ww2farmer

Trailers stay in there original bag and go into one of those big,deep, one compartment plano 3700 boxes. Trailers, flipping baits, and things like that are in that box. I refill it as needed. Jigs are sorted by color, style, and size. I have one 3600 size Flambeau Z-rust box for each type, and refill as needed. I carry 3 jig boxes, one for football heads, one for finesse jigs, one for flipping jigs.

The newest one around here is my 2.5 y/o daughter claiming everthing is in a butt crack, followed by uncontrollable laughter (by both of us) "Mady, go get your sippy cup, where is it?" "In my butt crack" "Mady where is your blanket?" "In your butt crack" " Where is your book" " In sissys butt crack" I think the 6 year old big sister has something to do with the new butt crack lingo

I can tell you I DO NOT recomend the small Rapala ones.....they are junk. Maybe it's just me, but I change the hooks on all my SK cranks, either right out of the box, or after only a few fish. IDK what SK is using for split rings, but they are the toughest sons of guns to work with, the Rapala pliers gave up working with them SK rings.

If you want one rod for all those, I would go with a 6'6" M power, fast action. Last year I "eliminated" that rod from my line up, thinking I could do all of that with my 7' M power, fast, St Croix Legend Tournament. While it tossed square bills fine 90% of the time, I hated it for top water and jerkbaits. And also found I missed the short rod for close in work with square bills.....sooooo.....I need to buy another 6'6" my self.

I ate a few once. One of the guys at the farm was obbsessed with controlling the population of them. Many pigeons were slain, but in the end they won, feathered rodents. Well one time he bagged a bunch of them up, tossed them on the grill, and I'll admit. Not too shabby. Yes they taste like chicken. But these were nice fat country pigeons, eating grain and other natural food. I don't know what a city pigeon eating out of a garbage can would taste like.

Yeah, I have been Red tail hawk watching for many years as a farmer. Mice, moles, snakes are the usual fare. Every once in a while, one swoops down on a rabbit.....the rabbit usually wins. I once saw a rabbit cave a hawk's head in with it's back legs. Hawk vs. cat....I am going to say the cat has the upper hand.

My Citica 201E started making noise this fall, it had been fine all summer. I just sent it to Shimano, I'll let you know how that goes when I hear from them and/or get it back.

The Strike King KVD chunk has worked very well for me when the water is 40 degrees and when it is 80 degrees, and every where in between.

I am a Shimano casting reel guy, but I like Diawa spinning reels better. I have a couple Excelers, a 2000 and 2500 that are going into thre 6th season this spring. Both have been used 125+ times a year for the past 5 years, been out in the rain/snow/heat/cold umpteen times. And I have never so much as cracked one open for maint. Back the drags off in the winter, and a few drops of oil where the handle shaft goes in the spring, thats it. Still smooth and like new. Best "junk" reels I have ever owned.

I have caught some decent Smallies dropshotting them. Nothing that I have not caught on any other bait though, but they work fine.

It's different from one body of water to the next. Heck it can be different from one year to another on thesame body of water too. On my home lake in 2008 big smallmouth were all over the shallows bedding from late April to early June, every moon phase brought a new batch up and fishing that spring for bedding smallies was the easiest and best I have ever seen it on that lake. Then in 09' and 10', big ones didn't seem to come up shallow in numbers at all, one here one there. Last year however, there were more quality fish on beds shallow again,but not in multiple waves like 08', and lots of beds deep too. I don't know why...and I don't care to figure it out. It's nature, I'll just roll with what ever happens next.

My main t-rigged plastics are Beavers, Senkos, Paca Craws, and Caffine shads. Beavers- 3"= 2/0 EWG, 4"=3/0 EWG, flipping heavy cover= straight shank 4/0 flipping hook Senkos: 4" 2/0= EWG, 5"= 3/0 EWG, 6"= 4/0 EWG Paca Craws: baby=2/0 EWG, regular= 4/0 EWG Caffine Shads: 4"= 3/0 EWG, 5" =4/0 EWG I don't toss ribbon tail worms much any more, and when I do use worms, usually they are straight tailed on a shakey head or drop shot.

Snow...dosen't bother me, I don't love it. But It always melts so it's not the end of the world. I like the cold, which BTW, we have NOT had enough of this year to make safe ice. I'll take the weather up here any day, I lived in Florida for 2 years in the mid 90's.....no thanks. I like the change of seasons, and while we get some hot weather, it's usually only for short spurts, not for months on end.

I toss all mine used ones into the console area while I am fishing, and then they go in the trash when I get home. A buddy of mine pours plastics, and some times I save some for him to re-melt and make me stuff. I have gotten in darn near fist fights with guys I fished with who have tossed used stuff back in the lake, they all thought (or said they did, but maybe they are just jerks) that the plastics breakdown and disolve in the water. I think each and every soft bait company needs to put a warning on the packs about this, like the warning on ciggerette packs. Enough falls off the hook that we can't do any thing about, no need to add to the problem.

Yeah....if all you want to catch is small bass. I have found, where I fish, that when pike are around, the bass that do stay are the big ones. You have to sort through a lot of the pike, and bass action is not fast by any means, but when you do catch one, it's a good one. As for the A-rig vs pike, IDK how it will hold up. I am sure, well some what sure , that they can't bite it off. But catch enough of them on it and sure they will wreck it, but so will bass. Watching the FLW footage of the tournament where the A-rig was highlighted, one of the guys catching them good had his rig fall apart just from catching bass. Pike will probably accelerate the falling apart process.

There is no "best", they all work. I have caught plenty of fish on just about every worm I have ever used. That list includes Zoom finesse and trick worms, net bait's finesse and t-mac, 4"+6" straight tail roboworms, 4" berkley hand poured finesse worms, berkley slim shaky worms, SK 3x worms, SK kvd worms....and on and on and on. In the rainbow of colors too. No one one worm has caught more or bigger fish to be considered better than the other. Right now I have settled on the SK 3x elaztec worms, because they are boyant and stand out on the hook well, and last forever while catching tons of fish. I caught 100's of fish last year on about a 1/2 a pack of those worms.

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St Croix makes a 6'9" ML X-tra fast casting rod in the Avid line up. I have never owned/fished that rod...so I don't know about it, just a heads up. Personaly I don't think it would be a good all-purpose rod, for that I would want a 7' M power/fast St Croix...pick a series that fits your price range, they are all good.

None.............I owned a Busmaster M4 carbine clone, and a Armalite M16A2 rifle clone. Sold them both. The only AR I would consider owning any more would be a pre-ban orginal M16 configuration Colt SP1 slick side with the three prong hider, and triangle handguards now. I don't care for the way the AR platform has been made bulky and heavy.

I would rather have a suspending bait that floats than sinks, floaters can be adjusted to do what I want them to, sinkers go in the garbage.

These threads always basicly degrade into "your an idiot for buying $15 baits" or "or no, YOUR an idiot for NOT buying high end stuff"......I'll jump in....how about this.....Your all idiots. Who cares, if guy A buys a LC and catches fish, and guy B buys a $5 bomber and catches fish.........both parties happy. The kid asked why lure prices went up, and right to the $15 vs $5 lure nonsense we go.

Yup.

Join the club bro...... grin and bear it. IDK if you have kids, but what till you see how "interesting" thing get when you make them a grandmother.

Sadly, it's a bait I don't throw much any more. IDK why, it always produced. When I did use them a lot a 7.5" Red Shad Culprit and 7.5" Blue fleck Berkley power worms were usually what I used.

I have regularly pitched 3/16 and 1/4 oz jigs and t-rigged plastics on 30+ 50lb braid and/or 15+17 lb fluorocarbon.