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Stays where you put it. Keeps you from gluing yourself to the jighead. To the plastic. To the rod handle. To yourself. Edit: And you don't really need the dental floss if you're gonna use superglue. It might be nice, but it's not at all necessary.

At the risk of turning this thread into a dumpster fire, I do. I have MS.

I sit when I fish because my balance is garbage from nerve damage. I don't take a chair or anything, though. I just sit on the ground.

I don't use superglue (mostly because I just don't think to take any with me) but it's very common to put a dab on the hook shank or jighead to help keep soft plastics where you put them. You'll probably wanna use the gel instead of the liquid.

You're correct! It is a whopper plopper. The 130 denotes the length of the lure in millimeters (which is 5.1" in freedom units).

I assume it's useful for several reasons: 1. Easier for the kid to unhook a fish 2. Easier for dad to unhook a screaming, thrashing kid 3. Easier for dad to unhook himself when the kid whacks him on the back cast

Or just mash the barbs down on regular hooks with a pair of needle-nose pliers and save your buddy the effort of looking for barbless.

Dunno. Sure was annoying, though.

What do you mean when you say everything gets tangled? Adjust the drag on your reel so that you can easily strip line off as you go. Keep the bail closed. Unwrap a foot or so of line from the spool, and bring it under the closed bail arm. The line should only go under the bail. It should never completely wrap around it. Pull some line and bring it up into the bottom, then out the top of the first guide. The line should never wrap around a guide. Repeat for the rest of the guides on your way up the rod to the tip. Pull more line out and tie on your hook or whatever. Done. Done properly, your line will basically make a really tall L shape, with line coming off the spool, then making a 90 degree bend around the bail, then straight up through the guides.

If Spike-It makes you gag, don't get JJ's.

Yeah, dude. I'm out of JJ's now. The other day I threw away a bottle I found on my tackle/ammo shelf that I know was about half-full when I put it up there a few months ago. The idea that it'd just dissipate out of a sealed jar in a room that's never seen higher than 75 degrees is...slightly annoying. I have zero experience with Bang, sorry. Honestly, I still plan to use this tube of Megastrike the same way I used JJ's. Squeeze some into the bag with the plastics, then mush all the plastics around in it and just leave them to marinate. Pro-Cure's got its diehard fans, too (such as Ned himself); and it can also be used on plastisol and TPE-based soft plastics. Maybe give it a shot if it's easy to get locally. Thank you for the confirmation. I wasn't aware that they'd removed the dye, but I like that they did.

Note that I have no experience with inflatable PFDs, but I do have some experience with compressed gasses and high pressure containers. CO2 cartridges can last for a real long time. They also have the filled weights engraved or printed on the barrel of the canister. Your 24g cartridge will probably have a fill weight of 112g. If your cartridge weighs as much as the engraving on the side says it should, it's more than likely good to go at least until the expiration date. The rest of the re-arm kit may well have parts that expire at a different, shorter interval.

This is how I use JJ's Magic when I've got some. I haven't had any for a while, and there are bags I doped almost a year ago that, when I open them, they still stink. As far as your question @Luke Barnes, I wish I could help, but I haven't used Liquid Mayhem or Megastrike (though I did impulse-buy a tube of Megastrike Original with the TW order I made a couple days ago). As far as scents and attractants on the whole...¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The worst they'll do is nothing, and, at the very least, they'll probably help cover up your scent and whatever scents are imparted to soft plastics by the manufacturing process (looking at you, Zoom). I like that the gels (at least Megastrike, but probably also Liquid Mayhem) can be used on both plastisol- and TPE-based soft plastics. And the gels carry far less risk of unpleasant surprises in your tackle bag than something like JJ's Magic. You do not want to chance that cap coming loose or venting. Give it a shot, dude.

I've seen it done, and I've seen fish caught like that. NDYakAngler, whom I follow on YouTube, uses a red EWG hook for wacky rigs, and he does just fine with that rigging. I'll stick to neko hooks and weighted jigheads, though. Just more confident in the presentation that way.

Throw the ball old man!

Yeah. They do not want anybody in their business. lol

This is my experience with 100% of the reptiles I've ever been around and/or handled. And I've had the pleasure of owning a few and handling a whole bunch, from hatchling bearded dragons to grown argentine tegus all the way up to 15' reticulated pythons. Unless they're guarding a nest, guarding a kill, or you step on them, reptiles would just as soon not have anything to do with something the size of an adult human. Protecting kids and housepets are another matter, and you gotta do what you gotta do in that situation. One notable exception is the tokay gecko I had when I was in my 20s. That little guy just hated everything. Didn't you know that East Tennessee's full of water moccasins? Also that literally everybody here's a descendant of a Cherokee chief (or princess, it depends on who's telling the lie)? Water snakes look close enough for jazz. There are some glaring differences, but close enough for jazz suits their purposes just fine. One of these days I'm gonna catch me another water snake. I've got close a couple times, but I'm slow in my old age.

City folk, man. What can ya do?

Love it. One of the most fun firearms I've ever had the pleasure of firing was my late maternal grandfather's Remington 550-1. I don't think it'd been fired since he died in the early 70s. I wasn't shooting at thumbtacks, but that rifle with tiny iron sights made me look a whole lot more competent behind the trigger than I have any right to.

I use Purple Power to clean old wooden milsurp gunstocks. It's amazing.

I just walked over to Julius' terrarium and told him he was gonna get a daggum job and start contributing.

I feel like that's an easy mistake to make unless it's something one thinks about a lot. In simple terms, mechanical advantage is "force amplification on a movable bar that pivots on a fulcrum attached or positioned on or across a fixed point." Which makes perfect sense, and this is the way we all think about it without really thinking about it. It just is, right? In our example, of course, the rod is the bar. Where it differs is that the rod butt* is the fulcrum against which the fish is exerting force. Every fish we've ever caught, we've -- with the help of fancy equipment -- simply muscled that fish in (even if it didn't feel like it because we're orders of magnitude bigger and stronger than the biggest and strongest largemouth bass). * Usually the rod butt. Probably depends on how you fish. Also he's wee.

Much like my cats, they assume that they are completely undetectable if they can't see you.

Your dad's a smart dude. And this is something that I constantly work at, with...varying degrees of success.