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Absolutely astounding - self entitlement is something recent to our society

Seaguar Blue remains my favorite, also easiest to knot, though I have used Gold in heavier test. Never mind - Francho is correct - for awhile it was missing from their website, but it's back under salt leader. There was also close-out pricing everywhere on Blue when Gold was introduced.

Sounds like you have a new technique to master. You also didn't mention the brand/type of braid. Not all braids are the same. The good silicone-rubber coated braids, no matter how thin, get pretty good traction on your fingertip.

The way to accommodate them in the future would be to add a proper outdoor power box close to the trailer parking. You could keep the power box isolated and locked, allowing your staff to supervise its use (add OSHA cord covers, etc). It could be generally useful, since people often need power or charge with their parked vehicles. Also guarantees their choice of parking. Everyone's comments above about the "grownups" sense of entitlement, while paired off as role models with HS students are spot on. Something else in the future, may want to hire a temporary security guard for such events, which follows from the statement just above. A security guard enforcing safety rules and your property integrity wouldn't take abuse, and would release you and staff from the same. May even find local off-duty LEO wanting the weekend extra income - all he'd need to do is sweep the property on a schedule to keep his presence known - he also comes with jurisdiction authority.

I don't think he's fished for the spirit of the thread. maybe it would help the rest of us if we got Ski one of these

maybe fish for the spirit of the thread? (random photo to fill space, but nice color in the tail)

This Goretex III top-shell - at least 15-y-o - gets stuffed in my dry bag for every trip. Over the winter, both the shell and the Goretex dry pants got the exact Nikiwax wash and treatment, and came out great.

My dad's Johnson 115 smoker behaves with much the same symptom - it loses the ability to idle. It wants to die when you drop the throttle and are trying to shift. He chased the fuel question for a couple of years and replaced everything. In his case, we traced it to the throttle cable housing sliding in its boss on the motor frame - when it slides, it has the effect of lengthening the throttle cable so that you need more throttle to hold idle. Have to loosen the bolt, push the housing shorter and re-tighten. It will run fine for awhile and slide to the same bad spot from motor vibration.

The opening day snapper above, we fished through our bait. I got up on the bow with fly rod and caught blues for bait. The samsonite snapper was on cut blue. here's manly sport with my friend Glenn - he makes this look too easy. when Glenn drives the beach, there's an armada of kayakers waiting to follow him, which he doesn't mind - the more the merrier. What he does mind is when power boats chart his course and beat him to his platform or reef.

not obstinate, much, not this guy ok, I was wrong. early morning chasing a pair of Hobies to the cut

caught that yesterday, did you - I didn't think so, especially since the federal season is June 1 - Aug 2. Even though mine is off topic, too, I'll see your snapper and raise you just picking - guess it could be your latest snapper

I've never paid retail for a pair of waders, but always search closeouts. Sierratradingpost used to be a great place before they sold and franchised, still worth looking, and MRFC (Madison River Fishing Company) has always been a great place for top quality gear. If you can raise the ante $100, right now MRFC has Simms for $150-off. You can get 10 years of hard wear from quality waders. Quick check at Sierra, they have have decent-looking breathables for $80-120 (up to half-off retail).

The Hobie PA14 has got to be it, as mentioned, it comes with the cost of moving it around. My buddy Tombo at Rockport has a gang of boats to choose, and one is this Blue Sky 360 pedal cat - sit high, stand - though he doesn't take it out over 10-kt wind. He was really working over the sloughs and shoreline this day, with many fish to hand. As far as good-paddling kayaks, the most stable stand up boat is probably Diablo Adios, and half the cost of the others. It's more boat than an SUP - optional skeg is also recommended for wind control. ABS hull, and a reasonable weight to single-hand.

Jim's onto something, but you can make glass, especially S-glass, light weight and make it faster by increasing the rod blank diameter. My St. Croix Legend (S-) Glass is rated MM, and is the most perfect spinning rod for kayak fishing I've ever used. It's also surprisingly light in hand for glass. Kind of by definition, glass is always going to have a softer tip than tubular graphite. As an aside, but maybe still appropriate, I have a glass/graphite blend Lamiglas Perigree fly rod, 7-1/2' 5-wt, that is an absolute pocket rocket, stunning light weight, and here, blended glass/graphite works better than graphite alone can - making a stronger rod and better taper than graphite alone, while lighter weight and crisper action than glass alone.

Sufix 832 is great. The first generational improvement in braid was finer-weave 8-strand braids, and coating them with silicone rubber to give them better manners. The next generation of braids has gone two ways, finer weaves, up to 12-strand, stronger, harder center core strand, and better wear-resistant silicone coatings. If you compare Japanese braids, the latest YGK and Duel 8-strands, X-braid and "hardcore" more than double the test for the same diameter as Sufix., e.g.: 14-lb vs. 6-lb at 0.006" diameter 22-lb vs. 10-lb at 0.007" (per Jun at japan Tackle, PE#1 = 0.007" is the finest you'd want to fish on a baitcaster) 46-lb vs. 20-lb at 0.009" They're getting so small that they perform best on shallow spools made just for braid.

Viognier really does answer your question about white wine for strongly flavored meat, especially smoked pork. Like Chardonnay, Viognier has the potential to produce full-bodied wines with a lush, soft character. In contrast to Chardonnay, the Viognier varietal has more natural aromatics that include notes of peach, pears, violets and minerality. However, these aromatic notes can be easily destroyed by too much exposure to oxygen, which makes barrel fermentation a winemaking technique that requires a high level of skill on the part of any winemaker working with this variety. The potential quality of Viognier is also highly dependent on viticultural practices and climate, with the grape requiring a long, warm growing season in order to fully ripen but not a climate that is so hot that the grape develops high levels of sugars and potential alcohol before its aromatic notes can develop. The grape is naturally a low-yielding variety, which can make it a less economically viable planting for some vineyards.[3]

exactly - stout butt, fast mid, short soft tip - a perfect dry fly rod, and that pretty much defines solid tip finesse rods. That's how they get such a wide range in lure weights, 1 g up to 20 g in the same rod - the longer the rod, the greater the upper lure weight - because increasing weight loads in a band farther down the rod - same idea as fishing close with a dry fly leader alone, while also being able to cast out 60' (3/8+ oz) of fly line. The Japanese currently offer light game bait and spin rods out to 9'4". Just like in a 90-y-o Thomas cane fly rod, the stout butt gives you power to turn big fish. The Japanese have been making them a long time - this one is 12 years old - 7'9", 0.4 g to 6 g, will protect 2-lb test, and can fish 10-lb. solid tip, and note the extra weave graphite on the butt. I've been fishing these Japanese rods inshore (for winter glass minnows) that long - they're not for little fish, but for casting little lures a long way.

30 lb Power Pro V2 and 8-lb mono are the same diameter, so the spool capacity is the same for both. If you want to stack line and use different diameters, you can use this calculator.

something to keep in mind, in PE#1 diameter (0.006" = 0.165 mm, which is recommended by Jun as smallest diameter for baitcaster), Sufix 832 is 10-lb test, and YGK X-braids are 22-lb test. Also, here's the best online calculator for calculating spool capacity with different braid diameters:

rod leashes are for rods that are out of sight and out of mind, and not in a locking rod holder - it's possible to drag a rod off in the mangroves, et.al., and not see it happen Conversely, a working rod temporarily in a front rod holder doesn't need one. If you're fishing offshore, probably want all your rods on leashes - otherwise, a mackerel might run off with your rod. If you're going through the surf, you need your rods strapped low on your boat, because spilling is likely. I make my own rod leashes with quick-release buckles The swivel clip lets them slide along a trolley line to keep the bungee length short, and still reach 360 around a 16' boat - the loop on the quick-end twists around both reel foot and rod. Soft paracord is good for the rod end and the flat paracord is even better There was also a youtube of a power boat driver intentionally turtle-ing kayakers in a cove with his boat wake - during a pro bass tournament. It would be a shame to loose a half-dozen rods and reels even from an improbable event. There's also boat docks - este. It's not really about You (but rod leashes), pick what You want and knock your lights out.

Fits in western TN where my family is from - hardwood bluffs and muddy bottoms - and probably many places in the Southeast. Driving the high-bermed highwys across the muddy bottoms, you see what look like mud puddles along the road - these are borrow pits, where they took the fill to build the road berm. You can stop at just about any one of them and catch 5-lb bass on just about any lure you daub in there. As far as the live part, it's going to be states where you can fish 12 mo/yr (sans ice auger).

About those old NLW reels, Meek, Talbot, Shakespeare - nothing casts like them until you get to modern baitcasters. Tournament distance casters used them for 60 years until Abu NLW CT ball-bearing reels came out in the '80s, and some still use their Meeks and Talbots. You guys like the old stuff? - Fishing Rods, Reels, Line, and Knots - Bass Fishing Forums (bassresource.com) My girls grew up fishing slip bobbers in the limestone creeks with whatever tackle they wanted to play with - first they'd make me catch grasshoppers in the back acre. They had Eagle Claw Featherweight rods with Zebco UL-1 spincast, but they always wanted to use the old stuff. My older daughter's go-to was this 1937 Luxor on Airex glass rod.

I don't have a Lowrider, but have an Original, Many original originals, and a couple of Glass - would be hard to count the number of Falcon rods I've bought both for my dad and me over the past 40 years. A buddy not long ago bought a Falcon MF inshore spinning rod at my recommendation and loves it. Here's my daughter catching big sheepshead on the flats with a Falcon Open Hook Special ML spinning rod.

How far back you wanna go? 1914? You can still do it, and it's still fun (I especially like fishing this with early morning topwater), but in it's own way it has become niche tackle, and I wouldn't want to give up the rest of my niche tackle, either. Not exactly a side, because one rod for everything was common for 100 years and more. Everybody used braided silk, and you varnished and waxed it if you were going to fish dry flies. That said, Theodore Gordon probably daubed worms with his fly rod, also. If you lived close to trout, your one rod was probably a fly rod. Shortly after WWII, the newfangled monofilament came out. Before spinning reels took off, there was a line of Colorado reels designed to fish mono on a fly rod - Humphreys, Magic, Fre-Line. They were used for float fishing and casting spinners and jigs using mono on a fly rod. They fell by the wayside when spin-fishing became popular.

When I post photos on forums, people are always telling my how nice I keep up my gear. I obviously didn't buy it new but this Hardy St. George is from 1917 - fished it 5 years and then sold it for more than twice what I paid. more than once I've bunged my knee falling while protecting the rod and reel