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It would help if you used actual words. This isn't a chat room.

To add on to HeavyDluxe's great post, I have went away from tackle box altogether. I have a speedbag for my plastics and some plano boxes for hardbaits. My plano boxes and everything else (pliers, gloves, scissors, etc) get put into a backpack. Bam, done. I carry a somewhat large backpack and my fishing poles and that is it. I always have one hand free to traverse rough-ish terrain. Now, I should mention that I have a heavy duty back pack that I bought while in the military and it is nearly as comfortable as a proper issue rucksack even when loaded down, so your standard school book bag likely isn't up to task. They do make fishing backpacks and most of them come with plano boxes already. This method also helps when I am invited to go with someone on a boat because ALL my gear is in one place and doesn't take up a lot of deckspace AND has the added benefit of being able to store drinks/food.

It's one of the most universal baits there is. You can fish it wacky, texas, carolina, weightless texas, weightless like a fluke/jerkbait, splitshot, drop shot, you name it. Check out the thread roadwarrior mentioned. Here's what I always start with, though. Rig it weightless and let it sink to the bottom. Mix up your retrieve with popping it up off the bottom, then reel in slack, then repeat. Follow up with slowly lifting your rod tip then reeling in slack as you lower it. It takes concentration because you will VERY often get a strike as it is fluttering back to the bottom on slack line. Oh, and make sure that when you make your cast you let it make it's initial decent on slack line so it falls straight down. WATCH YOUR LINE! If this rigging method doesn't work, wacky will. Same basic premise applies as the other two as far as watching on the fall, but the difference is that you are going to hop it off the bottom then let it flutter down. This method is less about moving the bait back to you as it is about how it flutters down. Bass (and bluegill apparently, as I recently learned) just can't get enough of a wacky rigged senko. There is a thread that contains about a hundred other threads that are all things senko and it is found in the tackle section (on my phone otherwise I would link it for you). There really isn't a "wrong way" to fish a senko as long as you rig it right. Find out what the fish want and slay 'em. :EDIT: Here is that link:

That's the clinch knot. For the longest time, I thought that was THE fishing knot. Then, I joined this site amd learned a thing or two. I used to break off at my knot all the time. Two things: 1: if you continue to use this knot, make absolutely certain you wet it down with saliva before tightening it down. This is critical. You should wet down EVERY knot, though. 2: switch to a Palomar knot. It's very easy, but af first you will waste a bit of line with the tag end. I have yet to lose anything with this knot. There are a lot of good knots and the clinch isn't a bad one, per se, I've just personally had BAD experiences with it. It pays to learn more knots so you can tie the right one for a particular situation.

Depends on water clarity and what the bass are feeding on, but you really can't go wrong with green pumpkin.

"Do Senkos get a lot of strikes" hmmm, let me see..... YES

Paragraphs are used to separate ideas/topics. Had there been a need to delineate content, I would have used a separate paragraph. However, what I posted was only worthy of a single paragraph since it was all related to the same topic. Single sentence paragraphs are poor form. Thanks anyway.

If you see him again and it becomes a regular occurrence, INTRODUCE YOURSELF TO HIS PARENTS! I say this as a father myself and if my son came to me and said he was talking to some older guy, I'd probably flip and hunt him down, if not just to find out if he's a creep or not. But if you go talk to him first and he is ok with it, there shouldn't be any problem. I see nothing inherently wrong with what you are doing and wouldn't necessarily mind if my son was doing it, but you are going to be the first person they talk to if anything happens to this young man. At any rate, you are doing a good thing by introducing a young person to fishing.

You should be ashamed for providing such misinformation . She will be in 3.7 fow.

I think you ought to ask your wife amd kids lol. If you could use the money and she's cool with it, game on. But you and I both know deployments are ROUGH on families. Money can't buy time spent with your kids.

The swivel doesn't knock around on the guides?

For you guys that use wire to tie your skirts, what kind of wire? It seems like a good idea because I've noticed that my skirts tend to bunch up on one side after a few hang ups or when running through thick weeds.

Said to the wife: "I won't be gone long" "I'll be back in a little bit " " it was on sale" "yes I needed it, my other reel wasn't working right" "no, I do not have enough fishing lures. Fish are very picky" And of course you can never go wrong with "I'm sorry". This phrase is best said first thing in the morning. When she asks why you are sorry, you can say "for whatever I do to make you mad later today".

Neither do I: just mildly dense weeds so far.

I'm not a mod, so no. I just didn't see the need for two topics of precisely the same nature when you could have posted this in the other thread. If the mods don't care, who am I to say anything?

or how long do you keep them in rotation? I posted a week ago about a good many jigs I picked up from my neighbor. Well, I've been fishing just a couple times since and have used them. Of the 6-7 I bought, I am down to 2 that are in fishable condition with the others having either trashed the skirt or broken the weed guard. Granted, they were old and cheap, but they were all in working order to begin with. My question is: if buying quality jigs, how long should one expect them to last? I can see the weed guard weakening due to trailer attachment, but it should hold up. Jigs are kind of the brutal beast of fishing lures, getting fished in the nastiest of nasty cover, so you'd expect them to be sturdy, right?

The concept isn't a difficult one to grasp, but it's probably one of those that are so obvious they are easily overlooked.

Yep, I got ya.

From your OP in the other thread: Now from your OP here: How do these differ?

You seem to be contradicting yourself here. Aren't you equating stained/darker water to a black t-shirt and saying it stays warmer longer? "murky and stained water attracts heat and retains it too" followed by "bass in clearer lakes may still be in their "summer" pattern"? Or was there a simple transposition of descriptors for water?

I use 20# red Power Pro on my baitcaster and it seems to get the job done and not give me any problems. The coating seems to make it easy enough to pick out backlashes and I've had a few doozies lol. However, I've not had any big hang ups (or big fish for that matter) to really test the strength. I don't notice that I've lost a dramatic amount of distance from my casts compared to the mono I had prior. All that said, someone somewhere will recommend just about every brand line. A buddy of mine even uses the walmart brand braid (omniflex or something) and likes it. It comes down to personal preference and what you are willing to pay. IMO, if there was a brand that plain didn't work as advertised, I can't see that it would stay on the shelf.

I had a smallie take my lunch money once. Another time I had one take my seat on the bus. It was a tough school.

Thanks. Right above your post, I posted that I confirmed they were bluegill. Chalk that up to good intuition on your part lol.

A gift...from medical science and the doctors that fixed it. Thank them.

It also depends on what part of the country you are in as well. There are more big bass down south than there are up in the northern part of the country. 4-5 pounds is a good size fish here, but is probably average down south (at least in decent bass lakes, anyways). Forget about Florida: average for them is probably 15 pounds lol.