DanielG

This is an old thread but I recently have gotten to know the OP in person. jbMaine and his wife are good people. At the house here a short while back. We spent way to much time talking as we had as much in common as we didn't. Anyway, my story. I taught Junior High science for 30 years starting at age 22. At about that time, no physical issues but with education changes and possibly battle fatigue, I decided to retire. My fantastic wife was a homemaker so we could retire together. We had planned well and had a bit of good luck and decided that we could do it. So, at 52 yrs old at the end of the school year, I was done. I'll turn 65 in a couple of months. First time on medicare. I'm getting older, and little things are creeping up, a bit of arthritis, I say "what" a lot, but all in all still pretty fit. we hit the Y for an aggressive workout three times a week and we love to travel in our little camper. We've been to all 48 continental states. Some more than once and visited all Major national/state parks, presidential libraries, etc, and we just loooove to ride roller coasters. A lake is in my front yard (see thumbnail) so I fish 3-5 times a week in the summer. Like the OP jbmaine, I have a full workshop and love to make stuff. I've been making stuff all my life. Even my boat. I've made my house and most of the furniture in it. Guitars; I'm a graduate of the Maine School of guitar making. Lately I'm making crankbaits. There are several other things I've dabbled in that I won't get into here. Retirement has been a time to catch up on all of those things I would have spent my time doing had I not been working. I'm thankful I've had this long time to do them. I wish everyone who wanted to could have the opportunity for a long retirement starting early. I loved teaching but it's out of my system. It was extremely hard work and relentless in being time consuming. Yes I had two months off but I put in 10-12 hour days for thirty years, and often weekend time and it really worked on your head. Up to 50% of the teachers are on some anxiety meds. Zoloft is the most common. I never needed to be but there were some days.... When I look back at it I am amazed that I sustained it that long and don't know how I did. A good experience but I'm not looking back.

Thanks so much... I'm actually half way to reproducing the bait I just made. This time with (hopefully) a good epoxy coat. Second one is going much faster. Got it sealed and right up to painting in a few hours one afternoon. I am so intrigued by the idea of making and trying different types of baits with different paint patterns. I was a science teacher for 30 yrs, so this is almost as much that as it is the artsy stuff.

Take a look at my videos. I have no commercials on them. No monetary gain. I wasn't sure I could do this either. I researched a long time, made a plan, got the materials, and did it. I'll bet anyone can. You don't have to be an artist. The paint job is sort of done with tricks. It's not a freehand sort of thing like a canvas artist.

Thanks... wasn't easy the first time. I did mess up on the epoxy topcoat though. I may have messed up the whole thing if it doesn't dry. Still tacky. I mixed by weight but the bottles say in tiny, tiny print. Mix by volume. grrrrr. Oh well, try again maybe.

So. Awhile ago I indicated in a post I was going to try my hand at making a crankbait. I finally did. It was a tense experience as I've never used an airbrush before. And, like an idiot I chose to make a more complicated one as my first.. a sort of perch. Anyway, I made a series of videos detailing the very newbie effort but it shows all that I had to do to get started. I thought that anyone thinking of doing this the first time might benefit from my experience. There's also a webpage link to all of the materials and details about them. Here is a link to my youtube channel that shows all six detailed videos of this build along with others I've made since this post. Links in the youtube description area lead to more information.

From your first post then later on. I assumed a conversation of the method of doing this was implied from your question.

Old topic but... This summer I got their Champion 735C MH glass rod. I just don't want to use anything else now. It feels like a good rod while using it. But the surprise for me is that it feels like a great rod when a fish is on the end of it. I didn't know a glass would be like this. Love it. Now.... to get that good feeling by getting more fish on it. Fall was pretty much a bust. .

Um.... is this a weird conversation or is it me? My wife and I have joint accounts and the same checkbook and visa/debit cards. We talk about purchases and decide on what is best for the both of us because in the long run it affects both of us. Sometimes it's her purchase that is decided on, sometimes it's mine. We pursue the most frugal path (meaning, the best bang for the buck). She knows I have pursuits I feel compelled to follow up on and I know she has hers. We're sensitive to both. Sometimes we can and sometimes we can't, but it's known to both of us. It's not "man up and tell her the truth". It's, why do you need to even have to consider to be up front about things or not? Almost seems like a father daughter, or mother son relationship way of doing things. When young I had to either ask permission or if not hide things. I haven't done that as an adult.

I'm sure there are others but maybe Powerpro super slick?

I don't know the particulars but sometimes if a battery goes bad at end of life could be 4 yrs or 9 yrs old, shorts out, like when you suddenly can't start your car in the morning because the battery needs replacing, it will freeze. Right now I've got three 100 amp/hr. batteries outside. Two in the boat, one in the camper. All fully charged in the fall. It was 12 degrees last night. I've done this for years. In the spring there's still a 3/4 charge in the batteries.

Well, I've got the reel and love it. I've never used that rod but I do have a Dobyn's Champion that is also MHF but it's 7.3 and glass. I can tell you that it's wonderful for cranks and such. Yours is 6.6 right?

This is getting to be a sort of "whose is bigger" kind of thread ?. I had the original TRS-80 back in 1977. It sold for $668 was had a white letter asci screen, ran at 1.78 mhz and had 4 whole K or ram. You saved programs to a Radio Shack cassette tape recorder. It took several minutes to save a less than 1k program. You pretty much needed to type in all your stuff in basic. I had a magazine subscription to 80-Micro that printed programs that were sometimes pages long to type in. My first line driven word processor was done that way with no printer available... I was 22 yrs old then. Graduated to Apple products after that and eventually to Apple Macs in 1984 to where I am today. It was the wild west of technology then. 150 baud dialup long distance call to AOL, A book the size of a thick catalog to get yourself hooked up with an IP address years later. Bulletin board systems instead of the internet. Then Mozilla, later to be Netscape Navigator, the only and king of browsers then.... eventually it adopted graphics. Talk about super slow downloads. You could make a sandwich waiting for a simple page to load. It was all pretty exciting then though.... I was one of the early geeks.... or maybe it was just nerd. My first computer... The TRS-80 Radio Shack Model 1 Thank you.... faster than I thought considering your previous post. I've noticed a difference at times.

Curado DC foolproof setup. Use the 2-4 setting as per instructions. I use 2 for braid. Set the tension knob so that if you jiggle the pole a bit the bait falls a bit with each jiggle. Cast in any conditions. No enganglements. Works every time. You have to reset for each different weight bait.

I've had the Curado DC for several months now and I've loved it. I don't have a ton of experience with other bait casters but this one is nice. When properly adjusted for the lure you're throwing it just doesn't backlash, even casting into the wind. I know some people do have backlashes. But, if adjusted using a certain formula, it doesn't. After getting it right I've cast a thousand times and don't use my thumb. Not one fuzz ball in that time. Very satisfied with it.

OOOOO.......That's super nice. The whole thing looks so integrated.

This is getting to be a sort of "whose is bigger" kind of thread ?. I had the original TRS-80 back in 1977. It sold for $668, had a white letter asci screen, ran at 1.78 mhz and had 4 whole K of ram. You saved programs to a Radio Shack cassette tape recorder. It took several minutes to save a less than 1k program. You pretty much needed to type in all your stuff in basic. I had a magazine subscription to 80-Micro that printed programs that were sometimes pages long to type in. My first line driven word processor was done that way with no printer available... I was 22 yrs old then. Graduated to Apple products after that and eventually to Apple Macs in 1984 to where I am today. It was the wild west of technology then. 150 baud dialup long distance call to AOL, A book the size of a thick catalog to get yourself hooked up with an IP address years later. Bulletin board systems instead of the internet. Then Mozilla, later to be Netscape Navigator, the only and king of browsers then and it's distance cousin today, Firefox. Eventually it adopted graphics. Talk about super slow downloads. You could make a sandwich waiting for a simple page to load. It was all pretty exciting then though.... I was one of the early geeks.... or maybe it was just nerd. My first computer... The TRS-80 Radio Shack Model 1

Only for locals I guess so probably not much help to anyone. Just couldn't help but post it. Just as I'm in the process of making my first crankbait. But I'm using my shop compressor so I don't need this. Testors Aztec airbrush compressor at a salvage store called Mardens in Sanford Maine. About a dozen of them continually marked down from $190...... to $29.95. New...no damage, in the box.

click.. then it hangs awhile before loading. Multiple weather issues around the country causing this maybe????

to chime in.... slow the past couple of days. When you click it seems to hang awhile before the page loads. I don't know where the server is but we are having tornadoes in the midwest, High winds and rain in the northeast, fires and power out in the west... and a bunch of other stuff. Maybe the signal is being rerouted to bypass these issues. I think the net works that way.

A Berkely Swimbait. Caught a fish... got a free bait.

I don't know... I'm in the process of making my first one and they're all there on a card looking up at me from the table. Why not look online for the species of fish you're trying to copy for a picture of the fish to see the eye color?

I have a Garmin (with the larger screen) that also has lifetime automatic updates, you just connect it to your computer and use the app for it... easy. Mine is about 4 yrs old now. I also see lakes and streams as I pass by and I don't have to zoom in. Water is blue, state parks and national forests are green. Maybe it's because I have the larger one. Mine is the Garmin Nuvi 2757LM, it's not made any longer. Seems the update is the 2689LMT. But it's $299 on Amazon. They make less feature rich models that might have the water bodies, I'm just not sure. Here's a picture of mine in my driveway with my lake in the front yard.

I have a garmin. It shows each body of water or stream as I drive by it. No lake names though but Sometimes I can just see it through the trees but it's always there if it says it is.

Anyone remember (sure you do) when the news was one of three networks at 6:30 (est) and you settled down to listen to Walter Cronkite tell you exactly what happened that day with no opinions or editorials. He seemed like the wise grandfather. You probably would have voted for him had he run for something. Similar for the other network news anchors.

Well, after acquiring lots of stuff to do this (boy it can get expensive)... This is my carving today. I've also been doing a video. It's meant to fill in the blanks for anyone watching guys make these online but needing to have the minutia info filled in to get started. So, from a complete beginner and what it took from A to Z.