Ruy Lopez

Don’t mock me. I’ve lived in New England my whole life. Never fished in the south. I might be headed to Greenville, South Carolina for four or five days and might want to do some bank fishing. Never had to worry about anything killing or eating me in New England on lake/pond shores lol. I know I’m probably being a nervous Nellie, but would I have to worry about anything like snakes or anything else that may “spoil” my fishing? I’m assuming you don’t have gators? I apologize for any ignorance, but this is the stuff some sheltered New Englanders worry about when they head elsewhere to fish.

I know Lunkerhunt gets slammed in these forums from time to time but they’ve produced well for me and they are cheap which appeals to my frugal side. I don’t use a trailer

Make that another vote for the FG knot. I’m far from proficient in tying fishing knots, my eyesight isn’t what it used to be and I have a bit of a hand tremor but even I can tie an FG knot that doesn’t get caught in the guides. I did practice it a couple times first before doing it for real

My wife and I own two 11.5 foot, Perception Striker kayaks. They each weigh a whopping 65 pounds. We are getting too old to lug these over ahead onto our Ford Expedition. Our Expedition is going bye-bye so our current situation is that we have a 2009 Honda Odyssey and a 2010 Nissan Sentra. We are thinking of investing in the Hullavator. My questions are: 1. Based on my research it appears that the Hullavator can handle the perception striker dimensions/weight. Anybody have any thoughts or, more importantly, personal experience. 2. What are the roof capacities of each of the Sentra and Odyssey vehicles? I couldn’t find them in the user manual. I called a couple dealerships and not a ton of success. The Nissan guy didn’t have anything on paper but he figured they could handle up to 300 pounds. As I said the two kayaks together would be 130 pounds. The Hulkavator would be another 40 pounds and neither of the cars have racks so we would have to add that weight as well. 3. Any thoughts on alternatives to what I mentioned above? Obviously when you are talking about getting a Hullavator for each kayak AND getting racks then we’re talking about a pretty sizable investment. Especially when compared to what the kayaks cost. At this point however the kayaks are getting no use and are just taking up space in the garage. So we gotta do what we feel we gotta do.

When you say you fish it slow are you hopping/dragging and pausing it along the bottom slow. Or are you swimming it through the middle/top of the water column slowly?

I may be overreacting on this one, but I get a bit squeamish and uncomfortable when someone on TV catches a fish and instead of releasing the fish relatively quickly they go into a dissertation about how they caught the fish before finally releasing the fish. I’m like: “the fish didn’t really need to hear all that dude, let it go”

Awesome! It’s all about the journey...

Noisy, guitar-thrashing intros to fishing shows on tv or YouTube fishing videos.....yes I’m getting old.

You are right about that. I’ve been pretty careful in applying it. So far I just end up with a reddish-pinkish hue in the crevices between the side of my finger nails and skin. Very greasy too

Started using Liquid Mayhem crawfish this year and so far so good. It’s got my recommendation

I really got into fishing last year and had fun with a lot of different techniques. I didn’t try the Ned rig last year but I have fished it almost exclusively so far this year (which has only been about 2 or 3 weeks in Berkshire County MA) and have had a decent amount of success. I’ve been using green pumpkin, Z-Man elastic worms and mushroom jig heads Looking to try Drop Shot and Mojo rigs for something new that I haven’t done before. I must say I’ve tried to look for some mojo weights and haven’t been successful (I think I would have more luck trying to obtain weapons-grade uranium!). So I got some BPS finesse weights which appear similar enough. We’ll see how it goes

I’ll echo what people have said above about not fishing a wacky rig in cover. But once in a while I will use a weedless hook and throw a wacky rig into cover

This is interesting to me. I’m relatively new to fishing and have caught maybe 1 or 2 fish on lipless crankbaits. I tend to shy away from crankbaits because they are too frustrating for me in that they get snagged up in the grass and weeds where I fish a lot; to the point where I am reeling in a small salad Unless I’m missing something I’m not understanding how you’re getting fish if you’re crankbait is all mucked up with weeds? Also I’d be curious to know the specs on the rod that you are using. Thanks

Well I did it. Went with the Lew’s Carbon Fire 6’8” Medium-light. Paired with the same reel, size 3000. Looks nice and more importantly feels good Now if this thing can cast lures through snow and ice we’ll be in business!!

Very informative list. I've already snapped a pic of it. One question though; what would constitute low-action trailers and what would constitute high-action trailers?