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i like em both. experiment with different sizes and styles of mesh for your scales

usually i feel them as they are crawling on me before they bite. nothing ever hurts though, occasionally one will be itching while its still in but usually the bite doesn't itch till you take the tick off. its not unusual for them to go unnoticed though...

you act like you've never had a tick there before... : ;D

i bet the guy in #3 has never felt more relieved in his life after that plane passed by.... awesome stuff.

hahaha! awesome joke!

looks like one of those fake sign generators to me...

never

absolutely awesome paintjob.

looks like you were doin it right

nice gun. i'm looking at getting a Beeman Mach 12.5 sometime this month.

i just use this to "catch" frogs

rapala.

i can't stand the hype about them and i don't use them for that reason alone.

i use a duolock snap. like others said, theres really no need to use a snap swivel (ball bearing swivel) when you're using crankbaits. all you need is to either tie right onto the splitring that is on the bait itself, or take the split ring off the bait and use a snap so you can change baits quickly.

lol i probably am : ;D

okay, so is pushing the fish forward still harmful since it will flush more water/oxygen over the gills than normal too?

gills are designed to flow one way, not 2 ways. It may not kill the fish or anything like that, but if you're trying to release it as unharmed as possible you want to just move it forwards, or even in a circle. fish build up lactic acid when they're stressed, and too much will kill them. Ever catch a fish, release it and it swims away strong, then 5 minutes later it's belly up? Could take minutes, could take days to die. so especially after a good fight, or if the fish is out of the water for a while, (it's usually one of these 2 reasons why a fish won't swim away) you don't want to stress it any more than that. Most fish CAN swim backwards, but it's not something you'll see often. Usually in a pinch, if it is in a hole or something like that and can't spin around. yeah but WHY is it harmful? like what specifically happens when water flows backwards over the gills?

as much as you don't want to believe it the added weight of the split ring and snap affects the attitude and consequently the action of the bait. i have some rapala DT's that float with just the split ring but actually slowly sink when i use a snap and the split ring. the way crankbaits are designed makes them pretty sensitive to weight. i always take the split rings off the nose of the bait because i use a snap.

why does it cause harm to the gills to move the fish backwards in the water?

I would only change my mind if a woman was to qualify for the classic exactly the same as everyone else, which they dont. what different qualifications do they need to meet?

nope but i will definitely be ordering some 1/16 green pumpkin insert free weights from them when my current tru tungsten supply is gone.

and to top it all off i was at school!

i have my UL spooled with 20lb suffix braid and i haven't noticed any color loss at all. the suffix is a light green right out of the box, and it seems like the green color is actually part of the braid not a coating like it seems to be with power pro. that said, i have everything else spooled up with power pro and i love it just slightly cheaper than suffix and its all the same stuff if you ask me. braid doesn't go bad in the sun or when the colors gone or anything, and i only respool when my spool is getting so low it inhibits with casting. no problems for me

i like this thread a lot

theres this little half acre pond next to a career and technical school i go to every day (i go for natural resources management), and sometimes my instructor lets us go out there and fish. well we had our commencement yesterday but we still have to go there for the rest of the week. since we didn't have anything planned my teacher let us go out there and fish the whole time, and he was fishing with us. using my ultralight that i keep in the classroom i caught 3 tiny bass, less than 10" which was the average and a couple bluegill. then i tied on a 5" wacky worm and said "i'm goin after the big boys". not even 10 minutes later it got absolutely crushed next to a submerged tree about 10 feet away from me. after one extremely awesome powerful fight (this is ultralight gear remember) i hopped in the water and lipped this fish. absolutely the biggest fish i've ever seen in this pond! my teacher said he saw something that looked about 4lbs cruising the shorelines a few weeks ago but we thought he was exaggerating (he's known to do that!). when i caught it one of the kids i was with ran inside to get a scale, so i was lipping the fish underwater in the meantime. and when he came back, just as he got over the fence to give it to me the fish did one mighty head shake and came out of my grip. oh well, i'd say the fish was a solid 3.5lbs. it had such a gut! thats one productive pond! i ended up with 5 bass, my friend tyler got 11, my friend chris got 4, and my teacher got 2 (on a minnow that he made himself, after i convinced him to let the class build our own lures as a project a few months ) anyway, thats my story for today