bulldog1935

From swapping notes with Jun Sonada at Japan Tackle, he implied the SV magnets keep getting stronger. This allows the newer Daiwa SV spools to give equivalent brake with less metal (less weight) in the brake rotor. That reduces spool inertia, which also gets you back to less brake needed - (a vicious circle in reverse). Jun specifically stated a newer Boost spool would have insufficient brake on TD-Z magnets.

the real question is how many strikes did you miss while picking out backlash

From my former trout wizard buddy turned famous speaker coast guide, Billy Trimble: He always uses nylon leaders with fluorocarbon tippet in skinny grass. The nylon floats and the fluorocarbon drops the fly into the grass.

@TnRiver46 it's worse than that - there's 15,000 sq miles less than 2' deep to filter the tides against the structure - and the wind. I often repeat what I know. My young friend Josh is the real champ - getting the two of us together is always a banner trip. He jokes about being 36 with all his fishing friends in their 60s and 70s - we're the only people who can keep up with him.

you're fishing most days, my trips are planned (though Alaska work trips were planned short-notice) - and most often planned for my friends to be successful. I ran out of things to prove decades ago. Don't pull the colloquial crap on me...

@TnRiver46 I fish braid from 46-lb down to 6-lb, surf to limestone creeks - also granite, which is really hard on leaders - and still fish that 6-lb inshore. You should know from fly rods how important leader is. I've also broken off 30+" Alaska rainbows at surgeon's knots with the Wrong leader - Rio. (yeah, this is a Dolly, and a big one) I got PO'd breaking off three PB Alaska rainbows and still limiting my PB to a Texas tailwater.

The best spooled fluoro I've tried, especially in UL sizes, is JDM Toray Exthread. Toray states they formulate each diameter separately. I like it better than Tatsu for less than 10-lb (for 10-lb, Tatsu is very good, though very springy coming off the spool). If you want abrasion-resistant leader, JDM YGK Hard shines, with Seaguar Gold a close second. For limp leader, it's still Seaguar Blue Label or JDM Grand Max.

when they're rutting, bucks loose the rest of their little IQ and are driven by the instinct to rut. That time of year, and in my semi-rural neighborhood, I'm always tenuous hauling the garbage to the street.

so does Don Iovino.

It's raining like Texas there

I fished most of my life sworn-off swivels - my now 90-y-o dad always put a 60-lb barrel swivel on everything. I've gone back to them only in the past decade. Started first with titanium-wire UL pike leaders for my inshore UL and XUL (now BFS). MakoFishing (Ukraine) sold on ebay up to the '20 postal crunch, then I found Dragon brand in Poland. Sharing these with friends, they went from sworn-off-swivels to micro-trace junkies, too. These are light enough to use on fly-streamer leader. Japan shopping, I'm always looking for terminal tackle that excels - plus you can find things like salty size 1 split rings and size 7 Gami SpMH trebles there. These micro swivels are 15-lb in size 00 - just don't ask me to pronounce it. Also, Vanfook stinger hooks Sugihara Ro-tsuke

well, I bought a pair of these just over a dozen years ago. I've always assumed the name doesn't transliterate. but you can't argue with the results.

I think the OP's logic is reversed. It's the single bend at the end of a double-uni where the smaller line will cut through the thicker. I've been rolling Albright knots for 40 years, and easy to continue that with braid, plus it's 1/3 the cross section of a double-uni.

think I'd give them the benefit of the doubt and move on. After awhile, you figure out all the fish are gravy. What matters in the long run are the people and the places. This happens to be a church fly fishing life group, and we always began with a prayer, which always ended with "and put us on fish" - after all, fishing is an act of faith. Anthropormophizing fish (pets, objects) and rejecting people isn't healthy.

We should all be good ambassadors. It's right up there with being good stewards of the resource. It will also pay back down the line.

When you can't remember the last backlash, you're ready for this. But even lawn-casting for set-up, need a plastic toothpick to recover minor backlash.

Check SDS Custom on ebay, AMO store on Ali Express. I'm sure others will pony-up US suppliers. Japan, you pay for them, but they are amazing good, titanium spindles, etc. This is my favorite Avail handle, happens to be on Daiwa but made 7x4 for Shimano, also.

A buddy and I were busting tall Johnson grass off the beaten trail to get to a gravel bar on the Guadalupe. I'm out of the grass first, and see my buddy running fast to take a swim with his fly rod. Right behind him was a doe running on her hind legs and kicking with her front. Just too close to a bedded fawn.

Sweden 1995 - crying Uncle - the spool pin can stop halfway before it finds the groove. Imagine all the pinions from the 60s, 70s and 80s in this shape. Also pretty sure it's spec'd as phosphor-bronze. Revo is made in Korea. Ambassadeur and especially Ambassadeur parts are also made in Japan. I was chatting with Don Iovino today - he buys all his parts from Japan.

I found some stuff I really wanted at a nice-looking website in India. Other than OOS listing at Hedgehog Studio, the India website was the highest hit on google. Searching for information on the India website and their domain, determined it was less than 15 days old. Their website claims a decade of great service. If I decide I really want the part, found a Japan website that my trusty Japan broker can determine its authenticity, and order with a 10% brokerage fee.

pretty sure Revo SX has a 950Z pinion bearing. If debris is preventing the pinion gear from going all the way out, it won't mesh efficiently with the main gear. Inefficient contact could also mess up the pinion gear, which works 7x harder than the main gear. Hopefully cleaning will solve it, but pinion gears have a tough life, and I've never seen an old Ambassadeur that didn't need a new one.

btw, you know my fishing guest in the Little Cut photo - that's Mark, ablecane on FFR. He and his wife were staying at North Padre Is for a month, and I planned a paddle for us and outfitted him with a boat. It was a killer 3 days with W-wind adding even more water movement than the tide alone.

no Only when I'm lawn casting to intentionally find incipient backlash for setting up casting brakes (back acre is 150' wide). Only backlash I can remember while fishing was March 2019. Had a single-turn line wrap on my rod tip. Also had a spare baitcaster to swap in and fished a great morning with a friend visiting the TX coast from AZ. He caught 25+ in no time - first 5 before I even got me rigged.

wow, can't remember the last time anyone used the word practice around me. I was fly fishing in the dark 40 years ago, while also casting weightless rigs on Ambassadeur. But I will be rotating-in my BFS light game rod in our standing trip to Arroyo City on the Dec. new moon. I certainly wasn't fishing for advice.

You're going to get a lot of good line suggestions. Mine is just about fishing braid on spinning tackle. Make sure you have a ball-bearing line roller, and always use good manual bail technique when fishing braid on spinning tackle to avoid wind knots. Since we made it around to tiny braids, this isn't for frogging, but has the tiniest PE#0.3 on the shallowest Shimano spool that still holds 150 m with room to spare. This tiny line is also 9lb test.