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Nice post, #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&...back in '73 I bought a glass rod that old man Bauknecht at Green Pond tackle built for me...it's 8' 9" and I'm so used to it now that I can't really get comfortable with the newer stuff, glass or graphite...I've got an old Mitchell 406 spinner along with a big, jumbo Mitchell 488 and I tape those on interchangeably depending on whether I'm casting or drifting eels. Both reels sound like like coffee grinders when I retrieve...they're as old & creaky as I am, but we get along together & they haven't failed me yet...I agree with the line-to-hook approach...any hardware I can skip, I do...and I fish way more often often without a mono shock leader than with one...won't use wire leaders, not even for blues...I find the mono usually slides between their teeth and if once in a while I get bitten off it's just the cost-of-doing-business...maybe it's just being lazy but it seems to me that every place an additional piece of hardware gets added on is just another spot likely to fail...
I sold my fish back in the late 70s and I know I could do OK if I went ahead & got a commercial hook & line license these days...but I know a little more now than I did then & I want my grandson to know what it's like to hook a striper. But I don't point fingers at guys who commercial fish these days...it's legal and some of those fellas are better able to feed their families because they fish...more power to them...I dunno, Bill...the older I get, the less I seem to know the answers...sure do seem like an awful lot of questions to struggle with, though...guess that's just life.
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