Felix77

Looking for ideas for culling more efficiently. Last year I tagged and weighed each fish as I caught them. It's effective but not very efficient. How do you guys manage your culling?

Another rightey using all lefty reels. I also golf, and throw lefty. Go figure!

Great show even with the storm scaring off some vendors. Came home with a ton of stuff to try this spring. Fun talking to you Shane!

I'm partial to Abu.

It's like a good marriage ... They must work together. It doesn't matter if you spend more or less on either part as long as they work together. I have reels that are more expensive than the rod and visa versa. The challenge is matching them up to suit your needs.

Depends on what you have. If I had a choice I would split it 50/50 between power and finesse. Power - Spinnerbaits, Crankbaits, Jerkbaits Finesse - Bullet weights, drop shot weights, good quality (Seaguar Invizx) FC line, Drop shot lures (Dream Shot, Z Drop, Roboworm)

I just discovered the neko rig yesterdat ... Learned two new rigs today. Thank you! Now to carve out enough time to try them all!

Abu Orra Series. Have 3.

Just picked it up. That and their new popper frog. Looking forward to trying them out.

The only time I know I would avoid this knot is with weightless presentations. Otherwise I honestly don't see why not. It's one of those try it and see for yourself moments in fishing. It may give you the action you need on certain days. I know I am going to tinker with it.

Just got back from the show. It was well worth the trip although some of vendors didn't make. It seemed like all the fishing vendors made it because I still found a way to spend a TON of money there on good stuff. Great deals, great time. Glad I went.

I become more and more of a fan every season. I avoided Trokar because of the price and fished Gamakatsu's esclusively. I saw a sale for VMC's so decided to try them and now they are my go-to. Awesome hooks. Never had a problem with them.

Great video ... the easiest snell I have seen thus far. One question. It looked like the wraps happened above the keeper but the knot ended up below the keeper. Did I see that wrong? I thought you were supposed to move the knot above the keeper and then tighten.

It's all about the news making things interesting. That's it. NBC/The Weather Channel started this crap. They should at least be more useful and start naming cold fronts and blue bird skies. Then we would pay more attention to it.

Casts great, frays like hell, doesn't hold a knot as well as regular braid or FC.

Nothing like that here. They are restocking with new items which means we are getting closer to spring. Of course we just got slammed with about 8 inches of snow but we are getting closer ... HA!

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SMB Tend to be much more curious and aggressive than LMB. With that being said don't be afriad to try erratic moving baits. Fast twitching jerkbaits, swim a tube aggressively, burn a spinnerbait etc.

This is my 2013 fishing goal! It's all about the drop shot for me.

x2 - I had a hard time believing that they would come up from 30 feet + for a Spook until I saw it for myself. I even went as far as to estimate how fast a SMB takes to get from 30 feet deep to the surface. It's less than 2 seconds! Yes I researched how fast a bass charges and estimated it out ... I know ... I'm a Geek.

How much did that CB cost? Maybe just time to get a new one.

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Apparently they are very good eats. It's a method I see promoted as to how to help get them out of the South Florida waters. Timely because the next episode of Bizarre Foods includes these fish ... check it out. http://www.travelchannel.com/video/dcs-slimy-snakehead-fish

1) Strip all the rods of old line 2) Clean the reels (oil, lube etc.) 3) Inventory the tacklebox. Make a list of things I need. 4) Set fishing goals (new technique 2013 is the Drop Shot) - Add to the list I need 5) Visit sportsman shows or similar events. - Buy some stuff. 6) Place orders online or visit BPS, Cabelas, Gander Mountain to hit their sales 7) Order my stuff 8) Respool my reels (march ish) 9) wait for the lakes to thaw. I am out on the banks on ice out and striper fishing in early April.

Same happened to me last year. Each time I would cast out my finesse worm I had a bird or two chase it. I never thought one would get that close to it. One did and ended up tangled in my line. I reeled it in, clipped off as much line as I could. It went flying before I could finish so it had a small stream of braid flying behind him when he ran away.