Darth-Baiter

gah. the bane of my existence as a kayaker. WIND!! I tried to get after Pacific Ocean rockfish, but the wind waves would. well, I imagine myself as shark poop. even my lakes. 30 mph gust will ruin you. spring winds. Mother Nature is a jokester. hahahha.. be safe kayakers. and boaters.

Go to Mexico. like real estate. It’s location x3

bonus, your hands will feel amazing afterwards. it smells like bee honey to me. i use it on everything. my wife's car seats once. purses, (hers, not mine), boots, shoes, belts. true story. i put some on a leather wrist sling for my hunting bow. that sling went on/off three bows, and still looked perfect. i would buy a new bow, and move the sling over. rain, snow, desert heat, that thing never wore out. and i put Obernaufs on it once. a single time.

is that subie a manual transmission version?

Danners for me. my everyday boot is a pair of RedBacks out of Australia. i have gone onto a jobsite with them.

one of my fishing buddies is a policeman. he is tasked with hunting child predators. he gets online and pretends he is a young girl. so crazy. he has the lingo down perfectly.

i brush them off. if really dirty, just water.. and Obernaufs. this stuff is magic.

i love aiming my livescope at em!! just kidding!!! in my early days. like 3 years ago, i could and have pestered a fish for a long long time trying to get it to bite. me and my dropshot lizard. its kinda how i learned how to stand up on my kayak for hours. i got out of my own head, because i was focused on the fish. it just didnt feel that sporting, picking on a fish programmed to strike at a lizard intruder. now, i just long cast them, and i am not fooling myself..i am probably still landing occasionally on their heads during the spawn.

i was maybe 18 years old. my mom was maybe hoping to collect on life insurance because she bought us a POS boat. it had a 70hp Chrysler motor. the steering was a rod, you pulled back and forth. my first launch i forgot, or didnt know about the drain plug. duh! a guy launching nearby helped me and my younger brother. NOBODY told me about how to float a boat off a trailer. haha..or how to back one. all day long that same gentleman kept us within eyeshot. i knew what he was doing. making himself available if we got into trouble. i'll never forget it and i still pass it along when i can. i probably got less than 20 fish from that boat EVER.

Megabass. the rest of my other rods appear to be simple placeholders.

Mine go for hours.

Frisbee. my dog will start shaking in fear at the mere utterance of "bath?". but that frisbee can go into an icy lake and he will belly flop like a boss into it to fetch.

^^^ you are a madman. hahah.. so very cool.

I went really really simple., I bought lights from that company Guardian Angels. the lights are bright!! I love them for my kayak. they work when I am rigging up in the dark or need to go into the outhouse for some...deposits in the dark. I have magneted it to the side of my truck when I was changing a tire in pitch black. I clipped one light to my dog when I jogged in foggy weather. what I am trying to say is that they are total multitaskers. if I slept in the back of my truck I could use one to read with. they have a myriad of attachment methods. my red/green I simply clip to the front of my kayak with an alligator type clip. I leash them with the leash-kit since I have dropped on into a lake. buy the bigger lights if you go this route. way brighter.

WAIT...wut? is your boat the kind you pump full of air? come on..really?

who named it?? it finally dawned on me I used that finish quite often in my past putting protective serving on a hunting bow string. DUH!!! we just called it "back serving". nice and clean. Rizzoto Finish? a person named Rizzoto "invented" it? coined the term? I could always tie a FG knot well. finishing it with the triple overhand knots wasn't clean enough for me. if someone said, "hey DarthB, just back serve it". but no...hahah.. I immediately went into my garage and re-did my leader. this time? I tight narrow FG knot!! lets go.

no. not anymore. I went to Mexico and I dumped them all into Ziplock bags to save luggage space. I still have some leftover I am using. it's been months. I even started mixing some colors. from practice, I know it is okay. these are Japan soft plastics, so not inexpensive ones. I also will take say a bag of Senkos and put two packs into one.

dang Kevin... not your kid? a kid?

I have never fished it. I havent even heard of a friend fishing it. total mystery to me. that means I will have to take a swing at it. Lake Mendocino. about an hour from my driveway. the lake is very full for the third year straight. looks like there are two launch ramps. I am leaning towards the southern entry point. starting my google earth kungfu now. any norCal folks with some intel for a new kayaker to the lake?

my bike saddle is super thin. its counter intuitive. a thin saddle causes less pain for me. there is a smaller area it is bashing against. yea..good thought.

I bought these Ryugi shake head weights where I can attach any hook. I have yet to use them. hahahha..bait monkey can suck it.

I love it. I see people doing that with fly rods all the time. not sure they are long hauling it tho. I also love the Prius fishing ride. my tacoma sucks up lots of money when I go fishing. I would kill for a Prius now...and tow my kayak on a a trailer with it. (I might go that route soon)

I fished Sunday. while unloading my kayak, I tripped on an overgrown section of ground cover. I stopped all activities, went and got some snips and clipped off the offending section. it looked weird, so I went around the section and tidied it up. FOR AN HOUR! when done, I resumed unloading my kayak and gear. I was sore from all of it. then I woke up with flu-like symptoms. like a card carrying old person, I tried to work remotely. I had a meeting coming up and I laid down to take a 15 minute nap. I woke up 5 hours later...dry mouth, stuffed, feverish...haha..I hit the Tylenol and went to the bed. I slept almost 19 hours. unlike a person of my vintage, I kicked the flu in 3 days. (knocking on wood - like a coot)_ I am not sure I could do back to back kayak days anymore. I'd probably catch covid.

forgot about this thread!! now? I have four Megabass setup riding shotgun in my kayak. I still have my butt-ugly spinning thing going, humbling the arsenal.

I love my Zillions. I was warned they tend to multiply. Now I have two. I’ll be in Japan later this year, and I’ll probably grab another one. Plus some DC reel. Maybe the SLX, maybe the Met. Dunno.