Fluoro is great for buzzbaits. It is more forgiving than braid. It doesn't sink when you are winding it.

There's got to be a few launch sites still open on the Delta Mark! Get out and fish. I have been hitting golf course lakes most nights, and I'm going to try to fish Havasu or somewhere in Arizona on Friday or Saturday.

I spent a 3-4 years targeting channel cats. I fish for everything that swims and they’re fun to catch. I’d pre-catch live bait and good sized mud minnows were always the ticket. Super aggressive feeders. I’ll get one all too rarely on a moving bait bass fishing also. Wish I could more regularly tar...

Nice fish. I've caught lots of cats over the years while bass fishing with plastic worms, cranks and spinnerbaits. I caught a channel cat on a 4” power worm one cast after I’d caught a largemouth bass off a dock. My second channel cat was caught when I was fishing an EG One’s Bug popper. Channel ca...

I catch one or two of these most years around this time; sometimes a treble hook faul catch. But, this year, I've caught an absolute rash of these and they're hitting my baits. Maybe it's because I'm one of the last people on the planet to finally jump on the vibrating jig bandwagon. This year I've...

You had better get some of those rods and reels put together, and go out and catch something, or else we will think that you don't fish! I'm down with the clean garage. That's a must.

We had gigantic walls of bulk line in the tackle shops that I worked in college. I may have filled millions of yards of bulk line for customers. It's hard to really estimate. You really get a feel for what a line is like when it is running through your hands. I spent a lot of my idle time inventing ...

I do pay attention to line diameter, but it's just a starting point. You have to develop confidence through success with any line. I have to spend a bit of time with any line to learn its strengths and weaknesses. A database would be nice to have, but there are several other line qualities that have...

There is absolutely no reason to shelf that reel. It will still cast the heavier stuff as well as most reels. Those reels palm fine. My OG Zillion fleet still throws the heavier stuff that I fish as well as the newer reels. I don't see myself replacing them anytime soon. Yes, I have newer reels with...

MountainMan 83 wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 14, 2020 4:48 am

toddmc wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 13, 2020 12:38 pm

A for originality. LSU or Lakers fan?

Vikings!

Fishing4Fun wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 13, 2020 1:57 pm

That is what I am talking about!

Yeah buddy!

Funny. I was thinking Vikings as one more team after my post. Vikings Hall of Famer Ed White is a family member.

in the garbage and get a prox zip tie A man who knows what’s up. 8-) So funny because I was thinking the exact same thing when I saw this thread a while back. Hook keepers in front of the reel always find a way to snag your line, or get in the way. I put a zip tie on my full rear grip about halfway...

Just finished this project up. It's built from an OG Zillion 7.1. The only thing that I needed was the brake set plate and magnets from a TDZ. https://i.postimg.cc/nhgRZfND/20200313-122212.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/RhSGGSJj/20200313-122233.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/rmCQS0s1/20200313-122310.jpg A for ...

Yes, we have some high mountain lakes in N. GA. Some even have trophy brown trout. Burton, Blue Ridge, Nottely, Chatuge, Tugaloo, Raybun, Conasauga, Yonah, Talullah Falls are all way up in the mountains. I thought that you had some high elevation lakes. I bet they are beautiful, like Lake Ouachita ...

Yes I would guess she had already spawned. Though in FL some fish will still spawn into April. They start early in November but most of the spawning is in Jan/Feb. We had fish spawning on the 4th of July on my home lake (DVL) about a decade ago. It has a quarry that is almost 300 feet deep. A few d...

Yes I would guess she had already spawned. Though in FL some fish will still spawn into April. They start early in November but most of the spawning is in Jan/Feb. We had fish spawning on the 4th of July on my home lake (DVL) about a decade ago. It has a quarry that is almost 300 feet deep. A few d...