Thread: Best of the Four

After not being impressed with a couple of Palms Pinwheel Ajing rods , a 5’6” and a 5’9” , I ordered the 5’ version of the Major Craft Aji Do Ajing . And found it to be a fun little rod .

I had to order the 5’8” version of the MC Aji Do .
I’m glad I did .
It’s the best of the four IMO .

While fishing out of my boat earlier, FedEx dropped off my 5’8” Aji Do rod . I saw him sling it onto our porch from the bottom step on my Rind camera.
I’d been catching sticks and leaves for a little over an hour , wishing I was bank fishing somewhere.
So I packed it in , took the boat home , ate some quick lunch , put a reel on my new rod and headed to the town pond .

When I got there , the fish were suspended all around the edge of the bank .
I wasn’t sure I’d catch anything.

It took twenty minutes to catch my first bluegill, which put me ahead of my boat trio in a quarter of the time .
I wasn’t sure I’d there about an hour and a half , but only fished about half that time because a friend of mine showed up and we spent some time discussing a little bit of everything.
Fish time was probably an hour and I caught four .
The new rod is the most sensitive of the group and has a nice bend with a fish on .
And this is with 2# Floroclear. I need to check it out with some braid , and post later .

I don’t know why, but I didn’t enjoy fishing out of my boat today .
Maybe I’ve become a bank only fisherman.
I do like the freedom of being to walk around while bank fishing . And the simplicity of grabbing a couple rods and my camp stool and taking off .
I may be putting my boat up for sale .

One of the gills looked a little rough so I tried to get a pic without touching it and then use my hemostats to remove the jig , pick it up , and toss it back in .

I just reread your original post, mostly about not enjoying the day in the boat. This came to mind. All of the games and sports I follow, none of which are team sports, are all about 10% mechanics and 90% mental. There’s times I go alone, which I do a lot, and I wind up cutting the trip short. The head is somewhere else. We all know that there’s much more to this than the fish. There’s a few times I find my self sitting between casts and doing nothing. I’ve come to think of it as part of the deal. Other days I’m Fishing along and check the clock to find its two hours further along than it felt like it should be. I get fussed at for that sometimes but not often. Don’t give up on the boat. I believe there’s too much good that goes on in a boat to be without one. In a book called wind in the willows there’s a phrase “ there’s absolutely nothing better to do than messing around in boats” . I may be off on the wordage but the idea is sound.