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Put all your credit cards in your safe deposit box or better yet cut them up, give your check book to your wife for safe keeping, and have her give you enough cash each morning to get you through the day. Or, you could just quit going into the tackle shop. You could also start saving for the reel and buy it when you get enough to pay cash .

I retired last April expecting to fish and hunt anytime I wanted. My mother then lost her income so I am working again to help her with bills. I do enjoy working, but it would be nice to go fishing. My son took two of his nephews last weekend and caught 14 in about 4 hours. That made it even worse.

Do it! Give that 'ole girl another chance at glory! I will post a pic when I get the 300 ready to go. It may be awhile as my backlog of work is pretty big right now. The Supreme will have to sit on the shelf as it is missing the cap on the end of the level wind shaft.

I'm lovin' every post in this thread and having a great time reminiscing. I may have to clean up one of those Mitchell 300s and take it fishing.

I still have a couple of my old Mitchell 300 spinning reels and a Pflueger Supreme casting reel that we used in the fifties and sixties. I remember with fondness the vacations where we stayed in the cabins at Ormond's Jungle Den on the St. Johns River. I was sickly so my dad would put me in the front of the boat under a raincoat to keep the wind off me and we would run to the jetties in Lake George or down to Lake Dexter. We fished 8"-10" shiners under a hyacynth cork next to hyacynth mats. You had to let the fish run until he stopped, and then when he started off again you set the hook hard. I caught my first 8lb bass like that. We had to dry our braided line when we got home to keep it from rotting. If you wanted to troll, someone had to man the oars, quitely. I also enjoyed catching the schooling bass on Dalton Specials with a Marm fly trailer or on a Woble-rite spoon. In the mid-sixties, my dad met the guys who invented Fliptail lures and we went to plastics and spinning gear. Our favorite rig was a Big Daddy Flip Tail (8" long) on a split shot rig, weedless hook, and mono line. I remember spending an entire week at Lake Lanier without having a single boat come into our bay from Monday morning to Friday at noon. The thrill of fighting a fish back then was no different than it is now. That's what it has always been about ... that, and fishing with a good fishing buddy.

If I am interpreting the results of this study correctly, it indicates that killing and eating bass from a fishery will eventually make the fish in that fishery harder to catch. If "catchability" and aggression are related it could also mean the average fish size will become smaller due to the less aggressive bass getting less to eat. My last assumption would, of course, be affected by the availability of forage species in the fishery. Now that they have determined that "chatchability" is genetic, I would like to see another study done on two ponds with identical forage levels. Pond "A" would be managed as a "kill and eat" fishery maintaining a healthy population of bass. Pond "B" would be strictly "catch and release" but the population would be managed at the same level as Pond "A" by electrofishing. The "catchabillity" levels of both ponds would be monitored and recorded for several years.

Try fishing with live bait once or twice if it is permissible just to see if there are still fish in the pond.

I'm in. I know I won't win on a largemouth from Georgia seeing the state record is also the world record, but I might get lucky and catch a big spot.

Write down your wife's honeydo list, knock it out, check it off and keep it on the frig until ice-out. When she complains about you going fishing next spring, point to the completed honeydo list. Give Blood Volunteer at a homeless shelter Take your kids ice skating Cook breakfast next Saturday morning before your wife gets up Take down the Christmas tree(mine is still up) Take the dog to the vet since his shots are 9 months overdue Clean up the basement or garage... Time goes by faster when you are busy

Have him do his practice fishing with light weight spinning gear and 4 lb test line. He will get in the habit of sweeping the hook. Knowing he has 4 lb line will help him remember to be gentle. Light guage extremely sharp hooks and soft plastic are necessary with this light tackle.

Have him do his practice fishing with light weight spinning gear and 4 lb test line. He will get in the habit of sweeping the hook. Knowing he has 4 lb line will help him remember to be gentle. Light guage extremely sharp hooks and soft plastic are necessary with this light tackle.

Have him do his practice fishing with light weight spinning gear and 4 lb test line. He will get in the habit of sweeping the hook. Knowing he has 4 lb line will help him remember to be gentle. Light guage extremely sharp hooks and soft plastic are necessary with this light tackle.

So who really gets hooked, us or the fish?

So who really gets hooked, us or the fish?

So who really gets hooked, us or the fish?