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  1. Tim Kelly
    Colour fashion is cyclical. If you look at car colours there are starting to be a few bronzes and other brownish tones available. After years of grey and silver there is at last a return to a bit of colour. I think it looks just fine. It is supposed to be a bit of a statement boat and it achieves it's purpose very well. I expect they will be very popular and you will see lots of them over the next few years with the water lapping at the rear decks with a couple of big guys from Jersey flinging senkos around.
  2. Tim Kelly
    Is that a name or an anagram? Good luck to him, whoever he is.
  3. Tim Kelly
    Has the AOY ever won the classic? Be a great way to get the new year rolling for him. Christie has to be due sometime soon.
  4. Tim Kelly
    Your mission, if you choose to accept it.
  5. Tim Kelly
    A 16ft boat with a 115 should pop up on plane with no problem at all. I imagine you don't have the right prop for the boat. A 4 blade usually lifts the stern well and helps plane at low speeds, and you need it to have the pitch that will give you the recommended max rpm of the outboard at wide open throttle. The merc x7 spitfire prop has a lot of people smiling.
  6. Tim Kelly
    That's absolutely true. I like two fingers either side of the reel stem and have moderately large hands, so I find the Aero reel seat by far the best option. I also prefer no foregrip, so I can put a finger on the blank if I want to too. The current Daiwa handles are almost exactly the opposite of what I would want. If you hold the rod in front of the reel seat they might be perfect though.
  7. Tim Kelly
    What reel is that? Never noticed a gap like that with any of my Daiwas using that fuji reel seat.
  8. Tim Kelly
    Wow!
  9. Tim Kelly
    And expensive.
  10. Tim Kelly
    Hype. It's the new black. No doubt there will be irritating videos released like Daiwa do.
  11. Tim Kelly
    I think Backtroller boats have proven it's possible to produce a glass boat with quality components for reasonable money. Around £25k for a 17ft tiller with a 75 on the back. I'm sure a similar philosophy could be applied to bass boats. Whether the market is actually asking for a well built simplified bass boat may be another issue, but I imagine it would sell.
  12. Tim Kelly
    So hard to resist such a tempting prompt for some showing off. Who am I to resist. LOL More usual coloured pike, and the yellow perch that looked like it had been dipped in emerald dipping dye.
  13. Tim Kelly
    Being caught out of the River Thames in London, England excludes any variation on a muskie hybrid. It was just a very peculiar coloured pike. I have caught muskie in Lake of the Woods, but never caught a tiger muskie, yet....
  14. Tim Kelly
    I found a picture of the pike.
  15. Tim Kelly
    That's not my experience. I have a Curado E, OG Tat and a tat CT that skip as well as my SV105 and Tat SV, slightly more prone to backlashes, but not hugely. The only reel I really struggle to skip with is my stock OG Zillion. Not sure why though. Even the old Curado B skips fine.
  16. Tim Kelly
    The Daiwa SV spool makes skipping slightly less backlash prone, but your Shimanos will skip perfectly well. It's technique much more than reels, so you won't suddenly be able to do it just by buying an SV spooled reel, unfortunately.
  17. Tim Kelly
    Nice pics! Here are a couple of moose we came across in Wyoming.
  18. Tim Kelly
    Great stuff. Sounds like you've had an interesting life.
  19. Tim Kelly
    Very nice. Ektachrome gives a completely different colour feel to the digital picture we're used to seeing these days. Is that definately a scorpion fish, rather than a stonefish?
  20. Tim Kelly
    As WRB implied, a larger diameter and/or wider spool is a better choice for throwing deep divers as with smaller spools the line level drops so much on a long cast that the retrieve rate is severely reduced. A larger spool doesn't suffer from such a big change in retrieve rate. I use a conquest 51 on my square bill rod with 10lb and love it, but would go for a significantly larger reel for long casts with deep divers.
  21. Tim Kelly
    I have seen pictures of european perch with an orange hue to them, like your bass. Seems it can be a rare mutation. I caught a yellow perch in Oneida that looked like it had been dipped in emerald green dipping dye and caught a pike years ago that was basically yellow with black spots, sort of like a negative of a normal pike markings.
  22. Tim Kelly
    I've got some 20 on a spinning rod and 50 on a casting rod and like it. I prefer stiffer braids generally, and this suits me. It's very similar to normal power pro, but a bit thinner. Quite coarse and noisy, like normal power pro, but pretty much indestructible.
  23. Tim Kelly
    Ah well.
  24. Tim Kelly
    It's your money. I think there's very little not to like about the Tat CT platform. I see no disadvantage to the Twing, so I've never tried a Fuego (though I have an original Fuego). Unless you can't stretch the extra I would go Tat, but I doubt there would be very much performance difference with either option.
  25. Tim Kelly
    Thanks, yes I understand. This is for the SS SV, which doesn't have a strong drag system stock. I don't know why Daiwa has only recently started fitting drags that can be cranked down a bit. I had a pixy years ago that had such a pitiful drag I got rid of it. I know it was a finesse reel, but it slipped with every hookset even on light line.
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