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Thank you! This is super helpful. I have not used nearly that amount of patience. I do have a smaller weighted worm pattern similar to the bottom two patterns and have managed to accidentally catch some big carp by just leaving those on the bottom for a long time…sounds like I should try similar...

I have never fished a senko before - i don’t gear fish so it has just never been something I have tried to date. I have some patterns that I believe kinda mimic a rubber worm. They historically have fished ok (did catch one really nice LMB last summer with the green and brown one that seems...

PSA on crawdads in Western WA: try not to keep/kill the native Signal Crayfish species and instead focus energy on the Red Swamp Crayfish. Some eeejit bucket biologist introduced the larger red swamp crayfish species during the last century and they are big-time negatively impacting the...

Wasting bacon 🥓!?! This feels like a dreadful misuse of a precious resource. My pro tip: Cook the bacon, eat it, then go to the body of water where you want to catch crawdad. Use almost anything else - I don’t even care what - to catch them. The bacon will sustain you in your hunt. You’ll feel...

(Clearing throat for rant on car tech….) Ok I don’t know who designed the “tire pressure warning indicator” electronics but they should be tied up in the town square and pelted with rotten fruit and veggies. This is my third vehicle (spanning two brands) where it will fire false warnings if...

@clarkman how do you like those Dr Slicks? They are pretty reasonably priced

The Grand Highlander seats lay down flat. I can’t speak for the Highlander on that front. The Grand Highlander is substantially larger inside vs the Highlander.

Not to divert thread, but I know Highlanders have come up a few times. I’m kinda eyeballing Toyota Grand Highlander as a nice car camping rig. AWD, super roomy, and includes a 26 mpg hybrid with an >300 horse good torque option or a very high mpg ~36 mpg option in more sedate hybrid. Can fit two...

The flies: Two dozen Rio Cray Crays in two different colors/sizes, a midweight scud pattern, couple of other nymph patterns, some Soccer Moms, two dozen small chubbys (in yellow), etc.

There I was yesterday, hunkered down in my home office and living the corporate grind. Suddenly, the doorbell rang. I ran upstairs and opened my door to find some glorious new fly fishing stuff. New reel, new sinking line for me to hopefully up my lake game, a new “truck rod” I plan to use for...

@Northern continuing to live vicariously through you - thank you! We have the same boat so I just imagine I’m the one getting after it (instead of the soul crushing corporate grind and travel taking up most of my time these days).

I want to pick up a line for my Sage Smallmouth II rod (roughly akin to an 8 wt…) for days when the surface is not the go. Historically I have either just used a floating line, or used a 7 wt rod with a streamer tip instead. Either option has worked ok, but some of the streamers I’m throwing are...

i think Charles should generally feel optimistic about the Pats over the next few years. Solid defense, pieces to build around on the offense, good coaching. They are in a seemingly perennial not-great division (save for the Bills who have Josh Allen but still have some holes). Drake Maye didn’t...

Hi - I believe the Hawks special teams coordinator is a Harbaugh. The o line coach’s name escaping me at moment, but I don’t believe he is a Harbaugh. I do believe the o line coach feels frustrated at times watching game film and seeing the right guard miss blocks….

Seahawks! Now onto the offseason, draft, and free agency! Ummmm….memo to John Schneider and to o line coach: pls consider right guard somewhere in your offseason efforts. Please.

As a little kid spending chunk of summers on our MT fishing property, my cousin and I were put in charge of catching whiteys, or Billy Blancos as we called them. My uncles would set us up with princes and a drop shot system and we’d nymph for glory and for “Lil Indian” smoker fodder while the...

Scorpions bother me more than snakes. on one of my Panama trips, I was walking around in bare feet after dark. I happened to flip on my flashlight and pointed it down. Untold numbers of large black scorpions scurrying around. I made a manly sound (ooofuckshiteeeeeek) and did a cool series of...

Been to the Pacific side on a handful of trips there purely to surf during a ~10 year span. Fun waves. Nice water temps. Lot of gnarly scorpions 🦂. Around some of the outer islands it was a tad sharky as well (tiger sharks in that mix). The first time I went I boated over and surfed Coiba...

@MrP that carp you’re hoisting in your profile picture is Rubenesque +. Nice!

LaCroix for a Super Bowl ? Somehow that just seems wrong. Maybe at least grab some non alcoholic beer. There are some pretty good options these days, though your mileage may vary