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- Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:00 pm
- Forum: Fishing Reports
- Topic: Bulls on Parade
- Replies: 11
- Views: 499
Re: Bulls on Parade
fwiw, S-glass has the same equivalent modulus as cane, and even though this rod is rated 1/4 to 1 oz, it skip-casts 1/8 oz off the tip like that's all it was made for - a quality of S-glass. https://i.imgur.com/cXmO9kHl.jpg I have the same niche in river kayak filled with an even shorter, 5' rod, it...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:59 am
- Forum: Fishing Reports
- Topic: Bulls on Parade
- Replies: 11
- Views: 499
Re: Bulls on Parade
Sorry Ron, how about now? that's awesome friend - thanks for the extra effort. Last year, I put this together, 6' S-glass with backbone, just for close skip-casting 1/8 oz bunny shrimp to redfish backs in sloughs. The centrifugal cast is intuitive for me. But I've yet to get it on redfish backs - I...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 12:38 pm
- Forum: Fishing Reports
- Topic: Bulls on Parade
- Replies: 11
- Views: 499
Re: Bulls on Parade
Glenn, I love the fish photos, but you're going to have to write paragraphs before my old eyes can read it.
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 6:32 am
- Forum: Saltwater
- Topic: New Statewide Trout Regs - March 26th
- Replies: 16
- Views: 923
Re: New Statewide Trout Regs - March 26th
Quite simply, there never was a myth that all trout eggs are laid by big females. The math is simply the probability of catching females. Below 16", odds are 50/50 of killing female trout. Above 23", odds are greater than 95% of killing female trout. 17 to 23", odds are better than 90...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 9:09 pm
- Forum: Fishing Reports
- Topic: Jones Lakes 7-Apr-2024
- Replies: 3
- Views: 284
Re: Jones Lakes 7-Apr-2024
Great day on the water, great results, photos, great report. Thermacell works. https://i.imgur.com/kH25RMQl.jpg When we set up a trailer in the still-air scrub at Josh's Copano digs, a mat goes down, we set up tables for rigging and lounging, and Thermacell gets placed immediately. Only way to toler...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 8:59 am
- Forum: Fishing Reports
- Topic: Arroyo March New Moon
- Replies: 8
- Views: 611
Re: Arroyo March New Moon
DD is Back. BTW, I got a new Daiwa that's Back in Black. http://i.imgur.com/yXLQaJTm.jpg https://i.imgur.com/lqz4ZDYm.jpg This is the SLP Works Zillion (body only), $210 imported through Amazon . Doesn't come with a spool or handle, but I'd change those out, anyway. If anyone wants a too-good deal o...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 7:38 am
- Forum: Fishing Reports
- Topic: Arroyo March New Moon
- Replies: 8
- Views: 611
Re: Arroyo March New Moon
Hello friends, thanks for contributing. God Bless Huts. Their burgers, their onion rings, and their $5 shake was only $3.50 - I heard there's still one in the Austin Airport. If that's the other place, maybe there's a Huts in heaven, too. If you ever swing through Estes, there's a perfect burger sta...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 8:00 am
- Forum: Saltwater
- Topic: Hobie passport 12 stolen Galveston
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1082
Re: Hobie passport 12 stolen Galveston
Shoffer, You Go !!!
Episode ended righteously.
If it's appropriate for the case, we'd love to hear the list of charges.
Episode ended righteously.
If it's appropriate for the case, we'd love to hear the list of charges.
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 1:56 pm
- Forum: Kayak Rigging
- Topic: Redfish 10 skeg project - all done
- Replies: 37
- Views: 23172
Re: Redfish 10 skeg project - all done
This project goes back 12 years. The skeg is invaluable for solving windcock - keeping the boat nose downwind - and was a boon on this last-spring trip with Josh, letting me troll the wind and fish perfectly parallel to the bank without touching anything but my rod. https://i.imgur.com/K5Rh0Ky.jpg T...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 12:18 pm
- Forum: Fishing Reports
- Topic: Arroyo March New Moon
- Replies: 8
- Views: 611
Re: Arroyo March New Moon
Thanks for the detailed week-report, Jim. Also thanks for mentioning Chili Willie's - their onion rings are a food group - clone of now-defunct Huts. Lou said they're a heart attack on a plate, but they do my favorite once/yr grilled-jalapeno cheeseburger, and their fried shrimp and fish fillets are...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 1:55 pm
- Forum: Fishing Reports
- Topic: East Flats - March 9th, 2024
- Replies: 2
- Views: 323
Re: East Flats - March 9th, 2024
Good call on the wind.
Nina's snail find is beyond cool.
Thanks for the report.
Nina's snail find is beyond cool.
Thanks for the report.
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:18 am
- Forum: Fishing Reports
- Topic: Arroyo March New Moon
- Replies: 8
- Views: 611
Arroyo March New Moon
This is the latest "winter" trip we've made to our favorite dock house, which is owned by Spencer Bell. 3 nights in the Texas tropics. https://i.imgur.com/ILW2mQOl.jpg Up front, I didn't get any photos of Texas Jim, who was there with his skiff, taking advantage of the dock boat lift. He w...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:08 am
- Forum: Fishing Reports
- Topic: Ingleside on the Bay - March 10th, 2024
- Replies: 4
- Views: 321
Re: Ingleside on the Bay - March 10th, 2024
Perfect report, as always.
Beauty trout.
That's still a legal bag fish - the new rig will be implemented "sometime late in March"
Beauty trout.
That's still a legal bag fish - the new rig will be implemented "sometime late in March"
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 6:54 am
- Forum: Fishing Reports
- Topic: Jones Lakes 2-Mar-2024
- Replies: 7
- Views: 709
Re: Jones Lakes 2-Mar-2024
heck of a day - thanks for posting photos
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 6:53 am
- Forum: Fishing Reports
- Topic: San Luis Pass/Titlum Tatlum
- Replies: 3
- Views: 923
Re: San Luis Pass/Titlum Tatlum
Glad you got out - nice report.
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 9:19 am
- Forum: Fly Fishing
- Topic: Frog Pattern
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4919
Re: Frog Pattern
Look at you go Josh.
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 9:15 am
- Forum: Saltwater
- Topic: Need input...
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1095
Re: Need input...
My buddy Steve has Revo 16 and Outback 12. I've seen him effortlessly rack the miles on two fall Redfish Rodeos in his Outback. In a 30+-kt blow that came up last day we were out on Lighthouse Lakes, first time my T160 ever lost to windcock, he rescued me off the mangroves. Outback gets my highest r...
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 3:37 pm
- Forum: Saltwater
- Topic: I sure hope this turns out the way it seems
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1908
Re: I sure hope this turns out the way it seems
The ones on sale are the USM FL version, JDM '19 - still great reels (labyrinth seals) and the only versions I own. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kQ3lcs0A_8 I like having my Shimano worm-drive reels in the same series so I can swap spools, carry one loaded spare spool for all. https://i.imgur.com...
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 8:38 pm
- Forum: Fishing Reports
- Topic: Finally, a Catch in January!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1190
Re: Finally, a Catch in January!
good job Jim.
Yeah, I've seen guide boats stacked fishing the corners where Sailboat channel meets Brown & Root channel.
Yeah, I've seen guide boats stacked fishing the corners where Sailboat channel meets Brown & Root channel.
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 12:01 pm
- Forum: Freshwater
- Topic: Striped bass in the Hill country
- Replies: 5
- Views: 994
Re: Striped bass in the Hill country
My best striper fly was a cats whisker tied on 4x-long salt size 4, beefed up with saddles and a pair of marabou blood feathers for the tail. They would only take blend colors, grey and light olive, and only on a natural swing - couldn't get one to take a stripped fly. https://i.imgur.com/3YSzNN2.jp...
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 3:14 pm
- Forum: Saltwater
- Topic: I sure hope this turns out the way it seems
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1908
Re: I sure hope this turns out the way it seems
Since we're on Stradic, the only way to get saltwater inside Stradic is to dunk it for an extended time. Normal operation slings water away from the interior. Cheaper reels without labyrinth seals are more likely to get salt inside from spray. Gear wear, spindle stiffness, rotor wobble solved, Strad...
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 7:11 pm
- Forum: Saltwater
- Topic: I sure hope this turns out the way it seems
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1908
Re: I sure hope this turns out the way it seems
Hey what do I know. There's always a reel on my bench. I take '77 Ambassadeur, designed to fish 3/8 oz, and make them cast and fish 3 g just as far and more reliably (backlash-proof). They especially pay off for imitating winter glass minnows. https://i.imgur.com/yu1zaty.jpg ... don't clean the main...
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 12:10 pm
- Forum: Saltwater
- Topic: I sure hope this turns out the way it seems
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1908
Re: I sure hope this turns out the way it seems
If you want the full editorial, spinning reel is the most complicated fishing implement ever attempted. By design - really by lack of design - they self destruct with use. The extreme loads and moments produced by the long spindle and rotor were never understood - they were just built by trial and m...
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 11:26 am
- Forum: Saltwater
- Topic: I sure hope this turns out the way it seems
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1908
Re: I sure hope this turns out the way it seems
Glenn, when Tackle Advisors reviewed '19 Stradic (FL in USM), he dubbed it, "The Best $400 Reel You Can Buy" (he's a self-admitted Daiwa fan boy, and rated Stradic over Daiwa Exist, taking them down side-by-side). In the lower grades, you'll get a stronger reel in Daiwa, compared to the lo...
- Wed Jan 17, 2024 8:32 pm
- Forum: Saltwater
- Topic: Trout on the coast
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1288
Re: Trout on the coast
The important thing is that there is water, allowing the fish to move to safety.
What made the '21 storm devastating was a week of NW wind, isolating so many fish in the shallows.
What made the '21 storm devastating was a week of NW wind, isolating so many fish in the shallows.