king fisher

I use two fingers in front, and two behind. I always cast all rods except fly rods( unless I have a two handed fly rod) with two hands. Over hand side arm, it doesn't matter. It doesn't seem fair, that one hand has to work, while the other gets time off. I use two hands to swing a baseball bat, or golf club, so why not cast with two hands? Just seems natural to me.

Your wife ordered you a Steez now that is what I call true love.

2 Diawa tatula ct. 1 Diawa Coastal TWS 1 Diawa Coastal 200 HS 1 Pflueger President. Spinning.

It would be as difficult for me to have only one spinnerbait, as it would to be limited to one wrench in my tool box, but if I could only have one, it would be a 1/2 oz black short arm single Colorado blade.

For thirty years, I lived and fished in the wilderness of Alaska. I had more close calls than I can count. Most of the exciting moments, were encounters with Brown Bears. Many false chargerges that ended up amounting to nothing. I did have to shoot two bears both of them at night. One when I was walking back to my cabin along a river full of salmon at night, and another one that stole my salmon eggs I used for bait, and when I yelled at him to go away, he charged me at the entrance of my tent. Both were less than 5 yards away when I decided to shoot, and both died right away. The scariest moment wasn't the fault of a bear. I was walking home from fishing a river an hour walk from my cabin, and while going through some thick brush I stumbled on a Bull Moose. The rut was in full swing, and he wasn't in a good mood. He came at me, and I shot a round in air thinking he would run off. Before I could get another round in my gun he ran right over the top of me. My rifle ended up ten 5 yards from where he he hit me, and I was bruised, with one broken finger, but by some miracle that was the extent of my injuries. My fly rod wasn't even broke. It was a hard hours walk back to the cabin, and the cabin was 60 miles from the nearest town or road. I didn't have any phone, or radio that would reach anyone, and I wasn't due to be picked up for another month. Even a minor injury could have become serius. The pilot that came and picked me up, asked if I had any trouble with bears, and I told him bears are nothing you have to watch out for moose. He got a big laugh at that. After that experience I decided I would need to learn to fly and get a plane if I truly wanted to be self sufficient in the Alaska Bush. Ofcourse flying added to the scary moment list, while providing many more great fishing days.

This not may pass the I GFA test but failed miserably in my test. Alberto far superior, FG even stronger yet, and hollow core splice only 100% connection. The knot showed is usually done with the Bimini twist in the braid figure Eight in the mono still inferior to FG. While my test are not made with scientific equipment. They do include shock testing the knot as well as a steady pull.

Make sure the roller bearing on the bail is working properly. If it is sticking it is almost impossible to get a drag to work properly.

Wind is good for the fish. For multiple reasons almost all sport fish prefer to feed on windy days. The problem is wind causes many problems for the angler most of the time. You have to find the sweet spot where The wind makes the fish start biting But doesn’t blow so hard It ruins your ability to fish.

As long as I promise to never again have her run down the street holding a Lure while I check my drag she’s OK with my fishing

I could easily live without my cell phone. But I’m not going to give up my fishfinder

Not like $500

You obviously haven't seen me trying to get my best crankbait off a snag in 20 kts. winds, when the giants are biting.

I put braid on two ways. If it is a reel with large line capacity, I spool the braid on one reel pinching the line with my fingers. Then put that rod in a holder, tie the line on to the reel I want to fill and use the drag on the first reel to put the line on tight to the reel I want spooled. The other option I use for reels without large capacities is I over fill the reel with braid, and either let all the line out behind a boat with a heavy weight or hard pulling crankbait and reel the line back on tight, or simply walk all of the line off, tie the line to a tree, and reel the line on tight while slowly walking to the tree. Most of the time with small level wind reels, you don't have to put the line on super tight, but it doesn't hurt. Big game reels the line should be put on at no less than 6 pounds of drag.

I'm sure I would remember my phone number if I ever caught a bass on one.

This must be why I continue to try and catch bass in tree limbs that are 10 feet out of the water.

Go to your sonar screen. Scroll back until you see the object you want to mark. Press select. It will mark the spot exactly where your unit was when whatever transducer you were using was over the object. GPS is in your unit, not the transducer. Older units, you had to mark a waypoint the instant you drove over it, and would still be a little off. Most newer units let you scroll back on your sonar screen and mark the spot long after you have passed over it. Some units you can even mark the spots while you are at home reviewing the day. I believe the ability to mark spots this way is one of the best advancements in electronics that has come out in the last few years. Having to criss cross a spot several times to get the waypoint in the right place was always a big waste of time.

I simply keep it all in my head. I can't remember birthdays, jokes, or what my wife wanted me to pick up at the store, but I can remember what size, brand, and how old every line is on all of my reels, including 40 or more Salt water reels, I use for work. I can even remember what leader material, and which knot I used. I even remember what line is on my friends reels. If I wrote it down in a notebook, I would forget where the book is, and if I put it on my computer, I either wouldn't be able to find it, or wouldn't be able to remember a pass word to get at it. I guess I have what my wife calls selective memory.

If I had to choose between one hard bait to fish for any fresh water sport fish in the US. It would be a toss up between, a Bomber Model A original Storm Wiggle Wart, or a floating Rapala. Cast, or trolled, Bass, Salmon, Trout, or Walley, I would be confident fishing one of these and nothing else. I fish a Bomber 7A almost every time I go bass fishing, and probably should fish it more.

Not even live bait gets bit all of the time. Every method has a place and time that it works best, but when they are biting, usually multiple techniques will work. Anglers tend to fish their strengths, and remember what worked in the past, without considering maybe something else might have worked also. Two anglers on the same lake may be crushing them. One with finnesse the other with power. Both are convinced their method was the only way to go.

Do you change the internal brakes often? Or do you leave them set at half, and only change the external brakes? I don't mind changing outside brakes, I do it on my Diawa's all of the time. I am curious if it is common for anglers to constantly change the internal brakes. Thanks.

For the past few years I have been using Diawa reels for bass fishing, and am happy with the performance. I am thinking about buying a new reel, and the Shimano Curado looks like a reel I would like to try. My question is how often do readers take the side plate off and change the brake settings. Do anglers change the settings often depending on wind and lure weight, or do they set them once, and forget about them. One of the advantages of Diawa is simplicity with one brake control on the outside of the reel. If most people only set the brakes once in a great while, on the Shimano's, than that advantage wouldn't really mater, and I might give the Curado a try.

No help from me. Bait Monkey makes me open all mine before I even get them home.

In Alaska the law is, if a fish was caught in a catch and release season, or body of water, weighing and taking a picture would be legal. If a body of water is closed to a certain fish species, and a fish of that species was caught accidently than you would be required to release immediately without removing from the water, no weighing, no picture. Otherwise people would be tempted to target the closed species while planning on using the excuse of an accidental catch when caught. This law had to be clarified in Alaska because one year they closed the King Salmon season on a river, and some lodges stayed open while catch and release fishing for Kings. They claimed they were fishing for Chum salmon, even though true fishing for chums was in a totally different part of the river, with different lures. Other lodges quite fishing for Kings, while truly targeting the chums, and immediately released Kings if caught accidentally. Every state is different, but the intent of the law is the same. A catch and release fishery, means intentionally catching and releasing a species of fish. A closed fishery means closed to targeting a certain species, accidental catches are true accidents, released immediately. An honest anger will not go fishing, planning on having accidents.

I am certain a Red Eye Shad Can't catch a fish in a tree 30 feet above the water, but for some strange reason I have tried.

I planned on fishing three days last week, and at least three days this coming week,but I took my car to the shop on Monday, and a one day job still isn't finished, it's a holiday in Mexico this weekend, so I doubt it will be done by the end of next week. A mechanic that was supposed to do some work on the boat I captain, was supposed to show up and do some work last week, that he promised to finnish two weeks ago. Of course he had a different excuse every day for not making it and I'm sure he will have more excuses this coming week. Last week, I had to have one tooth pulled, two root canals, and I'm still not done with the dentist, but I can't complain because my wife is my dentist. I might have time to fish one day this weekend. I will be busy with work the following week, so if I'm lucky, I will get to fish one day during what I planned on being a two week break from work. I definitely would not let yard work get in the way of me going fishing. With the attitude I have right now, if I had a yard I would pay someone to put enough Round Up on it to make sure nothing would grow for a 100 years, and if I had a leak in my roof, I would put a bucket under the leak, grab a tent, and move to the lake.