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Merry Christmas Marcus!

Of course it will

Nice job Brian! Serious fish!

Sorry it took so long! Anyway I noticed after I posted, the pics are not in the right order. The last step is optional, browning them in the pan, to make them "pot stickers"

Very nice! After looking at your reports and making me jealous, I'm finally going tomorrow.

No Mustad here, Gamakatsu EWG

And the all time classic: Remeber.... Don't dip your hands in hot grease, it really hurts bad, and so do skin grafts http://youtu.be/ZvvHXjKloNs

Consult JoeD, I hear he has some killer Christmas music!!! That'll bring you back?

This Luhr Jensen Hot Lips will do the trick

I actually didn't see where you had already suggested the 3XD....my bad

A Strike King 3XD won't go 15' but it's small and might go 12'.

Sorry man, not all are dorks. I really don't know when when the optimum time is for Browns, ask Phil Lilley...he would know better than anyone.

Very Nice Joe! A good jerkbait will always catch those nice browns!

After much of my nagging, my wife translated the Pot Sticker recipe...Enjoy Ness, Billethead, and RPSThe recipe for our homemade dumplings Ingredients: Ingredients for dumpling wrappers: plain flour 2 cups Room temperature water 0.75 cup and 1 tea spoon) , for around 50 dumplings Dumpling fillings Ground pork or beef (your choice) 250 gm，cabbage leaves 7 pieces soy sauce 3 table spoons cooking wine 1 table spoon salt ¼ tea spoon finely chopped ginger 0.5 table spoon，finely chopped spring onion 1 table spoon olive oil 3 table spoons sesame oil 1 table spoon Making the dumpling wrappers: Add the flour to a big mixing bowl. Then slowly stir in the water. Using your clean hands, mix the flour and water into a dough. If there is leftover flour, add a teaspoon of water and mix the remaining flour into the dough. At this step the surface of the it may be a little rough. Cover the mixing bowl and leave the dough for 20 minutes. During these 20 minutes, you can make the dumpling filling. After 20 minutes come back and knead the dough. After kneading the surface of the dough, it should be smooth. Using your hands, make a hole in the middle of the dough. Slowly expand the hole; grab the sides of the hole with both hands and pull and squeeze at the same time. Form the dough into a large ring. Stop when the ring is about as thick as a small rolling pin (as shown below). Cut the ring, then cut small pieces off the ring from one end. Roll the end ninety degrees after each cut. Using the palm of your hand flatten each piece into a small round disc. To roll out the wrappers, hold the rolling pin with one hand and a disc with the other. After each push of the rolling pin, rotate the disc. Continue for one revolution of the disc or until the disc has uniform thickness (if the wrapper is too thick you can roll it out more). Now the dumpling wrapper is ready, it's time to make the stuffings Making the dumpling filling: Add ginger, soy sauce，cooking wine and salt into ground beef or pork of your choice and mix all the ingredients well; Boil the cabbage leaves for 5 minutes. Then put the leaves into cold water to cool down, finely chop the leaves and strain the water from the cabbage leaves. Add them into the pork mince and mix well. Holding a wrapper (dumpling skin) in your hand, put a small amount of filling onto the middle of the wrapper. Fold the lower part of the wrapper up to cover the filling completely. Use your fingers to press the edge of the wrapper so that the edge and both ends of the wrapper are completely sealed. The dumplings can be placed on top of baking paper or kitchen towel in a large tray. Fill a medium-sized pot with water and bring the water to the boil; Add dumplings to the pot (normally around 20 dumplings for a medium-sized pot). To avoid the dumplings sticking, stir the water once along the edge of the pot, then cover the pot with a lid. Cook till the water boils then add half a cup of cold water and cover the pot again. Wait till the water boils again, and add another half cup of cold water. Cover the pot until the water boils again. This time, when all the dumplings are floating, they are ready ：-）。 Take the dumplings out of the pot. If you would like, you can avoid the dumplings sticking together by briefly dunking them into a large bowl of cold water before serving. If there are extra raw dumplings, you can store them in the freezer. Place them on baking paper or kitchen towels with small gaps between the dumplings. After two hours, when the dumplings become hard, put them into a zip-lock bag. In this way you can store them for one or two weeks. Cook the frozen dumplings as you would the fresh dumplings

I always take away the cost factor of line, because I don't fish that much, so I use what I consider to be the best for me. I will never fish braid unless I'm forced to, for me too many problems. I only use 2 lines anymore. Based on what Wrench said, and my own observations, I only need one. I would use Trilene XL on my topwaters, and Yozuri on everything else. I'll probably use Yozuri on everything now for a while, to see if it adversely affects my topwaters. I've heard many guys say they can retie leaders in 20 seconds, I've never seen it actually happen. The amount of time wasted jacking with equipment, really takes time out of the fishing time, which for me is a premium.

Here's the link: http://www.scout.com/outdoors/wired2fish/story/1618325-how-to-store-crankbaits-snag-free

The back pressure you get from reeling that thing in is pretty substantial. I think it displaces a ton of water for a bait that size. On a different note, I saw a post on FB the other day about a guy storing his crank baits in a peanut butter jar. He takes a small rubber band and binds the front hook to the back hook then throws them in the jar. Even with all of the cranks in the jar, they don't seem to get hung up. Nothing worse than when you're trying to switch baits and you pull up a stuck together ball of baits. Or by separating them individually, you end up carrying too big of a tackle box. Gotta try this.

Come on guys it's 2015, don't freaking eat the smallmouth

AND........ you can't find them cheaper on EBay either!

I agree on the inconsistencies, one of the best new baits that hunts and deflects extremely well is the Live Target HFC. I think it's got kind of a flat nose that produces a knuckle ball effect.

Maybe you could attach a 20 lb test Fluoro line to the hook of the Ned and attach the S Waiver to that. That way it looks like a 8" fish chasing a Ned, which is a very realistic presentation.?

Update: Ness and Billethead: Supposedly the infamous pot sticker recipe is in the process of being translated from Chinese to Murican. And No Ness, this isn't a torture device ? And should only be used for its intended purpose!!!

I'm so happy there's a new Star Track movie out?

Sorry Joe, the gates of hell are locked from the inside.