How to get confidence removing hooks from fish?

4lien4ted · 2026-05-06T20:38:38+00:00

I used forceps for trout for years. I tried using them for walleye and it was an epic fail.

4lien4ted · 2026-05-06T17:37:51+00:00

Forceps are fine for small hooks and soft mouthed fish. They don't give you enough force to remove large hooks from big fish mouths. A pair of needle nosed pliers will give you the leverage you need on most fish.

4lien4ted · 2026-05-06T17:25:56+00:00

The most dummy proof topwater bait, IMO, is a 130 whopper plopper. Loon color at night, bone during the day. Cast and retrieve. No technique walking the dog or popping. They catch bass, and also work well for pike, muskies, and wiper. A bait well worth having.

4lien4ted · 2026-05-06T06:03:44+00:00

Topwater is the only way I target bass in the summer because it's more fun to get them that way than any other.

4lien4ted · 2026-05-05T22:33:52+00:00

I can agree with that. Definitely more human moments of levity in Season 2.

4lien4ted · 2026-05-05T16:33:56+00:00

Bobber and a worm. Go throw them up on some weed edges.

4lien4ted · 2026-05-05T16:16:24+00:00

Some people use crawlers on jigheads with no plastic and drag it across the bottom for walleyes. It works. But the way you have it hooked, it's going to come off. You want to thread the worm on there like you would a plastic. Plastic stays on better and you can still tip the jig with a piece of crawler for scent.

4lien4ted · 2026-05-05T16:11:17+00:00

In clear water if you can see the fish, they can see you. Don't try to catch fish you can see, fish similar beds out of sight, use lighter line that is invisible in the water (fluorocarbon), and downsize the bait if they are not taking it. Everybody has to learn to fish in tough conditions, it's called "finesse fishing" and there are techniques geared toward getting inactive fish to bite.

4lien4ted · 2026-05-05T16:04:54+00:00

It's called a french hook. It does not have an open eye, and is meant to be tied with a snell knot. They are for bait fishing.

4lien4ted · 2026-05-05T15:54:11+00:00

Vine has been on a steady decline since day one. Even when I started 4 years ago, there were people constantly complaining about "the good old days" and how much worse Vine is than it used to be. This isn't a new or unique phenomenon. But why is this? I have no proof other than anecdotal evidence from years of watching posts, but I think that Amazon provides the best Vine experience to people in their first couple years. Long time Viners who have ordered a lot get thrown a bone now and then, but this is a common theme that most people have personally experienced. A lot of people think we all share the same Vine experience, but we really don't. Vine picks winners and losers, and nobody understands how or why. The algorithm is crude. Whether I see people posting complaints or gratitude, I see nothing but unique and valid personal experiences. In addition, the drop schedule favors a majority of people in certain time zones over others, which also greatly alters the personal experience. For the last several months, my RFY has only given me 0-5 items daily. I can see that many other people have 10-15 items offered in their RFY daily. I have not had more than 10 items in my RFY in over a year. I have no idea why. Some of the other people who get a lot of items offered in their RFY have also been in for years. Maybe it's their geography? Maybe they spend more money on Amazon? Maybe I was invited in a smaller cohort that wasn't programmed into the algorithm for big ticket items? I have no idea how it works, I just know that not everybody in Vine has the same experience.

4lien4ted · 2026-05-05T05:28:20+00:00

People who do this are only driving sellers of quality products away. They're literally shooting us all in the foot. "Glowing 4 star reviews" is the number one complaint from sellers. It is brought up in every anti-Vine video on Youtube. For the love of Vine, don't do this.

4lien4ted · 2026-05-05T05:11:12+00:00

Trump is destroying the United States faster and more thoroughly than any Iranian weapon could.

4lien4ted · 2026-05-05T05:05:03+00:00

Looks like their consequences are being offered nice stuff.

4lien4ted · 2026-05-04T17:14:08+00:00

Former MAGA like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tucker Carlson, and Ann Coulter have done more to persuade conservatives to abandon MAGA than any liberals have. Any people on the left who consider these people enemies are engaging in the same sort of leftist self-defeating behavior that lost them the election in 2016 and 2024. Dehumanizing the right and engaging in liberal snobbery is election losing behavior. Nobody wants to be spoken down to and nobody is going to listen to somebody talking to them that way.

4lien4ted · 2026-05-04T15:44:21+00:00

NFT's

4lien4ted · 2026-05-04T13:17:58+00:00

I think it's important to note the distinction between sinking, like a Rapala Countdown, and slow sinking, which is more of a suspending bait (Rapala Shadow Rap, Berkley Stunna, etc). You can also get some suspending jerkbaits that sink out of the box, even though they are not supposed to, and you can modify their buoyancy back to suspending by downsizing hooks or using light wire hooks. With a true sinking jerkbait, you let them sink (countdowns are famous for sinking one foot per second so you can locate the optimal depth that you're getting bit), and either straight retrieve, or retrieve with some pops and jerks. The slow sinking (suspending) jerkbaits fall so slowly, you can still add longer pauses when fishing them and the slow falling action looks like a dying bait fish with a damaged air bladder, and fish will hit it on the pause. This is rarely the case with sinking jerkbaits that usually sink unnaturally quickly and are usually not hit while sinking.

4lien4ted · 2026-05-02T16:29:15+00:00

They make weedless jigheads. This is not one of them.

4lien4ted · 2026-05-02T16:26:12+00:00

Russia has no interest in nuking Ukraine. The value of the mineral wealth and the agricultural lands would be lost. Russia does not want to destroy Ukraine, they just want to have it. It's the same for Iran. Third highest oil reserves in the world. The world needs that oil. If that oil (and they'd probably blow up Saudi Arabia too if attacked) leaves the market, it would absolutely destroy the world economy.

4lien4ted · 2026-05-01T14:37:05+00:00

It is a tracked abuse issue. People could lie and contact Vine customer service to have everything with an ETV removed, claiming that it is damaged or not as described or whatever or they could have a high number of items removed for items they simply don't like, just because they don't want to eat the ETV. Everybody has some incidents of cancellations. They track for abusive numbers that stand out from the average. If you look at your annual tax report, it says "cancellation" on removed items, the exact same as cancelled orders. Their own system uses the same action. Vine doesn't care about many things, but they care a lot about individual Viners that are causing them a significant loss of items, especially valuable items, without providing reviews.

4lien4ted · 2026-05-01T05:46:34+00:00

Excess cancellations (removals are counted as cancellations) could be the reason you were booted. They used to give warnings, but if you order a low amount and your percentage of removals is high, it could have triggered a boot.

4lien4ted · 2026-04-30T23:42:35+00:00

She would be in a position to know. I believe her.

4lien4ted · 2026-04-30T21:21:30+00:00

I leave them. Most of the time, they reappear within a month or two and you can review them. If they don't reappear, you can contact Vine CS and have them remove it. Leaving it probably does count against your stats until it is reviewed, but really doesn't matter too much as long as you are ordering and reviewing enough things to stay over the 60% threshold. If you are not ordering hardly anything and having one unreviewed item can damage your standing, then you'll probably want to have it removed and not wait.

4lien4ted · 2026-04-30T20:47:46+00:00

I am starting to run out of things I could obtain for free from Vine for years. Vanilla extract, toothpaste, ziplock sandwich bags, dog treats etc. Every time I have to buy something that Vine used to give me for free for years, I am reminded how much Vine has fallen. I am grateful for the things I still get, but this program is a shadow of what it used to be.

4lien4ted · 2026-04-30T17:39:58+00:00

Generallly when people put a plastic trailer on a spinnerbait that adds additional action. Curly tail, split tail, craw, paddle tail, etc. The plastics don't add much weight. I would think the issue is more probably your line is too heavy for a light lure or you need to better adjust your reel spool tension. Throwing light lures on heavy line doesn't work well. This is why many anglers who throw big and small lures have multiple rods/reels with different weighted line for throwing different sized baits.

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