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galyonj

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  1. Lord have mercy, I just realized that once he's downloaded it, he's gotta then upload it to here. We'll probably be waiting a little while longer.
  2. For sure. The largemouth I've caught are lazy. Maybe they just feel sorry for me. I muse when I'm fishing (and not catching) about how they're under me staring at the lure and arguing about whose turn it is to take one for the team and give me a pity bite. lol And I don't blame that skippy at all. If I bit down on a quarter-pounder and got a mouthful of treble hook, I'd wanna whoop somebody, too.
  3. I can't really remember any largemouth that went ballistic when I hooked them, to borrow a phrase from @WRB. Plenty of other species, though, especially lately. The other day I caught a skipjack that @TnRiver46 and I eyeballed at maybe two pounds. That fish had my rod dang near doubled over and was doing its level best to pull me out of the boat and whoop me. Contrast that with a largemouth that I caught earlier in the year weighing 4lbs (okay, okay, 3lbs 15oz). Water temp was pretty close, but the fish bit a jerkbait and then just flopped over and let me pull it straight in. Same exact rod as the skipjack story. Maybe the largemouth in Fort Loudoun are just lazy. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  4. You know, I've attempted a couple times to show them threads from here, but they won't even look. Rude about it, too.
  5. I always follow this guideline, except for when I don't.
  6. I went through a period where I thought I needed diving plugs to catch fish. But I lost way more of them than I ever caught a fish with. Now I've got two or three I keep around just in case, but I honestly don't know why I let them take up space in my gear. That could be said for a lot of the stuff I carry with me, if I'm honest.
  7. Jerkbait fish are so much fun.
  8. There might be a cream or something for that.
  9. How slow is OP's internet connection that he's not downloaded a picture of the fish yet?
  10. The tackle situation is so good here that I make sure to tell anybody local that's asking that I caught the fish on a lure I don't like and won't buy so that maybe they'll buy that lure instead of what I wanna buy.
  11. Yeah, it's fine. Depends a lot on the stiffness and diameter of the specific line you're looking at, but I think 6lb's just fine for a 1000 reel. FWIW, I don't use anything but braid as mainline on spinning.
  12. Reel capacity is just a guideline so you can get a ballpark idea of what capacity you'll have at a given line diameter depending on what you're doing with it. So there are several things to unpack here: I remember reading that most diving crankbaits are designed to reach their rated depth on 12lb line. Heavier means they don't dive as far, lighter might get you a little more depth. All else being equal, lighter line will generally allow more casting distance, which is nice. You're gonna want to consider what the cover/structure situation is where you usually fish. Remember, too, that traps and cranks aren't the only lures you'll be tying onto that line. Do you generally fish in areas where you can get a big single hook driven home and get the fish yanked out of whatever it darts into after the hookset on 12lb line? That's something that only you can answer. In any event, with a MH rod and the line you have on it, you'll want to keep what's tied on the other end in mind when you set the hook. You can fish with exactly what you've got and you'll be successful. Will switching to lighter line make you more successful with small treble-hooked hard baits? Maybe. Would that same change make you less successful with big single hooks? Maybe. In either case, you will absolutely want to keep what you have tied on in mind when you set the hook, lest you yank those little treble hooks right out of the fish's mouth. TL;DR: If you aren't generally fishing areas with lots of brushy cover to have to winch a fish out of on a spinnerbait or chatterbait, I think it'd be worth seriously considering going down to maybe even 12 lb test on your mod-fast to help with sensitivity and give you some fight buffer for the treble hooks. But only you can answer that, bro.
  13. I rarely notice them here. I see them in my YouTube recommendations first.
  14. I would implore you never to take the stand in your own defense.
  15. The mushroom weight will make a bit more noise tapping on the bottom as you hop the lure.
  16. Well clearly the squirrels are the problem. Otherwise the alarm wouldn't be a squirrel alarm.
  17. This isn't specific to white bass, but if I'm throwing a crank, about 75% of the time, it's a lipless. I like throwing square bills, but they're way less effective for me.
  18. 6th Sense Crush Mini 25X or Curve Finesse might do the trick. Love their colors. Honestly, I'd also try a 1/4oz lipless of some sort If you didn't want to have to work it so fast to keep it at depth. I was shellacking white bass on the Academy-brand red eye shad copy the other day.
  19. Yeah, them things don't float at all. This one stays in my backpack in the same pocket as my scale.
  20. I'm not against that.
  21. I carry a Kershaw Link every day. I don't carry expensive pocket knives apart from whatever the cost of the assisted-opening mechanism might be. They get too beat up with me. I keep a Leatherman Wave with my fishing gear. I just might dive after it if ever I have to. That multi-tool's been with me for a long time.
  22. 35% is the legal light transmission limit for tint on side and back windows in Tennessee. I have 10% on my car, and it's not going anywhere. I might consider scraping it off when I stop seeing police cars with tint at least as dark as mine.
  23. "If I lay like this with my head in the way, dad'll have to take the day off and play with me." -- Roger, probably Sorry, little buddy. This is how you and your sister's exorbitant chew toy bill gets paid.
  24. I joked the other day that, under normal circumstances, I don't do much for classifying plants beyond three very simple sets: I'm allowed to mow this I get in trouble if I mow this I have to use a chainsaw for this Keeps it nice and simple. Sometimes I screw up when I'm differentiating between the first two taxonomy sets. Sorry bro. Some days you get the bull, some days you get the horns. That's a real pretty little snake you found, though.
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