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I gotcha on the rock thingy bubba. A northern small mouth river angler whose opinion I trust told me to stay away.

I'm going with a football jig mold with a fiber weed guard...a mustad 3/0...

I have to admit that I'm biased to the bass species around me.

When I was young, I lived in Idaho and trout fished all the time. My first experience with trout came on the shores of the Salmon...

Honestly I don't use any indicators. If it's getting time for smallies to spawn, I fish the areas least desirable for the beds; fast shallow water, small shallower pools that won't offer a lot of...

I got the answer from another site...NO!!! it does not play well with rocks.

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I going to buy another mold soon. I was originally going with the traditional football jig, but like the stand...

I'm not as concerned about the Yadkin as I am the New. The Yadkin is still healthy...the New isn't.

I can remember wading the New 15 years ago and having 100 fish days with a genuine chance to...

Don't even wash it with soap and water. Run it through a wave train and good and wet. All that junk will come off. Drive it like you stole it.

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What you can do to improvise a bait keeper is to take a small peice of heavier gauge wire and put a slight bend in it and then wrap it with thread used for jigs. I like the 200 GSP thread from...

when I got off Saturday morning, I had some work to do in the shop and needed to pick up my kids from dad's house.


I was in my shop building some ramps for the mower, and listening to the cold...

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it's from a custom carver. His name is...

where are you at Mickey?

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There is a lead mold in the first picture...what does it form?

First of all, saying Brett is reliable enough to be a voucher is a huge step in the wrong direction. Brett is a worm that I've never forgiven for out fishing me on the river in my own back yard.
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sounds good Eric.

about 10? The Ararat is nasty too, but it hasn't come up with this rain today.

Let's keep a look at the USGS gauges on Weds, and go from there.

Tread and I hit the Yadkin last Weds. The fishing was slow, but we both caught something. I ended up with two in the 17" range and two smaller dinks.

I went to a different section Thurs, and...

couldn't agree more.


If I have a pic taken by asking for it, the fish is exceptional, the biggest caught out of the system, or the first fish from the waters I've never seen.

We should fish

Honestly, you should put some real money into reels. There is a huge difference between a $50 reel and a $125 reel that goes far beyond the additional $75.

I try to buy my reels in the winter...

I only carry three rods and half a dozen baits anyway, so......


6'6"-7' medium heavy or medium extra fast casting rod with a quality reel that has a 6:1 gear ratio or higher for spinnerbaits and...

I don't know which I'm more jealous of, the fish you guys are catching down there, or the fact you can comfortably wear short sleeves already.

It's 35 degrees right now and misting rain...plus I'm...

I think flipping it over on it's gunnels is recommend, if it were mine, I'd ignore that rule of thumb as well.
If all you keep in it is the paddle, PFD, and a few other light weight things, it'll...

I pour my own 3" sticks. They're loaded with salt and softener.

I throw those weightless on a 2/0 ewg VMC worm hook.

The best way to fish them is to deadstick them in current, just downstream...

I've heard the Coosa is a bear to row upstream.

I fished out of a Manta Ray 12 for several years, and though it wasn't the easiest thing to make upstream with, I was able to do so even in pretty...

If I were to make a TT, I'd use a 3/4" dowel rod from Lowes or Home Depot, cut it to about 2.5", drill a tiny hole through the center, taper the ends with a sander, prime and paint it, and run a .050...