Don
Well-known member
Caught my usual dream fishies!
Oodles of Slime Rockets, a couple large Male Bluegill. But the best was that after fishing all day, along with my pooch, I finally found a whole school of Crappie near suppertime. They kept biting and only the fact that I had to leave for home made it stop, love it...kept two tanks for dinner. Phone died mid day so only a few shots. My Uncle left me a customer built panfish rod when he passed and I found this nice little under-spin reel for it. It throws the Beetle spins wonderfully. Although I will fish whatever rod/reel combo's necessary, and I do plan to fish with fly rod in retirement, I pretty much only fish Spincast these days. The Shakespeare (maroon) below was donated by a friend. It has a 4.1/1 ration and is therefore perfect for the medium and large Beetlespins with up to 4'' Kieteck.
Do you remember how I used to complain about weeds and couldn't figure out how people fish over them and through them? Well I've finally learned to do okay in weeds...pretty good in fact. The Pickerel at Gouldsboro are smallish. Yesterday I only caught one that may have been 18" but I know there are much bigger Pickerel in there. Off and on, all afternoon, I alternated between casting in open water and over weed beds. Turns out that the bigger Pickerel came out of the heavy weeds. I'd like to catch some in the 20-24" category and so I hope to fish over the weeds more and more. 17lb mono makes a natural looking bite tippet. 18"- 2ft is perfect. I hope to do more at Shahola as the years pass. Also Merrill Creek as they've been catching allot of 5-9 pounders there.
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Oodles of Slime Rockets, a couple large Male Bluegill. But the best was that after fishing all day, along with my pooch, I finally found a whole school of Crappie near suppertime. They kept biting and only the fact that I had to leave for home made it stop, love it...kept two tanks for dinner. Phone died mid day so only a few shots. My Uncle left me a customer built panfish rod when he passed and I found this nice little under-spin reel for it. It throws the Beetle spins wonderfully. Although I will fish whatever rod/reel combo's necessary, and I do plan to fish with fly rod in retirement, I pretty much only fish Spincast these days. The Shakespeare (maroon) below was donated by a friend. It has a 4.1/1 ration and is therefore perfect for the medium and large Beetlespins with up to 4'' Kieteck.
Do you remember how I used to complain about weeds and couldn't figure out how people fish over them and through them? Well I've finally learned to do okay in weeds...pretty good in fact. The Pickerel at Gouldsboro are smallish. Yesterday I only caught one that may have been 18" but I know there are much bigger Pickerel in there. Off and on, all afternoon, I alternated between casting in open water and over weed beds. Turns out that the bigger Pickerel came out of the heavy weeds. I'd like to catch some in the 20-24" category and so I hope to fish over the weeds more and more. 17lb mono makes a natural looking bite tippet. 18"- 2ft is perfect. I hope to do more at Shahola as the years pass. Also Merrill Creek as they've been catching allot of 5-9 pounders there.
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