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salmon omelette - the paper-thin Nova salmon flakes, salsa on top my buddies line up for these on every fishing trip only on a fishing trip, don't take the time to cook bacon - instead, buy the Banquet fully-cooked brown-and-serve sausage links - they're remarkably good. @TnRiver46 - my mom still cans pear preserves from my dad's orchard (and everything from his remarkable garden) - she also makes the best blackberry cobbler ever dreamed (and makes me a key lime pie every year for my August birthday). If I really get up early and have time to make papas, it's breakfast tacos - these decorated with smoked venison backstrap, sauteed to warm it. Aluminum foil is an essential ingredient for good breakfast tacos - they need to steam and blend all the oils.

Had a good work and weather window to bicycle 25 miles today. Only way I know to burn 1000 calories and have fun doing it. A couple of years made 100 mi/wk for the year. And when I can't get on the road or greenways, I'm on the stationary for a half-hour 3 times/wk. My '57 Raleigh Lenton is the same age as me (it's not alone, have a few others, and all steel frames). Have a neck injury that was supposed to need surgery decades ago - I attribute not having neck surgery to having good circulation. Most of my fishing and kayaking buddies are also cycling buddies. If you're doing them right, both pedaling and paddling begin in your core muscles (though they use a slightly different mix). Always fun to win a Sunday morning sprint on this old club racer against younger guys on alloy and carbon - between us, we're 126-y-o.

I put longer-pitch handles on fast reels to give me both.

The bronze millionaires closed out in 1978 - bought mine at Oshman's - I had a 6H for inshore and freshwater bass. Mine lasted much more than a season, but surf fishing finally killed the worm gear. When I needed parts in the mid 80s, Daiwa no longer supported them. Replaced it with my first Lew's, which still has a good 440 worm gear, though it got a new handle and a few A/R dogs. Overall still functional after a long hard life in the salt.

it's very typical for river drainages to have their own strains of fish species that vary in pattern and color from the strain across the next divide. None are more dramatically different than long-eared sunfish, which are on their spawning redds year-round here. These are also the species that will readily hybridize with any Lepomis sp. female. Here are a few examples all within the Texas hill country. Especially west, they're used to being the baddest boys on the block, and hooked up, will flare their gills and shake their bodies to scare you. West - Nueces River West - Seco creek (isolated by aquifer recharge - the creek disappears into the ground) West - Frio River central - Guadalupe river east - San Gabriel river

ain't like Seaguar is new to the market. I was banking on Seaguar fluoro 20 years ago. All about knot strength - especially 20 years ago, when all other fluoro had such bad knot strength. (yes, disposable Film camera)

He was kind of soliciting advice, maybe polling, or wondering why people like what, but the way you can tell the difference between choice and unsolicited advice is I like v. You Should. Long counter-balanced handle on high-geared C2000SHG (equivalent to Stradic FL1000). This is the UL I take out on a kayak (salt trip late next week). The thing is, you'll probably not work out your own personal preference until you get some miles on it.

On spinning reels, I prefer the same round knobs I do on baitcasters. Tee-handles are the worst for grabbing every line in a kayak, then not letting go. To me, what really gives subtle feel on light spinning tackle is counter-balanced or double handles. This low-geared JDM C1000S can get away with the short 72 mm handle (36 mm pitch). Seatrout are the worst for pushing the lure toward you, sampling and rejecting, and on my last nite-lite dock fishing trip, the rig just above delivered the most fish on long UL.

There was an Egypt rush in the 1920s - driven by King Tut mania - many warm states stocked tilapia - the lower San Antonio and Guadalupe rivers are inundated with them (also plecostomus sucker catfish) from initial stocking at the San Antonio zoo. Florida also has widespread feral tropical imports from aquarium-supply breeding ponds. Texas has a native cichlid, which is a beauty, but has become a stunted plague where introduced in most Gulf coast states.

If we want beans, in the serving bowl, we layer black beans, tortilla chips, chili, and cheese - frito pie. Another reason not to add beans to the chili pot - here, the last of the chili usually gets spread over eggs for breakfast.

boy, we could get into a regional brawl over chili. Cubed venison (nothing less than Cubed round) and throw in some bacon for fat.

I would never do this - I'm in with the lift by the line and terminal rig group (and net big fish) - but if you watch this high-grade Yamaga Blanks vid - after 7 min, he's lifting even fish with shoulders on this long UL rod. Of course he has a high-$ rod to sell, and is trying to demonstrate its toughness. I chided a buddy last fishing trip for lifting fish on a long UL I loaned him. Instead, showed him where to grab the terminal rig to lift the fish - and we had a great net there.

red is a color for low angle sunlight, early morning, and late afternoon. The deeper you fish, the later in the morning and the earlier in the afternoon you can get by with red.

Consider they're too busy packing and shipping good deals to send out e-mails. Besides, google-beta-translate just doesn't work that well on Japanese. They do have the single-toughest website to navigate, though Plat's dressy website takes even longer to load from here. If you want to talk to someone, Jun at JapanTackle has great English.

Found these Daiwa orange handles closing out in NZ (Marine Deals) from a marketing blitz there and Oz - Daiwa Custom Color Project. The orange anodize matches Tica Libra SX trim. I thought the rainbow Origin Dress reel-stand/hook-keeper looked especially nice across from the Livre EP30 knob on this salty Tica

I've bought so much with them, they've quit sending me e-mail notifications or even order confirmations - if you have a log-in there, can check order status on your account page. The only time I get an e-mail from them is when they didn't have stock and issued a refund. I just get the Fed-Ex tracking notification when they send it out (I have a Fed-Ex log-in, too). Usually takes them a few days to get off the mark, but a very reliable vendor, and can't argue with $28 worth of Fed-Ex Express gratis on a $100 order, especially when their prices are already discounted. Fed-Ex, btw, is flying nonstop from Shennin-Shi to Memphis, now, and both DHL and Fed-Ex have delivered orders to me in as few as 40 hours. Just checked my last AP order - Thursday, 1/21 Shipped on Monday 1/25 pm (Mon 2 am here) Delivered on Wed 1/27 am

My friend who sent 4 reels for me to customize threw in a diminutive Tica Cetus as a gift. Since I was buying a DLH load of parts from Japan, threw in the parts to pimp-out the Cetus. The result: Loaded with 4-lb Toray Exthread fluoro (basically Tatsu equivalent, low memory, wants to leave the spool)

all braided PE is 0.98 the density of water, so braid floats. The exceptions are hybrid braids adding ester fibers, which are made to sink. Fluorocarbon is still the densest and fastest-sinking line. (borrowed from Jun at JapanTackle)

@J Francho is correct. It's not legal in the US, but offshore spammers frequently use your neighbor's caller ID for spam calls. I answered my neighbor Richard's ID one day only to be connected with a caller from India - I read him the riot act. The phone system is getting much better at identifying incoming calls as SpamRisk.

then I guess quantum fields and string theory is right out - and that's ok, too. Speaking of spooky interactions at a distance, one thing I haven't seen on the forum is references to using Solunar tables for planning fishing times, though I searched up 6 pages https://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/search/?q=solunar&quick=1 Growing up and still today, my dad references the tables from Farmer's Almanac (growing up, he used them for planting). He never planned fishing around them, but always used them as a hopeful encouragement - supposed to be a good day today. Kayak fishing the flats, we don't have the option of powering the boat and running to another spot - you are stuck fishing the day's plan. On the TKF salt kayak fishing board, Solunar is a big deal. From my perspective, fishing moving tide currents is the big deal, and there certainly must be some overlap between tide motion and Solunar data. Moving tide and wind currents focus bait on structure, which draws the gamefish. We literally plan our trips months in advance from NOAA tide prediction graphs - I ramrodded a trip Feb 18 to 22 (two weeks from now), with my buddy coming down from Colorado, by picking the best tides of the month. We pick the days using the tide charts, then we fine-tune the spot using wind prediction. e.g. - you don't want to be stuck fishing that neap tide on Feb 17, but each day the following week, the tides get better.

use those new split ring pliers to take the hooks off, and then count coup

@J Francho no offense, bro, but for me, that fits the internet more than the water. I've naturally understood the water from childhood, and nothing about it seems complicated. Thinking like a fish? Well, fish have an IQ of 6 (12 for the smartest, carp). Their greatest motivation is fear, by natural selection. Brave and inquisitive fish become fodder. Big fish are cowards. E.g., when fish feed in a time cycle, they're motivated by fear, and it's us fishing them that got them there (you especially find this in stupid trout in heavily fished tailwaters). When their neighbors begin to feed, then competition takes over.

Night fishing has many advantages, and never quite found it scary. I will say surf fishing at night is the most manly sport I know. It's extremely disorienting - the wind, waves, current, the sand under your feet, even the stars and moon are moving - your only fixed reference is a coleman lantern on a board on the beach. A buddy tells a story about the sharks after his stringer in the surf at night. After starting over with a new stringer, he began throwing it over his back. Twenty minutes after loading up a few more specs, a fish on his back made its dying kick, and the hair on the back of his neck stood up.

Bottom-bouncing a Teeny sinking spliced shooting head on a fly rod. It's a white bass technique I've been fishing 40 years. I use Teeny lines 99% of the time with a fly rod in warmwater. The fly I'm usually fishing this way is a bead-chain cats whisker, tied to keel hook-up On the flagstone bottom in our spring creeks, can watch big bass chasing the mudballs, and slam their head sideways into the bottom 4 or 5 times trying to eat the fly. Even on our crowded cold tailwater, I can take it to the wide slow spots no one else ever fishes and bring up big rainbows.

my biggest bass as a teenager, 6-1/2 lbs, was caught on a jitterbug - she took the lure on a long rest between slow retrieves. She had plenty of time to inspect it in the middle of the clear cove, and still ate it.