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Burke

Make sure you check the sellers rating before you buy them. I bought a couple from reputable sellers and they were great paint jobs. Put my own hooks on them, but haven't used them yet.

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Just renewed my subscription and Mark sent me a lunker punker the next day. Thanks Mark.

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I like this site:

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There's no way you can fish through the stringy stuff. I fish outside the weedline or find breaks in the stuff. You can also try fishing over the top with a buzz bait or frog. At high tide, where you may have a little water space over the top, I would use a chatterbait, spinnerbait, or a top water.

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I know of a guy in Georgia that tied some for me. He'll use whatever hooks that you like. PM me if you want his email and/or address.

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I throw 1/2 and 3/4 oz that are made by a guy that I found on eBay (seller id = mnfishing). He makes them in a variety of sizes (3/8, 1/2, and 3/4 oz) and colors. Uses 5/0 hook, Luck "E" Strike Clunn Trailers and puts reflective tape on the blade. He sells them auction style. The bidding n...

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Shimanos can be sent to Dan Isaac at ReelEx. He posts on this site. He's great and has a fast turnaround. He cleans and repaired reels for many of the readers on this site. His web site is www.reel-ex.com

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All of the ones that I bought were shipped in 3 inch plastic piping that you can buy at any hardware store. Some of them just taped the ends while others used caps that you can buy. When it came to packing the rods, all of them put sponge like material at both ends so that the rod did not move and s...

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GKramer, The return policy is dependent upon the seller. Some sellers allow return while other do not. Majority of sellers have a picture or multiple pictures of the item. You can ask the seller basically any question about the item. Like the return policy, what the seller charges for shipping the s...

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I've bought a lot of fishing stuff off eBay. Bought 3 or 4 rods and tons of lures. Best buy was a brand new Powell rod for $50 that retailed for $190 (my max was $100 but no one else bid on the rod).

Never had any problems. You never know when you'll get a bargain.

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I've told the following story on this site before: I was with my regular fishing buddy when he bought a $1,000 Gloomis rod and Shimano reel outfit at the fishing show at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. The following week, we were fishing in back part of Sycamore Slough. We just got there and the ou...

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In the Delta, I use 50 lb braid because I swim my chatterbaits over weed beds and can pull any fish out when they grab it. Also, you never know when a striper grabs it.

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My family will have your family in our prayers. I know how you feel. My family has gone through the same storm in the last 12 months. My father-in-law suffered a fatal heart attack in January 2009 and my mother-in-law died of cancer in June. In October, my brother-in-law, John, called me to tell me ...

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Pro 29.64 lbs
Am 22.18 lbs

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I own 9 Lamiglas rods. Like most of us who buy high end equipment, we take care of our stuff. I have sent back probably 6 or 7 rods back to Lamiglas - 2 for obvious warranty issues (reel butt and top part of rod separated), 1 for what I considered a warranty issue (broke rod about 5 inches from the ...

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I like to throw the 1/2 oz mainly in the white colors (white only, white/chartruese, white/red, shad, etc.). I use to throw the original Chatterbaits and some of the other ones until I found a guy on eBay that makes custom "chatter jigs" for me for about 1/2 of the price (includes shipping...

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They got tired of getting crap from other fishermen on this site who weren't as successful as them when it came to fishing.

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Don't what areas you want to try, but I've seen a lot of shore fishermen parked off highway 160 between Rio Vista and Antioch fishing for stripers. Don't know how successful they are.

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This is part of an article from today's Sacramento Bee: "So, there you are on a day off from work, tooling along in your truck, towing your boat and heading to the Bay Area for a nice day of fishing. Better hope they're biting, because you're going to have to pony up. Under a proposal to be vot...

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In the Delta, watch out not only for floating timber, but floating derelict boats. I'm surprised the Coast Guard hasn't pulled them out of the water or got the owner to get them out of the water.

A few years ago, I saw a dead cow floating down the Sacramento River.

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I bought 4 of the Lucky Craft 125 on eBay real cheap before people realized what they were. Love their movement. Caught a few small bass on them, but nothing big to test the joints.

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My neighbor used 8x8 posts because he used the steel rails that you typically find on gates in farms and ranches. Because they come with heavy duty hinges, they can handle the weight of the gates. He drilled through the posts and used 10 inch bolts to hang the rails. He screwed fence boards to the r...

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Got mine in the mail a couple of days ago. A lot of great articles.

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Dom, You described it perfectly (except for the smoking). My wife knows that this is my time away from the serious issues (e.g., family, financial, job, etc.) in our lives that all of us have to deal with on an every day basis. When I'm on the water, these are my some of my issues: "How can I o...

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Yes. Bought it off eBay.

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I just bought a Powell Max 800 SBR EH rod at a price that I couldn't refuse. Is anyone using one?

I'm currently using a Powell Max 711 SBR MH for my punkers.

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It's interesting that you mention your personal favorite about having a guide boat trollling so close to you that you can count their beers. I has a similar situation last year where I was fishing a point in Frank's Tract and had a guide boat (Boston Whaler) cut over the top of point. They were so c...

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Since I use braid exclusively, I save some of my old line for non-fishing purposes. Doing odd jobs around the house - re-stringing wind chimes, using line instead of string when I need to tie things, etc.

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Nelson, If you're using the same net that you use for black bass, you definitely need to get a bigger net. We switch to a bigger net when we go fishing for linesides. It sounds you have a net with what I call "material" netting - getting a hook out of that netting will take "forever&q...

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We use Power Pro moss green in either 50 lb or 65 lb (mainly topwater stuff - buzz baits, frogs, punkers, etc.). On my dropshot spinning rod, I use Power Pro moss green 20 lb. I don't know what my cousins use on their dropshot setups.

(fixed my spelling error - plunker....)

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My cousins and I use braid without a leader. We lose a lure now and then. Like you, didn't want to hassle with the extra knot. We check our lines often and retie when necessary.

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My fishing buddy, Gerald, has a nack for dropping rods overboard. He dropped a brand new outfit overboard (worth about $1,000) before he even had a chance to test it out. We spent probaby a total of 6 hours (over the next 3 weeks) trying to retrieve the rod from 15 ft of muddy water with a lot of ju...

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That's great. Do you know how much that area of the river has changed over the generations?

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Mike,

Glad you got one. We'll have to make a trip too. Tried my favorite spots today but didn't encounter any tuxedos. My cousin Gene caught and released a black bass that was 8+ lbs.

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At 70% off, you'll only pay around $65 for a rod versus $220. Still a bargain with the way the economy is going. If you stay with Lamiglas, I would go with the XCF705. I use that rod for lipless crankbaits and spinnerbaits. If I break a rod that was my fault, I feel lucky that I can get a new rod at...

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Tim, I prefer MH rods with a fast action tip when I crank for stripers. It gives me the backbone to handle the big ones and not rip the hooks out of the striper's mouth when I set the hook. I use a Powell 711 SBRMH rod for tossing my punkers. My other cranking rods for stripers are Powell 735 MH and...

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You can buy them at a couple of sponsors on this website, Fisherman's Warehouse and BTD.

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Thanks Bayou for the great poem.

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Mike,

For me, I'm waiting for the water temps to drop into the 50's. Was out on Thursday and the temps are still in the low to mid 60's. Visited my favorite spots, but didn't even catch a shaker striper.

Will let you know when I start running into them in the spots that I told you about.

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Go with the injected Punkers - $20 versus $50 for the wood. After a few stripers, the paint will start to chip off the wooden ones. You can get them with rattles or no rattles. Wooden ones do not have rattles. With or without rattles is a personal perference. For the injected Punkers, I prefer the o...

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I agree with JustinD.

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Never had a problem with BTD. Was going to place an order with FW but they were "out of stock" with the Punker color I wanted. Ordered from BTD and saved some $$$ too.

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Do you want just month and day or year too? If it's month and date, how about 10/06. That's our anniversary date. Cancer is tough. My mother-in-law just died from cancer. She donated her body to science. It was tough watching cancer rack her body and there was nothing that we could do except to comf...

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You sound like the guy that I regularly fish with. He use Gloomis rods. He breaks about 6 rods a year while I'll break a rod every 2 years or so. I've also seen him drop a couple rod/reel combos overboard -- one of which was a brand new combo that he had bought the week before for a $1,000. I seen i...

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About 40 years ago, when I was a teenager, I was fishing with a couple of friends from the shore at a slough in the middle of nowhere. This guy dressed in fishing clothes approached our group and started to talk to us. One of my friends suddenly decided to make a run to a store which was at least 10...

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I have the same type and colors as Austen but use 65# Power Pro. I changed hardware to Owner 4x hooks and heavier split rings.

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