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fwiw, S-glass has the same equivalent modulus as cane, and even though this rod is rated 1/4 to 1 oz, it skip-casts 1/8 oz off the tip like that's all it was made for - a quality of S-glass. https://i.imgur.com/cXmO9kHl.jpg I have the same niche in river kayak filled with an even shorter, 5' rod, it...

Sorry Ron, how about now? that's awesome friend - thanks for the extra effort. Last year, I put this together, 6' S-glass with backbone, just for close skip-casting 1/8 oz bunny shrimp to redfish backs in sloughs. The centrifugal cast is intuitive for me. But I've yet to get it on redfish backs - I...

Glenn, I love the fish photos, but you're going to have to write paragraphs before my old eyes can read it.

Quite simply, there never was a myth that all trout eggs are laid by big females. The math is simply the probability of catching females. Below 16", odds are 50/50 of killing female trout. Above 23", odds are greater than 95% of killing female trout. 17 to 23", odds are better than 90...

Great day on the water, great results, photos, great report. Thermacell works. https://i.imgur.com/kH25RMQl.jpg When we set up a trailer in the still-air scrub at Josh's Copano digs, a mat goes down, we set up tables for rigging and lounging, and Thermacell gets placed immediately. Only way to toler...

DD is Back. BTW, I got a new Daiwa that's Back in Black. http://i.imgur.com/yXLQaJTm.jpg https://i.imgur.com/lqz4ZDYm.jpg This is the SLP Works Zillion (body only), $210 imported through Amazon . Doesn't come with a spool or handle, but I'd change those out, anyway. If anyone wants a too-good deal o...

Hello friends, thanks for contributing. God Bless Huts. Their burgers, their onion rings, and their $5 shake was only $3.50 - I heard there's still one in the Austin Airport. If that's the other place, maybe there's a Huts in heaven, too. If you ever swing through Estes, there's a perfect burger sta...

Shoffer, You Go !!!

Episode ended righteously.

If it's appropriate for the case, we'd love to hear the list of charges.

This project goes back 12 years. The skeg is invaluable for solving windcock - keeping the boat nose downwind - and was a boon on this last-spring trip with Josh, letting me troll the wind and fish perfectly parallel to the bank without touching anything but my rod. https://i.imgur.com/K5Rh0Ky.jpg T...

Thanks for the detailed week-report, Jim. Also thanks for mentioning Chili Willie's - their onion rings are a food group - clone of now-defunct Huts. Lou said they're a heart attack on a plate, but they do my favorite once/yr grilled-jalapeno cheeseburger, and their fried shrimp and fish fillets are...

Good call on the wind.
Nina's snail find is beyond cool.
Thanks for the report.

This is the latest "winter" trip we've made to our favorite dock house, which is owned by Spencer Bell. 3 nights in the Texas tropics. https://i.imgur.com/ILW2mQOl.jpg Up front, I didn't get any photos of Texas Jim, who was there with his skiff, taking advantage of the dock boat lift. He w...

Perfect report, as always.
Beauty trout.
That's still a legal bag fish - the new rig will be implemented "sometime late in March"

heck of a day - thanks for posting photos

Glad you got out - nice report.

Look at you go Josh.

My buddy Steve has Revo 16 and Outback 12. I've seen him effortlessly rack the miles on two fall Redfish Rodeos in his Outback. In a 30+-kt blow that came up last day we were out on Lighthouse Lakes, first time my T160 ever lost to windcock, he rescued me off the mangroves. Outback gets my highest r...

The ones on sale are the USM FL version, JDM '19 - still great reels (labyrinth seals) and the only versions I own. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kQ3lcs0A_8 I like having my Shimano worm-drive reels in the same series so I can swap spools, carry one loaded spare spool for all. https://i.imgur.com...

good job Jim.

Yeah, I've seen guide boats stacked fishing the corners where Sailboat channel meets Brown & Root channel.

My best striper fly was a cats whisker tied on 4x-long salt size 4, beefed up with saddles and a pair of marabou blood feathers for the tail. They would only take blend colors, grey and light olive, and only on a natural swing - couldn't get one to take a stripped fly. https://i.imgur.com/3YSzNN2.jp...

Since we're on Stradic, the only way to get saltwater inside Stradic is to dunk it for an extended time. Normal operation slings water away from the interior. Cheaper reels without labyrinth seals are more likely to get salt inside from spray. Gear wear, spindle stiffness, rotor wobble solved, Strad...

Hey what do I know. There's always a reel on my bench. I take '77 Ambassadeur, designed to fish 3/8 oz, and make them cast and fish 3 g just as far and more reliably (backlash-proof). They especially pay off for imitating winter glass minnows. https://i.imgur.com/yu1zaty.jpg ... don't clean the main...

If you want the full editorial, spinning reel is the most complicated fishing implement ever attempted. By design - really by lack of design - they self destruct with use. The extreme loads and moments produced by the long spindle and rotor were never understood - they were just built by trial and m...

Glenn, when Tackle Advisors reviewed '19 Stradic (FL in USM), he dubbed it, "The Best $400 Reel You Can Buy" (he's a self-admitted Daiwa fan boy, and rated Stradic over Daiwa Exist, taking them down side-by-side). In the lower grades, you'll get a stronger reel in Daiwa, compared to the lo...

The important thing is that there is water, allowing the fish to move to safety.

What made the '21 storm devastating was a week of NW wind, isolating so many fish in the shallows.