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It's hard to swallow A River Runs Through It from the metronome scene at the beginning, as well as the fishing dialogue, which forces more modern fly shop dogma (would a kid say, "I want to be a professional fly fisherman"). Aside from that, an entertaining movie. It was a boon for fly fishing pro shops, most of which went out of business the following decade. If you've ever read Hemingway, he never wrote about fishing. The closest was Big Two-Hearted River, which was about a WWI veteran healing his wounds in the river. The trick then is turning one of those great short stories or novels into a movie - what impresses about Hemingway are the sentences he didn't write down, but left to you - most movie attempts failed (Hemingway slept through the movie premiers). Hemingway never fished a dry fly, instead, always swinging wet flies on soggy silk line. The greatest fishing scene in print was written in memoir by his son Jack in Misadventures of a Fly Fsherman. A spy for OAS, Jack was parachuted into France, wearing a British uniform so he wouldn't be arrested as a spy. Waiting for his underground contact, he put together the rod from his pack and began casting to rising trout. He hooked up a bruiser just as a German column was marching by, and wishing he could be anywhere else. The German sergeant saw the ruckus in the river and jumped in to help him land the large trout. Fish to hand, the sergeant patted him on the back and trotted back to his column, never noticing the British uniform.

Expecting your wife to kill you? 42 is still a puppy - my younger daughter was born when I was 42.

On our tailwater, rainbows learn to feed in the fallout behind grazing redhorse suckers, and fishing those visible mudballs is a good tactic for fall holdovers. The redhorse suckers, we call Guadalupe redfish, and they're a ride on a fly rod. They spawn in March, and a spawn fly is a good attractor for rainbows then. This is also how you catch Kenai rainbows and dollies - in summer salmon runs, the big fish tag onto salmon coming up to Kenai Lake and follow them into the spawning creeks. You fish for them behind the visible salmon. Twenty of these in a half day will send you to the firepit for a cigar and cognac. on the salt flats, you can find redfish feeding behind stingrays

Drag washers don't need excess grease, but only the thinnest residual you can leave on them after you remove the rest. The most important places to grease are the I.D. and O.D. edges. After this gets stacked, I apply main gear grease using a sable brush. A/R bearings are sensitive to viscosity. Light oil can mess them up. and cause them to lock or slip.

You ran into the advantage of both braid and Daiwa SV brake v. Pixy centrifugal brake + separate mag brake on somewhat heavier and deeper spool. The centrifugal brake works best for start-up backlash with heavier lure weights, and doesn't do much mid-cast. Mag brake works best for mid-cast wind backlash, and is very effective with light, shallow BFS spools. I suspect you had a deeper backlash loop you didn't find, and it froze the spool during the cast. SV brake gives you both. This is with a Ray's Studio honeycomb BFS SV spool, which lets me use really tiny braid - smaller than I would recommend - but set up is easy: You set the mag to prevent mid-cast wind backlash on the lightest thing you're going to throw, especially into the wind, and the SV takes care of all the heavy stuff at start-up. The problem with braid is dealing with backlash. I keep a small soft plastic toothpick (Doctor's Brush Pick) in my spare reel and spool pelican box - haven't needed it yet.

This one probably doesn't get to play, but the 1932-patent Hardy Altex was the space shuttle of fishing reels. This is a MkIV from the 50s/60s, and the smoothest reel I've ever fished until new-millennium computer balance. With wartime patent right extension, this reel held the flip-bail patent until 1954, though most ignored it after 1951. 2nd prize goes to Luxor A - this reel was made into the 70s as Crack, and many still seek these out - to fish. all-time workhorse has to be any size green Penn Spinfisher - ride hard and put away wet the only '70s Mitchell that would manual bail is the 440 Ottomatic, and you can both open it and close it with your thumb that's holding the rod.

Hot Sauce is not a good choice for multiplying reel gears, because of its low viscosity. You would do better with a higher viscosity grease made for gears - drag grease may be too high viscosity for gears. My gear-grease choice probably won't help you, MTCW-SW. You should be able to search the topic, or ask @Delaware Valley Tackle Where Hot Sauce is good is fly reel drag gears, because it never waxes or stiffens.

While kayak fishing is intimate with the water, fly fishing is even more intimate, reading the water, and most often sight-fishing. The thought of multiple fly rods seems like an antithesis. Especially since I've culled my number of effective fly patterns over 40 years. When fly fishing is go-to, I use two different boats, rigged simply, and different goals from my big T160. 39-lb kevlar Kestrel 140SOT is my fast taxi to wading water. Note I also carry a 3-pc bait rod in the sternwell netting to put together for that opportunity. This boat is old school fast, and needs thigh-straps to keep balance and turn. Coming back to fish the pass into the channel with both rods rigged - you can't turn around in this boat, but have to get out to mess with stuff behind. Bow ballast is pretty much mandatory for stability, here an ice mule and, um, breakfast beer to share. In our hill country limestone creeks, the 44-lb Heritage Redfish 10 is fast, nimble, stable, and easy to portage. Again, just taking out one fly rod, though I can add a second and even 3rd rod with sternwell rigging and milk crate. for wind control, this boat needs a skeg addition

That should work great. I have two spools loaded with 12-lb Tatsu, one Daiwa 1016, and the second a ZPI Alcance. I fished 12-lb Abrazx for years on Lew's, and Red for a decade before that.

likewise, my Valleyhill 67MMM all-range BFS will cast 1/16 to 5/8 oz, and feels fast even toward the heavy lure weight end.

@Fishingmickey We were keeping stringers off the dock fishing overnight at Arroyo two weeks ago - saw dolphins, gator, gar - up to 15 fish on the stringer - and nothing bothered our stringer - we fished, slept, fished, slept, and filleted in daylight. We've done it this way at least once/winter over the past five years - sometimes twice in the winter.

Fed-Ex is the fastest delivery from Japan - when the post crashed last year and the vendors went scrambling, they added a nonstop route from Sennin-Shi to Memphis. They even clear Customs while in the air. Yesterday, Wed, received a package from Japan that was shipped on Monday - more than enough time for Christmas...

@TnRiver46 ...not even Louisiana Hot Sauce sticks to Costas

nothing sticks to Costas - not even salt spray riding in a power boat with big waves and wind That's the beauty of Costas - it's an everything-phobic film they put on the lenses.

My Costas are literally 25 years old, bought for $35 on sierratradingpost close-out. Every decade they get a new croakie

@Fishingmickey we're fishing the flats, less than 3' deep, and the stringer is in my lap when making tracks Some people worry about gators - seen them, but never had them come around the boat. If I were fishing offshore, would be using a bag for kings.

@Fishingmickey forgot to add - with the new plastic stringers, you can't really tie a bowline to tie them off. A Harken cam cleat grabs them like a rock.

great rod choices

You'll find Tackle Advisor's you tubes comparing Penn spinning reels at every price level. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrm08dXl_mMtfxHPj-llsWA

Part of the fun of kayaking is how effectively your rigging functions on the water. Here rigged for 2 rods, I can rig for 3. In the bow hold are back-up 3-pc rods, bait, spinning, and fly for opportunity. On the water I can rig a 4th rod holder that carries the fly rod along the hull length. Lap hatch carries tethered Pelican boxes, wallet and cell phone, etc., back-up baitcast reel and spare spinning spool; and a small cigar pelican. Pliers and fish-grabber on keepers in cockpit trays. Engel cooler - and the milk crate is everything - plano-type boxes for lures, lunch, with a net over the top for quick-stuffing weather layer, peeling dry pants as the day warms, etc.

I tried 10-lb on Penn 4200SS that my daughter made her go-to reel for salt and lakes (she went to fly in FW rivers). Catching sheepshead one day out of the cut from the deep channel to the flat - if you've ever caught sheepshead on the flat, they want deep water yesterday. The hard-working part of the line extruded to a smaller diameter from the morning's work-out, and dug into her spool, locking up the reel and ending the morning - we were fished out and had a nice meal of specs. May have been affected by the lack of BB line guide, but never tried it again.

On the tackle collecting forums, the game is always to identify the tackle used in the movies. Bogart's tackle in High Sierra, 1941, Montague cane, a Medalist 1594 from that period will bring $1500 today. In The Quiet Man, 1951, Ward Bond is fishing a Young Pattern 10a from the 20s/30s In Libeled Lady, 1936, William Powell is fishing a large auto - Martin No. 3. Myrna Loy is fishing another rare first-year Medalist 1594. Walter Connally is fishing a Shakespeare Russell with round line guard. can keep going with Carole Lombard, In Name Only, 1939, another shiny new Medalist, but a RHW 1494. In spite of the trees in the movie, Lombard and Gable were avid fishers. Two different Three Stooges shorts, Curly and Moe each fish a hard-rubber, "Steel Pivot" Montague OK, my favorite movie with fishing - 1950, Hemingway's The Breaking Point. Harry Morgan's fat-cat guide fare (who stiffs him at the dock and leaves him stranded with his boat in Mexico) catches a Marlin on a Penn Senator. Another great Hemingway, George C. Scott in Islands in the Stream, 1977. Penn and Fenwick in Jaws.

But we do want more conservationists. Somebody's going to have to pick up the fight for our rivers and bays.

I'll chime in here a little bit about the gears. The finer reshaped gear teeth ensure more gear teeth and, especially a larger surface area of gear teeth are in contact, which reduces contact stress and gear wear. Where they're heading with aluminum gear processing is deeper and harder anodizing for extended gear life.

One of my all time hill country wide-spot fishing adventures was hooking up a black buffalo the size of a samsonite on Tonka Queen cane fly rod and Hardy St. George - took my bottom-bounced cats whisker (basically fly-rod jig on sinking line). There was never a consideration of landing the fish, but it was an amusement park ride. It porpoised continuously for a solid 10 minutes, Ran far out into the backing, charged, still porpoising the whole time, and halfway out again before happily becoming unhooked. Not the fish, but this was the rod and reel the place - that's my buddy Danny on the same day - where he's wading is about the deepest in this wide pool I got this pretty red-ear buck, different crossing, same day @scaleface I've targeted carp in a cottonwood seed fall. The fly is easy, size 14 or 16 scud hook, tufts of waste white marabou tied with brown thread. Fish 4" below a strike indicator - put it right in their face when they're circling on the surface. @Bluebasser86 - a 10-lb drum on a fly rod is something, too - bottom-bounced them off my sister's boat dock on Lake Livingston. my daughter with her catch off the dock