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Hopefully! Good luck with it, so far it seems like a solid reel since having figured that out.

This is funny, I was dealing with the exact same problem with my curado k. Mike suggested cleaning the AR bearing, and that fixed it right up!

All good, just curious. Thanks!

And on average how far do you end up skipping it?

Revisited the forum here after having not fished most of 2020. Decided recently to dedicate some time to learning to skip a jig, so these two videos were timely discoveries for me. One question that's popped in my head a lot while I've been practicing : How far away from you does your skip usually end up? I've heard/read that you try to have the first contact with the water about half the distance to the target, but how far away from you are you usually targeting with a skip?

That simple huh? I tried a rubber band, but maybe the elastic, or not enough tension on the band, prevented it from being effective.

One problem I did run in to while I was doing those wraps, is there a way to keep the rod from spinning backwards and causing the wrap to loosen? I feel like the tension front the thread is such that if I accidentally let go of the blank it spins away and undoes all the work.

Finally had some time to set something up. It's just a couple of upright supports and a thread carriage made of some scrap wood and felt I had. Still need to figure out a better system for the thread tension, but went ahead and knocked out my first couple of wraps ever. The blank is just a broken rod that someone gave me to practice with, and luckily there's a small tackle shop in town that had a few supplies so I was able to get some thread and epoxy to work with until I order the stuff I'll actually build my first rod with.

I'll probably build something, even if it is fairly rudimentary. I like the sense of accomplishments with building things from wood about as much as I'm assuming I'm going to like rod building. : ) Thanks for the link! Yeah, I'll probably go with something pretty simple, though I like the idea of a little thread station to help with tension and such.

Hey everyone. Been looking at getting started with rod building. I probably won't pull the trigger on an actual rod until around Christmas time (when it's easier to justify) but in the meantime I wanted to practice with the thread wrapping and epoxy parts. I was thinking about building a little wrapping station, I'm decently handy with woodworking and have some spare lumber I could use, but I was wondering if there were any plans out there that would be good to work from. Also, and advice on best materials to practice with? Wooden dowels seem like they'd work. But if it would be better to track down a broken rod or something to practice on then I could pro do that.

I don't know for sure if there's a correlation, but I can say anecdotally that I've caught more frogs that bass on frog lures, and that anywhere I've caught those frogs I usually got skunked by the fish.

I've heard good things about the h20 Reels, and my 2nd baitcast error which I wish had been my first was a shimano caenan. You could probably fine a new one some places for $50.

Siebert jigs, so good they catch fish even if you're not paying attention!

My strangest catch was also a frog, on a Tx rigged worm:

I'm in north Austin, Wells Branch area. I fish a lot at Mills Pond because it's right around the corner and is almost totally bank accessible depending on water level, but it's also not a great pond based of the number of people taking fish out of there and the lack of notable structure that I've found. I've thought about joining a club, just haven't pulled the trigger yet.