all and it’s my reality. I get to reflect on life, focus on perhaps a technique or two, or experiment, or maybe just throw on a float and bobber fish for blue gill because the bass found out I was coming to the lake and decided to stay home.

I like many veggies but the one I do not like are carrots. Since day one and I ain’t a spring chicken. Do I eat them? Yes. But only because of the benefits. To me, they have this delayed after taste that is awful to my palette. I can however somewhat tolerate pickled carrots. The kind you’d find in a can of jalapeños.