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I totaled my blazer a couple of years ago, and my tackle was one of the casualties - rods snapped in multiple places, good reels crushed, tacklebox scattered to hell and gone. Needless to say, I haven't had the heart for fishing since. But that was then, and I'm thinking about
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Yond Cassius posted:It's expensive and four inches short of heaven for you Frankly, what I want is an old Eagle Claw rod like I grew up with, except one that I can mount a modern spinning reel on. Carbon fiber just doesn't feel the same in my hands. I would have to try a hybrid before I bought one. e. Uhh... https://www.eagleclaw.com/cg-eagle-claw-crafted-glass-rods If I'm looking for a modernized old Eagle Claw fiberglass rod, maybe I should have checked Eagle Claw to begin with. rndmnmbr fucked around with this message at 09:30 on Jul 19, 2020 |
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Jul 19, 2020 09:15
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I never caught anything but carp with these. But that was okay, carp put up a hell of a fight, even if I didn't get to eat them.
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Jul 24, 2020 03:50
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You have never properly lure fished until you hook a brand new $20 lure on a snag and lose it on the first cast. (Join in my pain.)
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Aug 11, 2020 21:42
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The best catching rattletrap I ever had was a Wal-Mart discount. It just so happened to look more like an actual shad than anything else I had, which made it good for Lake Meredith.
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Aug 14, 2020 02:17
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My observation has always been, overfishing isn't the problem. The problem is, humans are garbage and won't take care of the land around good fishing holes. I used to know a good farm pond in western OK, the farmer kept it stocked and let people come fish it, just clean up your mess and don't come out while his cattle were grazing around it. Word got around about it, and the next thing you know it's a teenage party spot, beer bottles everywhere and burn scars from camp fires and people loving with his cows, and then my little brother and I get confronted with an angry farmer holding a shotgun on what we thought was an innocent Saturday morning spent fishing. By the time I graduated high school, there was multiple barbed wire fences blocking access to a pond the farmer quit stocking.
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Aug 22, 2020 23:40
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Been gathering some tackle, debating on what reel to put on my brand-new Eagle Claw fiberglass rod. My brother just casually tosses me an old 70's Zebco 404 he's tinkered with, and goddamn I should have just gone trawling ebay for old tackle. Even after all this time the 404 feels more natural to me and I have better lure placement with it than with any spinning reel I've tried in the past twenty years. So yeah, welcome back to the spincast club, etc.
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Sep 11, 2020 06:40
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I'm probably going to buy a new spincast reel, though, there are bound to be huge improvements over the years.
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Sep 11, 2020 11:32
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Thinking about rods, I got an 8'6" rod because I'm a bank fisherman and have always thought longer rods meant I could launch lures further. Is this a wrong assumption? Would I be better served by a shorter rod? I mostly fish lakes and ponds, there are very few rivers to fish near me. For the record, I have super drowning skills and don't like boats. rndmnmbr fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Sep 12, 2020 |
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Sep 12, 2020 23:50
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Yeah, baitcasters are not for me. I got real tired of backlash and birds nests real quick.
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Sep 16, 2020 20:43
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99% of tackle is intended to catch fishermen in the store, not fish on the water.
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Sep 19, 2020 21:10
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Brother is moving to a spot in Oklahoma absolutely drowning in good fishing holes, and is all bragging about becoming a daily fisherman again. Also asked for his tweaked 404 back. I may have to hurt him. Here's the real problem I have in the Texas panhandle. There are maybe six lakes in easy driving distance, they're all built in canyons so you basically require a boat, and they all get intense fishing pressure because there's nowhere else to go. There are no rivers, no stocked farm ponds, nothing but this tiny handful of lakes. So I have to set aside a day for nothing but fishing, fight my way through a crowd to reach the water, and then get spanked for the day because only the smart fish are left. I am so loving envious of my brother right now that some Cain and Abel poo poo might have to go down.
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Sep 27, 2020 09:15
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Yeah, fishing pressure directly leads to frustration at bad fishing. You got to go where the dumb fish live, not where all the dumb ones were already caught and only the smart ones now live.
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Nov 9, 2020 23:38
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Panfish? Never underestimate the utility of an old Zebco 202 on an ultralight rod. Thats something I firmly believed even before my eyes were reopen to spincast reels.
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