bulldog1935

red is a color for low angle sunlight, early morning, and late afternoon. The deeper you fish, the later in the morning and the earlier in the afternoon you can get by with red.

Consider they're too busy packing and shipping good deals to send out e-mails. Besides, google-beta-translate just doesn't work that well on Japanese. They do have the single-toughest website to navigate, though Plat's dressy website takes even longer to load from here. If you want to talk to someone, Jun at JapanTackle has great English.

Found these Daiwa orange handles closing out in NZ (Marine Deals) from a marketing blitz there and Oz - Daiwa Custom Color Project. The orange anodize matches Tica Libra SX trim. I thought the rainbow Origin Dress reel-stand/hook-keeper looked especially nice across from the Livre EP30 knob on this salty Tica

I've bought so much with them, they've quit sending me e-mail notifications or even order confirmations - if you have a log-in there, can check order status on your account page. The only time I get an e-mail from them is when they didn't have stock and issued a refund. I just get the Fed-Ex tracking notification when they send it out (I have a Fed-Ex log-in, too). Usually takes them a few days to get off the mark, but a very reliable vendor, and can't argue with $28 worth of Fed-Ex Express gratis on a $100 order, especially when their prices are already discounted. Fed-Ex, btw, is flying nonstop from Shennin-Shi to Memphis, now, and both DHL and Fed-Ex have delivered orders to me in as few as 40 hours. Just checked my last AP order - Thursday, 1/21 Shipped on Monday 1/25 pm (Mon 2 am here) Delivered on Wed 1/27 am

My friend who sent 4 reels for me to customize threw in a diminutive Tica Cetus as a gift. Since I was buying a DLH load of parts from Japan, threw in the parts to pimp-out the Cetus. The result: Loaded with 4-lb Toray Exthread fluoro (basically Tatsu equivalent, low memory, wants to leave the spool)

all braided PE is 0.98 the density of water, so braid floats. The exceptions are hybrid braids adding ester fibers, which are made to sink. Fluorocarbon is still the densest and fastest-sinking line. (borrowed from Jun at JapanTackle)

@J Francho is correct. It's not legal in the US, but offshore spammers frequently use your neighbor's caller ID for spam calls. I answered my neighbor Richard's ID one day only to be connected with a caller from India - I read him the riot act. The phone system is getting much better at identifying incoming calls as SpamRisk.

then I guess quantum fields and string theory is right out - and that's ok, too. Speaking of spooky interactions at a distance, one thing I haven't seen on the forum is references to using Solunar tables for planning fishing times, though I searched up 6 pages https://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/search/?q=solunar&quick=1 Growing up and still today, my dad references the tables from Farmer's Almanac (growing up, he used them for planting). He never planned fishing around them, but always used them as a hopeful encouragement - supposed to be a good day today. Kayak fishing the flats, we don't have the option of powering the boat and running to another spot - you are stuck fishing the day's plan. On the TKF salt kayak fishing board, Solunar is a big deal. From my perspective, fishing moving tide currents is the big deal, and there certainly must be some overlap between tide motion and Solunar data. Moving tide and wind currents focus bait on structure, which draws the gamefish. We literally plan our trips months in advance from NOAA tide prediction graphs - I ramrodded a trip Feb 18 to 22 (two weeks from now), with my buddy coming down from Colorado, by picking the best tides of the month. We pick the days using the tide charts, then we fine-tune the spot using wind prediction. e.g. - you don't want to be stuck fishing that neap tide on Feb 17, but each day the following week, the tides get better.

use those new split ring pliers to take the hooks off, and then count coup

@J Francho no offense, bro, but for me, that fits the internet more than the water. I've naturally understood the water from childhood, and nothing about it seems complicated. Thinking like a fish? Well, fish have an IQ of 6 (12 for the smartest, carp). Their greatest motivation is fear, by natural selection. Brave and inquisitive fish become fodder. Big fish are cowards. E.g., when fish feed in a time cycle, they're motivated by fear, and it's us fishing them that got them there (you especially find this in stupid trout in heavily fished tailwaters). When their neighbors begin to feed, then competition takes over.

Night fishing has many advantages, and never quite found it scary. I will say surf fishing at night is the most manly sport I know. It's extremely disorienting - the wind, waves, current, the sand under your feet, even the stars and moon are moving - your only fixed reference is a coleman lantern on a board on the beach. A buddy tells a story about the sharks after his stringer in the surf at night. After starting over with a new stringer, he began throwing it over his back. Twenty minutes after loading up a few more specs, a fish on his back made its dying kick, and the hair on the back of his neck stood up.

Bottom-bouncing a Teeny sinking spliced shooting head on a fly rod. It's a white bass technique I've been fishing 40 years. I use Teeny lines 99% of the time with a fly rod in warmwater. The fly I'm usually fishing this way is a bead-chain cats whisker, tied to keel hook-up On the flagstone bottom in our spring creeks, can watch big bass chasing the mudballs, and slam their head sideways into the bottom 4 or 5 times trying to eat the fly. Even on our crowded cold tailwater, I can take it to the wide slow spots no one else ever fishes and bring up big rainbows.

my biggest bass as a teenager, 6-1/2 lbs, was caught on a jitterbug - she took the lure on a long rest between slow retrieves. She had plenty of time to inspect it in the middle of the clear cove, and still ate it.

few lure color choices have to do with color vision - rather, they're about the color of the water and the available light, and how the light bandwidth penetrates the water to make the lure visible. The second factor is making the bait appear natural, which can affect how the fish reacts when it's close to the lure - reject or eat. Of course there's no reason to make rules, because there will be an exception to every one, but having probability on your side is always a bonus.

has the opposite effect from the way it was worded - longer handle increases the torque you put into the reel, and effectively slows down the gearing, since you're moving your hand farther for a rotation. You can use handle length to tune your reel for both lures and fish. Longer handle will also increase the contact loads on gear teeth and drive bearings. Probably not a concern with well-designed gears, and could be a concern where you have bushings instead of bearings.

there was a report on corpusfishing this morning that makes me want to take your new truck down the beach - hey, I'll wash it.

choice ride, congratulations - the jealousy at this end is oozing. ? the best thing about an old truck, though - - you can smoke cigars while you drive

the H is only part of the original line marking. The line rating was either HEH (now DT5), HDH (DT6) or HCH (DT7) The latest rod I have marked HDH for 6-wt is Orvis Fullflex A glass, bought new in 1979. The earliest rod I have marked #6 is a Phillipson made for LL Bean, c. 1971, so there's clearly some overlap in the conventions. Nice photo here of a Phillipson-made Orvis Fullflex - right in the middle of my time brackets above, marked HDG (6) for WF6 and if you ever get a shot at buying any 7' Phillipson, don't pass go

me, too this is my favorite 105 mm Avail handle I've used on 3 reels. a bit longer, 60 mm pitch Livre handle

the trick to knowing how to cook is knowing how to eat. All my fishing buddies are cooks, one has been to chef school, another pharmacist (before hospital manager) - we share the wealth in camps and in fishing shacks. (Those two tailgate and crew for a winning team at Reno Air Races) One campout, we invented the world's easiest chili relleno - blend boudin, crabmeat, italian cheese, stuff and grill

I carry fish grips but never use them. I always just slide my hand under the fish's belly and roll him into the boat.

tough audience - that was a good essay

Avail parts are prime. from this to this (and lost a lot of pork) and with some help from the Brits for the frame and stainless drive

I've always found girls were easier to take fishing - they almost never lose a fly or tangle a rig. I can't say that about me.

I do most everything under an Ott magnifier with lamp - makes it easy to see what's there and what I'm doing.