Steveo-1969

I say "There's a fish!", but use this expression the same way you use "Fish on!".

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say Jimmy Carter... That lure and a can of Billy Beer and you'd have the start of a great fishing adventure!

I use braid on a spinning rod with a FC leader and I've tried green, white, yellow and neon lime. Green is almost impossible for me to see. The white worked well at first but started to get dirty with use and became less visible. Yellow worked well, but for MY eyes I think neon lime was the easiest to see. I would love to try pink but have only found it in the Gliss line and after using it the past couple months I don't like it. I generally make my leaders about 3 feet long and it runs through the guides with no noticeable problems. I personally use a uni-to-uni knot and have found no reason to try a different knot but as you said you will get different opinions on this. I was intimidated at first to tie on a leader but with an hour of practicing at home I got pretty good at it. Now I can tie on a leader in less than a minute standing in the middle of a river.

I've been using 24# Gliss on a spinning reel for some months. Initially I loved the casting distance. But as another mentioned, the line is starting to flatten out and fray, seems like the coating is coming off, and casting distance is no longer anything to brag about. I'm going back to Sufix 832 in 10#. Gliss was a good experiment but I've decided it's not for me.

We got 36" where I live in the eastern panhandle of WV. Ugh.....

What? You mean you love them even more than a uh, Senko????? ;-)

Welcome Chris from a fellow West Virginian who loves fishing for river smallies.

Same here, two hands for spinning or casting rod regardless of anything. Can't comfortably cast with one hand.

I can't believe no one has mentioned the Pocket Fisherman yet!!

When I started using fluorocarbon leaders I bought 2 spools of leader material because I didn't know any better. Now I fill the 25 yd. spools by hand with whatever fluorocarbon I'm using as leader material so I don't have to carry big 200 yd. spools in my fishing bag while I'm wading. Works great!

I don't care. My master's gone away... Welcome to Bass Resource!!

Welcome to BR Matt! I'm a transplanted Wisconsinite myself. I was born and raised just south of you near Fond du Lac.

Welcome to BR! I have vacationed on Kentucky Lake for the past 5 years running. It's easily my favorite week of the year!!

Line companies have done a great job marketing fluorocarbon as "low stretch". And I totally believed it until I actually fished with it. Don't believe the hype, it stretches as much as mono and sometimes more. Now this isn't necessarily a bad thing, but if you are concerned with line stretch and want to eliminate it then you should go to braided line. Spool up with 15#-20# braid (with or without a mono or FC leader) and you will get great hook sets on a long cast.

Pflueger President is hard to beat at $60.

My system is pretty minimalistic. I keep all my plastics in the original packaging and I don't have a boat so I'm either wading or bank fishing. At home I keep my plastics in a large drawer and have a small over-the-shoulder bag I use while fishing. Before each fishing trip I will add bags of plastics I think I will need and take out what I think I don't need. This usually doesn't change much unless it's a season change (summer fishing to winter fishing). Otherwise it's usually just replenishing what I'm running short on. It's very rare that I wish I had brought a certain plastic with me. Usually I'm wondering why I brought so much because my bag is too heavy!

My favorite technique for catching my river smallies is a finesse jig. My most productive is a t-rigged 4" YUM Dinger.

I watched the new episode of Lunkerville last night, kayak fishing in NC with a wounded vet. Mike D caught a pig! As I was watching I was reminded that Lunkerville was how I heard about Bass Resource when I saw an episode with our very own Glenn May as a guest. He was schooling Mike D on how to catch smallmouth.

I've worked in the printing industry for 25 years and the company I work for prints BPS catalogs. Catalogs in general are getting thinner because of paper and postage costs. They use thinner/cheaper paper or reduce the number of pages (or even reduce the page height/width) to make it lighter and reduce postage costs. But catalogs are still an important part of marketing strategy and there are companies that eliminated print, saw their sales go down, and started printing again. Even "internet-only" stores (like Amazon) are starting to print catalogs because they help sales.

I almost always dip my plastics in Spike-It chartreuse garlic, but more for the color than the scent. Also started using Megastrike Original last year. Don't know if either one really helps but it's a confidence thing for me.

Good call Glenn, this is one of my favorites and it's already set up to record on the DVR. Mike D is awesome!

"I'll tell you this... No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn." The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat) by The Doors

As stated, this will be subjective with each person. With that being said, mine are very comfortable when palming the reel. I have a JWR 893C/Shimano Curado I and an MBR 842C/Abu Garcia Revo LTX. Love them both but that MBR 842C is really something special...

My experience with Gliss is similar to OkobojiEagle. I've been using 24# on a spinning rod since September and initially I loved the casting distance. But the coating is wearing off and the line has started to fray and the casting distance is now no better than I was getting with 10# Sufix 832. I always tie on a FC leader, but I've had to cut off yards and yards to get to unfrayed line. It was a nice experiment, but I'm going back to 832 when it's time to replace the line.

Welcome to BR Brian! I was born and raised near Fond du Lac, but got kicked out of the state in 1997 because I'm a Bears fan...