Darth-Baiter

i'm lucky. always have been. i sleep thru, and even if i wake up, i can drift off again quickly. i would contact my doctor ASAP if things changed for me. it actually did for a bit, and it messed me up profoundly. i didnt sleep for 3 days and it almost killed me. i am not exaggerating. i am glad that is behind me. i called my doc ASAP. it was so scary. i declined meds and elected to meditate and to do white noise experiments. i wear my headphones with the volume turned as low as it can go, and i am done. asleep. i still resort to the method everyonce in awhile.

i tried it. i cant get it over the barb.

light kayaks blow around like a paper bag in a windstorm. you'll get good at it. my friend can occasionally, one arm with the paddle to repositions himself while he is fishing. he has crazy ET length fingers so he can reach around the rod and work the reel handle with his middle finger. he flicks the handle and gets it to reel, while he is moving the rod up and down, hopping the bait, and then his other hand works the paddle for a stroke or two. i cant even watch him without getting all worked up and confused. having said that. he has since bought a big giant NuCanoe, with a motor.

i want to take my Triza Dragoon travel fishing rod. it is why i bought the thing to begin with. i have been crushing Striper on trips with it tho, so it isnt unused. United Airlines is okay. i think i can bring the tiny cardboard tube i have it stuffed in on board as carry on - with my daypack. the plane in Panama, it gets confusing. they allow ONE (1) carry on. my bag with my essentials is the one. i am bringing a tiny pack with a few reels, malaria meds, headphones, etc. they said they wont allow the rod tube because it is will be my second carry on! Panama International is not the place to find out your rod cant come along. not like i can turn to my wife and ask her to drive it home. i should just eat the $65 and check a mostly empty duffel bag just to bring it. my fishing guide sweet talked me into bringing some of his stuff! i caved and will bringing his new soft tackle bags with me. ..grrrr...dude owes me a beer or 5. maybe it stays home. i'll know more once i pack, but as it stands even my checked is very tiny. i am barely bringing any clothing...just light stuff i can wash.

wait. dont you take the tag end and go back thru the loop where your thumb is?

FG is the zhasizzle of knots. i've taken pics of some of my FG knots! sadly, i have had a few fail due to my lack of skills finishing them. but i just got my new and updated prescription glasses and i can see tiny things again. (thingy joke would be too easy folks...save it :D) but honestly, my Alberto is FG (friggen Good) as well. WOW..."thingy?!!" the profanity algorithm doesnt like the word my doctor uses to describe the thing. hahahhahhahah..

@volzfan59good luck. I’ll try mine next weekend.

Yoga pants is the best color name ever.

Not even a mosquito “bite”? Sorry. Too soon?

I rarely if ever fish with black plastics. I just ordered some to try. Various creatures in black. Mainly because the usual colors I like were sold out, but black? 10 feet down, there isn’t much light. Black probably stands out in contrast, right? black?

I don’t pick up lures. I never find any. Maybe in trees way up.

Im getting older now, and I kinda quit worrying about it. But I do notice. I have one in my group that will reach out for places and techniques to catch fish. He’s a teacher, so he gets summers off. He fished a lot at a local lake and gathered great intel. He still reaches out for advice, but when we ask….silence. Haha. if we ask, he actually replies with a pic of a good bass and, “oh, they’re out there!” So funny. He is an athlete, so he has a natural competition spirit. I like him a lot, and I know what I’m getting. But I’m holding back some. Shhhh.

Your comment about distorted lead bullets weights is spot on. No big if you peg, but I never peg anymore. on the CA Delta, I sometimes use them because I snag often.

To feel like a rookie all over again, I just need to visit a new body of water. blam! Baby-talk.

I scanned. Float or sink?

Probably why I didn’t catch that many fish. I just kinda committed to fishing bottom contact to get the new rod some slime. I paired it with a Bantam. Line is 14Lb Sniper. My first cast in the dark was a backlash. Oops. iPhone flashlight, and I cleared it without drama. I’ll talk about bantam when it gets more use. the Rod. Heftier than what I imagined. (It ain’t no X-bites where it feels like “I’m gonna break this thing”) It feels fast. Accuracy casting calibration was needed but I homed in quickly. I got good distances. A 3/8th bullet weight and larger plastic flies. I could feel the baits rub up against grass and rocks. Wind and waves were battering my kayak, so I could not concentrate on the tactile nuances. Despite that, both my bites were subtle as heck. The second bass, I was kicking my pedals, and cursing, trying to position back near my target. (The tiniest grass patch in the middle of nowhere, I kept loosing track of). I was was not paying attention, but I felt the bait was “off”. I jam the hook home. The hookset on this rod is wild. It immediately gets into the rod and it feels good! Just bam! Very theatrical hook sets are possible. Haha. Fighting the fish is fun. The longer handle allows me to put it hard against my forearm and get to work. Fun rod! if I’m lucky I’ll play again tomorrow. But we have a major freeway closure in the middle of the SF Bay Area this weekend. Getting to the Delta is problematic.

For the record. Free-rig failed me today. too much wind, waves. I should have tied on a heavier weight. went heavy TRig and saved myself the skunk. Buzzer beater!

Japan Tackle was fast and very good communicators, but they will dink you some shipping costs. still way better than me walking into my local shop to buy it.

I actually have that bait. No luck this far. But I got the white colored bait. Great. Now there gonna be rain. And some wind. Haha.

good luck Fishtax.

that line dial is cool as heck!!

i am going to let my hair down and rig up a Carolina Rig, just because. a heavier rig with a big worm..drag it thru the flats covered with dead grass.

PopMax for sure. i can actually kinda walk the dog with that thing. casts like a bullet and it walks and spits coming back. but to be honest, i have taken more fish with the smaller one. pop-smaller. i cant remember the name

i'm with Greenpig. nope. X2

really? my best bud opened a company and blossomed it into something a big company really wanted. he sold it for some crazy amount. i have another good friend that always says, "dont worry about me, worry about yourself" (he is also loaded) seriously, i dont think about what people have or dont have at all anymore. waste of brain bandwidth. that is a loop that never ends. so dont start. happiness, love and health. (d**n, who kidnapped me, and what did they do with my body?)