Posts for: bugeye
Jun 5, 2020 20:52:40 #
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I thoroughly enjoyed that story.
I always wanted to do something like that, but I guess I was too chicken.
I always wanted to do something like that, but I guess I was too chicken.
Jun 5, 2020 20:17:20 #
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Bluegill, red ear (shell cracker,) green sunfish, redbreast, punkin seeds, crappie, and warmouth, etc. fall under the group name of Sunfishes, or bream in some places. Oh, largemouth bass are classed with the sunfishes, not with bass.
Perch, I guess there's a jillion perch species in salt water but in fresh water, there is mainly four species.
Yellow perch, white perch, walleye, and sauger.
there may be another one or two that I missed.
Perch, I guess there's a jillion perch species in salt water but in fresh water, there is mainly four species.
Yellow perch, white perch, walleye, and sauger.
there may be another one or two that I missed.
May 21, 2020 19:24:56 #
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I soak my line in hot water before I put it on the reel, then, the day before I go fishing I spray the line real good with KVD line conditioner.
May 7, 2020 13:52:33 #
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I've never tried that particular way, but I'm gonna test it.
I just can't see how it would not come loose.
I just can't see how it would not come loose.
May 7, 2020 13:47:50 #
May 6, 2020 18:59:56 #
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FS Digest wrote:
Sorry but theres no other way. After some practice it'll go much quicker. Practice the improved clinch knot to tie flies on and the surgeons knot to tie tippett to your leader.
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That's the way I do it.
I have a tiny surgeons knot at the end of the leader and cow hitch the tippet to it.
May 6, 2020 18:55:52 #
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Larry M wrote:
What ever feels natural for you.
Everyone is different, I cast from the right side then switch and reel with my right hand, conventional reel.
On a spinning reel I cast from the right side and reel with my left hand.
I'm just weird I guess.
I write with my left hand and throw a baseball with my right, I'm all screwed up. LOL.
Everyone is different, I cast from the right side then switch and reel with my right hand, conventional reel.
On a spinning reel I cast from the right side and reel with my left hand.
I'm just weird I guess.
I write with my left hand and throw a baseball with my right, I'm all screwed up. LOL.
LOL, I do everything exactly like you listed.
However, I can flycast with either hand.
May 4, 2020 20:33:07 #
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Spiritof27 wrote:
I was five months old. That's about the time my daddy dropped me on my head on the diaper pail. Remember those? I still wear the scar.
Well, some folks here has suggested that you might be brain damaged from something.
May 4, 2020 20:27:22 #
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JimRed wrote:
If I had to name it, I'd call it a Bugeye Buster.
Hey!!! I resemble that.......
May 3, 2020 20:40:27 #
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At one time I could cast equally well (or bad) with either hand, but now my fingers are in such bad shape that I stick to nymphing with a 12' rod and hold it like you would a baseball bat.
looks bad, but I catch an occasional fish.
looks bad, but I catch an occasional fish.
May 3, 2020 20:32:11 #
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Spiritof27 wrote:
Indeed. Has anyone ever caught anything on one of these? That's realy something to have survived for as long as it has and not be a particularly good producer. Kind of like me. I have to be one of the world's worst fly fishermen. Most who are as no talent as I give up out of frustration. I actually enjoy it, and my lack of success is worn as a badge.
My paternal grandpa and I have caught a zillion bluegills on our favorite fly (royal coachman) as we fished together.
He gave me my first casting lesson with that fly on July 4th, 1948.
May 3, 2020 19:56:27 #
Apr 26, 2020 12:04:09 #
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This is a computer image of the magnets.
my 12ft flyrod is homemade from a crappie blank.
I've cast a 5wt line over the horizon
sort of.
I can also flycast using 20lb test chameleon mono which is also what I use for high sticking.
High stickin is what I mostly do with it because my thumbs are too bad to cast a flyline all day.
And, I use a short 5ft level leader with it.
Edit to add: I'm in Morrow Ga. a suburb of Atlanta near the airport.
my 12ft flyrod is homemade from a crappie blank.
I've cast a 5wt line over the horizon
sort of.I can also flycast using 20lb test chameleon mono which is also what I use for high sticking.
High stickin is what I mostly do with it because my thumbs are too bad to cast a flyline all day.
And, I use a short 5ft level leader with it.
Edit to add: I'm in Morrow Ga. a suburb of Atlanta near the airport.
Apr 25, 2020 20:42:37 #
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I had ordered the mini magnets from Amazon and they arrived today.
I'm guessing here but I think those little jewels will catch bream and trout like gangbusters.
1/200th ounce with hook size 14. They should be perfect for spin casting with a float for enough weight to go more that 10 feet, and, even better for high-stickin for trout with my 12ft flyrod.
I'm guessing here but I think those little jewels will catch bream and trout like gangbusters.
1/200th ounce with hook size 14. They should be perfect for spin casting with a float for enough weight to go more that 10 feet, and, even better for high-stickin for trout with my 12ft flyrod.
Apr 25, 2020 20:05:00 #
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back in the day, 50s and 60s, when I pulled my boat back to the dock, I'd pull the gas line off the motor and let it run dry every time I used it.
The leaded gas left in the tank would sit about 3 months over the winter, then I'd top up the tank and my old western auto (wizard) 5 horse would crank right up in the spring.
The leaded gas left in the tank would sit about 3 months over the winter, then I'd top up the tank and my old western auto (wizard) 5 horse would crank right up in the spring.