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[Smells like fish]

Reliving my 1980’s childhood this Sunday evening with a quilt my mom made me when I was 6 or 7 years old and now hanging in my man (boy) cave. He-Man and G.I. Joe was just before my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, Batman and WWF wrestling toys of the early 90’s ? 

Can anybody else relate to these memories?

[slonezp]

2 hours ago, Smells like fish said:

Reliving my 1980’s childhood this Sunday evening with a quilt my mom made me when I was 6 or 7 years old and now hanging in my man (boy) cave. He-Man and G.I. Joe was just before my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, Batman and WWF wrestling toys of the early 90’s ? 

Can anybody else relate to these memories?

Sorry, I was too busy chasing girls

[12poundbass]

3 hours ago, Smells like fish said:

Reliving my 1980’s childhood this Sunday evening with a quilt my mom made me when I was 6 or 7 years old and now hanging in my man (boy) cave. He-Man and G.I. Joe was just before my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, Batman and WWF wrestling toys of the early 90’s ? 

Can anybody else relate to these memories?

He-man was in my day too. I had the He-man castle, that thing was huge and awesome! 

[HaydenS]

7 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

He-man was in my day too. I had the He-man castle, that thing was huge and awesome! 

I’ve heard of the legendary He-Man castle! When I was real little we used to watch He-Man or G.I. Joe every night before bed.

[GreenPig]

Took this pic just seconds before I caught a 5.28 off the point on the left on my second cast.

[islandbass]

4 hours ago, Smells like fish said:

Reliving my 1980’s childhood this Sunday evening with a quilt my mom made me when I was 6 or 7 years old and now hanging in my man (boy) cave. He-Man and G.I. Joe was just before my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, Batman and WWF wrestling toys of the early 90’s ? 

Can anybody else relate to these memories?

Yes. I was a teen in the 80s. What about the first generation transformers? My two youngest brothers cried when Optimus Prime died, lol. 

[TnRiver46]

 

We saw lots of eagles today ?, watched 4 flying around at the same time in one area 

[Smells like fish]

2 hours ago, 12poundbass said:

He-man was in my day too. I had the He-man castle, that thing was huge and awesome! 

Castle Grey Skull!! I had that too and might still be at the family property. 
 

 

2 hours ago, islandbass said:

Yes. I was a teen in the 80s. What about the first generation transformers? My two youngest brothers cried when Optimus Prime died, lol. 

Yea I remember Transformers and I think I had an action figure of those possibly.

2 hours ago, HaydenS said:

I’ve heard of the legendary He-Man castle! When I was real little we used to watch He-Man or G.I. Joe every night before bed.

Classics!! My daughter has me watching Peppa Pig at this very moment but when my boy gets a little bigger we are gonna watch some G.I. Joe and the old goodies! I see they are on YouTube ?

[throttleplate]

my action figures were Gumby and his pony Pokey. I also had a MR potato head.

[Team9nine]

After I don't know how many years of use, the bail arm (wire) on my Lew's spinning reel simply snapped the other day. First time I've ever had that happen. You can tell in the pic if you look close and follow the bail arm...and look at the part it is supposed to be connected to where the line is still over the roller. So I decided to just pull the metal arm out of the other end piece holding it and now I have a spinning reel to fish without a bail arm - "old school." No more opening or closing the bail, so it might last forever now - lol. Have played with it a couple trips out and getting more used to it that way. So far no big issues.

 

  

 

 

[A-Jay]

10 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

After I don't know how many years of use, the bail arm (wire) on my Lew's spinning reel simply snapped the other day. First time I've ever had that happen. You can tell in the pic if you look close and follow the bail arm...and look at the part it is supposed to be connected to where the line is still over the roller. So I decided to just pull the metal arm out of the other end piece holding it and now I have a spinning reel to fish without a bail arm - "old school." No more opening or closing the bail, so it might last forever now - lol. Have played with it a couple trips out and getting more used to it that way. So far no big issues.

 

  

 

 

I'd keep the wire there regardless.

Might help with rotor balance.

I fished my surf reels like that for years.

Having an unexpected bail closing in the middle of launching a 4 oz bucktail into orbit

with an 11 ft rod is like crossing the streams on Ghost Buster's.

The no bail eliminates that 

A-Jay

 

[Team9nine]

7 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

I'd keep the wire there regardless.

Might help with rotor balance.

I fished my surf reels like that for years.

Having an unexpected bail closing in the middle of launching a 4 oz bucktail into orbit

with an 11 ft rod is like crossing the streams on Ghost Buster's.

The no bail eliminates that 

A-Jay

 

 

Rotor balance is definitely off now, but I only notice it when I reel in steadily and quick. Being my finesse reel, most presentations are slow enough that I don't notice, or it doesn't affect it enough to bother me. Same with playing and landing a fish. Since the wire actually snapped right where it enters that housing on the one end, I don't think it can simply be put back into place. I'd have to figure out how to get the broken off piece out first, then see if the shortened bail wire would still fit into both ends securely. I'll probably just play with it "as is" until I decide to pick up another reel. Buys me time to find a good price on a new one. Good timing though since we're almost into hard water time here

[galyonj]

Lily's new favorite thing is sitting in my lap after SWMBO leaves for work.

 

Problem is that Lily ain't exactly lap dog size.

 

[MN Fisher]

30 minutes ago, galyonj said:

Lily's new favorite thing is sitting in my lap after SWMBO leaves for work.

 

Problem is that Lily ain't exactly lap dog size.

My old lab/aussie shepherd cross Sara would crawl into my lap when I was on the computer. Ever try to type with 65# of dog in your lap?

[galyonj]

8 minutes ago, MN Fisher said:

My old lab/aussie shepherd cross Sara would crawl into my lap when I was on the computer. Ever try to type with 65# of dog in your lap?

 

As a matter of fact, I have. Tried, that is. It's far from ideal.

[TnRiver46]

15 hours ago, Team9nine said:

 

Rotor balance is definitely off now, but I only notice it when I reel in steadily and quick. Being my finesse reel, most presentations are slow enough that I don't notice, or it doesn't affect it enough to bother me. Same with playing and landing a fish. Since the wire actually snapped right where it enters that housing on the one end, I don't think it can simply be put back into place. I'd have to figure out how to get the broken off piece out first, then see if the shortened bail wire would still fit into both ends securely. I'll probably just play with it "as is" until I decide to pick up another reel. Buys me time to find a good price on a new one. Good timing though since we're almost into hard water time here

I’ve got 3 daiwa spinning reels that the spring broke on, considering doing this to one of them if I can’t mcgyver a spring and see how I like it 

[bulldog1935]

@Team9nine

They call that finger-bail, and that's the norm on the best offshore spinners. 

Joe Robinson recommended it in his book on XUL spinning. 

Hard to think of all the Daiwa SS500 reels out there intentionally hacked. 

 

[Team9nine]

12 minutes ago, bulldog1935 said:

@Team9nine

They call that finger-bail, and that's the norm on the best offshore spinners. 

Joe Robinson recommended it in his book on XUL spinning. 

Hard to think of all the Daiwa SS500 reels out there intentionally hacked. 

 

 

Yeah, a lot of the old time finesse bass guys used to intentionally cut off the wire bail arms on things like the Cardinal Series of reels, I believe to mainly avoid bail spring issues, but also because some reel bails couldn't be closed manually - Charlie Brewer, Stan Fagerstrom (article excerpt below), Ned Kehde among them. 

 

[Jigfishn10]

58 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

 

Oh boy...Something else to try. DOH!

Thanks for posting this

[J Francho]

The surf guys cut them off so it wouldn't accidentally flip closed on a cast while hurling 6 oz. of pyramid lead into the mid Atlantic.

[bulldog1935]

@J Francho

I never fish more than 2-oz spider weights (and that much meat again). 

 

[GreenPig]

[TnRiver46]

1 hour ago, GreenPig said:

Now that’s a good one!!!! An awesome sunset/sunrise is about the only thing that makes me quit fishing, I just set the rod down and start taking pictures 

[GreenPig]

1 minute ago, TnRiver46 said:

Now that’s a good one!!!! An awesome sunset is about the only thing that makes me quit fishing, I just set the rod down and start taking pictures 

Thanks. That was the sunrise this morning.

[TnRiver46]

7 minutes ago, GreenPig said:

Thanks. That was the sunrise this morning.

Sailor take warning………