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No one answer. A heavier weight rod will be stiffer and help; a longer rod gives more leverage (I usually use a 9 foot 8 weight); sharp hooks with enough of an unobstructed gap; a strip set takes in a foot or two of extra line; hesitate a bit before the set. Line management is important too. It's easier to end up with slack with fly tackle, and harder to fix. Keep your eye on it.

Fish don't eat them anymore. They're focused on Ned rigs these days. Hair jigs may make a comeback someday, so you should keep a few on the tackle box. But don't bother fishing them now.

I hear you Mitch. I think there are more issues in how data is interpreted than data itself most of the time. You can hardly research any issue without being subjected to somebody's spin.

Good call on the car

Looking good, blue. The Roma's especially catch my eye. I tried a new paste tomato this year called Federle, and they're a bust. The plants are real weaklings, got a bunch of thumb-sized maters with blossom end rot, and one huge one about the size of my fist.

I pinch out suckers to keep the plant size in check. I grow mostly indeterminates and also keep them to one main stem so I can grow more varieties in my space.

Looks pretty interesting. I'll have to bookmark that site.

I gotta know the human to Bear distance, especially on that first pic

I'm gonna have to try that.

This is ness' mom, Eunice. He has lost his computer privileges and won't be posting, or sitting down, for a while. You boys have a good evening.

Here's a shot of the maters -- all Celebrity, except for the one with dark shoulders is a Cherokee Purple.

Article said the guy died from anaphylactic shock. Same thing that causes some folks to die from bee stings, exposure to allergens, etc. So, not a typical snake bite death. Too bad the kids had to see that, and lost their dad.

BH -- my garden started out the year better than I've had in a long, long time. The early season stuff was fantastic. Just don't know what's going on with the rest -- maters and peppers are both smaller than they should be, a couple maters are just flat sickly. At least I'm getting some.

Ha! Bread and butters are good eats, and pretty easy to do. When you've got a fridge to store pickles in, the whole canning thing goes away and the world pof pickles opens up. Keep plugging away!

With all the jive talk he's been laying down, he sounds more like The Man than a real brother. Sorry wrench -- don't want to be a narc, but this is bogus.

I've tried that Gavin. I thought cleaning eyes was a pain in the drain. I've also masked and sprayed. It's a pain too. Lately I've been brushing it on just like Marty is doing. Thin coat, dries quickly, no muss, no fuss. It goes pretty quick.

There's a rumor going around that the Brazilian mafia had a lot of money riding on the outcome.

Wait...I thought this was about Ted Bundy. Never mind.

One-way fly swap. I like it! Now, all you other guys go away.

Hah! I'm here -- I was trying to eat pizza and read this thread on my phone (hint: not worth it). Now I'm back at 'work'. Looking good Marty. I really love what the epoxy does to these poppers. Puts a nice, smooth, hard, glossy coat on them and makes them a lot tougher. I really like your stippling too -- I can't seem to get mine that nice.

I haven't studied all the facts and law surrounding this, so this is all speculation and generalization on my part. (No surprise, huh?) Bundy fought and won a public relations war against the feds, enabled by our mile-wide and inch-deep media. Fortunately for him, the Duchess of York hadn't encountered any dress-lifting winds, the Beyonce/Jay-Z story hadn't broken, and Babba Wawa hadn't announced her big news -- so there was about 23:55 of cable news to fill each day. His 'government picking on the little guy' story sounded good enough that it whipped folks into a frenzy, especially paranoid people with guns and nothing better to do with their time. I don't fault him for the crimes of the people that showed up, but I do think he needs to pay up or get out. If not, get the USDA out there and mention there might be a mad cow outbreak.

Beautiful work! I need to go blow the dust off my workbench and do some more of these. Because some day I just may actually go freakin' fishing

Well, I'm getting maters of a couple Celebrity plants, and one Cherokee Purple. All my maters but the Celebrities look feeble. My beans are being devastated by the crud, getting some on the maters too. Pulled about a third of my onions -- the red ones. OK sized, averaging about the size of a pool ball. Doesn't look like the other 2/3 will be even that big. Generally, stuff's not looking all to good. Didn't grow cukes this year, but have bought some pickling cukes from Wal-Mart. They're pretty small. Did two quarts of refrigerator dill spears a couple weeks ago and 7 pints last night. Pickled two quarts of beets from the garden too.

This is gonna be good! Don't leave us hanging, bro!

This has been floating around for a while, but if you haven't seen it it's definitely worth a look: