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Duck dropping six pounders.

I have four Alphas, four Zillions, six Fuegos, and two TD-Zs. I think I can say all are must haves, because I have them. LOL You can still buy a ZIllion, but it looks like it's days are numbered. The rest are out of production, and have been for a while. I don't really "need" any more reels, but the SS SV is on my radar. I may not be able to resist much longer.

I do not want to know what Long Mike may, or may not be, putting up his ally.

We were on a trip to far northern Miinesota, about 60 miles out from Grand Marais, into the Superior National Forest. Out fishing one evening, when I had a heart attack. We about as far from the lodge as we could get on that lake. It felt like somebody had driven a stake into the middle of my chest and then set it on fire. My wife was with me. She said I passed out twice, but I don't remember that. They say, in a situation like this, that minutes count. Here's how the minutes added up. 30 minute boat ride back to the lodge. Two hour wait for the only ambulance in the area. 90 minute ambulance ride to a clinic the size of my house. They gave me a $3000 shot that saved my life, and shot me full of morphine. Two hours at the clinic waiting for a helicopter. More morphine. Lots of morphine. Two hour helicopter ride to Duluth, completely stoned on morphine. Got to Duluth about 2:00 am. the Doctor showed up about 5. Into surgery, got two stents, and survived the experience. Now, to add insult to injury, when all was said and done, my insurance company left me with $18,000 worth of unpaid bills. I'm still fishing.

I'm 62. My "don't give a rip" switch got locked on at about age 50. Funny stuff speed craw. If somebody doesn't like it, tell "em to go shoot in their hat. I actually have a picture of that somewhere. A knuckle dragging laborer really torqued me off one fine day, so I filled up his hard hat. Several people got pictures of that. If I could find one, I'd post it.

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a glass of good red wine does it for me

didnt see that coming

Oh man, you just had to put that idea in his head, didn't you?

I'm always sitting and have learned to reel down, get the rod tip close to the water, and set straight up. I get a lot better hook sets this way. And, I don't fall over backwards into the water trying to do a "geronimo" hookset. LOL

TMAC worms have totally replaced all othe trick worms in my bags. I'll buy "em even if the price goes up, as long as the plastic formula and colors remain the same.

Holy Cow!!!!! Another little Raider? Lord help us. Good luck man. Hope everybody stays healthy. Post up some pics; unless he comes out with a beard and a speedo.

I have about two inches left in a bottle of Blue. It's lasted me for almost two years. A special occasion drink for me. Just brought a bottle of JW Gold Resrve home from St Thomas, duty free. Haven't tried it yet. At the end of the spring semester, my graduating students bought me a bottle of Macallan 21. Very, very smooth and tasty. A new fav that I'm very much afraid is out of my price range.

I always have these with me, unless, of course, I'm not fishing. Space Monkey / Evo Shake2 jighead Lobster / T-rigged Baby Craw / finesse jig trailer Shellcracker / Rage rigged Menace / fin-tech jighead Cut-r worm / jighead or t-rigged or weightless

Doesn't matter how you set up your reel, with #17 line and MH Veritas, you are not going to do well trying to cast light weights. To cast effectively, the rod has to flex on the back stroke. This is known as "loading" the rod. In reality, this is storing energy in the rod blank, to be released back into the bait. If the light weight bait will not load the rod, you won't be able to cast well at all. A MH Veritas is equivalent to many other manufacturers heavy power rods. Not the right tool for the job.

I have a buddy who's notorious for throwing baits into trees. I've been telling him for years that squirrels are not in season.

Spudnuts, a local delicacy, cinnamon roll type pastry, made with potato flour. A small, family owned business in Bloomington, Illinois. Out of business for a lot of years. If I had a fresh Spudnut next to a fesh Krispy Kreme, the Krispy Kreme would get stale. The Spudnuts were that much better.

The statute of limitation should indicate that you need to shut up about those events, dude.

Space is a vacuum because the whole world sucks. This is known.

Now you're infringing on my theory. Our inverse is indeed a bubble, slowly expanding, of an irrelevant size. It's NOT in a mug of beer. That would be ludicrous. It is slowly rising in an extra-temporal ocean. The Big Bang that started it all? A cosmic shark fart. That would make a nice big bubble, and plenty of turbulence to get whole thing up and running..

Far out, man. Now don't Bogart the doobage.

Resistance is futile.

Thanks a lot for the reminder, Goose. Since I posted that, I bought another Tatula rod, won a Pinnacle rod at the RoadTrip banquet, and bought a nice used TD-Z. I did sell a rod to make "room" for the new Tatula. Justification, or rationalization? I'll be the judge of that, thank you very much. The rod I won was sitting in my rod rack, without a reel. I could not allow such a state of affairs to continue, could I? A TD-Z, without a handle, popped up in the flea market, for a very good price. I had a spare TD-Z handle just laying about, gathering dust. What's a guy to do when the planets align, but cooperate with the inevitable?. I have no will power.

Uh, because I like it that way?

That pic looks like the beginning of a redneck joke; "hey, watch this" The guy's very lucky he didn't have some body parts removed. The neck on one of those things is a lot longer than you think.