Jerry Rapp

you do know Justin, next spring when it starts warming up, and you read the great fishing reports, you will just have to go out and buy it all again at new prices. Inhale, think, and re-evaluate. If you need $120 so badly, you don't need a bike by any means. Voice of experience is speaking. Good luck in your decisions.

heck, I thought you were talking about the Lambs

it is a 13 yr old rig. Crap will start happening, even if you maintained it. IMHO, get a new rig with what you want and enjoy retirement.

57 degrees now in AV (6:10)

77 in Arcadia Valley at 5 pm. It is close. I'll report back in a little while.

hey Smallie, thanks for the honest report. That happens in any kind of fishing. I would guess that about 90% of the time in my 50 years of fishing, when I knew exactly how I was going to catch them (any species in anybody of water), how deep, which technique, that I never even did as good as you did today. I have learned to "try" to adapt to the changing conditions, but is still hard. Keep it up, you will more good days than bad!

is it a flat top or shell cover?

laid low is my guess. You can often catch a fish that just flat out misses a bait if you follow up with a slow sinking plastic bait. Usually if a fish gets hooked and gets off, it is history. But it will still be around in 2 or 3 days. Give her some rest and then try again. Good Luck!

take it to the main check in point at RR. I would guess the owner of the rod would check there.

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a 1/16th or 1/8th road runner is a good choice also. I also suggest with a rooster tail, unless you want to be playing with pliars all day removing hooks, to cut two of the hooks off the treble. You might lose a fish or two, but in the end you will make a lot more casts and not wasting time trying to dig out trebles from their little mouths.

during the winter Lake Wappapello drum like to eat a jig. One day last winter we had 5 that would have went 25lbs easy. They are sure fun to catch. The funny thing is, Wappapello is a St. Francois River lake, but 20 miles west at Clearwater Lake, on the Black River, I have never caught a drum nor none of my buddies have.

that's terrible straw hat. Does your auto insurance cover any of the missing tackle?

Fished a little derby 10/13. We caught 15 keepers(12 inch) and culled up to 5 fish weighing 11.6 pounds which will usually put you in the hunt at Clearwater. Of course, 19 lbs won, 17 got second and 15 got third. For what it is worth, caught several on a BIG spinnerbait and cranks, warts and a fatboy. It was a good day of fishing, but......... Maybe next time.

hey Snap, the guy who got the hit off scrabble hit one a foot off the plate. Kudo's to him. Remember, you are here on OZ angler forum and Matheny is a major league baseball manager.

so you throw religion into this? And you won't read politics on this forum. I think you just did. It sort of makes you look like an idiot.

you are thinkin' Justin. Good for you. When you get to be an old fart, you will laugh at yourself when you think back to the young days.

pallid sturgeon or not JD, you could never get anything to stay on the bottom of the Mississippi. Sandwaves, debris, etc. Now if you could put one off channel up in the water column some, with a deflector shield, then maybe you could capture the 8 to 10 mph current.

hydropower is an excellent energy alternative. Obviously no new dams are going to built. In my 32 years working for the Corps, there has been study after study about adding hydropower to locks and dams on the big rivers and flood control lakes like Carlyle, Rend, etc. Even studies of putting units on the bottom of the Mississippi proper to harness the energy. None of them were ever feasible from a private investor point of view. I have spoken out against subsidies for worthless stuff before, but these potential hydropower additions might be worthy of consideration for a govt subsidy.

take a rain coat

I would say after 17 years you got your money worth's out of it and just get a new one. It will be just one thing after another, if it hasn't been already.

hey chief, Missouri doesn't belong in the SEC yet. They need to get some more $$ to get better players. Make your donation now. Daniels is a back up, Gabbert is medicore, and Brad Smith is a punt returner.

Mizzou needs a coach that will pay players to compete in the SEC . Pinkel is good with what he can get(mostly 2nd tier tx players), but they should have stayed in the Big 12. The SEC is pro ball basically. See Cam Newton for starters. Money buys players, and if anyone thinks otherwise they live in fantasy land.

no learning curve DC. I was told about the sewing thread a long time ago by a friend of Al's, who died way to early. You will get bit using it. The sewing thread is the clearest and smallest line you will ever get. I got a 8lb bow on the wall from back in the mid 80's using it. But I will admit, is was on a cheese ball at Meremac Spring in the fast run below the bridge. The battle was pretty good, but the entre story might be told later. And I can go to Montauk in the winter and use the sewing thread with a 1/80th brown or green jig below a "cork" and catch and release all I want.

go to walmart and get some clear sewing thread. About 1/2 lb test the best I can tell.