Motoboss

#3 Weather conditions tell me more about fish location, thus telling me presentation and lure choices, thereby telling me how big and how many I’ll catch.

The Phenix Feather C71L is what I recently bought to pair with my Shimano SLX for a BFS set up. The Feather throws small poppers, pond magic spinnerbaits, and 1/4 oz chatter baits and crank baits with ease along with 1/8oz blade bait with trailers on 10# Power Pro braid. Extremely pleased with this setup .

But that’s not Nashville or the Country artists. Most of it today is pop (as evidenced by Bouncy) wearing cowboy hats which is sure not Country.

WOW! No wonder Nashville dis’d her. The song isn’t too awful but nowhere near Country and the video is ridiculous junk. my $.02

Many, many years ago I put on a brand new 1/2oz Spinnerbait on a brand new reel, with brand new 12# mono. Let the spinner fall from the rod tip and the drop speed was about right, I thought. Reared back and flung it for tomorrow and Wham!, the Spinner went flying, snapped off with the sudden complete stop of the reel. I looked in amazement as my brand new lure hit the water, looked down and saw a full spool nest sticking out from every possible opening. Looked over at my fishing buddy and he was rolling with laughter! That was the last time I ever used mono on a baitcaster.

In the grand scheme of things, fishing aint that important. edit: Making memories is

Maybe not in your world

I feel the whole conversation for me is cost. It’s expensive. Younger folks can’t afford it, or their families, or their school or their club. Does that make them less of an angler even with tangible targeting skill? I don’t believe so. But it does put them at a disadvantage to lesser skilled anglers whom know how to use FFS and can afford it. I think it’s leading to, like many other sports, those with “means” will excel and those with less financial opportunity will,,,,,,work at the marina. Has nothing to do with ability. It’s become an honest cheat.

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I switched to This line in 12# with 8# floro leader and have been really pleased throwing tiny neds, weightless creature baits and hair jigs on a 7’1” Phenix Feather MLF rod with a 500 reel. Could go to 8# but would never use it on a 3000 reel as it’s getting towards throwing thread.

My Nephew is a Pro fisherman and multiline bass boat dealer. He has a $100,000 custom Phoenix boat with $40,000 worth of electronics on it (to Hank Parker’s point). Huge big screens, dual FFS, DI/SI, auto GPS waypoint plotting and every type of fish finding equipment you can get for both he and his co angler. Didn't make the cut in a tournament in Florida this past weekend. Before you say he’s a bad fisherman, he IS a sponsored Professional and has been for near twenty years. He can flatout fish! His Wife made the point that maybe he should go back to spending a little more time on FISHING and not watching expensive tv’s 😃 Skill counts I agree

Build your own

Watching the Bassmaster’s today I was thoroughly disappointed by the side by side split screen showing Justin Hamner’s FFS screen while he was watching it. It’s a blob of squiggles pulsing in color that means zero to me, but he understands it. But why would I watch a guy watch tv while watching his tv on a split screen showing him watching tv. If it’s allowed, then fine but don’t expect folks to tune in to see this boring trype. It suked……never did see him catch a fish under a dock but saw a lot of glowing tv color.

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Wins a Win!

Probably better off posting in Fleal Market An online swap meet to sell or trade used items. found on the main page. Tennessee got a good win tonight!

Thanks Mike, the spinnerbait is beautiful!

I don’t have this particular jacket/bibs but all my Frogg Togg gear has been totally waterproof and good quality. No complaints. This does look like a good deal.

Now that’s just bass’akwards! 😂

Everything left hand retrieve . Since mid 80’s. I’m right handed and never saw the reasoning to throw right handed and then switch to reel right, just never made sense. A wasted move to me.

Are these “Elastech’ie”, super strong or more a conventional material?

Some wool does suck 🤣🤣🤣

Did that, 3 times. Still no stickie in shipment and one order was $200.00.

I gotta stay away from TW! My last three purchases they didn’t include the free sticker, which were all over the $50 limit. I added them to my cart but they didn’t show up. No biggie, I have three in a drawer already. 😀 That place is a deep pit!

Interesting stuff in this thread! Parents divorced when I was young and I spent my early life on the streets. Quit school at 16 and joined the Army at 17, was released on a medical discharge and went back to the streets, hitchhiking from coast to coast, in and out of trouble and aimless. Finally managed to work my way into college (Ball State) where at 23 I met the Love of My Life, best friend and the woman who saved my life, she was 18 and now married 47 years. I went to work for an underground utilities company, deciding that becoming a teacher wasn’t for me and worked my way to District Manager of several operations in three States in short order with my Wife working along my side as Office Manager. We got tired of the constant moving at contracts end, quit and moved to California where I started a paint and wallpaper business and she took a office job at Walmart as a business manager. After a few years we grew tired of the left coast and longed for the change of seasons and moved to Tennessee where I continued working for myself and she as an Office Manager for a well known truck equipment company. Ironically the company opened an operation in Indiana, where we are from, and offered her the Operations Manager position so we moved back home. After twenty years the equipment company was sold and she found a new career as the Sales Manager at a Harley-Davidson dealership, where after twenty plus years she is the store business manager and runs things for a absentee owner. All the while I continued to work for myself and built a small six man operation providing paint and mostly commercial wallpaper installation for commercial operations; hotels, motels, nursing homes and office parks. In 2020 I suddenly underwent quadruple bypass (CABG 4) and after 35 years of self employment retired from working. The Wife continues to work today at the HD Dealership, for how long we don’t know. Just this week she was diagnosed with Cancer. To sit here and put near 70 years of life history in a few paragraphs seems trivial but it’s been a life well lived and a great ride. We have tried to live with no fear or regrets and can only go boldly into our future smiling. Would we change anything? Only the time we have with the ones we love.