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(inside joke for RS'rs) Never leave fish to find fish. More on that later. Met up with a buddy at 7am at the take out. Sprinkled most of the drive to the river so was wondering what the weather's plans for us were. Good news is the rain stopped when I got to the take out so started getting...

Tried the VMC 9147 BN and they were more fragile than any other hooks I've fished with. Even lost a few medium sized smallies. I use to love the VMC barbarians but Barlows only sells them from 3/0 and up. I have a theory. If I get a bad pour, I'll melt the lead off the hook and re-pour using...

Nice work!

I saw Charlie Case invent the Jacks worm at a fishing rodeo. He took one of his stick baits, heated it in the middle with a bic lighters, then pulled slowly. The tapered tail had so much action in the water it became an instant hit

Fish'll like them

Line is six pound Mean Green or 12ish pound Tectan. Darts weigh between 1/16th and 1/8th oz depending on current. Sometimes use a spoon at the bottom. Darts just have a simple tie of a couple strands of flashapo, then trimmed 1/4" below the bend of the hook. Colors are yellow, orange...

I used to save all my old broken up used soft plastics then give them away to some entrepreneurial kid to make baits. Allot of his creations were done with a Bic lighter and a set of tweezers

You need to fish more

Can't reall call this salt but close Shad come from salt water and run up the fresh water creeks to spawn. When you are in the middle of a school spawning, fishing gets crazy. Had an early taste of the shad season on the east coast yesterday. Size was great. Most over 15". We boated 30...

Pearl white's a good color to have in the tackle box. So is something green and something with blue. Walleye were made for the fillet knife. imho - a pan-sized walleye is the best.

Any idea what the opening night color was?

Find a Chinese Dim Sum place. Bring cash. You'll get into to much trouble with a credit card

I eat the fat/meat around the bones of the feet 10 miles is great. Hope you catch poachers but be careful

I was at a Chinese dim sum restaurant and freaked everyone out when I ordered chicken feet. Never have done cattle hooves Now pig tails - the best for making a deep rich stock for soup with all of their collagens

Everyone makes it different. Most use just pork shoulders or butt. I've found the smaller meat producers use the offal. I luv the smooth iron taste offal adds to scrapple We grew up poor in Germany in the early 60s. And Dad was away at war most of the time so we had limited budgets and...