ww2farmer

Good luck, be carefull, and stay safe. Look up a buddy of mine that is in your outfit. His name is Jim Sitnik, from Brewerton NY, he is over there with you now as well.

May I suggested spending that $130 on hand lotion and porn, because thats all you will be getting if you buy her fishing stuff for her birthday. She may like going fishing, but good luck if that's what you get her.

I have givin my fish to guys on the ice who were struggling for bites when I have had more than I know what to do with or I changed my mind and just don't want to clean fish that day. Talking panfish, bluegills for the most part, most people are really thankfull. Ice fishing was terrible this year, well not the fishing, but just the ice itself. We only had a few weeks of safe ice, and I am almost out of fish already. Looks like this is the year, when they are in season, that I keep some smaller bass for the fryer.

Am I better than a bucket fisherman? No...........sometimes, depending on what I am fishing for, I AM A BUCKET FISHERMAN. I keep a lot of the bluegills, and other panfish I catch through the ice. Never more than a legal limit, but often more than I can use right away. I just fillet them and freeze them for future use. I don't keep bass ever, and I don't keep fish from ice out, till ice up. What I , or anyone else is doing, with in the law, is none of your concern. Bass fisherman take a holier than thou approach to keeping and harvesting fish that is nonsense, and ofen borderline hypocritical. Some people who would see you hanged in the town square for keeping a limit of small keeper bass, are the same idiots who toss used plastics, or cigg butts over board like it's perfectly harmless.

Suspending jerkbaits in cold water are my nemisis. Insert brand name............ I never seem to: #1 be there when there is a jerkbait bite, I catch fish in those places on other things. #2 have any confidence in them, #3 have the paitence to let them set and do what your "supposed" to do with them when the water is in the 40's, and/or #4 have any confidence in them.... LOL confidence is key so I listed it twice. I catch fish here and there on them, but just not consistantly, or as well as others with them. Now get that water in the 50's with a little wind and agressive jerks, and I do just fine on them.

Now how can any of this be????? Those frogs cost like $11 or so, and we all know more expensive = better. Maybe some one put a Strike King or Snag Proof frog in that Koppers package....I mean those frogs only cost like $7-$8 bucks, so they must be garbage, I am not sure one can even be tied on to braid successfully, I hear the line ties snap on contact.

If you don't like/need or want it, sell it and get another Powell. Fish with what you like. Besides those Avids are terrible......just send it to me and I'll get rid of it.

30lb Power Pro for pitching,casting, dragging, swimming. Fluoro leaders if needed, usually 15 or 17 lb. 50lb Power Pro for flipping....no leader, ever.

I have the same rod, I use it for jigs, t-tigs, c-rigs, spinnerbaits, buzzbaits, frogs, 3/4 oz lipless cranks, big squarebills around really heavy cover. I wouldn't be without that rod most of the year.

I have used both, I like Power Pro better. Holds it's color longer, cast's better and seems to not dig in as much in the lower lb tests.

To the OP..................slap the RES hard on the water, some times the BB's stick on the inside, one hard slap and it should right it-self for good.

Two Words: Bull Crap Lets see, if you, for example spent $40 on say Bandit baits at $5 a pop you would have 6- 7 baits give or take, so you regularly had 1 out of those 6-7 baits that was any good....like I said, bull crap. OR....I must be the luckiest guy in the world, I have never had a "cheap" Strike King, Bandit, Bomber, etc.....bait that was junk. Yes I have had to tune some, rarely out of the box, or change some hooks, but out of 100's of baits, I have never had a bad one that I can vividly recall. Now how can it be that some people just never get a good one, I do not think they are all flawless, but to act like you need to buy truckloads of baits to find 2 good ones is total nonsense. As is the assumption that the high dollar lure companys are immune from putting out crap. Thats what's I am calling BS on....I am not anti-high dollar lure guy, nor am I anti-cheap lure guy. I am just tell it like I see it guy.

It is a 4.5" Flat tail worm, they are still made. Look under the Kut tail worm section on the GYCB site...TW has them too

Pitching: St Croix 7' MH/F, either my Avid or Legend Tournament in that power/length/action. Flipping: St Croix Mojo 7'11" H/MF

I have 11 rods on my boat, many of them technique specific. It's nice.................but it's also un-needed. Like most have said, I could get by with three and still catch the same ammount of fish I catch now.

Everything. I even crank with it.

This has the potential to get ugly. I buy the best I can afford, non of it full price, some of it used. Like my most expensive rods, St. Croix Legend Tournaments. Never paid full price for one, the most I spent was $180 when the 7'10" Magnum Cranker was on sale last year when the came out with the new LT's. Alot of people catch fish on lower cost stuff. It's great you love your expensive things, it's not for everyone.

Everyone I know calls them Crappies, or Calico Bass, I have heard Strawberry Bass used a time or two as well. The only time I hear them called Croppies is also on TV. Usually by people fromt he south, the Lindners or In-fisherman guys call them Crappies.

When I lived in Florida, I caught a fair ammount of bass out of tiny mud puddle sized ponds, and one of my favorite spots was a drainage ditch that dried up except for the small pools on either side of the culvert that went under the road.

I read about people missing fish, having poor hook up %, or this that and the other, kind of troubles with...insert frog brand here.... In all seriousness, what are you people doing?? Don't blame it on the frog, look in the mirror. I have fished the Strike King KVD frog, the Spro, the Snag Proof Bobbys perfect frog, Scum frogs, the Manns super frog, the Sumo frog, the Tru Tungsten frog, and probably a few more I can't remember. I don't have hookup issues with any of them. If I do my part and don't jerk it away from a fish, and fish it on the right tackle, it's a bait , no matter what brand, that has one of the highest hookup %'s of any. Fish slap, swirl, and blow up on them all the time and miss them, thats just the nature of the game, not the frogs fault. Same thing with water getting inside the frog. I have never had one that was 100% completely sealed, but I have never had one sink, or take on water at an alarming rate either, and I have owned hundreds of them. A squeeze every couple casts is second nature, nothing too difficult about that. The reason I change frog brands have nothng to do with hook ups, some walk better, some fall apart faster, some cost too much,some don't cast as well as others, etc.... Snag Proof Bobbys Perfect frogs were my go to frog for a long time, till I got a one after another that fell apart right out of the package, or after only 1 or two fish. To Snag Proofs credit, they took care of me, but there replacements all fell apart just as fast. Thanks but no thanks. On to Spro. I used them for a few years, no real issues, had some that the paint peeled off faster than others, but they still caught fish, just localy they are about $10 a pop now, time for a cheaper option. Right now I am using the Strike King KVD frogs, about $3 cheaper than the Spros, walk better, skip under docks way better for some reason, are just as durable, and come in all the colors I need.

I had the 7' Premier Heavy Power/Fast action rod, which basicly is the same as the Mojo, and I didn't like it either. Poor frog rod for the reasons tstone mentioned. A MH/Fast St Croix makes a much better frog rod, and they have plenty of power to get big fish out of heavy matted grass. I use my 7' MH/Fast Avid or Legend tournament and they perform just fine. I like a 7' rod for frogging, I can cast as far as I need to with that length, plus it's easier to walk a frog with that length then a longer rod...for me.

Seriously, why did you even bother asking for advice? It's too small. Other people in this thread told you it was too small, and you bought it any way. There is a reason why even the smallest 12v motors today are 30+ lbs of thrust.

Cost cutting. Don't matter to me, I took them off anyways.

If your talking the KVD squarebills, then yes they are different baits than the Pro Model Series 1, and 4s square bills. If you mean the Bass Pro Shops exclusive "KVD Silent Stalker" cranks like the 5xd, Red Eye Shad, etc...... or the rattling versions of the KVD line of squarebills, then the are the same, just with or without rattles.

Lots of people. If you don't like paying $10,$15, or $20+ dollars for lure, then don't. There are plenty of things that cost $4 - $8 bucks that catch fish with the best of them. Topics like these ALWAYS turn ugly here.