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I can't say if it is nationwide, but it is ongoing at the two stores I have visited here in Orlando area. I went into Dick's store today and they had the fishing clearance displays blocking the front door so I guess they really want to sell that stuff and get it out of the store. I bought a few lures and some Sufix 832 marked down to $14.97 and an additional 25% off that, so my price out the door was about 50% off retail. And while I was there, the store was overhauling their fishing lures displays adding in some new DOA rubber baits which will be something to look forward to on sale because the DOA packages had like 12 pieces per bag rather than the standard 5 to 8 pieces we see for more money. So when those are marked down they will be a better value to stock up on.

Palm Beach county government has some useful information about Lake Osborne that includes some download PDF files on several subjects including dredging you might find useful: http://www.pbcgov.com/erm/lakes/freshwater/lakeosborne.htm Additional Information Located within the C-16 canal basin. 378 acres in size. Mean depth of 6.8 feet and a maximum depth of 27 feet in the north lobe. Most extensive shoreline totaling 18 miles. Several vegetation restoration projects located in the north and central lobes. Extensive submerged and emerged vegetation is beneficial to fish and water quality. A Little History History of Lake Osborne History of John Prince Park Lake Osborne 1916 Shoreline Technical Resources Lake Osborne Aerial Map Lake Osborne Animal Species List Square Lake Restoration Plant Species List Lake Osborne Muck Dredging Project Power Point Presentation [5MB] Lake Osborne Restoration Projects Pond Apple Habitat Restoration Project Fact Sheet Square Lake Restoration Project Project Fact Sheet Custard Apple Slough Restoration Project Fact Sheet Lantana Airport Shoreline Project Fact Sheet South Lobe Lake Osborne Muck Dredging Project Fact Sheet South Lobe Lake Osborne Muck Dredging Power Point Presentation[5MB]

Yes. Some of the members here on this forum that live in this area don't have boats, so sometimes we beat the bank together at their spots, and sometimes one or more will go out with me in my boat to some of my spots. Not going to mention any names but one of the members here showed me a really great spot last summer that is actually in the area I work in. I met him out there one day and it was bass fishing heaven on earth. There was a nice lily pad covered canal, a retention pond and a lake. I found one spot in between three different separate bodies of water that I could stand and cast into all 3 of them just from one spot. Kind of cool actually. But yeah it is a good feeling to come upon new virtually untouched waters and have all the bass to yourself! I find that a lot here in Florida. And I mean a lot! I have been known to use google satellite imaging to spy out some new water and even bring a machete and hack my way in to a remote pond in the woods no one fishes. I'll give away one secret spot I love to fish that virtually no one fishes at Walt Disney! Yes, they do have guided bass fishing at Disney here in Orlando, but only on a couple of the main lakes where they can take boats. But the real secret to bass fishing at Disney is their canal system! Old Walt Disney actually bought up a bunch of swamp land cheap for his magic kingdom back in the 1960's and one of the first things he had to do was drain out those swamps and so all over Disney you will find canal systems with locks all over the place behind the various resort hotels. No one fishes them! Who comes to Walt Disney to fish? Well I do! I do a lot of trade show type of work all over the place, and any time my boss says I am going to Walt Disney World in Orlando, I am running for the fishing rods to put in my vehicle for beating the banks at Disney. I have yet to see any "no fishing" signs any where on Disney property, but sometimes if a security guard sees me they ask me pack it in which I do. But most of the time I am in places no one can see me fish and it is incredible out there! Most of the canals are perfect casting distance across so I can lay a lure on the opposite bank and bump it into the water easy enough. Plenty of parallel shore fishing, bridges and pilons, lily pads- Disney has it all! And many of the canals are mowed right to the edge and accessible too. Just walk out of sight of the roving white security vehicles with the flashing yellow light on top and you got it made! Disney have big bass out there that have never seen a lure! Better than riding Space Mountain! So guys, when the kids are screaming for you take them to Walt Disney, take your fishing rods too! Use google satellite imaging to look down on Disney so you can pick the resort with plenty of water, lakes, ponds, and canals all around. And, what makes this area around Disney so nice, is that the local governments and other businesses have done the same thing in digging a massive canal system to drain wetlands for development. So those Walt Disney canals are now connected up to lots of other canals off Disney property that run all over the place around there. A short drive around the area and you will find some awesome places to fish that people just don't fish because everyone who comes to this area are there for the theme parks and beach type of thing. Who brings a fishing rod to Walt Disney? Dad does!

Spawn is at different times of the year in different locations. Bass will spawn in South Florida before they will spawn in north Florida, but usually in March it begins. Throw anything that will tick them off! Bluegill looking lures work good. When bass are protecting the bed they do not want anything alive in there that could eat their eggs so they get real defensive towards something moving into the bed and will pick it up to move it out of the bed and that is when you can "snag" them. I don't really consider bed fishing as bass fishing because it is just too easy. I like going after big bass after spawn when they are hungry and feeding and in summer time and fall when feeding. To me, that is what bass fishing is all about. Trying to fool a big old feeding bass. I like looking for feeding activity and move in to give them a lure to get interested in when I see big old bass actively feeding or schooling bass, or search them out in cover. But for bedding bass it can come down to this easy... park your car alongside a lake, pond or canal. Grab your big wormin' rod or a frogging rod, even a flipping stick rigged with a bluegill swimbait. Walk down to the water. See a big fish sitting on a bed. Flip out past the bass on the bed and work your lure into the bed and hook her when she grabs the lure to get it out of her bed. Boom! In less than 5 minutes you got a 10 pounder hanging off your line. Is that really bass fishing? To me it is taking advantage of the bass in a time of vulnerability. I know it is legal in most places. I know people do it all the time. Professionals like Chris Lane win tournaments doing it. But is it really bass fishing? Or, is it bass snagging??? Rig up a weighted treble hook and just snag them off the beds. It is about the same thing to me. Real bass fishing to me is giving the fish a fair chance to fool me. Real bass fishing to me is for me to create a life like food lure presented in the right way, at the right time and hoping they will bite it. I guess what I am trying to say is what makes bass fishing so enjoyable to me is that it is a challenge of me against the fish. And I just don't see bed fishing as much of a challenge. It is an unfair fight targeting a stationary fish trying to reproduce so we can have bass in the future. I just don't like messing with monster bass on the beds and now I avoid doing it. But if others choose to do it then hey more power to them. In the past I have used a variety of lures from bluegill swimbaits, frogs, rubber worms, other swimbaits, just about anything that moves she will look at it, turn towards it and if it ticks her off too much she can't resist getting it out of the middle of her bed. Just pure sight fishing. So easy a kid can do it. I remember messing with a big old girl on the bed years ago. I had a rubber worm on the rod at the time and was walking down the shoreline and saw her sitting on her bed not 7 feet from shore. I actually reached out and tapped her on the head with my rod tip and she just stayed right there so I decided to toss my rubber worm into her bed and caught her and let her go and she went right back to her bed so I did it again, and caught her again and let her go and she went right back to her bed. But the third time I tried to wiggle my worm around in there she seemed to have smartened up and would not take it the third time so I left her alone and moved on. That experience I guess has made me feel guilty about bed fishing ever since and today I let them be. Do your thing old girl and I will try and catch you after spawn when you get hungry! Let's level out the playing field...

It is impressive! This is precisely how Chris Lane won the BassMaster Elite series on the St. Johns River in March of 2014. Listen to the one key word Chris says at 2:01 in this video "I FOUND these fish on Monday" as in "FOUND" these bass just sitting there on their beds and then went after them hard for his win- a Florida boy using typical Florida bedding bass targeting. Chris Lane targeted bedding bass for his win- winning a 4 day tournament in 3 days targeting stationary big bass on the beds! Everyone does it!

BassObsessed said: " I'll be hitting up that area in March to try to find more giants" Key word: "find" as in sight fish them off the beds (March) from shore I am guessing. March = spawn. At that time of the year you can see them sitting on the beds and reach out with your rod tip and tap them on the head and not spook them. During that time, just for a few weeks, you can see the big ones up close to shore and catch them real easy with some patience. Some years ago I caught one like this twice in under 2 or 3 minutes off the bed. I caught her once, let her go, tossed the lure into her bed again and caught her a second time and let her go right back to her bed, but the third time I threw my lure at her she would not touch it. I moved on. Bed fishing for monster bass is just too dam easy.

Now that's a trophy bass! Keep pushing it out closer to the camera! Maybe one day I'll catch one that big! I keep trying! Maybe on shiners! (I'm in Orlando area too- mind if I tag along???)

I have a 25 plus year old ultralight rod dam near worn out and it is still an awesome rod!

Here she is! Another St. Johns River bass. I posed the Berkley 2 inch swimbait in her mouth for the photo. She had actually inhaled it and it was well hooked into her tongue deep inside the mouth. You can see the 2 inch swimbait I posed in her mouth... this fish was close to 2 feet long! Skinny, but long. I guessed her weight just over 9 pounds. (no scale in the boat) In another time of the year fattened up this one could have been in the teens. I still kid my buddy about this fish because this one is a back of the boat fish- in my own boat too- but I gave him the front casting deck on this day 12-24-2015, and he had all the good new water spots before me, and as we passed this area where the specks were boiling up he was telling me to cast into that spot he had just cast to and got nothing. I grabbed my 7' ML rod to go for some of the specks boiling up in that spot already rigged with a 2 inch Berkley minnow lure swimbait... So as we past that spot, I was casting back to it and on my last cast back to it I snagged a branch and jerked it free and just let it free fall and counted it down one-one thousand, two-one thousand and it just stopped. I reeled in the slack and felt the resistance and instantly set the hook not sure if a fish was on or not. Then it took off. My 7 foot ML rod doubled over, my shimano 2000 reel with 10 pound sufix braid screamed! Fish on! It took about 5 or 6 minutes to get this fish in to the boat. Between my buddy and I it was the biggest bass either of us had caught in 2015 and both of us had 8 pounders under our belt, but this one was a little bigger. I was not exactly prepared when this one hit. I had switched up to some light tackle for speck fishing when she hit. But man that sufix braid line saved the day! Here is my second biggest bass of 2015, an 8.4 pounder also caught in the St. Johns river: And this is what I caught this one on- a 3.5 inch Zoom swimming super fluke, Jr. rigged weedless with a stinger treble hook:

I am with you and single foot guides if all I did was this: But I also do this- and I prefer double foot guides for this type of fishing: 34 inch redfish 2015- one out of many... and how about some snook upwards of 4 feet long? Single or double guides? The experts say go with the heavier double foot guides for this. So to the OP on this thread, consider your fishing needs before making your decision!

I know! But they also have discontinued it! Try finding it on their website. Presently I have found a couple of bait companies making a similar bait as this one and I am buying them. It is a great multipurpose bait I plan on expanding its use this next year. I am working on rigging it on a spinner set up, I use it for flipping and pitching too.

Never noticed any negligible weight addition that mattered for a few guides. A non-issue for me. I do a lot of inshore fishing and I want the extra strength. You know the old saying it is better to have and not need than to need and not have? It applies here: Okuma Shadow Stalker Inshore Spinning Rods "Shadow Stalker rods rods feature powerful and sensitive 24-Ton carbon fiber construction, and are finished with ALPS stainless steel double foot guides." ------------------ EU PRO BAIT CASTING GRAPHITE ROD IM-8 GRAPHITE 7' 0" 10-20lb CLASS 1/4 - 1 oz. DOUBLE FOOT GUIDES ---------------------- Yokozuna Str3 Series 3.00 m (30 - 70 gr). Carbon blank. SIC double-foot guides. --------------- http://www.onthewater.com/fishing-tutorials/fishermans-workbench-rod-building-guide/what-you-need-to-know-about-rod-guides/ Single Foot vs. Double Foot Many rodbuilders like single-foot guides because they have less of an impact on the rod’s action, and wrapping them on the rod requires half the work of double-foot guides. For rods intended for heavy-duty use with large species, double-foot guides are a better choice as they will stay securely anchored and resist twisting, even under heavy loads. ---------- As I said above, I do a lot of inshore fishing and catch redfish, snook, permit, tarpon, and other species that are quite large some over 4 feet in length. I will not use single foot micro guides because they are not rated for such fishing and rod manufacturers agree as shown above. Numerous rod manufacturers use double foot guides because they are stronger. Match the guide to the fishing is how I see it. If all I did was bass fishing and every fish was under 24 inches, then yeah maybe I would just use single foot guides. ADDED: I'm gonna tell ya, you guys have backed me up a bit here. The rod I am building right now is specifically for bass fishing. I have no plans on using it for inshore, and because of this I will now put on hold my plans for doing it with double foot guides all the way to the tip. DVT is right, it just might be a bit of overkill. I am going to Mudhole on Tuesday anyways, and I will now purchase some single foot micro guides for the running guides on my 6'6" bass rod. But I assume ya'll would agree I can get away with using double foot guides for the stripper and bumper guides? But on my next bass/inshore rod I am on the fence as to whether or not I should give the "weaker" single foot guide a chance on big redfish and snook. I will have to rethink my bass-only rods... maybe you can teach an old dog a new trick. And its half the work! DVT I think I am getting you figured out!

Latest spiral wrap using double foot guides all the way to the tip. I use single foot micro guides on my medium light and light tackle rods, but not on anything heavier like medium to medium heavy. Besides, the double foot micro guides look great too! Another member here recommended this type to me and I am using this brand and type on a rod I am building right now. Here is an image of his rod using these double foot guides: This image was posted by forum member pgersumky on this thread about spiral wrapping a rod: I believe this is on his 9' surf rod: I previously used a different guide just a little bigger in size than these called the BSTG also double foot all the way to the tip. It is a titanium oxide guide for heavier use as well. I just went to Mudhole here locally and purchased the individual double-foot Fuji BLCAG micro guides I need to do a 6'6" MH VF rod for bass fishing. Double foot all the way to the tip. And these double foot guides also work well on spinning rods too. Just yesterday I was out on the St. Johns river doing some bass fishing and guess who trolled on past me? The Ranger MHX Mudhole boat. Small world. Stay out of my fishing spot Mudhole! But, see you on Tuesday to pick up some more rod parts!

Not trying to throw a wrench into the works, but are you looking for single foot guides or double foot guides? I think the micro guides mentioned by DVT are single foot guides. I prefer something stronger and my personal preference is for double foot guides, but to each their own! I am in the middle of doing a rod now with double foot micro guides using this type: Fuji BLCAG "Low Rider" Double Foot Guides As I recall, in the Mudhole book they are called surf rod guides because of their strength, but are just fine for bass rods too! Some of my rods will see fish much bigger than bass like redfish, snook, permit, tarpon, etc. and I want some guides that can handle a heavier load. But whatever works for you!

I guess I am curious because Boca does not make any ball bearings- never have. Not a one of them! They buy most of their bearings from China and you can get non-Boca brand Chinese bearings on ebay for much less.

I am curious how a manufacturer or business can counterfeit a ball bearing?

Is your problem when casting? You said letting the line back out it was bumpy??? I often use a vapor thin coating of lubricant on the brake cylinder. Ask around and you will get a different opinion of which lubricant is best. I would suggest using a lightweight oil and not grease. And make sure to wipe any excess oil and only put oil on the cylinder the brakes shoes run up against and no where else. My preference is corrosion X. Works fine for me, but you can use various lightweight oils. Some you have to replenish more often than others. I have also used a silicon oil too. Remember- vapor thin!

Diagnose her urinary problem in more detail. Does she dribble when sleeping and lay in a wet spot when sleeping? Or is it a behavior problem? Female dogs that are spayed at an early age have trouble in developing the muscles that close off the plumbing in part due to a hormone imbalance they need as they grow older to help them develop proper muscle tone. Depriving a female dog at too early of an age with spaying can cause this problem. Approximately 20% of spayed females have this problem. I had a dog with this problem too, but it was not her fault. It was a physical problem, not a behavior problem with her. When she would lay down to sleep she dribbled urine. And even when active she dribbled urine uncontrollably. She had been "butchered" for lack of a better word when spayed by the humane society's vet, and our vet said her problem was because she was spayed too early in life and that she may develop the muscle control with age, or she might not. There are medications that can help this situation and sometimes a dog may have to take the medication for her entire life. So you really have to diagnose her urination problem in closer detail as to what she is doing and when. http://www.vetstreet.com/our-pet-experts/what-you-need-to-know-about-spay-incontinence-in-female-dogs Please consider if your dog has a physical problem like mine did, punishing the dog for something it can not control is not a good idea. Cut the dog some slack if she is having trouble developing urinary control. It might not be her fault! Good luck with the chewing things up problem!

I caught my biggest bass fishing for specks with a tiny 2" Berkley swimbait of all things. I was not even expecting a bass to hit it. The specks were boiling up the water all around me and I switched to light tackle when the big one hit.

Thanks for all the suggestions. I will refer back to this thread often this new year for reminders on moving forward... like for one NOT taking my gear and concentrate on letting the boys catch fish- and as stated numerous times to let the boys have fun and make memories. I think for starting out this spring I might just take them out cane pole fishing a few times before handing the almost 5 year old his own rod and reel. But what do you think about letting him choose which type to start off with rather than me just handing him one type over another? I already have the spinning rod and reel ready to go. But I don't have as yet any spincast reels, over or underspin, but those are cheap and readily available too. I'd like for his transition from cane pole to rod and reel to be an easy pleasant experience for him and wonder if letting him choose it if it would be sort of an encouragement for him to choose the one he wanted to. Did any of you let your kids choose, or just hand them one of your choice? Maybe I am overthinking this! But, for my soon to be 5 year old son this is his year for his first rod and reel and I'd like for it to be one he wants rather than one I just chose for him and handed to him. Oh, before I forget I wanted to ask if any of you handed your kids a quick-fire type of spinning reel? Or did you start them on a standard type? When my own father died in 2009 I inherited all of his fishing gear and he had one reel in the bunch that would be perfectly suited for handing to a 5 year old just starting out- a shimano AX 200Q. What could be more perfect than him starting off fishing with a reel from a grandfather he never got to meet?

Most patents and copyrights are searchable online. http://www.copyright.gov/ http://www.uspto.gov/patents-application-process/search-patents If you wanted to make copies of protected lures, you can as long as you do not sell them. That is where it crosses the line. But for personal use it is not illegal. You can also copy a lure and then make a change in it. Do something to the design of the lure that makes it different.from the protected design. Altering a protected design makes it more difficult for any type of prosecution because you can say that you made a product different than a protected product so it is not the same. This is why we see a ton of rubber bait products that a lot of them look similar but have significant differences to get around protected designs. It happens all the time. In reels it is kind of funny today to look through the patent office at all the rod and reel patents and then look inside the reels and see basically the same designs across different brands. It came down to some worked, some didn't and many just focus on sales to sell, sell, sell these days and some of those patented ideas are just fading into the past... In music if a garage bar band wants to play a copyrighted song by another artist they do it in bars. Happens every day in America. But if they wanted to record it and then put it on a CD and sell it, then they run into legal issues with it. Personal use, go for it. Sell it, get a lawyer and pay royalties...

A rod gimmick you ask? Here's one:

Underspin... I did not think of those. Good call! Hmmmm... now which one??? I like this Daiwa with a rear drag because it is accessible and easy to use and to learn on because of its rear located position. Which reels did you use?

I am posting this here for information on equipment mainly. And I really need some feedback on how to go about this. I come from a family of fishing men. My grandfathers both fished. My dad was a fisherman. So when I was a kid my very first experience fishing was with a cane pole, bread balls and hot dogs and earthworms under a bobber in ponds and the St. Johns River near Jacksonville, Florida. My first rod and reel back in 1969 at age 5 was a 5' bright blue fiberglass rod with a pistol grip and some no name brand plastic closed face spincast reel. So far I am following my own pattern for my own sons now ages 2 and 4. My oldest boy will be 5 in a few months and I think it is about time for him to have his first rod and reel too, but this is where I am having some trouble in choosing it for him. My kids don't realize how good they have it. Back in 1969 I got crap for fishing gear! Seriously! My dad could afford it, but I guess he did not want to give a kid who tears everything up something of value so I got crappola for a rod and reel. My kids are going to do far better than I big time. The difference in quality is night and day. Right now I have one of my dad's old closed face reels, an old Abu Garcia Abumatic 875, but it is big for a kid I think. And I don't like the drag on it. Really hard to use and you have to really crank down on it to get any drag out of it. And I have an old 1990's Berkley Series One 5'6" graphite blank rod with cork pistol grip for him which is far better than anything I had at 5 years old. And on the reel I just put some Berkley fireline 14 pound smoke color line because I wanted him to have something like mono but a line that won't store up a line memory problem for him like I had to deal with using mono back in 69. I am also considering giving him a short light 6' foot spinning rod with one of those quick-fire 2000 size spinning reels to help him learn how to use one, but not one that is too heavy for him or too big to use at 5 years old. This past summer both of my boys got to learn how to fish with cane poles and bobbers. And the funny thing was my 2 year old when not fishing was sneaking over to eat up the pieces of hot dog I had cut up for bait. I snapped a photo of him trying to be sneaky eating up all the bait. But you know, those bluegills and sun bellies really like hot dogs as much as my 2 year old does. So this past summer was my 4 year olds season with cane poles and bobbers and next spring and summer I want him advancing to rod and reels same as I did. So what do you guys do to get your kids learning how to fish? And, I really don't know what is the best choices for a closed face spincast type of reel. Something that is smaller than the abumatic 875 and not as heavy and easy to use for a kid. Maybe something like a Zebco 33 or something, but I'd like to learn about who makes a closed face reel with a decent drag mechanism too because there is a good chance he could hook into some nice size bass. I know I did with mine at 5 years old. I did not really realize what was happening when I was fishing for some small bream and playing around with my little bream when some big ole bass slammed him for dinner and it was a shock to me to have something big pulling like that. I was so clueless back then! But I would like for my boys to have better equipment than I did and hopefully maybe be a little better prepared for such situations. And for me back in the early 1970's the reel I remember the most was an old green Johnson closed face reel with a white cast button. I recall that reel being so much better than my plastic piece of junk. So today in 2016 who makes a decent closed face reel with a good drag? Or should I consider some of those old Johnson greenies? Or a zebco 33? I am afraid if I don't go this route and if I go straight from cane pole to spinning reel that they may never come back around to liking or wanting to use anything else like a baitcast reel. I would hope getting them some closed face reels would get them moving in that direction like it did for me. I'm going to add this in here... but I think these years are most important to them for fishing and trying to get them into it and going with it. And if I take them fishing and I am worrying about fishing that I am not helping them fish. I gotta put my own desire to fish on hold for them and just take them fishing and let them do all the fishing and I not do any except through them. That is what I think I need to focus on this year in 2016. I need to make this year about the boys and not me. My 4 year old says it is boring for him to not fish while I am intensely going at it for myself and I gotta stop this. I have to put my rods down and let them pick it up and that is something I need to work on this year for them. He is not bored when he is pulling fish out of the water. So what to do? What to use? What do you guys do for your own sons in this situation? How do we pass fishing down to our sons?