Darth-Baiter

wow...nobody is reading anywhere that a 7' rod on the amazon river will be brutally sucky?

I'm nuts and I kinda suck with an a-rig. I use 17lb flouro.. I think it is 17..could be 16. I noticed with braid, I can almost hear the string rattle and buzz as the bait rips closer to me. especially if I am jerking it. I think it is the line going thru water? dunno..I kinda have the ears of a beagle. flouro slips doesnt seem to make the mystery noise... again, I suck. I tend to snag them underwater in the trees more than catching fish. I think my bait is called, "and they call me Fred" or something. I bought them cuz the name was fun.

you dont actually catch anything beside peacock. you are throwing topwater almost exclusively. some jig stuff reeled in fast and twitchy. big cats dont eat those. you have to float a bait..and nobody is doing that. the 200 size is perfect. all the guide reels are crappy Abu reels no bigger than. 200. all beat to S. low line loads, etc. a peacock fights like the dickens, but if my tatula 150 could best them over and over...a 200 would smoke em. and wait until you see a weird mutant mini pink dolphin come and steal your 10lb peacock...it was bewildering. I retire soon. the Amazon river Peacock will be my retirement dance partner. my wife pinkie shook on it.

Yes! I’m buying the half serrated version. I dint have anymore in that configuration. Thank you.

Well. I do have miniature smallmouth bass where I fish. I think my biggest is a two pound fish. I’d poop myself if I got a four.

i probably shouldnt have had a mouthful of water. hahahha

did he just call me a FAIRY?! oh no he didnt!!!

any fish i lost without seeing it, was a "GIANT!" but i dont even pull out a camera for anything under 5lbs now. @HawkeyeSmallie i would love to blindfold you and take you to my secret lake... (and blindfold you on the way out.) hahah.. would love to see you hook into a SIX!!

i have never had a bass run anywhere and snap a rod. i have snapped all my rods by my own hands and i really want to spray some lubricant on my computer monitor at that reel!! that is a workhorse!!!

i'm buying the Certate in Tokyo in November. i already have the $$ hidden away in a sock..a very dirty sock.

the Falcons are where i would start. they have several lines.. i think the Bucco line is the lower end and exactly the one i would buy. i dont live in Brazil, so the rod would see very little use. its $99 at Bass Pro!! on my trip, a dude brought his own rods, and he told me he went up one grade from the Bucco line. not sure i remember the name of the line. the rods are so short, IIRC he brought them in packed in a Snowboard case. if you want, i can text him. he goes after peacocks 2x a year. dude is a peacock addict. apparently, his wife hates him. he swears by a peacock lure called the Provenza. it darts like a jerkbait underwater. i bought one, and it is fishless here at home.

not to dimish from his passing... nevermind.

this. just last week, i was killing on my standard #925 and talking smack about it. i look down and and rehook a worm and noticed it was not #925. my friend had left a bag of green pumpkin with black flake in my luggage and i was fishing that... the horrors!! but the fish didnt agree.

i'm not here to debate calibers.

my brother found a bone colored Choppo in a lake, and gave it to me. last year, on the Delta that thing was like a bass magnet. been pretty silent ever since

naw..i picked up on what you were saying. i grew up reading about the Inuits. those crazy effers shot at polar bears with 30-30's!!! that is a mid range woods deer rifle here. hahah.

i have been casually working out details on my next Mexico bass fishing trip. got to talking with a bud of mine. we are of the same vintage. we did Mexico this year, earlier. last time, the Amazon river. we figured we may as well start checking some bucket trips off the list. looks like we are headed to Alaska instead. Big Halibut and Salmon trip. the guide said to not book a long trip because taking that much fish home is cost prohibitive. haha. looks like we hit Mexico the following year with a drivebyfishing visit to Florida. i am working on filling my fishing resume up!!! then i may "go". i cant wait until i get throw big topwaters to feeding tuna on the Ascension Islands!!! (<----that may never happen), or cast big flies to Taimen Trout in Mongolia!!! dreaming big here.

eww..this hits home. i am getting older. i noticed i chill faster than my younger wife. i used to love being cool...now, get me a hoodie. and i sleep with pants now. thankfully i live where a hoodie or light jacket gets it done.

@FryDog62 my record for a battery kicking butt is 10 years. but it wasnt a battery provided as OEM. at 6 years, i let my mechanic buddy run a load test. any signs of trouble show up easily at that point. last time, i was prepping for an Idaho elk hunt where we were to see some zero deg days. i ended up buying an Interstate battery at that time, which is the very battery that went 10 years.

is that the Adira. the full size? i have been eyeballing the mini Adira. i just booked a fishing trip to AK, so at this point, i almost NEED to buy it. you never know if i may need to cut myself out of a trawler net. hahah

^^^ moving away from Kentucky!

i kayak with a couple of people who didnt wear PFD. i told them, to do whatever they want, but know going in that i will take a beat or two before i try rescuing them. reaching for a person floating there all angry because they just u-boated all their expensive gear and reaching for a person thrashing from fear of going under again are two different scenarios altogether. rescue swimmers are a different breed of human.

the dude almost made it to 80 being all footloose and fancy free sans PFD. he's got this. at this point anything would be better.

oh,...diminshing my accomplishments? haha..just kidding. they probably did. but i'm not inuit..i grew up in a desert..the biggest body of water was a cattle tank.

No snaps. My Brazilian guide used the coolest quick release knot. Basically a loop with a tag end you could pull on to loosen it. I used it the other day quick changing topwater baits here at home. No flouro. Straight braid to baits. The fish are violent. You know as a kid when you sprinkled fish food into your aquarium and all the fish get frenzied? Sometimes your bait is THE FISHFOOD. multiple fish slam and bat the bait around. I used the guides woodchoppers. No hook issues. Next time I will bring a hook sharpener. My definition of sharp is different from a Brazilian dudes. We had a few of our own baits. We changed them out w heavier hooks. The ones o bought at the Brazil shop had good hooks.