MN Fisher

MEK, Sulfuric Acid, Nitric Acid, the list goes on....there's a whole schmeer of things you can get over-the-counter that are dangerous. Heck, gasoline is dangerous - one spark and "POOF"...and they let kids dispense it willy-nilly into their go-carts and power-bikes.

@Crow Horse - you win the resurrection award of the day - almost 15 years in slumber and you poked it...congrats.

A number of guys here on the forums send their reels to DVT for repairs and routine maintenance. If I needed some major repair on a out-of-warranty reel, Mike is who I'd send it to.

250 degree oven for about 1-1.5hrs. Spread them on a cookie sheet that's covered in tin-foil, and you can do a couple dozen at a time.

2&1/2 hours from me....by air. Not even close to worth it, especially since I don't even shop the online store anymore.

Except yellow perch and bass can't interbreed even with 'help'...too much genetic difference.

^ What Crow said - but I put 3 packets of Silica Gel in each box to absorb any excess moisture 'on the fly'...I use the 5gm packets...100 of them is only $16 - and they're reusable.

^ What our resident Viking said

Wonder how a twin-tail would work? (things to add to next year's 'try it' list)

Personally - only the TM wires through a dedicated breaker to the battery....everything else goes through the junction/circuit breaker box.

Eager little bugger, wasn't he.

It's gonna get harder and harder to tell a real pic from a computer generated one...you thought all the Photoshopping was bad the last couple decades - AI imagery makes Photoshop look like a kid's crayon drawing.

Years of hobby electronics settled me on one brand of this - yes, you can find it on Amazon.

You could, but it's not going to have anywhere near the same action. Why not get some decent skirts from Do-It - https://store.do-itmolds.com/Living-Image-Banded-Skirts_p_844.html If you're on a tight budget - I've used these from Amazon and they're not too bad

For bass I use Comets in #3 to #5, Shad is my usual go-to, and silver blade seems to work the best.

So far that's been all of them...from my cheapie Mitchell Avocet spinners to my Pflueger President XT baitcaster, eveything's been one of those two. I've heard of some that are 0.5mm, but I haven't come across any in my upgrading.

Yep - that's what the calipers are for.

Ya - bugs me too and I do selective harvest. But I have standards...each species has a length/weight range where I'll keep (bass it's about 1/2 of those), the rest go back.

Just make sure it's legal where you are. Here in MN, we can use it...but only one arm can have a hook, the rest must be hookless.

Paul's been pretty quiet for a while now...I'll try shooting him a message He's also been absent from here...use to be pretty active.

Had to have seen her in something....unlike most where they list the actor credits in the main page, Wiki put her credits on a separate page - that's how much she was in. Some of the more well known films Murder by Death Death on the Nile Hook ( ya, the Robin Williams one...she played Grandma Wendy) Sister Act 1 & 2 (Mother Superior) And of course on TV she was the Dowager Countess of Grantham in Downton Abby

I got mine off of Amazon, but it looks like they're not selling them anymore. This place out of Michigan has 4"x8" sheets of either 1mm or .75mm (two most common thicknesses for drags washers) for $26.49. Considering that washers are usually around 1" or less diameter, you'd get 32 from one sheet if you cut perfectly...2-3 washers per stack and Bob's your uncle. https://stores.tunasreeltroubles.com/carbon-fiber-drag-washer-sheets/ Any decent compass circle cutter will do the job...I just happen to have razor cutters that fit into my Helix compass...though I'm running low and I can't find the replacements - so I may have to buy a dedicated circle cutter.

I'm still using my Aird-X MH/F rod for spinnerbaits....action is more of a MF-F, not a true F. Line is 12# YZH, which has less stretch than mono with better abrasion resistance...seems to work well.

I agree that switching out the felt for carbontex is a no brainer...but considering I'm on a tight budget I just picked up some carbontex sheets and made my own. Tools I had....I figure my cost was about $2-$3 a reel when all was said and done.

@throttleplate - why the confusion, dude?