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  1. Tim Kelly
    Not sure about other brands, but Daiwas can be re-engaged by flipping the thumb bar upwards, so you can almost use them like a reel with a flipping switch if that's your only criteria after a very little practise.
  2. Tim Kelly
    Quantum used to have some models with a flipping switch. Do quantum still exist?
  3. Tim Kelly
    Still reassuringly expensive here, and they don't sell those horrible Reese things here either. ?
  4. Tim Kelly
    If you're running straight fluoro, welcome to the joys of fluoro on spinning reels. Go back to braid to leader and it will all work fine. If you want to stay with straight fluoro you'll probably need to take some line off as the spool's probably over filled for fluoro and you'll have to feather the line off the spool with your finger to manage it.
  5. Tim Kelly
    Too funny. ??
  6. Tim Kelly
    You saying my days as a lone silver fox are numbered? ?
  7. Tim Kelly
    I have a 6'6" daiwa glass cranking rod that I thought would be a good short range accurate caster, but I can't get any accuracy with it at all either. Much better when you hook a fish, but hopeless for accuracy. A 7'4" Mojo glass is a much more accurate caster, but for heavier lures. Can't offer solutions, but can concur with your results.
  8. Tim Kelly

    Dogs

    Tim Kelly replied to Mobasser's topic in Everything Else

    Mine have a miserable life.
  9. Tim Kelly
    Could you get a jet lower unit and convert your motor?
  10. Tim Kelly
    Very good, well played! A mate of mine has a form of Leukaemia and has been having a rough time recently with all his glands being massively swollen, making him deaf with a permanent ringing in his ears. He recently started a treatment trial which has bought his glands back to normal, so he doesn't look so distorted and he can hear again. The ringing in his ears is still there though. I pointed out that the ringing may possibly be a consequence of living in a house full of women. He acknowledges the possibility.
  11. Tim Kelly
    Thanks Blue. I've become really wary of 4 strand braids when using moving presentations. If you look at some of those videos with people casting and retrieving a waterwolf camera and a big lure for pike, musky, stripers etc, the noise of the braid going through the guides is transmitted like and old two can and a piece of string telephone. It's really loud and noticeable. I can definitely hear it lifting and dropping a punched bait too, and in an enclose shallow environment like that, it freaks me out as the fish could easily get conditioned to it.
  12. Tim Kelly
    Just officially called off our trip to Holland which was due next week. Everywhere's shut and the boarders are getting more restricted, so it's not going to happen. Spain in May is probably banjaxed too. Fingers crossed for Canada in August, if we're still alive.
  13. Tim Kelly
    Haven't heard much about the seaguar flipping braid since it was introduced. Did anyone buy it? Wondering about getting a different braid for punching to cut down on the noise. Seaguar flipping is an 8 strand I believe. Is it quieter when lifting and dropping through the mats? Is it tough enough to take the abrasion in the way 4 strand does? Any other options particularly worthy of consideration?
  14. Tim Kelly
    For bass? 1500 to 3500 miles. ?
  15. Tim Kelly
    You couldn't drill another pair of holes in the shaft a bit further down and cut he shaft down a hair to make it all fit?
  16. Tim Kelly
    When I went to stay with a mate in Doylestown PA there was a place on the road to Reading called "Benny's hubcaps" I have no idea what it was a front for, but it intrigued me. I seriously doubt he has an online presence, so almost certainly no help at all. But Benny's hubcaps will be in my mind forever. A bit further down the road was an advert for Bubba Attorney. Not sure it was a particularly high rent area....
  17. Tim Kelly
    https://www.fish307.com/minn-kota-endura-c2-30-parts-2015/ Search minn kota schematic.
  18. Tim Kelly
    Sounds very odd. If the bolt's going through the hole in the shaft and the shaft looks OK there's not much that could go wrong. Get someone else to have a look at it. Sometimes fresh eyes can spot an obvious mistake.
  19. Tim Kelly
    You need to remove a spacer washer from under the spool. Daiwas should spool the line either level or slightly tapered forward, yours is tapered backwards. Thinner braid would probably be easier to use too, the stuff you have on looks very coarse.
  20. Tim Kelly
    Trawling instead of trolling always amuses me.
  21. Tim Kelly
    Tie a loop in the end of the line and hook it round the reel foot.
  22. Tim Kelly
    The Ultrex is available and has the bugs worked out. Put an external transducer on if you want. It costs the same sort of price as the motorguide if and when it arrives. The motorguide may be a great motor for the reasons you've said, but it's too expensive for what it offers to my mind, plus it hasn't had the kinks worked out yet.
  23. Tim Kelly
    FG really isn't that hard to learn if you're motivated. I use it for nearly everything. The only exception is when fishing light. 0.4PE braid to a 3 or 4lb leader gets a GT knot (the figure eight leader with a uni knot version) as the light leader tag end at 90 degrees to the knot doesn't have much effect going through the guides. It's a strong enough knot and quicker to tie.
  24. Tim Kelly
    Tracker tournament 18V, Crestliner CMV, Tuffy X190 would be the sort of thing I'd be looking for if I couldn't stretch to a Lund ProV bass or Crestliner Bass Hawk.
  25. Tim Kelly
    They're all very clever, but other than spot lock I bet 90% of bass anglers won't use any of the features. A budget cable steer model, with spotlock is what the bass market really needs. The company that brings a $1500 unit out will be the winner. I'm surprised Motorguide missed the mark so badly, their's could have been the market leader had it not been $1000 too expensive.
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