Raul

3" curly tail worm 6 - 7" straight tail worm ( my fav is Zoom's Trickworm ) 4 - 5" stickbait ( "senko" or french fry ) 4" creature ( crawfish, baby brush hog or lizard )

Newbie ! ( j/k ) To be honest I might have caught half a dozen fish on a Brush Hog in all these years and nothing eye whopping. Baby BHs, now that's another story. My kryptonite are buzzbaits, I just can't catch even a cold with them, nada, nothing.

Quite honestly I enjoyed purchasing stuff as much as fishing Notice I didn't say fishing or catching fish with it 95% of my fishing stuff is new and hasn't touched the water I don't need hundreds of lures to catch fish and for years I pretty much fished with the same lures over and over again and caught a ton of fish of course you will have to purchase stuff every now and then, hooks, sinkers and soft plastic baits mostly, a novelty every now and then the BaitMonkey is still siting on my shoulder the only difference is that now it demands other things instead of fishing stuff My 29" Sony Trinitron CRT started acting goofy, took it to the TV repair guy ( man that thing is heavy ! ), let's hope it can be fixed but meanwhile the sneaky little critter is trying to convince me in getting a 51" he saw in FB market place because WE NEED a 51" to hook up all the retro consoles I have hooked to the 29".

SIX AND A HALF YEARS !!!! That's the time I've been in the freezer My mother's illness and her passing away 4 years ago My business picked up also after her death and I needed to work like crazy in order to achieve certain goals I had in mind which finally ended up positively about a year ago Unfortunately I'm trapped yet and can't go fishing How have I dealt with the "itch" ? Videogames, I've been gaming since I was 9 so gaming helps me relax It's not a subsitute though ...

One year Tom, time flies by, I promise you'll see me more frequently.

I have a 6'6" MH, XF Shimano Compre. I use it as a "general purpose" rod when I'm on foot patrol ( bank fishing ) paired to a Daiwa Exceler 2500/Shimano Sahara 2000 spooled with 8 or 10 lbs test nylon. You can fish ALMOST anything but small/light baits with that rod, the issue is that it's pretty much pool cue stiff and doesn't flex easily so light baits like a 3" senko, a baby fluke an 8 cm minnow jerkbait can't "load" the rod and it takes a lot of elbow grease to cast them far.

If I remember properly those aren't riveted but screwed. You can change the T shape grip for an I shape, all you need is to order the part, unscrew one and put in the new one.

Nope ! HAPPY BIRTHDAY 'MURICA !!!

Just dropped by to tell my BR friends to have a Happy Independence Day cya Raul

I would pull a Jitterbug out of the t-box and cast n retrieve until my arm turns numb, why ? 1.- I've caught some very nice fish 2.- I like the gurgling sound of the 'bug 3.- It's awesome to se a fish hit it like if there's no tomorrow

Grab your biggest hard swimbait and throw it, you can bet the little buggers will get hooked just to ruin the action of the bait, that's what happens to me pretty much everytime I fish with hard swimbaits.

Most amazing thing is how she suddenly changes from soprano to growl, completely unexpected.

With all honesty I prefer Floor to Tarja, not saying Tarja isn't a great singer but I like Floor's style and performance much more...... now that I come to think about it, imagine us all 50-60 years old in 20+ years at a retirement home, watching all those 70+ years old farts playing Iron Maiden or Judas Priest songs.

Hell yeah, it was FREEZING 65° yesterday !

My friend Pedro had a pond in his grandfather's ranch, I estimate it may have been about 100 m in length and 50 m wide, half a hectare in surface, for years we fished that pond and caught nothing but dinks by the truckload, 8 - 12 inch fish all day long, I'm not going to deny it, it was fun because they were always very cooperative. One day we went to fish expecting nothing more but a good time but that day was different, that day I caught my first 10 lber ever, not only that I caught another one later in tha day and lost another biggie right at the bank .... the pond we fished for more than a decade and produced nothing but dinks. So to answer to your question, yes, there is the chance that there might be something bigger and like in my case, it may take years before you catch it but you won't know if you are not there fishing, who knows ? maybe you will be there, that particular day.

Pretty interesting

Do not overthink it fellas, there's no shad ---> no problem there's no shiners ---> no problem there's no bluegill ! ---> no problem there ain't no spinnerbaits swimming freely in any lake/pond/river in the world and pretty much if you fish with a spinnerbait you will catch fish. I've been fishing for more than 4 decades and honestly speaking, I don't believe in "match the hatch", to me is just a bunch of nonsensical mumbo jumbo and the last thing I care about when picking a lure from my tbox when I'm fishing is about how much it resembles something the fish might eat in that place. So, if you want to believe you need to "match the hatch" let me tell you ain't thinking right by thinking you need your baits should look like X or Y, bass forage is extremely variable and in hundreds of cases it might even be regional and what is available in Cali may not be available in Tx and so on, the ONLY FORAGE AVAILABLE ANYWHERE IN THE PLANET WHERE THERE'S BASS IS BABY BASS.

WAIT ! THAT WOULD NOT BE FAIR FOR THE PROS, my fellas would do some serious bass whopping.

I bet on Catt

I've caught thousands of fish with nylon monofilament including my 14.5 lber PB probably 80% of those with Trilene Big Game Most of my reels are spooled with 10,12,14 & 17 lb Big Game The only times I don't fish with Big Game is when I "finesse" fish. So ..... why fix it if it ain't broke ?

You asked: really good Really good: Shimano Calcutta/Conquest But of course, when you shell out 550 bux for a reel it must be purty darn good !

I was at home having breakfast and watching Dinosaurs ( call me silly but I liked that series ) before leaving for work, business hours for me are 10 AM - 3 PM and 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM but we start very early or very late many times. Phone rang, it was my mother telling me to turn on the TV and tune the news, an "accident" had happened, an aircraft had crashed against one of the towers of the WTC Tuned CNN and I watched how black smoke came out from the top of the tower, reporters said that a "small" aircraft impacted the tower, as they were saying this another camera points to the area where the plane crashed, as I saw it I thought: "small aircraft" my rear end, that's one frigging HUUUUUGE hole ! More takes, bla, bla, bla Camera take moves away and now I see both towers and then on the right side of the screen the siloutte of another plane appears and begins to head towards the other tower and in a matter of seconds it crashes against the building, I almost choked on the piece of bread I was chewing. For a moment I thought/hoped that nothing worse was going to happen, back during WW2 A B25 bomber crashed against the Empire State and other than some damage nothing serious happened to the building. So, we got into the car and drove to the business, it's a 10 min ride from my home, as soon as we arrived I rushed to my mother's home, it's only two blocks away from the business, got into the house and into the living room where my mother watched TV, she was there watching the news and as I reach the couch I witnessed how tower 2 collapsed. I went back and forth from the business to her house to see the news and I witnessed the entire ordeal. Let me tell ya'll fellas I am not an emotional person, but if there is a thing, even 20 years later, that can bring tears to my eyes is watching all those firemen, police officers and rescue teams flocking towards the burning buildings trying to save the people inside that inferno. That my friends is courage and bravery far above and beyond of what the words mean.

Am I a precision caster ? yes I am, had to learn to be dead accurate because of where I fished, lots of tiny ponds surrounded by brush or overhanging tree limbs, weedbeds that had "holes" in them, tule covered shallows where you had to put your bait into the tiny pockets or small lakes with tons of submerged brush and trees.

Most of my rods are short, my 3 decade old 5'6" Berkley Lightning Rods, one is a "old" model LR16 pistol grip and the other is a "new" LR15 straight handle ( SHORT straight handle ), GLoomis CR721,722, 723 and 724 ( 6' ), spinning rods are "longer" 6 ft Berkley Lightning, 6 ft Bosco, 6'6" GLoomis SJR782 and Shimano Compre MH. Why so short ? crowded conditions, if fishing from the bank there's a lot of obstructions, if it's from the "boat" then my compadre is quite close since it's a 12 ft tub, sorry, I mean jonboat.

If you ever go for "retro" lipless cranks out from e-bay and decide on Heddons Sonics just be sure you get Sonics and NOT SUPER Sonics, Sonics are silent and Super Sonics have rattles. Also, those baits need a little doctoring, the original hooks are trash so you have to change them, I doctored mine by unscrewing the hook hanger, adding a drop of epoxy glue and screwing them into the bait again, then I added a split ring and new hooks, oooohhh la la !