On 2/27/2024 at 11:53 AM, Team9nine said:

Milliken

What's a Milikin?

11 minutes ago, waymont said:

What's a Milikin?

Lol - I don’t know, but the CDC said my Covid booster shot would protect me against it 🤧

On 2/27/2024 at 7:57 PM, Dogface said:

Could be he posted that to mislead us. If I had a "true" secret modification of a lure I would never let anyone get a photo.  

BINGO!

On 2/27/2024 at 8:35 PM, A-Jay said:

When people have too much knowledge,

then they get to emphasizing little details way beyond where they should be."

Seem applicable here.

 

Personally, I rarely even change the stock hooks unless they get rusty or bent.

 

But when there's a few tens of thousands of $$$ on the line, a lost fish may be the difference between not making the cut and cashing the check.  So, the stakes are high, and things get obsessed over.

 

When as a younger man doing Alpine Mountaineering, I obsessed over the small stuff for the same reason.  The stakes were a bit higher than $$$ though.  My guess is you obsessed over details on the boat in your career for the same reason. When the stakes are high, details matter. 

 

As a complete aside, I recently watched a documentary on Alpine Mountaineering and instead of missing doing it, my thought was "What the hell was I thinking! My poor Mother worrying!" I must get getting old!

   @JediAmoeba answered the question before I could.

@fin That's the video I saw before trying the braid substitution on a large swimbait to prevent the leverage advantage a big fish gets with a heavy bait. Since then I just switched to Pierce Quad spin eye hooks.

27 minutes ago, slowworm said:

My guess is you obsessed over details on the boat in your career for the same reason. When the stakes are high, details matter. 

There are some humans who seem to look at 'details'

as a separate or perhaps even special aspect of every evolution.

In my world there are NO details.

At some point IT ALL MATTERS.

So it's not obsession, but instead willingness. 

Takes more effort & focus to try and be always ready,

and I could agree that it's almost impossible to accomplish,

but I believe it's worth it in the long run. 

A-Jay

 

 

2 hours ago, Dwight Hottle said:

   @JediAmoeba answered the question before I could.

@fin That's the video I saw before trying the braid substitution on a large swimbait to prevent the leverage advantage a big fish gets with a heavy bait. Since then I just switched to Pierce Quad spin eye hooks.

First I learned about those hooks, gonna have to check them out thanks!   

 

 

I've done it lots of times.  Not because I'm looking for some kind of advantage, but because I'm too cheap to buy split rings sometimes.  It works pretty well.  Honestly, if it wasn't more difficult to do than a split ring, I probably wouldn't ever buy split rings.  

 

My guess here is, since it's on a jerkbait, he might be using an X-fast rod, for better control of his rod snaps, but had problems with fish throwing the hooks due to the rod's lack of flex.  So he attempted to solve that problem from a different angle.  Just speculation, mind you.  

9 hours ago, A-Jay said:

There are some humans who seem to look at 'details'

as a separate or perhaps even special aspect of every evolution.

In my world there are NO details.

At some point IT ALL MATTERS.

So it's not obsession, but instead willingness. 

Takes more effort & focus to try and be always ready,

and I could agree that it's almost impossible to accomplish,

but I believe it's worth it in the long run. 

A-Jay

 

 

Is this from Confucius?

 

Allen

1 hour ago, Munkin said:

Is this from Confucius?

 

Allen

You can call me whatever you'd like Allen.

A-Jay