bulldog1935

I've never had trouble keeping up with new line spools with anything more than the provided notches and a piece of tape. Though I understand the need for keeping up leader spools on the water. It's loaded reel spools that need keeping. I use the soft velcro tape from Amazon made for keeping up electronic cables.

rigged up a few Slim SwimZ on 1/15 oz Texas-eye jigheads for some tide pass finesse coming up in a few weeks. And yes, they went into an all-Ela-ZTech box.

I use the very same rod for first-light wakebait Not showing off the fish, but the pink light coming through the YoZuri Real Gizzard Shad - it cleaned up on this morning, and kept me hooked up for more than an hour.

I can't see those things to work them, even in bright sunlight. My favorite snap is on a #00 Japanese micro barrel swivel I threw into an order once, and grabbed more when I went back for another order.

haven't seen any quite that neat from anyone else. Certainly beats the plastic sleeve over Seaguar bulk spools. When I saw your thread title, what immediately came to mind was a hook keeper, which is absent on all Japanese rods. Doyo bait reels have a pop-out hook keeper that will work in a pinch. Since I'm trying to manage up to 3 rigged rods on a kayak, I need some kind of hook keeper. Tinkering around Hedgehog website, ran across this add-on ditty, and threw one into an order (Ambassadeur parts). My Steez is the one reel I use on 2 Japanese rods, and either one may be on the kayak. May not be classy, but totally functional, and more out of the way than it may appear.

Lew's still has a sale price of $144 shipped for Super Duty G. I've been fishing one in the salt for four years and added a second. Spool capacity on the Super Duty G is between capacity of Penn Squall 200 and 300. Super Duty G has 6 more ball bearings, the main difference will be double worm gear BB and better pinion support with a spindle cap BB (plus double handle bearings). Squall has a very Doyo look about it, so I would say they're very similar reels - the schematics look nearly identical. Lew's website even has a FAQ about saltwater, and they rate the reel salt suitable. Slight difference in the drag rating, but not enough to matter.

and if you use manual bail, you virtually can't over-fill a spool. Because the line is Always tight.

people on TKF use it for drag guard on the back of their keel, but I wouldn't trust it as a structural repair.

this is a fiberglass (ok, kevlar fiber) kayak. The resin is epoxy, which is also glue - kind of easy to see why glue glues to it.

but pico de gallo uses serrano pappers. My buddy's daughters grew up munching serranos like candy. Different sauces and garnishes get different uses. Chipotle uses roasted jalapenos for the base. The best chipotle is La Fogata, at one time with a Mexican mafia connection. The second best chopotle is Jardine's campfire roasted. Jalapeno peppers, btw, are a hybrid derived at Texas A&M from habanero, to make a pepper that was safe to eat. Good habanero salsa won't dissolve from your mouth without alcohol - so you need a margarita with it. Saw a stand-up comic once in Austin, who asked, "do you guys keep the toilet paper in the freezer?"

unless you want to cast 3 g 140' across a tide pass

this may help you analyze where your backlash is occurring, and which brake will best dial it out

HDPE is so totally cross-linked and so smooth, there's nothing for glue to stick to or react with. A thought about the weld repair. Just like welding metal, practice makes perfect. If you have a local kayak livery, some of them may rent hundreds of boats every weekend, and they likely have great experience welding hull cracks. Here on the San Marcos River, TG canoe & kayak used to offer the weld repair service, until his insurance made him quit. But at a kayak rental, you may be able to find someone who can do this really well.

The best ever was Santitos, batch made in San Antonio. It was good enough to give as Christmas gifts. I was a junkie for 20 years. They began selling in boutique shops in tourist towns, expanded to the major grocery chain, had a falling out, and began mail order. Grandson Ronaldo finally shut the business in '20. people used to fish with me just to get my breakfast tacos heading out the door the best I can find now is Sadie's from Austin https://sadiessalsa.com/shop/ off topic, if you're looking for something good for that Christmas gift, there's Miss Annie's Pecan Brittle from Floresville. http://mrsanniescandy.com/

Doesn't matter whether you blame the wind, the reel, or the store clerk. Guess it matters to the store clerk. And why is it people don't blame the store clerk when they backlash a baitcaster? What's important is correcting the cause - the actual cause, that is. This is really simple. The OP is letting line fall everywhere and expecting turning the crank to pick it up properly. Line wouldn't leave any of his 45-y-o reels as quickly as it will leave a modern reel with a long-stroke spool. I've walked too many friends through this exact situation.

BFS = bait finesse system, @ATA the reels are essentially the same no matter where you use them. This may be what you call BFS, but it's actually where you choose to use it. (I showed my stillwater bass rod above, fast progressive MM) The rods can cover the whole range, from stream trout (para-taper L/UL) To shore light game (long, fast progressive taper) and inshore ML (the Japanese take them offshore, also)

Can't tell you for sure - I'll buy chunks of hickory, pecan, or apple, and sometimes just yard oak. Mesquite is too strong for smoking meat for hours, but a few pieces of mesquite on the fire is good. Also, wild oregano grows along my fence, and occasionally throw branches on the fire.

Most on this thread are assuming line twist is the issue - it's not. Winding over loose line is the issue, and proper manual bail technique will eliminate the problem, because you never have loose line when you do it correctly. I hope this thing is on. Modern spools and modern line are made for line to leave the spool and keep leaving the spool until you stop it. A green Penn spinfisher wasn't made that way, and neither was limp high-memory mono. Loose loops of line covered up with tighter retrieve will come off the spool just like a slinky. The loose loop comes off the spool Before the tighter loop that was wound-on behind it. This is what forms "wind knots" I've had this discussion with Many people to whom I've handed a reel. If you're going to use my braid reel, you're going to demonstrate proper manual bail technique before I turn my back on you.

@fishwizzard They've managed to build a fast progressive taper into a relatively short rod - seems like the tip is what they intentionally made short - the tip feels fast. The butt has plenty of power for turning fish, and the rod is so light in hand, the weight feels like UL. The light, fast rod transmits all the feel you need for bottom-bouncing ned rigs. You don't really feel the moderate in the taper until you're casting toward the upper weight limit, and that action also fishes crankbaits just fine. I don't remember the other exact rods from my short list, but they were Smith and Megabass, cost more, and as much. Major Craft didn't have one that matched the heavy end. Valleyhill - they make great Ambassadeur LW upgrades, including BB worm and idler gears, and ceramic line guide.

You don't have to get too fancy to cast 6 g - a good ML rod and a Lew's Super Duty G or any good mag-brake reel with good spool bearings can do that. Shallow spools are a bonus for keeping line mass down. It's definitely possible to put together a baitcaster that will out-cast spinning tackle for light lures. If you already have a good reel with a deep spool and casting brake you trust, you may be able to build the reel you want by simply swapping in a lightweight, shallow spool, Roro-X or Ray's Studio. The one you don't have to fumble with is Daiwa SV. Simply set mag brake for the lightest thing you're going to throw, and the SV takes care of the rest. When I went looking for a BFS bass rod, it was to find one rod that would cover most fishing from a kayak. My list began with 1/16 oz BFS, but narrowed to all-range rods that could cast 5/8 oz on the heavy end. The high-grade Valleyhill all-range BFS rod I finally selected does everything I wanted, from Ned rigs to crank baits at the max rod rating (just not a frogger rod). It's faster than the MM rating it's given, transmits everything you want to feel, and nothing tippy about the rod. It also casts the light end toe-to-toe with my longer shore light game rod (though most of that is the reel set-up).

@Skunkmaster-k Since we were talking about sauces and tacos on the white bass thread: For perfect pulled pork tacos I smoke the pork on my sidebox - I always have pieces of smoked meat in the freezer and meat drawer. Back to those tacos. I cut the pork into 1/2" cubes or strips, and squeeze it between my thumb and fingers so it pops on the grain. I toss the meat into hot olive oil in the wok for a quick warm. Then simmer it in a few tablespoons of this Adobo sauce, which you can get on Amazon. I chop romaine into thin strips, and whatever sauce drains from the meat and is left in the pan, stir and absorb it in my lettuce. Flour tortillas, and I like the uncooked that you cook up fresh. Roasted chicken works also, but the smoked pork is to die for.

I guess fog is just as good football omen as it is fishing omen.

They use silicone elastomer coatings, but seem pretty hard - haven't had abrasion problems with a dozen hard-use trips. Yamatoyo makes a hard-coat X-braid, "Resin Sheller", which Japan Tackle and fishingshopkiwi sell. I'm trying my first spool of that on braid-modified Ambassadeur.

What I've noticed about them in thick bait concentration (tide pass), is they make the exact wake pattern on the surface that the real bait makes. My most productive is the YoZuri "Real Gizzard Shad", which reflects green and transmits pink - that's also what the live bait does in low-angle sunlight.

I'll add 20-lb 832 is the best-behaved braid I've tried on baitcaster and would recommend it to anybody. I've spooled enough reels, 832 actually measures a little thicker than reported, and at the same test, is twice the diameter of X-braids (YGK) - that's a good thing - see best behaved. In XUL, I've fished down to 6-lb - here's where you might want the swap to X-braid to get higher breaking strength, but this tiny line is also extremely well-behaved.