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…and sometimes they outkick their coverage, and we see something like in the OP. lol

Last Saturday I got to fish for the first time in a long time…for about a half hour. Found an empty boat ramp down at the base of the dragon, and managed to catch a couple fish. Didn't get pics of one of them because it was gill-hooked (it choked the lipless I was throwing) and I wanted to get it back in the water quick. The one I got a picture of was 2lb 9oz. Wasn't much but I'll take it. Then we left to do other stuff. I didn't get to play on the dragon because we were in the woman's car instead of mine.

You're on the right track. This is literally what the arbor knot is for.

I wouldn't say it's better. Just different and cheaper. My fluoro rig is for jigs, weighted plastics – bottom contact stuff. The other two I regularly use are for moving/reaction type lures that I'd more than likely want to keep up in the water column – crankbaits and chatterbaits and whatnot, so I don't need the abrasion resistance and I don't need the sinking. I could just as easily use braid to leader, but I really hate braid.

I've only got fluoro on one rig, and I've got that one spooled with 15lb AbrazX. I like it, but I don't feel like it accounts for enough fish on the hook to make up for its cost versus the Yo-Zuri copolymer that I have spooled on everything else.

Matt & Tim are the bait monkey's chief agents. You gotta be careful watching their stuff.

I'm on call 24/7/365 as the administrator and lead developer for a whole slew of external and internal web properties. At last count, I have 349.06 hours of CTO built up. Having the equivalent of 43 paid days off in the bank is one of the perks of being a recovering workaholic, I guess. So I don't take much time off, but I love what I do. If I'm sick, I just work at the house. That said, if I'm feeling the itch and my systems are reading green, I'll dip out for the afternoon and go beat the bank for a while, and I won't feel a bit bad about it.

I snuck out to play in the mud a couple days ago. It'd been too long since I last fished, and even longer since I caught anything. Caught one, lost another when it shook loose before I could get it lipped, and then I found one of those tiny little micro chatterbaits. So I'll call this sesh a win.

I agree. My experience is that the ripstop likes a more aggressive rod action. The lip on the tail does everything it says on the tin, though. When it stops, boy it stops.

I love fishing a provoke. Best color for me has been chartreuse pearl. I got a Rapala Ripstop not long ago and I really like the action on it, but I haven't had a hit on it yet.

I just did a legit spit take.

Man, for me it's punky wood. If anybody ever needs to find underwater wood, all they gotta do is keep handing me lipless cranks.

I just use my Leatherman. I do need some decent split ring pliers, though.

Ahhh, Fort Dirty. I love it so. Never caught a single thing off Louisville Point. Pretty park, though.

Zoom's got a color, bruised banana, that's like a dirty yellow/brown swirl that'd be a dang near perfect example of matching the hatch for…whatever that critter is. I remember seeing it on the rack at my local Academy.

I did that with my first cast with a new rig a couple months ago. Blew it up so bad I had to cut it out. Spool full of brand new fluoro, too. I guess I can take some small comfort from the fact that nobody saw it but me.

I think that's my favorite thing about their hard plastic lures. Not many brands that I don't feel hinky about the hardware out of the package, but I don't worry about my 6thsense stuff.

"Dad! I'm BORED." "Well go to sleep. I've gotta do this." "But I don't wanna go to sl–"

Yessir. That's exactly what's on this rig.

All good. I should have specified.

Pretty much wherever I can safely get to from land. I'd say that's the problem.

When I was a kid, I fished like a kid. Live bait with splitshot and a bobber for whatever would bite, or soaking chicken livers for catfish. Then I stopped fishing for around 20 years. When I decided to pick it up again last year, I knew I wanted to use lures, and I wanted to, specifically, target bass. I was pretty lost, to be honest. YouTube, as @J Francho noted, helped smooth out my learning curve a lot. Then I found this place and that's helped quite a bit as well.

About two weeks ago stripped a spool's worth of 30lb Sufix off and threw it in the trash where, in my opinion, it belongs. Needless to say, I don't use braid anymore.

When I put my jig/weighted plastics rig together, I spooled it with AbrazX. I hate fishing braid.