ww2farmer

Thats sound advice, except leave the Daiwas out as well.

2/0 EWG Gamakatsu superline for me most of the time. If I am using them with spinning gear or lighter casting gear, I'll use a 2/0 light wire Gammy EWG.

How many brake pins do you have on?

Winchester Model 97 trench gun. It's not politicaly correct anymore to say what it's best used for, but I wouldn't mind having it by my side if it was 1942 and I was on Guadalcanal. Double ought buck, full brass shells of coarse so they wouldn't swell and jam the gun in the jungle humidity.

It's about the same distance to the Walden Galleria as it is to Marketplace in Henrietta, 50 miles give or take a few. I agree the Galleria Dick's is the best, and the Tonawanda GM is much better than the Henrietta one too. Thats why I tend to go that way more often.

I agree with the rod choice, I flip and punch with the 7'11" H/MF Mojo. You could haul a small car out from under the thickest milfoil mats around here with that rod. Mine has a Revo S on it as well. Great minds think alike

I was at that Dicks in the Walden galleria Sunday afternoon at 4pm, dang it...........I never even looked at the reels. I was in a hurry and grabbed a few packs of flick shakes, senkos, and beavers and got out of there.

The way I see it is, Does it help? I don't know, but I know it doesn't hurt. I put megastrike on any plastics that I use that are not already scented, like Zoom, GYCB, Reaction Inovations, etc.... Baits that already have scent in them like, Powerbait, Gulp, Strike King coffee stuff, get used as is.

Go shallow for a big largemouth. Yes,even in the heat of summer. Pound the thickest shallow cover you can find. And don't expect to load the boat, your basicly hunting for 1 fish.

Really?? Based on what? They have not even hit the stores yet. Do you have one ?

About the only thing I have been using from them this year are Tiny Flukes for drop shotting, and the swimming fluke. I still have a lot of super flukes, fat albert grubs, trick and finesse worms, jr. super chunks, super chunks, and horny toads, but they have all been moved to the bottom of the rotation. I have been using a lot of Strike King plastics this year. I'll keep that zoom stuff, it works just fine, I just like trying other things. No one pays me to fish with there stuff.

I have caugt some bigger than average (14"+) crappies on 5" senkos while bass fishing, and also some big bass on small panfish stuff, but that don't mean you should bass fish with crappie jigs, and crappie fish with bass baits. I am not a crappie fisherman, but all the guys I know who do well crappie fishing, use 2" or 3" baits, like gulp minnows, or small tubes and grubs.

M1 Garand, got it form the CMP in 1998, it was the first of 8 that I bought, sold most of them, kept the best 2.

We had a very hot, dry July here in WNY, my local lake is as low as I have seen it in along time. Yet I am still catching fish shallow, some times in barely enough water to cover there backs, but there is cover (heavy grass) and food up there, so they will be there. I am also catching them deep, why? Cover and food. Some times we try to look for complicated answers, when it's simple. Fishing pressure has alot to do with it too. Fish under docks in 4-5 fow, and fish in/around/on the deep grass lines here get pounded on, not that they are not the best place to consistantly catch fish, because they, for the most part are. But the fish in 10" of water in thick heavy slop, and the fish in 20+ FOW on isolated cover see far less pressure from the mass's.

In WNY weekend/holiday summer fishing and heavy recreational boat traffic go hand in hand. If you can't stand it,fish during the week, or get out early on weekend mornings, and get off by noon. It bothers me more than the fish. You get used to it after a while, and unless some one being a complete DB it don't bother me too much. Infact some time the boats get the water so churned up it turns a bite on. What I hate is fighting wind AND boat traffic at the same time, that gets old fast.

Strike King 5xd Reaction Innovations Sweet Beaver 4.20 GYCB 5" Senko

I have one moderate action crankbait rod for deep diving cranks, all other treble hooked lures (jerkbaits, topwaters, shallow cranks, lipless cranks) get used on M power, fast action rods.

I used to brag to any one that ever told me about getting stuck past the barb that in 20+ years of fishng I have never been. Well thats all changed, I hav ehad it happen twice now in the last 2 years. Both time envolved pike though, a bass has still yet to get me. Last year I was reaching into the net to grab a small pike that got my crankbait, he flopped just so, and the next thing you know I have the one point of a #4 treble past the barb UNDER a my thumb nail. That stung.........yeah just a little. Bit down on my shirt collar and gave it a fast tug. That thing hurt for a month. Then this year another pike got me, same thumb, this time in the meat, with a #2 treble past the barb, same deal, bite down and pull hard and fast. Bled for a bit, but wasn't as painfull as the other time.

I have a few I like. Cross tail shad, Zoom tiny fluke, GYCB shad shape worm, Gulp minnow.

Sure you did, just more of your hate for things you don't own or fish. Nothing new. I have had my hands on probably a hundred or more different St Croix's in multiple series, in multiple stores, in multiple states, and owned a couple dozen more from every line except the Legend Elite or Legend X-treme. I have never seen this. Are they immune from lemons? No, but you just happened to have 4 in your hands in the same place? Un real. I am surprised you didn't have a Loomis, Shimano, or Power Pro blast tossed in for good measure.

If it were twice that much I would buy it. I have a couple Mojo's and have had zero issues with them. They are as sensitive as any rod in there price range, they are not the lighest, but are light enough, and better made than most. They are a little tip heavy with out a reel mounted on them, put an average size reel on one and they balance out fine, a little tweaking to get it to your personal comfort level may be needed, but then again it's a $100 rack rod, not a custom build. I don't understand all the self proclaimed rod experts on here grabbing a rod off the rack, with out mounting a reel on it, or even fishing it, and saying they are tip heavy. I think because they were one of the first of the "value priced " rods to come out with the split grip/fancy paint jobs people expected too much of them. They perform no better or no worse than the more expensive St Croix Premiers they even use the same blanks and guides, yet the Premiers seem to get a pass. In the $100 rage I would take a Mojo over ANY other rod out there........yes I said ANY. Including Abu's junk.

Having watched my sister go down the same path with drugs/addiction (she was't famous so no one knew about it) that led to her death at a young age, I am surprised that people seem shocked that this happened. I could see it comming years ago.

I pretty much kept a dip in from the time I woke up, till the time I went to bed, except for when I was eating. I never let an "old" pinch sit in there very long. As soon as it lost it's flavor ou *** went and in went a new one, and I took big dips.

Thanks Al! Exactly the kind of info I was looking for. There is now a Legend Tournament Magnum Cranker on it's way here.