Tim Kelly
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I expect putting a brush pile in the water would be a more traditional way to attract bass.
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Great project. Look forward to seeing your progress. What a good Christmas pressie to get yourself!
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If you use a spinnerbait mould you can form a loop in the wire to attach the chatterbait blade easily. Works well and my chatterbaits made that way hunt as well as any I've seen.
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Can anyone explain why it might be better to use a drop shot rig for suspended fish, rather than a jig head in the bait? It seems to be really common when you see people video game fishing suspended fish to use a DS rig, but, like at Cherokee last spring when the "Damiki rig" suddenly seemed to do better, a jig head in the plastic seems like a better idea to me. When I try fishing a DS in mid water, for perch rather than bass, the weight gets bit as much as the plastic, hence my question.
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Travis Manson, smallmouth crush on You tube tows his 20ft Legend glass boat with a grand cherokee. I don't know what the Altitude edition is, but if you're buying new or nearly new, why not get one that does have the tow package? It's obviously a reasonably capable vehicle with it. Seems a shame to have to restrict your boat choice because you bought a version of a vehicle that isn't really adequate.
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Colour fashion is cyclical. If you look at car colours there are starting to be a few bronzes and other brownish tones available. After years of grey and silver there is at last a return to a bit of colour. I think it looks just fine. It is supposed to be a bit of a statement boat and it achieves it's purpose very well. I expect they will be very popular and you will see lots of them over the next few years with the water lapping at the rear decks with a couple of big guys from Jersey flinging senkos around.
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Is that a name or an anagram? Good luck to him, whoever he is.
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Has the AOY ever won the classic? Be a great way to get the new year rolling for him. Christie has to be due sometime soon.
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Your mission, if you choose to accept it.
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A 16ft boat with a 115 should pop up on plane with no problem at all. I imagine you don't have the right prop for the boat. A 4 blade usually lifts the stern well and helps plane at low speeds, and you need it to have the pitch that will give you the recommended max rpm of the outboard at wide open throttle. The merc x7 spitfire prop has a lot of people smiling.
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That's absolutely true. I like two fingers either side of the reel stem and have moderately large hands, so I find the Aero reel seat by far the best option. I also prefer no foregrip, so I can put a finger on the blank if I want to too. The current Daiwa handles are almost exactly the opposite of what I would want. If you hold the rod in front of the reel seat they might be perfect though.
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What reel is that? Never noticed a gap like that with any of my Daiwas using that fuji reel seat.
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And expensive.
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Hype. It's the new black. No doubt there will be irritating videos released like Daiwa do.
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I think Backtroller boats have proven it's possible to produce a glass boat with quality components for reasonable money. Around £25k for a 17ft tiller with a 75 on the back. I'm sure a similar philosophy could be applied to bass boats. Whether the market is actually asking for a well built simplified bass boat may be another issue, but I imagine it would sell.
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That's not my experience. I have a Curado E, OG Tat and a tat CT that skip as well as my SV105 and Tat SV, slightly more prone to backlashes, but not hugely. The only reel I really struggle to skip with is my stock OG Zillion. Not sure why though. Even the old Curado B skips fine.
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The Daiwa SV spool makes skipping slightly less backlash prone, but your Shimanos will skip perfectly well. It's technique much more than reels, so you won't suddenly be able to do it just by buying an SV spooled reel, unfortunately.
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Nice pics! Here are a couple of moose we came across in Wyoming.
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Great stuff. Sounds like you've had an interesting life.
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Very nice. Ektachrome gives a completely different colour feel to the digital picture we're used to seeing these days. Is that definately a scorpion fish, rather than a stonefish?
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As WRB implied, a larger diameter and/or wider spool is a better choice for throwing deep divers as with smaller spools the line level drops so much on a long cast that the retrieve rate is severely reduced. A larger spool doesn't suffer from such a big change in retrieve rate. I use a conquest 51 on my square bill rod with 10lb and love it, but would go for a significantly larger reel for long casts with deep divers.
