ROCbass

I was just wondering if anyone on here has read these books and what you thought of them? My girlfriend is going for her masters in literacy education and she recommended them to me after her adolescent literacy professor recommended them to her. At first I was skeptical because they were teen/young adult books, but once I started reading the first one I couldn't put it down and ended up finishing the whole series in about a week. If you haven't read them, I recommend checking them out. Here's a quick summary of what they're about: Without giving too much away, the basic premise of the books is that in the future, an authoritarian government rules North America. All of the wealth in the nation is funneled into the capitol where people live extravagantly, while in the surrounding districts people live in poverty. As a symbol of the capitol's power over the districts and a means of controlling them through fear, each year every district is required to send one boy and one girl between 12 and 17 to The Hunger Games, a nationally televised fight to the death.

You mean just like the first one was?

Of course they wouldn't care if we lost our job, much like football players get cut (lose their job) all the time and no one notices unless its a big name player or you follow the sport closely. That's not the point, and it's more than just one guy losing his job. I don't know what you do for a living, but if your entire industry shut down abruptly for a year I bet people would notice, maybe even some football players. I'm not interested in taking sides in the labor dispute between the players and owners, I just enjoy watching NFL football and would like to do so next fall. Maybe your life wouldn't change in any significant way if there was never another football game, but that's not true for everyone. If fishing was outlawed it wouldn't change anything for millions of people, but I'm assuming you would be upset or you wouldn't be posting on this site. As much as I like fishing, and as much of a part of my life it is, if it were taken away from me, I'd find something to take its place. For me it would probably be playing more golf. Fishing or following any sport should not be like a drug which makes you absolutely dependent upon it for your joy of living. Nothing in life is certain, or forever. A vital part of enjoying life is to accept adversity, deal with it, and move on. In other words, you should be in control of your own life, not depending upon others to make life fulfilling and rewarding. I was a die-hard football fan for years, until the last players' strike, and a season of substitute players. I realized that I had allowed football to dominate my life, and was disgusted with the players and owners, all of whom were far better off than I. Both sides were acting like spoiled brats, and I kissed them off. Strange think was, I suddenly felt free, like a weight had been lifted from me. I no longer needed them, or even cared about them. Being freed from such bondage is exhilarating. That may sound quite dramatic, and it is. But it is also reality. I understand that, and as much as I enjoy football, it doesn't consume or control my life by any means. Still though, most Sundays during football season I'm watching the Bills, either on tv or at the stadium. If there's no football, I'll have to find something else to do on Sundays, and I'm sure I'll get by just fine. I'll probably do more hunting and fishing which will be completely fine by me, and maybe I'll end up not missing football at all. Nevertheless, by being forced to replace one enjoyable activity with another, my life will change in some way.

Not nearly enough. In the spring I'll get out maybe once a week from ice out until the middle of June when my summer job starts. I'm a camp counselor and we work 6 day weeks, plus I usually work at my other part time job on my day off, so if I'm lucky I'll get out 1-2 days total from the middle of June til the end of August. this summer I'm planning on taking a week off though, so hopefully I'll be able to get out a few more times. Once I'm done with grad school hopefully I'll be able to get out more. I'll be working in a school so I hope to be able to fish almost everyday in the summer as I won't have to work.

The union has decertified. This could be ugly for a while.

They say he never really did say that. But it is my favorite quote in life....so much I thought about getting those words tattooed. Here's an interesting read on the origins of the quote http://www.historybuff.com/library/refbarnum.html

The charge would be "inciting a riot" and yes, they could arrest him for it. For sitting in his hotel room minding his own business? I'm no legal expert but that seems like shaky grounds at best.

I think it would be funny if they arrested him, although I don't think he would do very well in a holding cell and I'm not sure what they could arrest him for.

List them for whatever you think is fair and let the market dictate the final price.

go around the spool and tie whatever knot you want. Some reel manufacturers recommend the arbor knot. I've used it and it works ok, but I tie it so infrequently that I can never remember how unless I'm looking at a diagram. I usually just do a couple overhand knots. If you get spooled you're losing that fish anyway so it really doesn't matter.

I didn't see that the OP was from Canada. My mistake.

It depends. Do you want to sell the ones that will make you the most money, or the ones that you are least likely to use? If it were me, I'd keep the Capricorns and maybe the extreme. IMO a procaster isn't worth replacing the spool on, and the Abu's are all lower end graphite frame reels which probably won't last as long, but they look to be in good enough shape that you could get a decent price for them.

Huh? The Hyper-Lift® Hull is un-matched by any other hull design I think he's asking about the rod lockers.

What I call my jerk-bait is none of your business! But Rapala Husky jerks are my favorite that I've used.

I think the weight advertised is the weight of the internal leadhead. I'm a fan of the storm swim shads as well. About the only thing I don't like about them Is that you used to be able to get a 6 pack for the cost of a 3 pack now, and they offer less colors than they used to. > In my experience, the 3" and 4" sizes work best. I bought a pack of the 5" ones, and they seem much harder to get to swim correctly. I also like the storm wildeye live sunfish 3" size. I'll have to give those kickin minnows a try too.

I wouldn't recommend this.

I could be wrong, but I think the reel trade in at BPS is finished.

My brother is allergic to the cold.

Your point is well taken, especially in this case, but still, I'm curious as to who you would consider to be a pro, and how that distinction is made. For example, other than factory service techs who are trained on their specific company's reels, are there any training classes you can take or certifications you can get in reel repair, or is someone a pro once they've cleaned a few reels and decided that they're good enough to see if they can get people to pay them to do it? To put it another way, who would you trust more, someone with years of experience but no formal training, or someone fresh out of "reel cleaning school," if there is such a thing, who has only ever serviced a handful of reels?

How does using a snap allow a stronger palomar? The only difference I can think of is that you can use a smaller loop going around a snap vs. a crankbait, but I'm not sure of how this would affect knot strength. Is it because a shorter pull when cinching means less friction going through the knot?

I fish from a canoe and only bring 2-3 rods. When I'm fishing I have one in my hand, and have the other two with the handles resting on the seat on either side of me and the middle of the rod resting on the yoke. When I'm paddling the third rod goes on the floor between my legs with the middle propped up on the yoke. In my buddies boat, which is a small aluminum with bench seats, its a similar deal, handles on the seat I'm in, usually the front, and the middle of the rod on the middle bench. I can usually comfortably bring one more rod in his boat than I can in my canoe. Edit: I keep stick jackets on the rods when not in use to prevent damage to the blanks from bouncing on the yoke/bench seat.

I fish from a canoe, so it won't effect my local fishing much, but I might not make the 3-4 hour drive weekend trips to my buddies cottage on Black Lake or my grandparents house on Great Sacandaga as often as I have some other years. Of course, last summer I was so busy with work that I didn't make it to either of these lakes anyway. This year it'll just be a different reason I'm not making the trip.

Casting or spinning? There's plenty of good spinning reels in this price range, casting might be a little more difficult to find.

Maybe they just don't have a lifejacket sponsor and its been so long since they paid for their own equipment, they forgot how.

I think most folks over here would tell you to get a heavier leader than 8 lb test. I didn't care for their advice initially; I should have known better; and I learnt in a while. I currently use 8lb mono leaders on my spinning reels with 20lb braid and I don't have any problems with it, I just thought fluoro might give me a little bit more of a visibility and sensitivity edge. Will 8lb fluoro present any problems that 8lb mono doesn't?