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I have a Shimano Curado B that is flawless mechanically someone else will have to tell u when they were made, I've had it five years, think late 90's. A curado E, that's 3 years old, flawless. 4 pro qualifiers that range from 4 to new. 2 Abu round Ext Pros that are at least 5. All of these reels have a proven track record with me. The Curado E5 is my crankbait and spinnerbait reel, no issues. smoothest reel E5 best caster distance EXT, easiest to cast PQ's. Give any of them a little care fish them hard and they will last.

Hard to say without knowing the questions hooyah is asking.

IMO this is the absolute best way to learn a new bait. If there is a new lure/technique that I want to learn, everything else stays home. Otherwise if I'm not catching fish the old reliables come out. If I keep fishing what I know I never learn or develop confidence on new lures techniques. So I force myself to learn

Never actually seen that happen, wow. Before I broke my back was being considered for a position at Hatteras to run the at that time new 47 footer. Did u ever coxn that boat? I was medically retired in 94

To the OP what is most important durability, smoothness, casting etc. When u say durable how long of a life are u looking for?

Happy B-day RW

I would not mention intellectual honesty in this discussion and still state that there is no evidence that an unkown animal fitting the description of Bigfoot exsists, there is an abundance of evidence. DNA samples, foot casts, body casts, photographic , audio and video evidence. To state that intellectually honest person would not believe in something until science provides their final stamp of approval is ludicrous, as well as believing in everything that science states is accurate, but that is a topic for a different discussion. I'm sure the scientist who "discovered" the lesula monkey (the announcement of the discovery made last week) is intellectually honest, you can bet he believed the animal existed prior to being classified scientifically. Why because he saw one and then spent four years looking for one. I notice that you chose to make an example out of the smallest discovery on the short list but convienently overlooked the primate on the list. I also noticed that in making the remark about the worm that you are ignoring the fact that there are 15,000 to 20,000 new species discovered every year, amazing, we have not learned and do not know all there is to know about this planet. In knowing that it is arrogant to close your mind to the possibility of other new discoveries. I could understand being close minded if there was no evidence, other than eye witnesses and legends. But to categorically state there is no way that a particular animal exists when there is DNA and other evidence is crazy, imo. Just last week a new primate was "discovered" a monkey that is over 3 foot long and about 22" tall weighing 15lbs or so http://news.mongabay...nce-lesula.html In 2003 a possible new specie of great ape was photographed, casts made of footprints, etc. However the scientist involved has since been shot before she could provide a body for the scientific community to be able to classify. It is interesting that this particular ape is not immediately dismissed by the main stream scientific community. The discovery of a new ape 100+ years after the last is indicative that at the least we have not classified every animal. http://news.bbc.co.u...ure/3730574.stm All I'm saying is that there is evidence, take a look at it, if you don't think it is enough to persuade you fine. But to say that others who have examined the evidence and think that there is enough to warrant futher research are not intellectually honest, smart, educated, or worse; is the epitomy of arrogance and ignorance.

Thank you Bobby, I'm out of town right now. Will call Monday

It puts a new twist on senko type baits though. The bone would be problematic in t-rigging, but skin hooking it wouldn't be an issue.

If you want a reel that will last a lifetime you gotta go round. I really like my curado e, but would bet that my old abu round reel will still outlast it. They are built like tanks

It is what it is, those old 44's made an old man of me, lol.

Have no idea what size river you are fishing. I have found that smaller rivers and creeks don't yield large schools of any fish, except carp. Fast current doesn't bother smallies like it does other fish, if its hot fish the fastest current look for eddies, rocks that break the current, like RW said its location, in a river there may only be one fish on that particular break, especially if its a small rock. There will be others around, but on their own structure. I have never caught a small mouth in the Greenbrier or New river off of wood that was sticking out of the water, plenty off of completely submerged timber, my guess is it had to do with the sound of the water as it flowed.

Thank you, ever since green bay crapped on Favre they deserve all the losses.

I reinjured my neck reduced to phone use, no fishing, driving, nothing to do now but post; still it will take some time to catch up. Wonder who has the most post?

Wow 2 thousand posts, took me a second to figure out what the post was about, I don't know if I'll ever get that many posts.

Getting remedial help for students is getting better, but try find a program for a kid that is above average, is totally bored with school, and is being dumbed down everyday. The school asked to promote my daughter from the 1st to 3rd grade, which I refused, I was lucky enough that she had a teacher that would allow her to do work from that grade, I had to buy the books but at least she was learning and being challenged, now that she is in grad school she has a very solid study skill set. My youngest son is bored, and as of now we are having trouble finding an appropriate solution as the teacher is not willing to allow him to do more complicated work during the school day.

After watching the videos and listening to the commentators, etc. The worse commentary I heard was from CBS radio yesterday at 3pm, how that call "handed" the win to Seattle. Sorry it did not hand the win to Seattle, the SeaHawks won the game period, go back erase all bad calls that would take away the TD from both teams and Seattle still wins, the won every stat including the score. The comish was on record yesterday that the ref made the correct call, it was simultaneous reception in which case the offense gets credited, however there was offensive pass interference before so that it should not have been ruled a touchdown. This guy should run for office!!!

I'm really glad other ppl provided the links to the howls and primate behavior of throwing rocks. Great apes throw rocks at any intruder that comes into their claimed territory

SPOKANE, Wash. — A human finger found inside a fish at Idaho’s Priest Lake has been traced to a wakeboarder who lost four fingers in an accident more than two months earlier. Fisherman Nolan Calvin found the finger while he was cleaning the trout he caught Sept. 11. He put it on ice and called the Bonner County, Idaho, sheriff’s office, the Spokesman-Review newspaper reported........ The complete story can be found here http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/human-finger-found-in-idaho-trout-is-traced-to-wakeboarder-who-lost-digits-in-july-4-accident/2012/09/25/9737007e-0759-11e2-9eea-333857f6a7bd_story.html

I'm sorry if my post was misleading, I know its not petroleum jelly.

Hey Franco, I'm sure this grate lady is accredited, still want her teaching your kids, lol. Homeschooled kids are reported (I know you will want a link), to have higher SAT, ACT scores, and in many states must submit to the same standardized testing and on average kick public school student's can. FWIW in the state of VA, you don't even need a degree to substitute teach for up to 2 weeks continually the same class!!! I will ammend this to say 2 years ago it was like that, NC was the same. The public school system is falling apart.

Man you don't know how right you are, lol, . I've not always lived here, believe it or not NC is worse. I should state that the example given was from NC. Now that I have moved back here (SC), my youngest is in a private school, he actually regressed last year, his first year here in the public system, (we moved down from WV). I talked to his teacher about it, she is looking forward to retiring in a few years. I'm hoping this school will be better I have kids from 25 to 7, and the state of our public education system has steadily declined the whole time, it is sad.

Teachers are employees and not policy makers, if the policy of the school district is such that they are forbidden to correct spelling and math problems then no, their responsibility is to teach according to the accepted standard given them. If you need them to spell then I would find the time, I did. I griped, cussed and complained to my wife and other parents the whole time, but just because the School Board's policy was to raise idiots, it wasn't mine. I think you are missing my point, teachers do not have ultimate control over what they teach in their classes, nor how. Too many Federal and State mandates that over-rule their own preferences. As a teacher you are given the material, if that material states that you can not correct spelling or math mistakes then you can not do it, unless you want to be fired. All teachers are required to submit lesson plans to Administrators and have them approved prior to teaching a class, this is done on weekly or every other week basis.. Everyone gets mad at the teacher, but in most cases their hands are tied. In the case I provided, the teachers were very upset about the policy, but at the same time they could not go against the policy and correct the students as they would be in violation of the established standards and face disciplinary actions. How it was handled was that the teacher had to teach according to the policy set forth by the School Board, then after grading was completed she went over the answers that would be the correct answers as a group, that way the papers weren't corrected, and the kids at least got to see how it was supposed to be. In the case of the original post I would find out why, but don't go in assuming that she used the word grate by mistake. I know it makes no sense, I know it is wrong to teach kids in this fashion, what I'm saying is that it is not always the teacher's fault. Just one of the many many reason I wouldn't teach kids, most of the reasons are not that teachers are incompentent, but the mandates forced upon them are. Like the "no child left behind" crap, all that law was about is teaching to the lowest common intelligence and instead of challenging kids to learn they make them lazy.

It's been awhile since some people have had kids in school. Not surprised at all. I had kids in school when a school district decided the correct answers were not as important as the child's self esteem. 1+1=3 spelling dog with any combination of letters fine, as long as the kids felt good. Needless to say my kids learned the correct spelling because I made sure they did. This type of behavior isn't rare but very common place in the public school system. No offense intended to school teachers as they are ultimately not the one who are responsible for crap like this.

Floro has a crystalline structure any time it backlashes it kinks. It may look fine but it's not. A kink in floro causes the structure of the line to break, the outside of the line can look fine but the inside be severed. If it backlashes cut the line several feet behind the last loose loop.