>I feel like I've been on a lifetime of dumbest trips ever,

ROFLMAO

Ok, blast from the past. Me and Jamon go to Lake Los Carneros to try and catch bass from shore. We caught precisely nothing. Since fishing was bad we decided to have a casting contest.

We both reared back and fired. My Abu Black Maxx with 10lb exploded in to the ultimate birds nest. Jamon's Calcutta did not fare any better. We had to leave and go home because neither of reels worked any more.