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I guess fog is just as good football omen as it is fishing omen.

They use silicone elastomer coatings, but seem pretty hard - haven't had abrasion problems with a dozen hard-use trips. Yamatoyo makes a hard-coat X-braid, "Resin Sheller", which Japan Tackle and fishingshopkiwi sell. I'm trying my first spool of that on braid-modified Ambassadeur.

What I've noticed about them in thick bait concentration (tide pass), is they make the exact wake pattern on the surface that the real bait makes. My most productive is the YoZuri "Real Gizzard Shad", which reflects green and transmits pink - that's also what the live bait does in low-angle sunlight.

I'll add 20-lb 832 is the best-behaved braid I've tried on baitcaster and would recommend it to anybody. I've spooled enough reels, 832 actually measures a little thicker than reported, and at the same test, is twice the diameter of X-braids (YGK) - that's a good thing - see best behaved. In XUL, I've fished down to 6-lb - here's where you might want the swap to X-braid to get higher breaking strength, but this tiny line is also extremely well-behaved.

creamy horseradish and creole mustard just a thin stripe on the fish

The secret to perfect fish tacos is a thin stripe of Remoulade sauce. I saute the fillets in browning butter. Of course corn tortillas, or at least half-corn, pico de gallo, and a good southwestern cabbage blend.

not completely true - especially with stiff mono, line slap on the blank is the same as feathering your cast on purpose. I picked this rod for example - even with its tiny guides, it casts great - the first guide does all the work. Way back, my Mitchell 300 with 14-lb BigGame was terrible about line slap on 7' inshore Berkley TriSport, which had big-diameter guides for the "line cone" approach.

however you like fish speckled trout fillets are the ultimate. However, white bass is the perfect freshwater meat fish, and they need to be harvested for the forage base of the freshwater fishery.

I learned to fillet 25 at a time in the dark. What will test your patience is a stringer of specs after fishing all night. With super-refined scales and skin like velum, it's too easy to cut through their skin. Then you have to go back to the ribs and back-fillet.

@Whangler This means something. You are counting on auto bail closure to do the same thing on a new reel that it did on your old Penn. Doesn't work that way - the spool on your new reel is made for line to peel off so that it will cast farther. Even the new line is stiffer to reduce line memory, and that makes the line springy just like a slinky. You need to switch to manual bail closure and, you need to manage your line with good manual bail technique. Keep your free hand close to the spool, and use your finger tips to feather line at the end of your cast. Close the bail manually, not with the crank. Turn with the rod to take up all slack before you begin your retrieve. Selah. It's no accident that I showed my Tica Libra SX. Loaded with fluorocarbon, this is the reel I always loan. Inevitably, the borrower gets line behind the spool. Then we go over manual bail technique again, and problem solved. Don't ever try braid without using manual bail technique. @Whangler Everything you're describing comes from trying to wind loose line - and then cast it again - repeat. It has nothing to do with how the line was put on the reel, and everything to do with how you put it back on the reel when fishing. Everything I described is to how prevent ever winding with loose line.

There's really no logic to having a white bass limit.

soak it in ice water (or buttermilk) for a day - the red will pretty much go away. This is our ice water bowl of speckled trout at Arroyo, but we leave the fillets floating at least a couple of days before vacuum-sealing in meal packages. Every day, drain some water and throw new fillets and ice on top - back into the frig.

here's my buddy Ewell hooked up

Cats whisker bottom-bounced on a Teeny line White bass are why I bought my first fly rod at 16 These are all 2-y-o males - I released everything else and finished my last 4 for a bag limit while I was letting friends fillet from my stringer.

Vanford, Stradic, Stella, Vanquish, Twin Power, etc.- all Shimano worm-drive reels introduced since '18 Stella interchange spools. They have identical stroke in the same reel bodies, and the internal parts exchange. For small frame, they're all S-27 spools. For medium 2500S/(SHG-FL), they're all S-20 spools. For large frame, they're all S-28 spools. https://www.jpfishingtacklenews.com/shimano-stradic-19/ https://www.jpfishingtacklenews.com/shimano-20-vanford/ https://www.jpfishingtacklenews.com/new-shimano-stella-18/ in 2500S, all have 17 mm stroke if your stradic is different, then you don't have a '19 Stradic 2500S /FL holy crap - is contradicting really that important?

I guess 3rd time is a charm for this topic. I don't have a mid-size Shimano frame, but here's a small frame Vanquish 2000 and the large frame on my Stradic 5000 Neither one looks as short or sharply bent as Vanford - magnesium frame and aluminum frame v. plastic composite Vanford If you watch TackleAdvisor's youtubes, you always see him bending the foot on plastic reels. Shimano may have (probably, certainly, without question) intentionally shaped the Vanford Ci4+ foot this way (along with all their other reinforced plastic reels) to improve strength and stiffness. ^^^This ^^^

It's Seaguar's fault for naming the line. You would hope it has improved cold weather and cold water properties.

One thing I like better in Lew's is the more-positive palm plate lock. However, the Revo palm-plate latch complaint is eliminated when you fully relax the spool tension knob before trying to install and fasten the palm plate. One thing I like better about Abu is the range of aftermarket parts available - lightened and shallow aftermarket spools are nonexistent for Lew;s. While they share many common parts, and are built side-by-side in Korea, they are different designs. Spools will not swap between them, etc. Their closest common designs are in dual-brake models.

@Torres Never had it occur during a cast, only when fumbling with a reel, e.g., unloaded spool, or at least the reel off the rod, and free-spinning the spool. If you think about it, it's really difficult to twist your wrist far enough either way during a cast to make it happen.

Like everybody else, Abu makes their range of reels. Before I bought my Zillion 1000 for inshore ML, I was really close to buying the JDM LX992Z, which comes with two spools, shallow and mid. The FishingShopKiwi price of $300 and change looked very inviting. Part of that was watching Mr. Yamaga fish his Elite on this shore light game rod I was planning to match with it. ZPI has basically stuck with an Abu design in their Alcance, adding magnesium/titanium spool and tuned mag-brake plate. I'm more impressed with this reel for at least "off-the-shelf" reliable distance than any other I own,

Of course you can stack braid on a deep spool, but you may not get optimum line lay result. Deeper spools just work better with mono - Tica 2500 comparison - I have both a Tatsu spool, which lays 10-lb perfectly, and a stacked braid spool, finishing with 16-lb, which works, without wind knots, but isn't the good line lay result, with slight hour-glassing.

Hardy Exalta on Phillipson patent reel seat. The reel has a square boss on the frame so you can rotate the knee and foot 180-degrees. beginning on their 300 size spinning reels, IRT offers their G1 power grip

I don't have a mid-size Shimano frame, but here's a small frame Vanquish 2000 and the large frame on my Stradic 5000 Neither one looks as short or sharply bent as your Vanford - magnesium frame and aluminum frame v. composite Vanford If you watch TackleAdvisor's youtubes, you always see him bending the foot on composite reels. Shimano may have intentionally shaped the Vanford Ci4+ foot this way to improve strength and stiffness. @Mobasser ^^^ dude, you started a 3rd thread on the same topic

Wind'/weather shell and layers, so I can peel and adjust as the sun warms.