Champ188

In fairness, I will say that my Lew's spinning reels were bought several years ago when Lew's was first starting back up. They were not the cheapos, though. I gave $79 each for them. In no particular order, my main complaints were: Line twist was just awful. Main drive gear stripped out of one of them within 6 months and the other one started sounding (and feeling) like a thrashing machine with less than a year's use.

Mike, it's supposed to be 55 for a high Saturday and then falling like a meteor in the afternoon with 15-25 mph NW winds. Donna and I will be at Table Rock. Yes, it may throw ice pellets or snowflakes at us in the afternoon but I KNOW you aren't going to let a woman out-tough you. LOL All joking aside, should be a CATCHING day with that front coming in. Donna's a trooper. She has the best in clothes that money can buy --- UnderArmor Infrared and assorted other cold gear, plus GuideWear outer garments --- and she doesn't back down from anything weather-wise. If I go, she's with me. I'm blessed to be married to such a great fishing buddy.

Hope the fish is equally durable. DU is right ... squeezing the heck out of its midsection is not the way to hold a fish.

I bought two Pfleuger Presidents a few months back and couldn't be happier with them. If not for the littering aspect, I'd throw the two Lew's spinners they replaced overboard just for the satisfaction of watching the pieces of junk sink. I'm all about Lew's casting reels but it'll take a lot of convincing before I ever try another one of their egg beaters.

Awesome stuff, C4F. I'm on board!

Guide buddy over at Broken Bow uses them and has been very pleased.

Are you at the Indian-named camp up inside Baxter?

Pretty much the same with me. I can get pretty knot-headed when I have a blade in my hand, but I know I can cover a lot of water with it and put it back into any kind of cover I want. The jerk bait is opposite ... you don't cover much water and the turd will hang in anything it gets within 3 feet of, except a fish, of course, which can knock slack in your line and never get stuck. And that's after you've put Daichi Death Trap hooks on it that will reach out and grab human flesh from any distance.

Exactly what has happened to me the last two trips.

That's great news. God is good.

Now that's funny right there, I don't care who you are.

Very nice, Terrin. Glad you got out and got into some. This working business is killing me. It would be better if I wasn't spending 80% of my time sitting in a cubicle with NOTHING to do. I can handle the idea of not being on the lake when there's work to be done, but sitting here watching some good early winter fishing days slip by while I try to stay awake is not to my liking at all.

Thanks for the detailed report. Glad you got them to cooperate and obviously had a good time. Very pretty spot in the picture.

Beautiful pics. You've had a very nice trip and lots of action considering how slow it's been lately. Always enjoy your reports.

Thanks for the report, pal. Just a hit and miss deal right now. If you see me, keep going. You're nowhere near any fish. LOL

That's absurd!

OK, OK ... the rods are Denali Kovert LT's in a 7-2 finesse jig model and a 6-9 spinnerbait model. Picked 'em up yesterday from a great friend. Was briefly able to test fire the 7-2 and loved it. It's a M power with fast action. Plans are to use it as a Wart/Rock Crawler rod. So far, so good.

Alex, you can't skip Rock Crawlers or 6XD's no matter what kind of reel you have.

Thanks, kbillb. Now you've done it. With 2 new rods coming tomorrow, what was I supposed to do? Put old reels on them? Not hardly. Done went and pulled the trigger on two of those $179-down-to-$119 jobbers. Guess we'll see if they're any good. LOL

This forum gets scarier by the day.

Now THAT's the funniest thing I've heard in a while! BWWWA HHHHAAAAAAAA!!!!!'

Santa's not real? WTH?

Hey, you're on my spot!

I've not tried those and don't know how they compare, but I've had 4 or 5 of the TS1H's for about 5 years now and they are holding up well. Really happy with them.

Donna and I will be there Saturday, too, and maybe Sunday. Loading up at noon Saturday to go eat lunch with some friends then planning to come back for the afternoon. White Ranger with silver/gunmetal stripes and a Merc with a canvas engine cover. Tall fat guy aboard with gorgeous back-deck candy, although she'll be far too bundled up to see anything more than the tip of her nose ... and even that's a maybe. If you see us, keep moving. I'm a jerk and will throw baits at you. Just ask 96CHAMP. Kidding, of course. Come say hi and tell me how to catch one.