RobE

I likes, Bubba! The blue / silver on the MHX in particular.

To sorta echo Ghoti, it's best used for tieing directly to the eye on topwaters and shallow divers like the Floating Minnow. Be sure to coat it in saliva (spit) before cinching it up.

Kent, it'll work in a pinch but, the correct stuff is better. If you must use it, I would recommend the gel as I have sucessfuly removed tip tops that were applied with it. Be forewarned, though - it may take the finish off with it. I would really only consider the option on a rod with a broken tip. Rob

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I think most attractants are like alchohol and only get better (or more potent) as they age. Now, if we were talking Doe Urine, that would be differant. You sure don't want to smell that after it has spent a summer in your glovebox. Voice of experience! :-[

Hey Dave. That looks pretty good and I think you're on the right track by backing the stencil away from the body. When I was building model planes and wanted a thin line like an oil leak from an engine, I used x-ray film. If you know a doc or nurse, they should be able to get you some 8 x 11 exposed sheets ( if they say that they can't because of Patient Confidentiality laws - all they have to do is remove the name from the corner of the shhet). Cut your desired stencil into the plastic and use doubled-over masking tape to raise the stencil off of the surface. Lower the pressure on your airbrush as much as possible and make several light sweeps, a minute or so apart. The raised stencil will let some 'overspray' under the edges for a softer line.

The school bus that picks up kids in Peel are usually off of the streets before daylight. Flippin, AR where they go to school and work at Ranger can get traffic congested about 4 pm.

Your soul is stainted Far beyond mechanical repair. You'll be fishing Sunday morning Jeez, I wish that I was there. We could make a song out of this! Tom Waits might sing it for us. :-X

SoFla, that sounds a lot like the borrow pits that I fished in MS as a kid, and isn't too far removed from the bluffs that I now fish in a man-made lake in the Ozarks. I'll bet that if you follow those 'dropoffs', you will find that they decend gradually. These are the 'roads' that the trucks climbed as the pit deepened. Hence the stair effect. This vertical structure can be very attractive to fish. Your bottom conditions sound very much like good craw habitat, especially with the rocks. I favor a long rod (7' MH F) to throw a jig a good distance and work it S L O W L Y down the steps. You will know when it falls. Don't take in line... let it fall and follow with the rod tip. Worms rigged TX are a good choice, too. Leave the weight loose - don't peg it - and stay at 1/4 to 3/8 until you get deeper than 30. A slow fall off of each ledge will tempt a pickup. Cranks are also a good choice if the fish are active and you can work it paralell to the drop at the depth that you need. Always remember that Depth and Speed outweigh Color!

That is the coolest thing I have seen in a while!

The suspence is killing me! Were you smoking, trying to look cool for the ladies?

Jim. Are you folks gonna use Mike in your advertisements? I'm not big on the fancy whisky but, I know my beer. Hint.. hint.. You DO make matresses, correct?

Dang it, Mike. Tulsa is a long way to drive for Sunday beer. :-? I wish I was still 11 years old and fishing a one acre forest pond in Mississippi, It was late July and hot. Until it started to rain, nothing. Then, the buzzbait started get hit almost as soon as I pulled it off of the bank and into the water.

On the rod fourth from the top, it's hard to tell from the pics if those silver spots are bands or wraps. Either way, it looks good (all of them!). I'd fish it.

I think it was Kristofferson that said.. "Don't ever cuss that fiddle, boy, unless you wan't that fiddle out of tune." I don't recall Kris doing a song about banjos but...

Live it up, Chris. Get rich before you get married or.... ohh the horrors! No... I'm not depressed. Just Obedient.

They all look good but, I particularly like the browns in the first pic.

Hey Suthern. RW gave some good tips and I think you have studied up on it! I like your choice for T-rigs only. That's my choice also for deep (25 - 60 ft) jigs.

Stoked = crosseyed and headache? What size did you run to the tip with, bladeslinger? Actually, I would be interested in details of the blank and ALL guide sizes used. I've wrapped a 4 single foot just for practice kicks but, 6's are about all I dare wrap and expect to look good. Yes... we need pics!

Question for everyone - Do you think you might enjoy seeing rods being built and in various stages of construction? Question for builders - Would you be willing to post pics of disasters? Your most-proud-of or your newest project? Question for Admin - if this post gets a lot of attention, would it warrant a new Topic? My thinking is... although there are many great sites dedicated soley to rod-building, so many people use this great place that more might get interested in rod-building if we could take the Math out of it. Let the other sites handle the hardcore. They are probably already there. ;D Does Photobucket work here? I'll try... That's Gudebrod A in Gunmetal laid down as an underwrap for a butt wrap that will be Royal Blue and Steel Blue. Both metallic. Open pattern so the Gunmetal shows through. Is there any interest in this?

If that adopted one with the spot isn't happy, I'll make it a space in my box.

I'm actually in the process of building my fave right now. I thought of all of the good charicteristics of the rods that I've used on Lakes Norfork and Bull Shoals over the years and rolled them into one. This is a 7' Forecast MB843 MH Fast that will sport a Revo S. It's spiral wrapped with Alps BUDUG guides in 12 for the stripper, an 8 and then 6's to the tip.

Your Forhan wrap looks a lot cleaner than 90% of mine, EJ. I need to work on that. Good looking builds, buddy!

Tain't a thing wrong with the Revo S. Lots of ugly guys have a lot of money.

$600 max on the trailer. Put the other $100 into Coca Cola stock. I think it will split within the next 3 months.