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I DO NOT have music on mine and I DO NOT want to listen to somebody else's while I am fishing. For me, that is suppose to be a time away from all that crap. Another good reason for me to not fish on the weekends or holidays. I do not get good cell coverage, when fishing, and if the phone rings I can not talk on it. So, if my wife has an emergency she knows she can call and whether we can talk or not, I know it is important enough for me to come home. (she hasn't had to do that, yet).

I beat him, yesterday. Went to Gander Mountain just to look at depth/fish finders. Got some info I needed and did NOT spend a penny. Half hour later I took my wife to Hobby Lobby and she did not find what she wanted and walked out of there not spending a penny. What a day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At our local Wal-Mart I saw a box of Yum plastics marked $1.96. Looking closer I saw 4 bags of Zoom Trick Worms in the box. Didn't see any difference between those bags and the ones on the racks. I picked up the whole box and put it on my cart and found the clerk that works there. Asked him about the Zoom. He said people had been putting them in there all the time. He watched a guy take 12 bags of Zoom off the rack and drop them in the bag and then made a big deal out of "finding" them in the bargain box. The guy took them to the checkout and said he found them in the bargain box and demanded that he get them for $1.96. By the time he said that the clerk and security met the guy at the counter. It's going to cost him a lot more than he thought he was going to save on that bargain. Wal-Mart has been putting out these bargain boxes for a while and they are good deals. You just have to check often and look for them.

A Producto Buzz Tail Shad over the weeds and if I could position myself so I could cast and retrieve a lure in that open water, I'd work an Original Floating Rapala like an injured minnow.

There's a small lake/pond (15-20 acres) less than 2 miles from me. I use to fish it once in a while and had caught a few fish of no real size. Last time I was on it, I caught one small blue gill and no bass and saw that there were no weeds. I saw on small clump of lily pads that was probably only one root. I heard an odd sound and narrowed it down to a woman on her dock spraying shoreline weeds. I think the people living on that lake have cleaned out all of the shoreline weeds with poison and subsequently poisoned the entire lake. There's no reason to go back and I never see anyone else on the lake.

Bucket of fried chicken.

Just sent a prayer your way. Hang in there. God loves you.

I retired from active duty in the Air Force in 1980. I use to gripe about the lack of pay while I was in. The pay wasn't much at all, but, the retiree medical insurance benefit is worth a fortune. If I had it to do all over again, I would. P.S. You can't live your Dad's life for him.

I worked in a small family owned manufacturing plant as the maintenance "working" supervisor. It was a union plant and the term "working" supervisor meant that I could be worked all the over time and not get paid for it and we didn't have to work the union maintenance people. I got my butt worked to death. There was never a time when everything was done. I would just quit for the day and go home. I was a welder, plumber, machine repairman and builder, carpenter, electrician, HVAC engineer, you name it, along with being the supervisor of a union crew. It was not boring and for that I was salaried at the great figure of $32,000.00/year with one week vacation. After about 7 years of that I quit, went up into the north woods and sold real estate. What would I have done if I had the chance for a job in that pharma plant? Need you even ask? I'd have left that job so fast they wouldn't even have realized I had ever been there.

I don't like eating at one of the big buffets anymore. People come out of the bathroom and start picking up food with their hands, turning it over, looking at it and then put it back. Or, they are just dirty when they come in and handle everybody else's food before they decide what they want. I always wonder what kind of diseases people have or exactly where those hands have been. My imagination can ruin my meal before I even start eating.

Fishing: Braid. Can't believe what I can do with that stuff and pull a fish out of the nastiest stuff there is. Trick worms. Never fished worms in the north country and still can't believe fish will bite them. The combination of trick worms and braid to me is just about unbelievable. Non fishing: My jeep Internet. I am there all the time. Life in general Not a product but something that far exceeds my wildest expectations. Bible Study

I use Bang garlic. I wash my hands and then spray them with Bang. Kills/masks any scents from my hands and also puts some scent on everything I handle. Somebody was showing me the difference between Zoom trick worms and the same worm made by Gambler. The difference was the Gambler smelled strongly of garlic. I sprayed a bag of Zoom trick worms with Bang garlic and sealed the bag back up. It seemed that the fish liked them better. Maybe, maybe not, but I felt better about using them. Did catch more fish than without the spray.

Guys, I just can't help it. When I first saw this topic all I could think of was taking my Ruger Blackhawk and going bear hunting. Now that would be exciting.

I guess you have to really like riding bikes to watch it. For me, it's more exciting to sit and watch my tomatoes ripen. Different strokes for different folks.

X2 I won a pair of those glasses in a drawing. Never win anything but I sure hit the jackpot there. It's hard to believe that they can be so much better than anything else.

I've always believed that when I handle my lures, I leave a scent from my hands. This happens more when it is very warm (hot) and I am sweating. I bought some Bang garlic. I wash my hands with the gel like sterilizer and then spray the garlic on a hand and rub them together. My catching has gotten much better. Doing that, I believe, does two things, covers the scent of my hands and then every lure I handle gets some of the scent on it.

Throw a 1/2 oz. Strike King Red Eye Shad in Sexy Shad color right in the middle of the bait fish and let it sink on a semi slack line. The 1/2 oz. one does the sexy shad shimmy as it sinks and the bigger bass that are waiting for a dying shad will grab it. Hang on, they aren't subtle.

They'll take a black 1 1/2" curl tail grub off the bottom.

The very best time for a husband to buy tackle is the day before payday, shopping with your wife and the kids need shoes. The worst time is payday, alone, and no one else has a wish list

One of my pet peeves is the really dumb things people call a fish when they land it. A guy pulls in a fish and then calls it a real "toad" or a "stud" or a "hog". HEY STUPID, IT'S A FISH. Perhaps a really big fish, but it's still a fish. Another one is when the host tells us all about the best lure to use in these conditions, in this place, etc. He shows how to tie it on, what tackle to use to fish that particular lure, then when you see him landing fish the lure in the fish's mouth is absolutely nothing like what he just told us about. I don't remember which show it was, but after all the hype about a lure, I never saw the host catch a fish on it the rest of the show. One more pet peeve. The host catches a fish, it's not very big, but it's a "quality" fish. What the heck is that?

15 minutes to the St. John's River, but have to fish when the tide is right. Other than that as far away as an hour drive. There are small lakes all over here, but some of the ones I fished have dried up.

Northern pike and musky don't bite during the dog days of summer because they lose their teeth when the weather gets that hot. Don't know when they are suppose to grow back. Guess any excuse for not being able to catch one is better than just "not being able to catch one".

Canned sweet corn and minature marshmallows. Fishing for stocked rainbow trout is just like fishing for carp and they taste just about the same, too.

By definition of the term "UFO", unidentified foreign object, we can all say we have seem something we could not identify, ergo, UFO. I've even seen some in bars around the world.

That shore line sure looks good, to me. I'd use a Zoom trick worm, watermelon red, t-rigged, weightless on a 3/0 EWG hook. Hit the shore line right next to that lay down. Also, skip it up under any overhanging brush.