Chris Catignani

Yes...hard bop: Art Blakey...Mingus, Clifford Brown, Kenny Burrell....the list is endless...

Welcome...to the forum.

Shimano baitcasting...and Pfleuger spinning. I struggled for a long time to replace my ABU Zebco Cardinal 3's and 4's.

I have a few of those guys...

Every once in a while we do a fly fish only day on the river...

One day I was wading. Suns starting to set when I get to the takeout spot...a place we call the "diving board hole." It's a deep hole that use to have a diving board. I'm throwing a small white buzz bait...I throw it across the hole and start reeling. As soon as it starts across the deep hole it gets hit. This fish is pulling like nuts...drag is screaming. I fight this fish for about a minute, and it just keeps peeling drag off. Now, I have caught several smallmouths up to 3.5 lbs. in this river before. This fish is fighting WAY harder than anything I ever caught before. After about another minute or two, I finally land the fish. Well...its just a two pounder! When the fish hit the buzz bait...he hit it head on and the point of the hook went in his nostril and out the top of his head.

You You could look at the FlexCoat line of products...The only difference between a hand wrapper and a power wrapper is an add on foot controlled motor.

I would talk to some owners of jet boats on the river and see what they say. Personally...I would opt for something with shallow draft (flat bottom) and a little more hp on the motor (jets are 30%(est) less power than a prop).

The Slider motor oil was kinda green looking...and if you held it to the sky it went brown. Rebel also had a motor oil we use to call STP because it was brownish and when you held it up to the sky it went purple. Ive been tring to replicate that color (green brown) and have gotten close a couple times. The color combo I've been using is chartreuse and green.

Welcome back.

Where did I suggest how to do it? I learned personally from Ralph O'quinn. How can you possibly know there are flat spots (which there not)? The material I use on my two rather stiff rods is quite pliable and flexes as the rest of the blank does. Nothing wrong with carbon stints when you can get away with it. Here an excert from Ralph's article about the internal stint. And from the section on outer sleeve construction

I may have not worded it correctly... How about....areas of the rod that have a lot of bend are trickier. ie the bend in a fast tip. You would need a more pliable inside and outside stint....typically glass. And you would need to use the feathering techniques mentioned in Ralph's article.

These are actions of a rod. There's fast, moderate and slow. The slash (/) is there to indicate "or".

I've done this on about six different rods...most of the rods were medium heavy. The slow/fast rods are a little trickier. I dropped a 2x4 out of a rafter that fell on these two rods. One was my grass rake and the other was my flippin stick.

Hi-res photo on the left side of this page: Webbtelescope.org

This is so true...sorry for your loss.

So...as the story goes...Coltrain give the sheet music to a young Curtis Fuller. Curtis Fuller tells Coltrane "I can't learn this in a moment's notice!"...the rest is history. Fuller plays the Trombone.

The Wizard of Oz was a musical...as was: Grease, Oklahoma, Hello, Dolly, West Side Story, The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, Chicago, Cats, Wicked, Stomp...etc...etc and then you have the animated ones... The Lion King, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, The little Mermaid, Dumbo, Cinderella, Frozen So I guess I'm a fan.

This is my favorite OG bait that I still religiously use. 1/8 Original Slider Head...with Slider...rigged this way.

thats pretty cool...I also have a couple rods with guide hook keepers. Where did you get that cork...love it.

Just like other rods...the length can vary. ...and now the BFS moniker has crossed over to spinning.

A lot of that going around these days...?‍♀️