Tim Kelly
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Spectacular looking fish. Scale perfect and beautifully marked.
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They just have to agree to cover half of the annual entry fees and to uphold the existing agreement. I would have thought that was an entirely executive decision and almost certainly as a reaction to Matt's piece on BTL.
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Well done Matt on BTL. Bet that wouldn't have happened without Matt bringing it up on BTL.
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You didn't hear about the million dollar prize catfish program........... ?
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Very cool. Have you caught them there before, or was it a freak catch?
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That catfish is extraordinary. Is it an albino, or just a pale fish from muddy water?
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BTL Bass talk live, on you tube.
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Define "far". You can go a long way down the baitcasting rabbit hole. A long spinning outfit with light line will do the job better and far far cheaper. If you a want to go down the casting route a Shimano Aldebaran BFS does a good job. I have a Daiwa Alphas SV with a Cosugi spool that I'm very fond of, but that's after a long journey down the rabbit hole. I don't want to cast far though, just accurately. 20 yards would be a long cast for where I use it.
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It'll be fine.
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Funny. That always strikes me as a really daft thing to do and completely counter to the intention of the format. They do need to work out a way of replacing the weigh in with some sort of alternate cliff hanger. Whether they stop the live scoreboard a couple of hours before the end, or maybe the commentators guess the weight rather than knowing the actual weighed weight, so that there is still some tension and expectation at the "weigh in". It needs work. BASS should definitely ban boat flipping fish into the cockpit. I hate that.
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That's great news as far as my interest in pro bass fishing goes. I found last year really difficult to be interested in. I don't enjoy the BPT format at all, FLW seemed distracted and BASS was a bit less than it might have been with so many new faces. I expect I'll be following BASS much more enthusiastically again this coming season.
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Buy a bigger boat that will take a kicker motor and use the kicker on Nockamixon.
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I'm not convinced either. If the snell causes the hook to hinge up, as many demonstrate, that rotates the bend of the hook up and tucks the point away from what I can see, so if it did work then it would cause worse hook ups. My guess is it doesn't make any difference in practise and as a normal knot is easier to tie, then I'll stick with that.
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You can do it for very little, but a foot control trolling motor and the batteries are going to be your main expenses. If you want it to be a pretty boat with elaborate decks and hatches etc it will obviously cost more, but a sheet of ply on the front for a deck will cost you just the sheet of ply. A transom mount TM can be as little as a couple of hundred, having another one on the front and using it as a hand control would save you a bunch of money.
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I had the same experience with 6lb Advance. Didn't last a day of fishing. Switched to CXX and it was absolutely fine, no premature wear. Switched back to a different spool of 6lb Advance and it wore out within a day again. It appeared to fracture and weaken with very little use. Shame, it handled nicely in every other sense.
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There must be some seriously bad blood between him and the MLF crew. He wasn't invited initially and now is leaving when they take over his income stream. Good luck to him.
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Yeah, pretty sure I've caught a couple of very black ones on Oneida.
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Probably more like a sculpin, but over here they're called bullhead.
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Saved a blank! First bullhead I've seen since I was a kid! ?
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St Croix do 2 piece Mojo series baitcasters which I expect are very reasonable. If you want to mail order a rod then the Tailwalk Full Range CC series are good 2 piece rods for not too silly money.
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Check for stickers under the rotor that have lifted. I had that on my Fuego LT, the whirring clicking sound drove me mad. I was looking at it, spanners out, preparing to take it to pieces, when I notices something flash. Turned out the metallic sticker under the rotor had lifted and one end was scuffing on the rotor. Saved a lot of fiddling around taking the reel apart, I just pulled the sticker off.
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Using thin braid I doubt the difference in casting distance would be measurable between a 2500 and a 3000. The retrieve rate would be higher given the same gear ratio and the drag performance possible a hair smoother, but that's about it. If you were using mono or fluoro there might be a small difference in casting distance.
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Get the 2000 if you want a slower retrieve rate. I like slower reels for ultralight cold water fishing. The 2500 would be much more universal.
