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If you're fishing spinning tackle, try using manual bail technique.
The fingers of your free hand feather the line coming off the spool to keep it "tighter" - not quite baitcast-tight.
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- Mon May 06, 2024 10:12 am
- Forum: Freshwater
- Topic: lily pads
- Replies: 6
- Views: 726
- Sat May 04, 2024 5:31 pm
- Forum: Freshwater
- Topic: lily pads
- Replies: 6
- Views: 726
Re: lily pads
Considering how frogs are weighted, it's Very Unlikely for them to land upside-down on a bait cast. All bets are off with a spinning cast. Capture.JPG Capture1.JPG My bread-and-butter winter glass minnow lures are trout minnows with the tiny trebles swapped for single plug hooks. Because of tight li...
- Sat May 04, 2024 9:02 am
- Forum: Freshwater
- Topic: lily pads
- Replies: 6
- Views: 726
Re: lily pads
Watercress and lilly pad bass require veggie-chopping braid and a rod no lighter than MH (heavier is better). Not sure why the frogs are a problem. Here's a frog-style crayfish pattern, and my frogger reel with Japan's hardest 45-lb braid. https://i.imgur.com/FPtD7Vgm.jpg http://i.imgur.com/kgeo9Sam...
- Fri May 03, 2024 8:47 am
- Forum: Fishing Reports
- Topic: Night fishing - night of Mon. Apr. 29, 2017 - West Galv. Bay
- Replies: 9
- Views: 471
Re: Night fishing - night of Mon. Apr. 29, 2017 - West Galv. Bay
Michael, thanks for the detailed account.
- Thu May 02, 2024 8:18 am
- Forum: Fishing Reports
- Topic: Night fishing - night of Mon. Apr. 29, 2017 - West Galv. Bay
- Replies: 9
- Views: 471
Re: Night fishing - night of Mon. Apr. 29, 2017 - West Galv. Bay
Everyone, but I think your fishing is targeting and harvesting the right fish, won't go to waste, and fits in with conservation agenda.
Have a taco, counselor.
Have a taco, counselor.
- Wed May 01, 2024 3:35 pm
- Forum: Fishing Reports
- Topic: Night fishing - night of Mon. Apr. 29, 2017 - West Galv. Bay
- Replies: 9
- Views: 471
Re: Night fishing - night of Mon. Apr. 29, 2017 - West Galv. Bay
99% of the speckled trout I harvested over my life were male, because I always fished the structure and tide where the schoolie males came to us. I can count on one hand the number of injured females we filleted in 8 years of fishing Arroyo dock lights. http://i.imgur.com/su3iDUhm.jpg http://i.imgur...
- Wed May 01, 2024 11:20 am
- Forum: Fishing Reports
- Topic: Night fishing - night of Mon. Apr. 29, 2017 - West Galv. Bay
- Replies: 9
- Views: 471
Re: Night fishing - night of Mon. Apr. 29, 2017 - West Galv. Bay
Thanks for the great report, even without fish photos. Clear glitter doubles up for glass minnows for trout - they will eat a larger lure for slashing into a bait ball. TSL Grasswalker Coastal Gold has scored trout for me, and you're right about hook-up ratios. https://i.imgur.com/oHD0TNf.jpg I've f...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 6:54 pm
- Forum: Saltwater
- Topic: Saltwater reel repair…
- Replies: 3
- Views: 269
Re: Saltwater reel repair…
glad to hear you're making progress, and found the right shop
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 2:26 pm
- Forum: Saltwater
- Topic: Saltwater reel repair…
- Replies: 3
- Views: 269
Re: Saltwater reel repair…
Maybe somebody can recommend a good Houston reel repair shop. https://www.quantumfishing.com/en/support/resources/find-a-retailer-service-center Assuming your clutch is working fine - push the button it freespools, crank the handle, pinion engages and clutch releases fully (usually w/ a 2nd click), ...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 3:03 pm
- Forum: Fishing Reports
- Topic: TX Hill Country - April 20th, 2024
- Replies: 4
- Views: 306
Re: TX Hill Country - April 20th, 2024
Heck of a trip - I'm jealous.
The weather yesterday turned out a lot better than the prediction, though the wind came on strong late.
Very nice hill country bass.
Thanks for the report.
The weather yesterday turned out a lot better than the prediction, though the wind came on strong late.
Very nice hill country bass.
Thanks for the report.
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 7:25 am
- Forum: Fishing Reports
- Topic: Jones Lakes 20-Apr-2024
- Replies: 3
- Views: 207
Re: Jones Lakes 20-Apr-2024
Jim, I'm sorry to hear you're going hungry. Maybe ask Glenn if you can paddle along to his slough one day.
Congrats on the upper slot red, now you need a camera.
Congrats on the upper slot red, now you need a camera.
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:00 pm
- Forum: Fishing Reports
- Topic: Bulls on Parade
- Replies: 11
- Views: 624
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: 624
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: 624
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: 1167
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: 336
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: 693
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: 693
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: 1287
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: 23531
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: 693
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: 391
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: 693
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: 398
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: 801
Re: Jones Lakes 2-Mar-2024
heck of a day - thanks for posting photos