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Deaded me.

Nice. Can't recall seeing that one before. Not shot from that angle at least.

Know of a couple of long time members who are hurting and in need of prayer. The pharmacist and friend in me prevents me from being any more detailed. A physical issue, and a personal issue, in separate cases. Both are men of faith. Please hold them up.

Hadn't noticed, but yes. Right there with ads for rods and tires.

Standards 😀. Wouldn't dream of imposing on anyone that way. If the fish have to eat raw lead for a bit, I'm sure the world will spin on.

I know you mean it. We'd much prefer your prayers. Know you're a man of deep faith. Thank you.

For being an awful process, we're doing far better than we deserve. Very fortunate.

Hopefully you get all techified and rectified soon.

Better than getting the whole shebang shut down, lol. That was rough.

I'll see you, and raise you 29:12-13 too. Thanks Mark.

Thanks for sharing her story. That's pretty much the course we're hoping for. If anyone wants to know how those "little old couples" in church got to be that way, I think we could both tell them.

Not even sure where to start with this... Some of you know I posted an unspoken prayer request on 1/8. A few know the specifics. Well, these are the basic details. In December my wife had a flare up of headaches and dizziness. Nothing super alarming, especially for a pharmacist in winter. Then on 1/2 she woke up with double vision. A week later she was having surgery to remove a brain tumor. You probably won't hear a lot of folks say "Hallelujah! My wife is having brain surgery!" But I did. We did. Because it wasn't inoperable, which it certainly could have been. God is good. Never doubt it. The pathology report really hit us for a couple of weeks. All we knew for certain was that it wasn't the always benign tissue they expected based on the MRI. Local pathology wanted extra eyes on it, sent it out, to Mayo as it happened. Both identified it as a different type, but also benign. Requires a little more watchfulness on everyone's part, but still a good prognosis. Did I mention that God is good? Overall she's doing very well, just in the middle of a long recovery. She's struggling with some double vision, lot of possible causes, but none emergent or requiring intervention. We're hopeful that it will resolve, but realistic about the possibility it might not. Compared to how things might have gone, she is so very fortunate. God does not forsake His own. Throughout, we have felt surrounded by the prayers of faith filled folks, many from the members here. It was like a wall was built around us, around our family. We lived on prayer and faith. Can't thank you enough. Not if we did it every minute. So I guess that covers the thanks, and the update. That leaves the jigs. We are obviously behind on everything from production to getting back to folks about orders. We're working on it, and we're getting there. For now, we're basically in a backorder situation. We're still trying to make both unpainted and painted jigs. At some point, it may be that we just have the unpainted available for a while. Painting is obviously the slowest part of the deal. I cleared some space in my inbox. My email is still the same, feel free to use it. Honestly, it's probably the easiest way to reach me currently. There's so much more to tell. About lessons learned. About friends. About faith. Would be happy to talk about it with anyone. Especially if you're struggling. Hope everyone has a great spring. "My" fish probably needed a year off anyway 😉.

Thanks to everyone for the prayers. We could feel the prayers of the faithful surrounding us and holding us up. Was going to post an update/testimony here, but I'll do it over on the Table Rock forum, for a variety of reasons.

We've lived on prayer for over a month now. God will not forsake you.

Don't put a blade on the back of a silent red eye shad or Duo. Poor man's Cordell Super Shad.

You can buy a big roll of adhesive foil at a craft store like Michaels. Prep the bait, stick it on, use a little clear coat if you want it to be permanent. Foil heating and cooling tape works too.

Precisely this.

Some of the exact reasons I will never have a foot throttle. Learned a lot of that on the Mississippi River.

Yep.

Especially a brown one.

They didn't. Got it off the bait and taped it down. He won with it in him.

Saw it. Cringed for a few hours. I upgraded my diagonal cutters after ending up attached to a brown fish and a Yellow Magic in 2010. As the Forged in Fire guy says "they will cut". It was down in his mouth, fish chomping on it. There was no way to adequately deal with it using needle nose pliers. I used split ring pliers to get the hook off the bait, got rid of the fish, then yanked it out. Dumb, but it was out.

I can confirm this assessment.

One of these days...

Depends entirely on the clear being used.