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Originally Posted by crappie wrangler
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It's raining. I can't go fishing until it passes. I hope I can last that long I feel a serious case of land sickness coming on :(
I went with my unnamed guide again today. He easily earned an AAA rating today. We caught fish most everywhere we went. We fished a lot of new water and easily doubled our number of known brush piles. He still just lurks around on here so I won’t reveal his secret identity until he does so himself. For now I will refer to him as the Lone Stranger :). He again caught the largest and most crappie.
He also assisted me in researching a new sonar unit for my boat. Finely settled on a Garmin 93sv. My billfold is in excruciating pain. I did get a good deal but I am cheap by nature so the experience left me needing professional counseling.
We didn’t keep any so no pics today.
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Todays efforts. Home by 10:00 am.
The Lone Stranger guided me again today. He provided such a good trip that I almost felt bad about not paying him for several seconds. ��. Fishing was good as always. Kept 26 and returned at least that many that were easily legal.
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We did not fish today. I spent the day installing my new Garmin 93SV. The Lone Stranger built an elevated base for me to mount it on. Thanks Stranger:biggrin. I have not decided if I am going to paint the base yet. It would look good painted black but then again it's natural aluminum matches the aluminum on the trolling motor base. It's always difficult to skip a fishing day but sometimes sacrifices have to be made.
Post up some pics off that new FF, when you get some good ones!
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I’m going out Monday. I’ll take a few then.
I usually don’t fish on weekends but the Lone Stranger mildly suggested we go and I nearly injured myself while attempting to not show to much enthusiasm. We caught 69 and kept 22. The Lone Stranger informed me that he was the best guide on the lake. I had to agree but then again I was in his boat and didn’t really have a choice.
I forgot the pic.
Fishing was not as good today. I only kept 10. The new Garmin was great though. I thought about firing the guide but I was the guide
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I fished with the Lone Stranger today. It was hot with intermittent periods of hot in between :) . We caught 30 only keeping 9 with most of those being over 13". Mrs Stranger wanted fish dinner so Mr Stranger got fish cleaning duty. We did find at least 6 new brush piles. Another successful trip.
While I am retired as a Rod Builder I have decided to make the Lone Stranger a custom rod as a gift. He spends a lot of time on the water with me and does more than his share of the work being as I am a little more crippled up every day so I guess he deserves it. I am kind of tired of watching him fish handicapped with those store bought rods anyway.
I am still waiting on some of the parts to arrive. it will be built from a 9' 4 wt 2 piece fly rod bland. I was unable to find any blanks of those specifications on the internet but fortunately I still had one left on the shelf from when I made rods regularly. He wants a standard fly rod reel seat on it because his preference is not to have any handle behind the reel. I figure on putting a 10" fore grip on it. The 10" fore grip is for measuring fish as there is a 10" size limit on most lakes in Oklahoma and I thought it would be kind of slick to be able to just hold it against the fore grip and know if the fish meets minimum standards. I am also going to make the rod castable which means starting out with larger guides on the first two guides next to the reel seat. That will make a standard spinning reel cast efficiently on a fly rod blank. The Lone Stranger is going to provide me with the reel before I put the guides on because as is common knowledge, if you have the reel the guides closest to the reel seat can be tuned for maximum casting distance for a specific reel. (Tricks learned from Dale Clements). I learned to build rods by reading his books when I was a young man.
I have always designed a rod so that the fore grip would cover the rough edge of the decorative wrap on the reel seat end of it. That just makes for one less trim band to cover the end of a decorative wrap. I usually cover the tip end of the decorative wrap by weaving the customers name into the wrap and using the name weave to terminate the tip end of the decorative wrap.
So the question is, do you guys want me to document the rod construction here where I usually post or do you want me to post it on the new rod building thread or both?
I would say in the rod building thread for sure. It would be fine here also, however I think it might really help those just learning under the build thread.
Just my .02 cents.
I’m just glad your going to show us!!
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My process is extremely old school. There are a lot of faster and easier ways but goal is most sensitive not fast. I agree on wher to post. Thanks for the input.
I seldom stop fishing long enough to take a pic while on the water but I made an exception yesterday. This was not the biggest but just one the one I took a pic of. I also found a couple of new brush piles and placed one.
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We found 6 new brush piles today and caught 51 off of 2 of them. Kept 19.
Thunder crappie
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It was a short wet trip today but we did find several new brush piles.
Wednesday.
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Good reports
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Thanks
Today’s trip. 50 total kept 20. All keepers were over 12”
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I really enjoy my new Garmin 93sv with chirp. I’ve only had it on the boat about 6 weeks or so but since installing it I have found an additional 100+ brush piles. I also can now easily distinguish the fish from the brush.
I forgot yesterday's report. I cleaned 14 of 30 fish. It was windy when I was on the lake so bites were a little more difficult to detect. I fished a new cove that had no brush in it but I could see the schools of fish on my Garmin so when I could keep up with the school I could catch a fish every drop. I drained my batteries chasing schools of crappie around a cove with the wind blowing right into the cove. I was by myself for a change so I did not put a brush pile in the unknown cove but you can be certain that I will go back with the Lone Stranger and place a few brush piles there.
Yesterday pic
Carpeted the first of 9 hatches on the Ranger boat restore project.
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The Lone Stranger went out to set some brushpiles today and I just can’t make myself get on the water without a fishing pole.
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The Lone Stranger and I.
Went by myself today.
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Wow, you got on em!!
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