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I believe this is a brookie, from all the photos I've looked through it shouldn't be a brown. The Brooks are only 2lb minimum. If I'm wrong let me know

21in and 5lb8oz min, all the sizes are in the PDF I posted

I caught an angler award fish in my state(PA), the problem is I want to store it since officiating places are all closed now. How's the best way preserve this hog? Right now I have it sitting in an cooler with ice, but is there a better way like adding water to it? Just for some info regarding the catch... Picture of the hog: Unofficial stats 4+lb 22" Brook Trout Angler award program states 2lb+ and 15in+ http://www.fish.state.pa.us/awardapp.pdf

St Croix does have split grip Premier rods, starting with 6' medium

Mainly Saturday, early morning trout fishing, caught 8 nice sized rainbows, 4 each between my wife and I. Decided to finally check out the closest bass pro shop (90mi away) bought some gear. Swung over to cabelas and found a St Croix premier 5' UL half off and a 500 Sonora half off. Bought them threw on some seaguar 4lb and hit up the local lake by cabelas. Tried out the new combo on some bass and caught 5 LM beauties, and even pulled the biggest one through heavy weeds!! Photo of the biggest one of the day Man that was some fightin I'll never forget!

They were hitting all those lures? dang! Wish my area was like that.

Ok so I started out trout fishing, gotten pretty good at it actually. I was fishing below a dam and caught this one, has a weird body, So far with all the trout I've caught I never seen this. Thought it had a tumor actually, but it was all meat Never saw others like this, wonder if it's really normal or an oddity

With the pickerel at my local lake, they are overabundant, it's been ruining the the population of every other species in the lake. Worse part is they need to be 18" to keep. The majority of them are smaller than 16". No one wants them. No one likes them. The lake gets stocked with 10-12" trout, juvenile walleye (which no ever catches, since their eaten up) The pickerel were stocked in the 10's of thousands over a decade ago, it's amazing that there's other fish in that lake. It's the only lake I could care less about what people do after they bring them to shore. I however do the right thing and put them back.

I never leave home without a 7" and 12" set for that reason

Well if he's not willing don't force him

Wow that's huge! 17 lbs 4 oz, from what I can find

I've had the same problem with pline fluroclear 4 and 10lb. One thing I've notice with the spools I got is that the line doesn't feel consistently in spec with the diameter, which would make it weaker altogether. Seems like it was pulsating off the machine during the production.

That it is! Also memorable was the first musky I saw while fishing, had a 50"+ tiger follow my bait I though about that, I'd rather save up and get a jon boat so I can enjoy boating with my family

Welcome aboard!

When will stock replenish in stores?

Well it's in between two dams within 4 miles, the water is erratic. Last summer there were some portions only 3 foot deep.

I've been waiting for the lake to warm up to catch some bass, so I've been playing in the Lehigh River (just started fishing here) close to the house, using the simple senkos. So far I caught my first fish of the year, a pickerel and a musky (first musky ever), nothing else in sight, at least from the shore. This is fun though since I don't have a preference, willing to catch anything and try out different gear as I go along. Today I landed my first crappie on the river. I'm starting to like to like river fishing, just need some waders 8-) I haven't seen any bass yet!

Whatever walks by it, they tend to hide out in the weeds and wait for food to cross their path. I use to catch them on cranks, jigs, and 5" senkos

Thanks for the comments guys Going back to my original post, the offereings from manufacturers are somewhat slim. Some models only fit some SUVs mainly large suburbans, so I have to say if you don't do it yourself and want to buy the store kits make sure it'll fit! Check the reviews if possible

Depending on where you are you might have a real hobby shop near you, specializing in R/C, Models, Trains. Not like Michaels or Hobby Lobby. In a good Hobby shop you'll find Tamiya, Testors (Colors by Boyd, Model Master) etc. They have tons of colors, metallics, chromes. In modeling paints, doesn't matter much what goes though the brush, as long as you dilute it right. Some bottles will tell you the mixture and what to use to dilute. typically you paint thinner on enamels and with acrylics use distilled water

Thanks guys. See I was searching the forums yesterday sucking up the knowledge, went out fishing today and landed my first 2 fish of the year, a pickerel and a musky Great forum indeed!

Canoe Creek? Sounds nice, I'll have to check it out next time I'm out by the horseshoe Curve.

Happened at a local lake here, we got a lot of rain in 2 days, flooding out most of the streams/lakes. It went back to freezing temps the next day. Came out there and saw 50+ panfish dead on the boat launch, nothing big though.

Plan and simple, with butter in a pan

Well the bolts are factory, from what I heard they are tie downs for baby seats, more reinforcement