Seth

Tuna and salmon based sushi and medium rare ribeye steaks are two of my favorite foods! I'm getting hungry now!

Bummer. I just texted him a bit ago and he was headed to meet up with Jack on LoZ. I'm sitting at work thinking thinking I should be fishing somewhere.......

Aaron needs to go fish with Tommy. He'll show you how to winch those bigguns up out of the trees!

I recognize three of the names that were staying at the same hotel as us last weekend when we were down for Phi'ls trout tourney, so they had at least five days to pre-fish before the tourney started. Between the three of them, they caught a total of four keepers yesterday. Sounds like that pre-fishing really paid off!

I'm going with mother of all goggle eye!

@Gatorjet should open up shop next door offer speeds up to 35mph!

You weren't one of those netadmins that had to do everything the hardest way possible, were you? I've dealt with several "techies" who made issues far more complicated than they should have due to terrible critical thinking and troubleshooting skills. Of all the forums and message boards that I use, Reddit is probably the most difficult. It's not really hard, it just has a learning curve.

I did decent this tourney. Only pick I hurt myself on was going with Ish instead of Hackattack. Hard not to pick Ish on that pond though. MUCH better than my 700 point showing in the first tourney...

Lews BB1 pro in 5.1:1 ratio is $158 on Amazon. I've picked up a few barely used Tourney pros for around $100. The bb1 pro should be similar. The Lew's Pro series reels are awesome!

Saturday was a struggle in that wind. It made it so difficult to feel the bites when throwing jigs and also nearly impossible to keep the slack out of the line when fishing a jig below a float. There were a few times I got a bite on the jig and float and when I set the hook, there was so much bow in the line that I never even moved the float. My buddy had a good brown hooked, but it broke him off at the boat. It looked like it would be in that 18-19" range so it didn't really matter, but it would have been nice to throw it on the bump board just to be sure. It's amazing what a day does to fishing. Before heading home, we put the boat in and fished from 10-1pm.. We started out up around Short Creek and caught a couple during the first hour before deciding to run down to Monkey Island. Fish were midging all over so we threw pink trout magnets, white thread jigs and pink micro jigs about 18" below a float and caught 20-25 in two hours with several around a pound. They wouldn't touch a jig fished straight. I lost one bow that looked like it was pushing 17-18".

That guy has probably broken more rods in the tailgate of his truck than anybody alive!

Turkeys are all sorts of silly. I watched a Tom strut around for a bunch of hens on a warm day during the 2015 rifle season for deer. I've heard them gobbling pretty heavy while coyote hunting in the early morning in February and March as well.

Sounds like their paddlefish report that they send out. It's literally the same document every year with a few date changes.

Why did I have to click on this thread? Now I probably won't sleep a wink until a scientific explanation for the coloration on that bass is figured out.

All is good now. There are three black rubber bumpers that stick up through the spool on the knob side. Each spool had a couple that were sticking just a little bit above flush with the lip in the center of the spool. I took my fly tying scissors and trimmed them back flush and drags work great again. I figured it had to be something simple with the spool. Heck, there ain't much too them!

Something is definitely catching on the spool knob. If you spin the spool by hand slowly, you will feel it start to catch and then the knob will turn a few clicks in whichever direction you are turning the reel spool. It will grab and move the drag knob either direction when you turn the spool by hand. The only thing I can possibly see that could grab the knob is the hex pin that holds in the drag washers inside the spool. The hex pins in my 6925, which operate smoothly, looks the same though as far as I can tell.

The pair of 6920s came in a box together that looked like it came straight from the factory. amaybe it was a bad batch? If the replacements are good, I'll just chalk it up as a fluke. I understand that crap happens.

This is the 6920 that is acting up. This is a 6925 that is smooth as butter.

I just got a pair of president 6920 reels in, spooled one up with fresh 2# Pline, loosened the drag to get it set and noticed the the drag knob will slip and spin in the direction that tightens the drag. Thinking maybe it was just a fluke, I spooled up the other one and the same thing is happening! I've used 6925 and 6930 models for years and the drags are silky smooth. Anybody else ever have this issue with the 6920 model? The only reason I went with these models was because they will be dedicated as trout reels and only be spooled up with 2# test. I took some video on my phone to show what it is doing. I'll try to post them up later. Guess I'll be calling Pflueger to see what is up.

I noticed my PBJ ZinkerZ's didn't seem to have much salt the other day either. It didn't seem to matter much though as far as the fish eating the bait. My partner was using a different type of stick worm, but it was still PBJ and the fish were eating his pretty good as well.

Holy moly! I've never seen it look like that!

I've come to the conclusion that PBJ ZinkerZ's are the only color I need to bother carrying in my box for NED fishing. It produced over 50 smallies for me and a buddy on the Gasconade this past Sunday. I don't fish them as heavily as some of you, but it seems that everytime I do, I always end up settling on the PBJ color. It just flat works! I'd imagine a white version would work best around the spawn, but I don't bass fish much when they are spawning.

Suckers are still plentiful on the Gasconade and that river gets absolutely pounded during gigging season. I could only imagine how thick they would be without a gigging season.

A few guys I know fished this weekend on LoZ and said it was easier than last weekend. I gave the crappie a break and went after bass on the Gasconade. That water warming up 10 degrees last week really had them eating!

Well I didn't come it last anyways. I do believe that is the worst score I have EVER had doing fantasy fishing. Sad part was I had a team that I picked real quick based on their names and without studying anything about the fishery that would have done pretty well! That's what I get for researching I guess......