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Improved Allbright knot. The guide above is the 2nd-smallest-size micro-guide on the rod.

Have a feeling I'm answering a computer bot here, but I've done it before. If not - welcome to BR. The technology that first put it all together - anti-reverse, level wind, freespool separate from LW, adjustable casting brake - was the first model Pflueger Supreme, 1918 Douglas patent. Unfortunately, Pflueger didn't develop the prophetic design, and shelved it when they could copy Marhoff's simple LW patent in 1928. All these features didn't come together again until Lew's Speed Spool in the late '70s. Shimano built Lew's reels, stole the idea, and developed it into the Bantam. Ryobi followed close on their heels. While Korea certainly has a fishing tradition, claiming the technology for Doyo reels as domestic would be going too far. What Korea has is a manufacturing base, talented labor, and a home market - the manufacturing base developed from Japan's offshore manufacturing in 1980's dramatic inflation. When Orvis bought British Fly Reels, they moved them to Korea; Hardy followed suite, shutting down all reel making in UK. Doyo developed from Abu Garcia offshore manufacturing, and Lew's hard feelings against Shimano. Korea (Doyo, Seoul Fishing Reel) is a major supplier to both Daiwa and Shimano.

When a dolphin blows and inhales that close to your boat, the sound startles you. Agree fishing with whales is beyond cool, and getting photo is over the top luck. (dolphins shut down the bite - run off the bait and gamefish).

Christmas Day tailwater trout with a friend a few Christmases ago - neither of us had our kids that holiday. her trophy photo didn't turn out quite so well

Before the franchise, the original Subway was on the Drag at UT campus in Austin. It was worth driving to. The problem with franchises is how the quality can vary. The Subway close to my office isn't worth visiting, because the salad and spinach is always wilted to rotten. A few miles away, there's another that always has fresh fixings and fresh bread. Tacquerias are more important in S. Texas. The farther south you go, the better they get. When you see one that is stacked with cars at an odd hour, pull over. On a trip from Reynosa, hunger forced a stop at a Taco Bell in Brownsville. The family that owned the place had the franchise pegboard menu and their home menu on a chalkboard - it was outrageously good.

The all-time worst sequel had to be Blade Runner 2049, and we had to wait a lifetime for that. Ridley Scott gave it to his protege while he himself mulled over the sequel to Prometheus. Ridley Scott is the luckiest director in Hollywood history. The original Blade Runner, the writers' strike forced all the lines to be ad-libbed by the actors, and filming in the rain made them hate each other on the set. He just happened to be there. His late brother Tony was a much better director. Look at the actors whose careers have dwindled without him (Denzel Washington). Another good directing team and actor pair are the Keurig brothers and Ethan Hawke (Daybreakers, Predestination). Luc Besson is the director whose movies are always an entertaining ride, whether or not they make sense.

I have fished 500 and 800 size reels, but now now go to Shimano C2000 (which is the same spool as USM 1000FL). This is especially true if you're going for distance on 8' and longer rod. If you're wanting a rod this long, I really think you should be looking at shore light game (rockfish) rods from Japan. I couldn't be happier. not recommending this specific high grade rod, but wanted you to see the specs This rod will cast those 1- and 2-g gram lures well beyond 100' For the sake of UL feel, keep in mind that rod weight goes up with length - the jewel above is 73 g. Also keep in mind you can build your own from a 4-wt fly rod blank. Search UL rockfish rod on ebay and see what you can turn up.

Adding to this, though it's mainly a salt concern with over-classed tackle and long runs - overheated carbon washers can lock up - the purpose of a residual film of drag grease on drag washers is to prevent any single washer from doing all the work and overheating. which cascades into total drag lock-up. Some drag washer compositions are made to run dry, but carbontex isn't one of them.

that was random Here's my tailwater loaner box for spin fishermen The home-made spinners are single-hook-barbless. I've been having so much fun with these Japanese trout plugs for imitating imitating winter glass minnows inshore (tiny trebles swapped for plug singles), using shore light game BFS... ...I would love to get them into the tailwater to try for some of our bruiser rainbows on stream trout BFS oh yeah, tailwater bruisers...

try searching Daiwa Tatula SV103 Microcast spool - the result turn up 33-mm- and 34-mm-dia SVspools.

Double-supported pinion keeps it aligned and lets you turn the crank without the spool in place. Single-supported pinion in this Super Duty G is still fishing hard after 4 salty years.

Reese's Chronological Bible has the Psalms placed in context of when they were written, and the Northern and Southern Kingdoms in opposite columns on the same page. When Hemingway's Islands in the Stream was completed by Mary and published, I was a teenager, and had already read every other word Hemingway published. All the Nick stories "impacted" me. Textbooks? Wilhelm Fligge, Tensor Analysis and Mechanics of Continuous Media - covers matrix math, Relativity, Fluids, Materials deformation (seeing the forest instead of the trees).

totally off topic Tom, 200 years ago, they dog-walked wooden plugs for bass in Florida - in Doc Henshall's 1881 treatise on bass and bass fishing, he called the technique "The Bob" "Walking the dog" was coined by the Paw-Paw lure company, c. 1918.

Hi friend, On my shallow spools, I tie the standard arbor knot in the braid, tighten it against a free spool (e.g. spinning drag relaxed), and place the tape over the line wrapped around the arbor. The tape is vapor-thin Mylar, surprisingly tough for being much less than paper-thin. If you have a cut started in it, you can tear it, but without that cut, it won't tear. The kayak-rigging knot I show using the tape for seizing is a trolley line ring (the other end of the loop hasn't been tied in). It drags back and forth across my hull 50 times in a day and the tape is not damaged (after years). Back to the measurement part, converting inches to mm is a pain, but being conversant in PE#1, #1.5, #2, is a breath of fresh air, especially if you're loading a Japanese spool, and prefer Japanese line. PE1520 spool = 200 m of PE#1.5 line. If you want to do a quick conversion, google the conversion, inch to mm, yd to m, g to oz - a calculator pops up that you can plug in to either side of the = sign (working engineering calculations, I do the same with MPa to ksi, Farenheight to Kelvin). I'm going to say again, if I were loading a deeper spool, I would definitely have backing, usually large mono, as close to the braid test as I can fit (20-25 yds). E.g. of this baitcaster, you have to tie a very good Allbright or FG knot to get through the line guide.

we know they're not made in Ukraine. Based on his price and style, I believe they are AMO spools, and worth buying. A thoughtful caveat any time you install an aftermarket spool. The spindle width will vary, so open your "zero adjust" knob wide (CCW) before you reinstall the palm plate. Go back and tighten it to adjust end-play on your new spool. @Big Rick - I'm glad you found this post. The mass of the AMO spool SV rotor is probably a better match for your SV 103 annular magnets than the super-thin Roro-X spool fixed rotor. This will give you a good casting brake over a wide lure weight range.

and it used to be linen or silk. Pound-test is the dumbest way to classify and represent any line - they knew that when they sized line diameter by number or letter designation. (If you follow this link, note the next chapter is on leaders - silk gut) Only now in the US are reels rated by pound-test capacity - the rest of the world uses line diameter. The Japanese way of rating both PE and mono lines by silk thread sizes is the smartest. 1909 Meek Bluegrass 33 - 80 yds size G braid

I would watch out for that pup - he looks like he knows something that you may not

Different experience, maybe the same opinion. I fish both Roro-X and Ray's Studio, swap them on my Steez (1000) for different reel use, and like them both in their niches. I prefer the larger 34 mm diameter for greater cast distance over smaller BFS-specific reels. The Roro-X has fixed rotor for lightest possible spool weight, and slight distance advantage at the light end - 1/8 oz, down to 2 g. I also fish 7 g with it reliably (just over 1/8 oz) I use this spool on my inshore glass minnow imitations, where I can cast 3 g to 140' Like surf casting in miniature. The Ray's Studio honeycomb SV spool has the moving SV rotor complication that adds the equivalent of centrifugal brake, widening the usable weight range. It doesn't cost much distance at the light end, I swap to this spool for my all-range BFS bass rod (and carry as a back-up for Roro-X, v-v). I fish a second Ray's Studio full-time on my salt ML niche, and couldn't pry from my cold fingers, etc. Momo (aka AMO) spools are also available from the AMO store on the Express website. I have one of these on an Abu and it's a very nice spool - they're actually a parts supplier for Daiwa, and their Daiwa SV version is probably very good.

I've gone to shallower and shallower spools for thinner and thinner braid. On smooth spools, arbor knot + polyester/acrylic tape (or the clear tape that comes with your Shimano reel). Nothing like slip, and I always spool line under tension. On spools with holes, it's no real effort with good tweezers to tie a double-bend uni-knot through two of the holes to anchor your braid. The polyester/acrylic tape, btw, is so tough, I use it for seizing knots on kayak rigging. In case it isn't clear, you attach braid differently based on spool depth. Not one person on this thread will have the correct answer for every spool depth and every braid diameter.

here, you just need to post the Direct Link that ends in .jpg The board software will automatically embed that link. @4g63power congrats on the KTF spool - the most desirable BFS spool out there. Original price on the limited edition spools were reasonable, but ebay re-sale listings triple the original price.

My dad bought this Lionel 3-rail "for me" when I was 2-y-o. I later added the flat-car spotlight.

It's hard to swallow A River Runs Through It from the metronome scene at the beginning, as well as the fishing dialogue, which forces more modern fly shop dogma (would a kid say, "I want to be a professional fly fisherman"). Aside from that, an entertaining movie. It was a boon for fly fishing pro shops, most of which went out of business the following decade. If you've ever read Hemingway, he never wrote about fishing. The closest was Big Two-Hearted River, which was about a WWI veteran healing his wounds in the river. The trick then is turning one of those great short stories or novels into a movie - what impresses about Hemingway are the sentences he didn't write down, but left to you - most movie attempts failed (Hemingway slept through the movie premiers). Hemingway never fished a dry fly, instead, always swinging wet flies on soggy silk line. The greatest fishing scene in print was written in memoir by his son Jack in Misadventures of a Fly Fsherman. A spy for OAS, Jack was parachuted into France, wearing a British uniform so he wouldn't be arrested as a spy. Waiting for his underground contact, he put together the rod from his pack and began casting to rising trout. He hooked up a bruiser just as a German column was marching by, and wishing he could be anywhere else. The German sergeant saw the ruckus in the river and jumped in to help him land the large trout. Fish to hand, the sergeant patted him on the back and trotted back to his column, never noticing the British uniform.

Expecting your wife to kill you? 42 is still a puppy - my younger daughter was born when I was 42.

On our tailwater, rainbows learn to feed in the fallout behind grazing redhorse suckers, and fishing those visible mudballs is a good tactic for fall holdovers. The redhorse suckers, we call Guadalupe redfish, and they're a ride on a fly rod. They spawn in March, and a spawn fly is a good attractor for rainbows then. This is also how you catch Kenai rainbows and dollies - in summer salmon runs, the big fish tag onto salmon coming up to Kenai Lake and follow them into the spawning creeks. You fish for them behind the visible salmon. Twenty of these in a half day will send you to the firepit for a cigar and cognac. on the salt flats, you can find redfish feeding behind stingrays

Drag washers don't need excess grease, but only the thinnest residual you can leave on them after you remove the rest. The most important places to grease are the I.D. and O.D. edges. After this gets stacked, I apply main gear grease using a sable brush. A/R bearings are sensitive to viscosity. Light oil can mess them up. and cause them to lock or slip.