07-21-09, 04:13 PM | #26 |
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Ahh, the light has been lit! Welcome to club baitcaster!
They are sweet. I see both reel types as tools so I never will ever fish with either type exclusively.
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07-21-09, 04:39 PM | #27 |
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I havent had a spinning rod in the boat in 2 years. Don't hardly ever use them. Nofear, I knew an engineer would appreciate the baitcaster once you get the hang of it, its a very mechanical feeling.
I might rig up the spinning rod to dink around with the drop shot soon, but we'll see. I've said I was gonna learn that before and never done it.
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Well, I will probably never totally give up spinning reels. I have three really nice St. Croix rods, and like you guys and baitcasters, I can finesse them in my sleep, and why waste that?. Basically, I will keep 7-8 rods in the boat, just to have more variety of lures for immediate use without stopping to tie on. I'm just waiting for my first big fish on a baitcaster though, because I can feel how much more robust they are.
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Lol...has Bruce Springsteen's attorney contacted you yet on your new trademark?
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Amen to that. Reels are just tools that provide maximum fishing pleasure. I love my spinning setups and I ain't gonna give'em up ever. I can't wait for your first big fish on the line with your casting rig. You will feel the winching power of a casting reel. Robust... I haven't used that word since describing my cup of coffee.
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By the way, IB...what is the "ARX" in your signature? I use ARX sometimes when I am writing automated CAD routines, but I fail to understand what an ARX routine would be doing in a php signature hehe.
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The more practice you get Nofear the more you will learn the feel for skipping baits and just about any crazy casting motion you want. I went straight from a Zebco 33 to a baitcaster when I was 9 years old. (round Abu reel) Took me 2 trips with my dad to get the feel for it and not backlash it every cast. I'm the opposite. I hate to use a spinning reel. I'm doing a little more finesse fishing than I use to so I'm using one more but still hate it! LOL 30 years with a baitcaster... makes it tough for me to like the spinning reel!
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me thinks that nofear will be adding more than 8 rods to his arsenal. bait monkey is haveing a BALL with dis one. hahahahahahhahaha.
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Man, if I buy any more fishing rods, I'm gonna get stopped by the DNR, cause from a distance, they'll think I'm fixing to drop an unauthorized brushpile.
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As for ARX, if you know anything about the Japanese alphabet, they don't an equivalent of L or R. They have difficult pronouncing L or R or both. The best they could do to say my name Alex, was to pronounce it is a way that we would say phonetically, Ah-rex, but the R is weakly annunciated. I removed the E and shortened it to ARX and then some friends started pronouncing it like arks. The nickname stuck for a bit in college.
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I still rarely go overhead. Keep working, because my accuracy is very good side arm.
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