The fishing thread ( not about fish fertilizer)
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One hell of a fishing day - we quit after these and a couple of chickens even though we could have taken 25 apiece on our subsistence licenses.
We called those big breeders (always female when they get that big) "Neighbor fish" as the flesh is tough and grainy so we garnered good will with fresh fish. We quit taking anything larger than 50ish lbs shortly after getting our boat, the little ones are much easier to handle & eat.
175lb w/ 2 harpoons in her.
275lb in the boat.
Momma giving some love to her big girl.
Victorious ladies.
OldMedUser
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Sweet. My Abu bait reel and all my reels are also left hand crank tho I'm right handed I've always cranked from the left.
I picked up this Abu trolling reel, Made in 2018, model 6500LC, right hand crank at a garage sale a couple months ago attached to a crappy 6' rod for $10 and after a good cleaning found it was in nearly perfect new condition inside and out. Got the Garmin for another $10 the same day at another garage sale. Good day!
My b-day is in a couple months and I already bought myself a new fly rod in pieces I hope to have built in a week or so. First time making my own cork grip and haven't built a fly rod in almost 40 years. Almost $400Can with $50 shipping and 50 for a small wrapping support system. 10', 2-piece 5wt PacBay Tradition II rod blank.
Nice haul!Sweet. My Abu bait reel and all my reels are also left hand crank tho I'm right handed I've always cranked from the left.
I picked up this Abu trolling reel, Made in 2018, model 6500LC, right hand crank at a garage sale a couple months ago attached to a crappy 6' rod for $10 and after a good cleaning found it was in nearly perfect new condition inside and out. Got the Garmin for another $10 the same day at another garage sale. Good day!
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My b-day is in a couple months and I already bought myself a new fly rod in pieces I hope to have built in a week or so. First time making my own cork grip and haven't built a fly rod in almost 40 years. Almost $400Can with $50 shipping and 50 for a small wrapping support system. 10', 2-piece 5wt PacBay Tradition II rod blank.
Wizzlebiz
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In my opinion you are doing it right. If you are a righty you should use your right hand to control the rod.Sweet. My Abu bait reel and all my reels are also left hand crank tho I'm right handed I've always cranked from the left.
I picked up this Abu trolling reel, Made in 2018, model 6500LC, right hand crank at a garage sale a couple months ago attached to a crappy 6' rod for $10 and after a good cleaning found it was in nearly perfect new condition inside and out. Got the Garmin for another $10 the same day at another garage sale. Good day!
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My b-day is in a couple months and I already bought myself a new fly rod in pieces I hope to have built in a week or so. First time making my own cork grip and haven't built a fly rod in almost 40 years. Almost $400Can with $50 shipping and 50 for a small wrapping support system. 10', 2-piece 5wt PacBay Tradition II rod blank.
I'm a lefty and use right hand crank reels. I want my dominant hand controlling the fish. Not cranking the reel.
OldMedUser
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Exactly my thoughts on that. If you're right-handed you are going to cast with the right hand then switch to crank right? Never made any sense to me but the way most rightys do it and the vast majority of reels are right hand crank as well. Hard to find a left-handed reel. My baitcaster is an Abu 5001C I bought new in 1986. Looks like it's been beaten up and left for dead but I've added all the upgrades so it works better now than when it was new. It has landed tons of salmon and steelhead in it's life and now I'm in pike and walleye territory so it's getting me lots of those now. I use a spinning rod and my 8wt Powell fly rod a lot too. Building the fly rod for the small trout lake 20 min down the road and may head down there tonight with the POS rod I got recently after busting the top off my old graphite 4/5wt.
Jjgrow420
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Wow congrats dude! I remember some troubles in the past so glad everything worked out for you and your fam. Much love
OldMedUser
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Congrats! I'm glad I'm not doing that anymore. I could be a great grandfather soon enough as my oldest grandson is 18 now. Autistic so I don't know how well he does with the girls but his 17 yo brother seems to always have a so there could be one in the oven somewhere already.
LOL I read that as right handed and cranky!
Jjgrow420
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You're not wrong...
OMG you need to tell my husband that!You're not wrong...
Jjgrow420
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wascaptain
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i am right handed but kicked left footed(punter)
also i cast with my right hand then switch the pole to my left hand and crank right handed
i shoot right handed and right eye domanate
can use either hand as a girl friend...lol
also i cast with my right hand then switch the pole to my left hand and crank right handed
i shoot right handed and right eye domanate
can use either hand as a girl friend...lol
Jjgrow420
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Lol. Who Pamela Handerson?
Goldie Hawnd?
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Jjgrow420
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Anyone using the power pro maxcurato?? I'd like to spool my lexa with 80# but I don't think I'll get 150yrd of 80# regular power pro. The maxcurato claims it's 'one size smaller' so 65# diameter for 80#. Wondering if anyone runs it and if there's any noticeable difference between that and reg power pro strength wise.
Wizzlebiz
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I have run it. I cannot say I'm sold on it actually being the same pound test as a larger diameter line.
My general rule of thumb is go off of line diameter not what the label says for actual strength.
For example. If I take seaguar invisex and Berkeley Trilene of 15 lb test, the seaguar is actually on point with the strength it displays on the box. While trilene is actually stronger than the test displayed.
Trilene is a larger diameter than invisex at the same test.
I follow the same rule for braid.
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OldMedUser
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Took a run down to the trout lake to try out my busted fly rod I found a new tip for. Damned if it doesn't throw a 6wt line better than the new cheap 6wt rod I bought recently. Guess it will be worth redoing the guides to fit a 7'7" rod rather than the 9' one it started out as.
Did very well and caught 3 with the last being the biggest I've ever caught in there. The 2nd one tho got off with my Royal Coachman just as I was getting it to the net. I was holding the leader in one hand with the net just inches from it and it suddenly made a lunge and got off. Thought the tippet had broken but the knot came undone. These new copolymer leaders don't hold a knot as well as mono but that fly had already caught 4 or 5 fish the last couple weeks so I was a bit surprised. The last fish came to my last Royal Coachman and put up a decent fight. Too big to keep in the bucket so once I had it well revived I released it to fight another day. The smaller first fish, a brownie, came home to live in my dugout with 4 of his old friends. I need a rectangular, longer tub to take in the boat for those bigger ones.
Nice way to end the week.
Made some progress yesterday on the 10' 5wt fly rod I'm building. Finally got the corks laid out how I want, glued them up and strung them on a 1/4" ready rod with some washers and thumbscrews to clamp them down tight to cure. Maybe tomorrow I'll have a go at shaping the full wells grip I want. I'll have to chop up an old rod or two so I can wind some coarse sandpaper strips onto them to make a couple of reamers to ream out the 1/4" centre to fit my blank. That'll take another day or two.
I made a nice little fighting butt for the reel seat from the top grip off a cheap 6' spinning rod. Nice rubber foot at the bottom that should go well with the burnt corks in the grip. Chucked that in my portable drill and shaped it down to fit nicely.
Did very well and caught 3 with the last being the biggest I've ever caught in there. The 2nd one tho got off with my Royal Coachman just as I was getting it to the net. I was holding the leader in one hand with the net just inches from it and it suddenly made a lunge and got off. Thought the tippet had broken but the knot came undone. These new copolymer leaders don't hold a knot as well as mono but that fly had already caught 4 or 5 fish the last couple weeks so I was a bit surprised. The last fish came to my last Royal Coachman and put up a decent fight. Too big to keep in the bucket so once I had it well revived I released it to fight another day. The smaller first fish, a brownie, came home to live in my dugout with 4 of his old friends. I need a rectangular, longer tub to take in the boat for those bigger ones.
Nice way to end the week.
Made some progress yesterday on the 10' 5wt fly rod I'm building. Finally got the corks laid out how I want, glued them up and strung them on a 1/4" ready rod with some washers and thumbscrews to clamp them down tight to cure. Maybe tomorrow I'll have a go at shaping the full wells grip I want. I'll have to chop up an old rod or two so I can wind some coarse sandpaper strips onto them to make a couple of reamers to ream out the 1/4" centre to fit my blank. That'll take another day or two.
I made a nice little fighting butt for the reel seat from the top grip off a cheap 6' spinning rod. Nice rubber foot at the bottom that should go well with the burnt corks in the grip. Chucked that in my portable drill and shaped it down to fit nicely.