Chris Catignani

Try using hot soap and water with a green scothbright...it will remove it.

Lots of sage advice above...A good rule of thumb is to slow it all down and take your time.

I would just take a dull knife and scrap off the epoxy...not worrying so much about scratches on the blank. Get it looking uniform with green scotchbrite pad...and then just refinish it with PermaGlos. I will sometime write on a blank with a white Sakura Jelly Roll #8.

I met and talked with Larry Nixon once...I remember he was adamant about using a straight shank hook for a plastic worm.

Take your calipers and measure the outside of the ceramic ring to get the size in mm.

I'm humbled when smallie jumps and gets off...then grateful that he threw the lure back.?

Yup...seriously studying on it now...

Alconite will work for pretty much everything....

Jann's NetCraft.

Welcome!

Exactly..."I read the news today Oh boy." Lennon got some of the material for A Day in the Life from the UK Daily Mail 17 Jan 1967.

The dead give away are the barbels...which goldfish dont have.

The most a goldfish will ever grow is about 12 inches.

Pretty sure the OP and this are koi and not goldfish.

I was fishin the bridge there at Goose Pond (Guntersville) and the Warden was on the bridge with his binoculars...he was looking at these ash-holes that were on the dock fishing....(they were really on a golf trip). He asked if I thought they had their license's ....which I said, "I know those guys....they explicitly told me they were not gonna buy a license ?

This is what I usually do: I will cut the fingers and thumb out of pair of warm (but comfortable) gloves. Then, if its not warm enough, I will add hand warmers in the glove, on top of the hands. ...I also have a heavy insulated gloves for driving and just not fishing time.

I'm in.

Even without rattles...all the hardware makes noise too. This is one of the reason I started making my own. If I decide to add a rattle...it can be glass in glass...brass in metal...etc

Welcome to the forum

Gnarly...

The fish are gonna be OK. Those large expanses of grass flats will have fish that will never even see a lure. Same goes for all that shallow water in the backs of coves and creeks. When you spend $$$ for a boat...you get scared to scratch the gel coat.?

I remember getting that book years ago...its a tough read at times.

Excerpt from Fish Tales by Joe Brown. Two fishermen are fishing in a boat under a bridge. One looks up and sees a funeral procession starting across the bridge. He stands up, takes off his cap, and bows his head. The procession crosses the bridge, and the man puts on his cap, picks up his rod and reel, and continues fishing. The other guy says, "That was touching. I didn't know you had it in you." The first guy responds, "Well, I guess it was the thing to do - after all, I was married to her for forty years.