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Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2020 1:47 pm • # 21 |
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jangles
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Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2020 4:42 pm • # 22 |
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Whats with all the dinky fish over there ?
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Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2020 9:17 am • # 23 |
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Dominikk85 wrote: Buddy seemed to be having a great time!
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Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2020 10:45 pm • # 24 |
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Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 8:55 am • # 25 |
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Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 10:15 am • # 26 |
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Try a 5.78 Red Ear Sunfish caught at Lake Havasu , AZ . Now that would be a fight . Too bad LH is 300 miles and 4 hrs 47 minutes from me .
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Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 9:04 pm • # 27 |
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jangles wrote: Skunkedalot wrote: Crappies don't fight very good and they don't taste all that great either I don't know - all of the crappies I catch are fun and happen to taste great.. to each his own ................ If you think reeling a fish in lying on it's side is fun and ……………...lol go for it , theyre all yours . When I catch Crappie (and always on a fly rod), I play them slowly and get quite a fight from them. If I overpower them, once the head turns it's over.
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Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2020 9:51 pm • # 28 |
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JimRed wrote: jangles wrote: Skunkedalot wrote: Crappies don't fight very good and they don't taste all that great either I don't know - all of the crappies I catch are fun and happen to taste great.. to each his own ................ If you think reeling a fish in lying on it's side is fun and ……………...lol go for it , theyre all yours . When I catch Crappie (and always on a fly rod), I play them slowly and get quite a fight from them. If I overpower them, once the head turns it's over. Maybe thats the problem , I always fight them like a real fish ! lol
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Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2020 1:05 pm • # 29 |
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I will happily confess to having spent many a pleasant and rewarding afternoon across the road on my home stream, catching fish between 6 and 12" long on tiny flies on a light rod and leader. Sometimes the entire catch is chubs and fallfish (mudtarpon). I am fortunate to have access to salmon, searun brook trout, smallmouth, chain pickerel, striped bass and muskie fishing all within an hour or so of home, but I find a quiet afternoon alone on the stream with light gear and a lighter heart is just too rewarding to pass up. And it sure beats yardwork or splitting wood. brent
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Dominikk85
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Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2020 6:37 pm • # 30 |
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Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2020 7:05 pm • # 31 |
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Your chub and our chub are all cypriniforms and I expect our fish got the name chubs because, although they are from a different family of cyprinids, they were very similar in appearance to your chubs in the eyes of early settlers/biologists. I believe it is a great example of parallel evolution, in that these fish evolved on two different continents, but have almost identical appearance and habits. Ours are of the genus Semotilus. The 'fallfish' is north america's largest member of the chub/semotilus genus, species corporalis. They reach about 15", but examples up to 20" have been recorded. On my stream, they will sometimes become very selective, and will sip # 18 dries off the surface. Other times, they'll hit anything that moves. They have the name 'stoneroller' because they breed by building a pyramid about 2 to 3' in circular diameter and maybe 1 foot high, by rolling round stones with their mouths. The eggs are lain into the mound, where they hatch in the interstices between the stones. In effect, it is the mirror image of a trout/salmon redd. We also have other species of Semotilus, all being smaller. Many anglers here consider them a nuisance and not worthy of their attention. Fine by me. brent
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Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2020 7:38 pm • # 32 |
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Dominikk85 wrote: That was something interesting to watch. On one hand, it was nice to see a UL flyfishing video with no GoPro photography. On the other hand, the advertising was a bit hard to swallow. The guy states that the Sunray Zero fly rod is the lightest fly rod in the world. So an 11 ½ foot carbon fiber rod is obviously less weight than a 5’ 8” carbon fiber rod, right? On the Sunray website the 11’ 6” rod is listed at 81.4 grams, while their own 10’ 6” rod is listed at 80.4 grams (lighter than their own “lightest fly rod in the world”). The Orvis Zero Gravity rod is listed as 2 ¾ ounces (78 grams). I was unable to find the weight of the RDP zero weights. Nonetheless, they do look like interesting rods for someone who likes something that long.
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Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2020 9:24 pm • # 33 |
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My RDP 1wt weighs 2.5 and my RDP 0wt weighs 2.4 on my postal scale .
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Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2020 6:32 am • # 34 |
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jangles wrote: My RDP 1wt weighs 2.5 and my RDP 0wt weighs 2.4 on my postal scale . Ron, are those the 7 1/2' or 5' 8" RDP rods?
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Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2020 10:57 am • # 35 |
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PampasPete wrote: jangles wrote: My RDP 1wt weighs 2.5 and my RDP 0wt weighs 2.4 on my postal scale . Ron, are those the 7 1/2' or 5' 8" RDP rods? They are both 7 1/2 .
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