jace

Haha. last thursday for me too.. and my weekend doesn't end until mid july.

It doesn't sound right that the cord won't move it, otherwise there are a ton of common electrical things to check like safety-neutral, a kill switch, tighten connections at the starter. Could be seized pistons or bearings? any chance it had a crack in it? at the end of last season, did you see any wetness where it shouldn't be wet or water in the oil, oil in the water.

not necessarily but can be. I use anything short shank to reduce weight and wide gap to expose a lot of point. same goes for the tube jigs. Whether it's weighted or not, I like a wide gap to expose the point more. Actually, i've been using wide gap hooks for everything i can the last few years. It all started one year i was slaying the salmon. I was using spoons with stock trebles. I changed to a single 5/0 wide gap after numerous dropped fish and the fish began to hook up after 1 or 2 swipes at it. I was pier fishing at the time and could see them going after the hook thanks to polarized glasses. Not only did they get on the hook sooner, every hookup was solid and very deep. ...and then there are the circle hooks with the 90 degree turn in the point which baffled me at first but now that i understand how they latch on, I wouldn't use anything else for bottom fishing heavy fish with bait. They set themselves and jerking the line to set the hook yourself will pull it out...it took a long time to get over that knee-jerk yanking when i felt a bite.

No, but they're becoming less popular. You can still find the StCroix pistol grips without looking too hard. It wasn't too long ago when pistol grips were all you saw on "bass" fishing gear. In the last 2-3 years split grips have taken over and they're all the rage and kitty's butt in the must-have rods. If you watch the custom rod scene, you'll be surprised how fast the big manufacturers pick up on the newest popular ideas in the custom rod market. Besides the split grip, the latest things to make it into factory rods is Japanese hard EVA grips, rods with no foregrips (like Kistlers and TD), using just skeleton seats (no insert) with a fully exposed blank, and tiny single foot fly guides for running guides on spin/cast rods.

is there a website for these rods? I'm always interested in checking out people's custom work on rods and reels. That's quite a list of sponsors for such an event.

good ending.

hey, where do you get those OFC hats? and what type of adjuster is on the back?

sounds like me. Although they sayyour power hand up front and pivot on the weaker arm, it feels awkward to me when i shoot puck right handed. It could also be that i'm weaker on that side of my skating too which throws in a whole new bag of reasons. golf i'm right though. hehe. baseball right, i'm slightly in more control right hand bike turns unless it's a trike or quad. ahah. For distance, i need to cast both hands but it can be either side. My right thumb is smarter than my left thumb but it doesn't cause any problems. For pitching and flipping, i'm MUCH faster with the rod in the right hand but that's only becasue i started on a spinning rod ages ago, long before they called it pitching and flipping. So how do you cast a pistol grip casting rod two handed?

Most top tournament guys are fully ambidextrous. It gives them all the casting angles that fishing certain structures and obstacles the he might come across. If you can only cast from one side, you lose all the mirrored angles of the other side. for example, casting to a tree with a right hand turning channel behind it is impossible to get into with the right arm without moving the boat to the left. that said, i've seen some instructional videos where the guy changes hands which takes away from his credibility in my mind. Changing hands works for the longer casts but it's not a good thing for short casting where a lot of strikes can be seconds after the lure hits the water. I found it hard to learn things from a person who obviously had a few things to learn himself.

baitcasters, i'm ambidextrous, with nearly equal casting skill with left or right arm. The reason i am is because i find this sort of casting takes a lot more strength and it wore out my shoulder and wrist, especially with the short pistol grips, so i learned to fish both sides with these reels. Spinning rods for me are mostly left retrieve, easy casting, I can do it all day, every day for a month and not want to change arms. I am also left handed on spinning for another reason that nobody has brought up. ...the bail on most spinning reels is set up to open for a left handed opening and line to be released out of a right hand finger without snagging or falling off the finger. Sure, the handles on most reels can change sides, but the bail opens to the same side and rotor doesn't change directions making it best for a right hand finger not left.

Ah,...didn't see the details and didn't know it was going on now. I hope it starts for you, it'll save you a whack of money for the rebuild. You'd be surprised to see how fast the high carbon metals start rust like the rings and sleeves. I guess nobody here had a dirt bike or 3-4 wheeler when they were young? I can't count the number of times i went through a stream that was a little deeper than i thought.

not a good situation. You should have been more careful with the wiring because the first thing you should have done when it as out of the water was try to start it. You probably needed to change out the battery, dry out the plugs and wires first, but it's critical to do everything you can to get it running shortly after it comes out. Now that it's been sitting, you shouldn't even try turning it over and you're definitely looking at a rebuild.

I figured there was a model update on the way after Quantum's price slashing across their flagship product lines. I just saw the new Tour PT and Energy PT casting reels and they look very nice. I can't wait to try them out even though i'm not a quantum guy. It looks like they used ideas from the high end aftermarket daiwa products and they got the weight of the Tour way down to under 8 Oz...still not close to the Daiwa steez but getting there.

I usually have friends and relatives in the US order things for me, especially when a place like cabelas runs free shipping promotions which are usually only good to US addresses. Another thing i do is hit all the big online stores when i'm on vacation in the US and carry it back with me. There's always at least one place like LLBean, sierra, cabelas, etc with a huge sale going

I suppose you could make it interesting by casting and retrieving slow crankbaits if you're good at side cast or the wallis.

9-10# coho on a bead and skin herring rig. I would estimate the hook traces to be around 6# line tops.

I remember the thread from a few weeks ago and gerber has a few fanboys here. If you need another one, the price doesn't get any better than this.. http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/template...summersale-door

Garmin's blue chart has it. I've been out of them for a while so don't know if there's aftermarket software to build your own maps from images but if they do, i can show you a screenshot of the area you'll be in.

weird that they would catch it. In my opinion, 1# difference in a fish would be very hard to detect by eyeballing it. Salmon weight to length ratios have huge variations, some fish are very thin while others can be very fat, there's even a huge difference between male and female. One pound is the difference between a fish that just ate something and one with an empty stomach. Anyways, in most of the big prize derbies i enter, the fish are always cut open after the official weigh-in so nobody is tempted to try this...not with lead anyways.

yeah, that's it. I thought it might be the one below it until i saw the dimensions. The other one is much larger the model you guessed was the one for $9 for sure. A friend bought 4 of them, i didn't get any thinking they were too small and soon regretted it.

A friend got this one thinking it looked cool but thinks it's kinda junky after using it. It doens't seem well designed internally because he had problems with a sticky clutch after a while. I saw it and thought that they copied TeamDaiwa's cool swept handle and everything but it looks good but the overall lack of precision in the gearing mechanisms was obvious. At the same time, we're talking about a sub $100 reel so you can't expect an exceptional flawless reel at that price point. I can't say anyhting about the previous KVD models other than they sure look like a reworked version of the Accurists

gpsreview.net (or something close to that) has good reviews on many units. One will be a short writeup, and the rest will all be from actual users. good site.

They had them on sale for $9 the last time if it's the blue one with yellow piping and opens on the top,

A friend bought a few of those about 5-8 years ago and that's actually one of the ones i saw break albeit in an EXTREME situation. A tether and carabiner saved his gear. The others are still as good as new. They sure look like scotty, similar mount system, holder design, and rod retainer ring.

picked up the same stuff last night just for a change from fish crisp. ..looks like a good meal to me. You can tell it's a man-meal because everything on the plate is deep fried.