Tim Kelly

Reno? Cool, never been there.

I believe so. It was always a terrible paper, but with ****. Now it's just a terrible paper. LOL

Even that's part of history now. ? I blame Harvey Weinstein ?

The Thames is pretty good a little further upstream. There's a big sewer outfall at Putney that's supposed only to work as a safety over flow, but everything's at capacity all the time now, so it overflows too often. Kensington being downstream is not ideal paddling country! I couldn't sleep, wide awake at 3am. The trouble with being isolated at home is that I'm sitting round eating all day so never get enough exercise to sleep properly.

Buy it John. If the world recovers you can zoom across the Atlantic and we can cruise up the Thames together!

Not sure about other brands, but Daiwas can be re-engaged by flipping the thumb bar upwards, so you can almost use them like a reel with a flipping switch if that's your only criteria after a very little practise.

Quantum used to have some models with a flipping switch. Do quantum still exist?

Still reassuringly expensive here, and they don't sell those horrible Reese things here either. ?

If you're running straight fluoro, welcome to the joys of fluoro on spinning reels. Go back to braid to leader and it will all work fine. If you want to stay with straight fluoro you'll probably need to take some line off as the spool's probably over filled for fluoro and you'll have to feather the line off the spool with your finger to manage it.

Too funny. ??

You saying my days as a lone silver fox are numbered? ?

I have a 6'6" daiwa glass cranking rod that I thought would be a good short range accurate caster, but I can't get any accuracy with it at all either. Much better when you hook a fish, but hopeless for accuracy. A 7'4" Mojo glass is a much more accurate caster, but for heavier lures. Can't offer solutions, but can concur with your results.

Mine have a miserable life.

Could you get a jet lower unit and convert your motor?

Very good, well played! A mate of mine has a form of Leukaemia and has been having a rough time recently with all his glands being massively swollen, making him deaf with a permanent ringing in his ears. He recently started a treatment trial which has bought his glands back to normal, so he doesn't look so distorted and he can hear again. The ringing in his ears is still there though. I pointed out that the ringing may possibly be a consequence of living in a house full of women. He acknowledges the possibility.

Thanks Blue. I've become really wary of 4 strand braids when using moving presentations. If you look at some of those videos with people casting and retrieving a waterwolf camera and a big lure for pike, musky, stripers etc, the noise of the braid going through the guides is transmitted like and old two can and a piece of string telephone. It's really loud and noticeable. I can definitely hear it lifting and dropping a punched bait too, and in an enclose shallow environment like that, it freaks me out as the fish could easily get conditioned to it.

Just officially called off our trip to Holland which was due next week. Everywhere's shut and the boarders are getting more restricted, so it's not going to happen. Spain in May is probably banjaxed too. Fingers crossed for Canada in August, if we're still alive.

Haven't heard much about the seaguar flipping braid since it was introduced. Did anyone buy it? Wondering about getting a different braid for punching to cut down on the noise. Seaguar flipping is an 8 strand I believe. Is it quieter when lifting and dropping through the mats? Is it tough enough to take the abrasion in the way 4 strand does? Any other options particularly worthy of consideration?

For bass? 1500 to 3500 miles. ?

You couldn't drill another pair of holes in the shaft a bit further down and cut he shaft down a hair to make it all fit?

When I went to stay with a mate in Doylestown PA there was a place on the road to Reading called "Benny's hubcaps" I have no idea what it was a front for, but it intrigued me. I seriously doubt he has an online presence, so almost certainly no help at all. But Benny's hubcaps will be in my mind forever. A bit further down the road was an advert for Bubba Attorney. Not sure it was a particularly high rent area....

https://www.fish307.com/minn-kota-endura-c2-30-parts-2015/ Search minn kota schematic.

Sounds very odd. If the bolt's going through the hole in the shaft and the shaft looks OK there's not much that could go wrong. Get someone else to have a look at it. Sometimes fresh eyes can spot an obvious mistake.

You need to remove a spacer washer from under the spool. Daiwas should spool the line either level or slightly tapered forward, yours is tapered backwards. Thinner braid would probably be easier to use too, the stuff you have on looks very coarse.

Trawling instead of trolling always amuses me.