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Gumbo=rational intelligent gun-owner
Mud,Dubble=ranting 2nd Amendment excuse-users when anyone dares to say the words "gun control"
Dollars to doughnuts Gumbo isn't from S. GA.
By the way I am.

I'm originally from Va Beach. The trout fishing is definitely better up there than it used to be. Nothing like the Gulf though. There is actually a decent tarpon fishery, just not a lot of people know about it. They catch them on the bay side of the Eastern Shore in the summer on dead baits fished o...

Started buying Shimano Cumara rods a while back. Pricey but hard to fish with other stuff now that we have them. We have been using Crucials for bait casting for years. It's just hard to keep track of Shimano stuff because they change so much.

FWC ended the February closure this year, and handing the rod off is really gray-area-ish. Especially for a couple hundred bucks or so.

In the 2007 Relay For Life tournament at Keaton, I caught a 23" trout first thing. Knowing who fishes the tournaments around there(relevant to this thread!), I knew that fish wouldn't place so I let it go. Later I caught my 5.37 fish, put it in the cooler, and weighed it. I was fishing alone, b...

I am neutral here. But I'll tell you one thing. That was the best report I've read on any forum ever. Entertaining, informative, and just a good read. Good pics, exactly what folks look for on sites like this. Hell, I've been looking at this site for a while and I liked it so much I joined because o...