Taper is for my homemade shooting line so to speak. I run a flat taper fly line as a head. Lately playing with 12” amnesia section to give me some visibility in low light or above float now that I’m running a camo style hollow mono on my centerpin. Thinking of trying it on spinning rods to give better low light viz. Not great at low profile knots yet. Still sorting all that out.
What did you Catch Today?
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Use heavier for shot line. I constantly adjust my shot on fly and spinning rod. Centerpin I'm still sorting but I prefer to lose leader and hook over shot line or worse still float. I use Float on heavier mainline, shot line is 8 lbs ish. Leader is 4-6 for steelhead. That helps break at leader. Tapering smooth shot and getting it right is still an experiment for me. Once I match it correctly I really hate to lose my shot line.
Solitario Lupo
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Hooked another muskie on the fly this time it swam off with it must not have tied it on good. Smallmouth picked up and suckers are on the run spawning.
troutspinner
Nuts & Bolts Guy
OMG! I can catch fish!
I hit up Blue Marsh again today. They are not in spawn mode yet but they are real close to it. I found nothing biting on the banks but I was able to put together a pattern, finding them on structure in creek channels and weeds at transitions. I caught 4 Largemouth, a little disappointing but the Smallies made up for it nicely, catching in the teens on them. Ned rig was the ticket today but I did catch a few on Senko. I only generated one bite with a jig and nothing with a swimbait, which I found odd.
Maybe my jinx is over! LOL
LM Winner of the Day
SM Winner of the Day
Notice the blood on the smallies mouth, it wasn't his, it was mine! He just din't want to cooperate so I got a little aggressive and the hook caught me right at the edge of the nail on my middle finger. I bled well, LOL. Fishes Revenge!
I hit up Blue Marsh again today. They are not in spawn mode yet but they are real close to it. I found nothing biting on the banks but I was able to put together a pattern, finding them on structure in creek channels and weeds at transitions. I caught 4 Largemouth, a little disappointing but the Smallies made up for it nicely, catching in the teens on them. Ned rig was the ticket today but I did catch a few on Senko. I only generated one bite with a jig and nothing with a swimbait, which I found odd.
Maybe my jinx is over! LOL
LM Winner of the Day
SM Winner of the Day
Notice the blood on the smallies mouth, it wasn't his, it was mine! He just din't want to cooperate so I got a little aggressive and the hook caught me right at the edge of the nail on my middle finger. I bled well, LOL. Fishes Revenge!
Hit the river today and fished between 9:30 am and 2:30 PM. That’s it, the fish are all gone so I’m selling the boat and I’m driving 5 hours to freeze my ass off standing shoulder to shoulder in NY to catch little fish. Just kidding, I like fishing 20 minutes from the door, even if we don’t have any fish to catch. We did okay today, put 10 in the boat from 20 to 42” and lost 4 others one of which looked to be another 40+ fish. I broke from my tradition of not taking pictures of fish because this fish had a world class girth And my buddy wanted a pic. Note that the fish is laying across his chest and not extended way out in front. World class picture as well. Bad news is, my buddy caught the big one. Oh well, maybe next time.
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Don
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Eating size.
Solitario Lupo
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troutspinner
Nuts & Bolts Guy
Wow! Look how stuffed that fish is. awesome!!
ive been stripper fishing for a long time in salt and fresh and this was by far the fattest fish I’ve ever seen. Not the longest but the fattest. Lots of herring still in river and even the small stripers were puking up 9” herring.
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A-5
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This is a family forum
hahahahahah
Melvinp
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Good day for sure congrats
Don
Well-known member
Is that your hand tied fly?
Solitario Lupo
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Yep the game changers. Seem to work great.