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TheBeagle
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I mean, he did hit it with a spear first. The knife was just putting it down. Still cool as fuck though.
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Have any of you been to Manitoba/North Western Ontario?
There's an estimated 200,000-300,000 lakes, with 90% inaccessible by road.
If you've ever watched 'Ice Road Trucker' then you'll know why they have to move cargo by ice road. There's simply too many lakes to build roads and bridges.
I wouldn't mind buying a float plane and fishing a few hundred of them.
There's an estimated 200,000-300,000 lakes, with 90% inaccessible by road.
If you've ever watched 'Ice Road Trucker' then you'll know why they have to move cargo by ice road. There's simply too many lakes to build roads and bridges.
I wouldn't mind buying a float plane and fishing a few hundred of them.
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I know one of my uncles and my grandfather flew up into Canada to some sort of little cabin that was only accessible by a float plane I'll be back in the late 90s earlier 2000s.
My uncle said it was the greatest fishing that he had ever experienced in his entire life. They were the only two on the lake, and every cast was my size walleye, Pike, or small mouth.
I don't know where they went but if I had to guess it was somewhere north of Wisconsin and Minnesota, could be wrong, but I also don't know my Canadian region's or whatever.
I do watch a lot of The New Fly Fisherman the show. Most of the producers and people on it are Canadian, and its sponsored by Orvis. If I had a guess you could probably look them up on YouTube and they probably have videos about whatever region or bodies of water you're looking at.
I can sit and watch their stuff non-stop, and also if I just want to take a nap, it's wonderful. Only other things that will help me go to sleep is golf, and World war II documentaries. No bullshit.
I would imagine though that whatever area you're looking at probably has excellent fishing, I guess it just depends upon what your targeting.
Hope that helps...
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Well, I decided I wanted to pick up a new hobby and after watching hours of YouTube I ordered some things to start making my own soft baits. I'll be starting out making some 2.25" Beetle Bugs as well as 7" Ribbon Tail Worms. The molds I got will be able to make separate tails for each so use different colors on them. I'm only single injecting for now, so I got molds I could still use duo colors with without having to spring for a duel injector (pricy).
I'll have about 6 colors to run between at first and once I get comfortable, I'll begin working some UV powder into the tail mixes for some extra flash.
Looking forward to setting up a work station in my basement. Once I feel comfortable with this, I'm going to pick up a jig head mold and start making those. I don't want to mess with lead though, so I'll be running Bismuth with a bit of tin to get it to have a bit of give to it so it wont fracture. This way, people who use my stuff (besides me of course) don't have to worry about being in state or national parks that don't allow lead and frankly, I have enough medical issues and bad luck without pushing my luck playing with it.
I'll have about 6 colors to run between at first and once I get comfortable, I'll begin working some UV powder into the tail mixes for some extra flash.
Looking forward to setting up a work station in my basement. Once I feel comfortable with this, I'm going to pick up a jig head mold and start making those. I don't want to mess with lead though, so I'll be running Bismuth with a bit of tin to get it to have a bit of give to it so it wont fracture. This way, people who use my stuff (besides me of course) don't have to worry about being in state or national parks that don't allow lead and frankly, I have enough medical issues and bad luck without pushing my luck playing with it.
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That's pretty awesome.
Please post some photos when you start cranking them out. I had thought about it in the past, but don't fish much conventional tackle these days.
Guess it's why I like fly tying though, scratches the same itch, and I can build out a box when the weather is cruddy or fishing is slow.
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Absolutely. Flys would be fun by my right had has such bad arthritis l don’t think I could sit and do it long, sadly.
other than flys, do you run rubbers at all? Eventually I’d like to expand and I’ll begin packing them to sell on Etsy or something like that. Obviously it’s not something I’m gonna make bank on, but it’ll be something I’ll roll back into the hobby. Between that and rewards points from the supplier, it’ll help me get other molds, quicker.
also, post up your flies sir!
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I don't do anything with soft plastics, but I have tried to incorporate some smaller ones into some of my patterns just buying off the shelf stuff.
Problem is it's a hell of a lot more weight than you end up having to use a bigger rod and then worrying about the damn loop collapsing if you over weight while casting.
Pretty sure I posted a different patterns I've made flavor of the years. My bench is kind of a mess right now I don't need to go in there and just get it all sorted.
Here's a few though. Only plastic type stuff I do is typically UV resin for sealing heads and sometimes building bodies for nymphs. I know there's all kinds of new colored ones that you can get that I see a lot of guys doing patterns with, and you can get pretty crazy. The problem is anytime it's labeled fly tying material it jumps in price so I try to do my best to find stuff from the hobby store where you're not paying near as much. Lord knows I got more materials than I'll ever use in my entire lifetime, taking a trip to hobby lobby makes the wife happy and I can walk out typically with some chenille or foam or feathers.
Biggest thing I found is using jewelry eye shanks to make my own articulated streamer sections instead of buying the stupid expensive ones. They hold up for the type of fishing that I do and it's a couple bucks for a few hundred, and all you need is the little wire tool.
It's honestly just a hell of a lot of fun, and nothing beats catching a fish on a fly that you made yourself, and just had that perfect cast. I'd imagine it's similar to people that like golfing and hitting a hole in one.
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Is the process similar to casting lead? You melt some plastic and pour it in and let it cool? Where do you get the plastic? Can you melt stuff around the house or do you have to buy something special?
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Casting Bismuth? Yes. Except it has a lower melting point and is easier to work with and I'll need to add a bit of tin to it as well to help its brittleness.
As far as the soft baits, those use something called plastisol. Its polymer and a liquid plasticizer that when heated correctly creates a gel like liquid that sets up into a standard soft bait you'd see in stores.
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What kind of smell good are you going to add to the plastic, if any? I would experiment with so much different stuff, especially if they didnt need to be shelf stable. Make a batch for the spring sand bass run and toss em when they start to stink.
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I’m going to start off using “pure garlic” as it’s pungent enough to cut through most water conditions and pan fish and bass alike are attracted to it.
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Never done it, neve really thought about it. But I used to see a lot of plastic baits that were labeled as having salt. Too easy or at least it used to be to drive to the Gary Yamamoto store 1/2 an hour away on Toledo Bend and their Senkos were much cheaper to buy there than order from some place.
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Thought this was a pretty interesting article. I guess if I lived in an area like that, I'd jump on board.
Pacific Northwest Angler Earned $164K for Catching Pikeminnow, Shattering the Payout Record
Pacific Northwest Angler Earned $164K for Catching Pikeminnow, Shattering the Payout Record
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Funny you mention that, I’m probably picking up Yamamotos Senko mold next to make those.
yeah salt is used as a sinking agent so it gets labeled as having that so people know as it can impact the durabilities of soft baits where as ones with specific sinking agents designed to do the same, don’t run the risk of degrading baits as quick as salt.
I plan on messing around with it a bit for sure. I haven’t ordered any sinking agent yet.
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When I was shocking creeks in Idaho, a couple of the guys I worked with and I talked about doing that one summer after catching a bunch of pikeminnows in the Salmon River where we were living. Looked up the stats and there were always a few guys that made a good chunk of change every summer hunting those fuckers. All in the name of salmon convservation. Paid for by the Bonneville Power Administration. BPA pays huge sums every year to any kind of project that touches salmon conservation.
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