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wow i just spent sooooooooo much time on that site! ;D ;D

my dad and i took the boat out for the first time this year. it was terribly windy and didn't look like it was going to be a good day. but not too long into the trip my dad hooked up with a nice little 1 pounder. then it got really slow and we moved down to the other side of the lake and i caught this awesome 5lb 10oz bass on a DT 10 pulling it over dead lily pads: release: little bit further down the shore we found a nice spot where my dad caught another 1 pounder, i caught a dinky bass about 10 inches or so, and then my dad hooked a monster 27", 3lb 15oz pickerel (scale reads 3-12 in the pic but it was settled on 3-15 before he lifted it for the pic): we tried going up a productive creek but the wind drove us out, and we headed back to the truck and stopped one last time, where my dad caught a little hammer handle pickerel and dropped it as he was lifting it in the boat, and i caught a pickerel about 16" or so. all in all a great day, despite the crazy wind.

well you have to rinse it out well after you're finished with it each session, take the needle out, wipe it down. something i didn't do but need to do: invest in a set of airbrush cleaning brushes. these are tiny little brushes that will fit inside the airbrush body and inside the nozzle. i think they make a special needle for cleaning out the nozzle. my brush is starting to get gunky inside and i need some brushes to clean it out.

you won't be disappointed. just keep it clean and it will serve you well!

seems like it would be a lot more expensive than carving in the details yourself

why did you put the second hook eye on the middle segment instead of the last segment? seems like the hooks will tangle a lot this way. the rest of it looks great! sick paintjob, you still just using spray cans?

That youtube video is awesome! agreed!!!

this is encouraging so you can store a jon boat at the reservoir? i have a jon boat and trolling motor here at home. but i probably won't take it to school to store it there.

the mustad looks (and is) sturdier than the eagle claw.

pretty sure i wanna go there now...

HAHAHAHA!

awesome

yeah that should be a pretty good deal. have you seen all the colors he's including?

definitely do that! as long as they haven't been frozen or ruined any other way, that is a good deal. how many bottles was it again? 40 something? thats a lot of colors to get you started off, you will be able to do just about any paintjob you want.

That's what she said. nice.

get used to it, airbrush paint ain't cheap : but it does last a while, longer than you'd think. what about that guy that was going to sell you like 50 bottles of createx? thats probably a deal if they're full and haven't been frozen or anything.

hmm it might take me a while to learn to peg with a rubber band using the method in that bill dance link. it looks nice though. i don't know if i can do that with my tiny 1/16oz tungsten weights though. are there other ways?

oh yeah. first check what size fittings are on the airbrush hose. i know my airbrush hose has 1/4" fittings. so i bought a 1/4" male-male adapter and one end of this screws into my airbrush hose, and the other end screws into the air filter. on the other side of the air filter is a quick disconnect which plugs right into my air compressor. the drawing i made shows this a little easier to understand. note: all the connections are sealed with teflon tape. you may have a different set up than me if you are trying to connect the airbrush hose to your compressor hose. in this case you would need a male-male adapter, with one side being the diameter of the airbrush fitting (probably 1/4") and the other side being the diameter of whatever the fitting on your compressor hose is (1/2" maybe?). somewhere along the line, whether it be right under the airbrush, or right on the compressor, you should have an air filter. also note, your fitting sizes may be different depending on your equipment. your paasche kit should tell you the size of the hose fittings. the arrangement of connections isn't hard really, just figure out what connections you need (male-male, quick disconnect, etc) and make sure they are all the right sizes.

they just look the coolest so they sell the best...

i've used river2sea's copy of it and i love it!

yeahhhh......

see how your brush has that cone nozzle thing (i don't really know the term for it, i always call it a cone) underneath the front of the brush? you turn this to adjust your paint flow (tighten to release less paint, loosen to release more paint). when more paint is released it sprays in a wider patter. but anyway, that cone adjusts the way the paint sprays, then you just push the trigger down to spray air which shoots the paint. the paint will continue to spray this exact way until you adjust the cone again. on a double action brush, you push the trigger down to start air flow, and then you pull the trigger back to release paint, and the farther you pull it back the more paint comes out, and the wider the spray pattern. so ALL of the control is in one finger, and you can adjust paint flow while spraying, something that isn't very practical with a single action brush. the iwata revolution is a double action brush.

single action brushes are kinda a PITA to use. i'd still recommend getting the Iwata Revolution. also, with air compressors, the bigger the better, so use your construction air compressor!

i have about seven 2.5 gallon ziploc bags that i have labeled with a sharpie, into categories like curly/ribbon tail worms, stick baits, creature baits/tubes, craws/chunks, finesse baits, flukes, swimbaits, etc. i have all my plastics in their original packages in these bags, and i just grab whatever i feel like using to take to the lake with me.

thats good to know (about the girls that is ;D) so how far away are these other ponds? i'll probably be fishing from shore but if i could get off campus housing i might be able to use a pontoon if i can afford one and have somewhere to keep it. i might rent boats too, idk.