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Mine might be a bit heavy for this swap so I apologize for that, but I figure most here also use ultralights and theyll fish on those just fine. Down here those work great when slow trolled

I kind of like it!

Mine went out yesterday. Thanks for hosting OP

Got mine today, great looking set! Thanks for hosting

Mine are headed out Monday

Steve, Im terribly sorry for your loss. When I was a boy, one of my best friends died form aplastic anemia. He was 11, I was 9. 30 years later and I never fully got over it, never will. You and your family are in my thoughts.

Great shots! They are beautiful animals

Yes Im in, Ill probably do a baitfish pattern

The only type I can think of would be flat wing saddles, since Whiting quit producing them. Keough sells them but theyre pretty steep and I dont know how they compare to the old Whiting ones. Striper guys are always looking for them, at least according to several fora. Really the only way to carve your niche may be to find some way to do what others are doing but do it cheaper and undercut the competition, like FTD did with synthetics (which of course is much easier than this)

One popular way of catching Spanish mackerel is trolling a soda straw laid over the shank of a treble hook. When the macks are feeding, you can throw anything, as long as its moving fast

Thats a good idea with the CLP. The light film it leaves would add protection for sure

Thanks for the replies. I usually use grease for the gears and spool shaft but use oil on the washers. I figure the oils are similar enough products that you can use either for both functions. Mike, thats interesting about the extreme cold. Luckily all of my fishing is done here in Florida so thats not a problem

Has anyone ever used gun oil instead of "reel oil" when lubing up your reels? This question goes for conventional as well as fly gear. They serve a similar purpose in acting against friction and to help prevent corrosion and from what I can tell Hoppes 9 oil to the naked eye looks just like the tubes of reel oil that Abu Garcia and Shimano give with their reels. The bottle of Hoppes says for fishing reels as well as firearms but I was wondering if anyone has ever used it, particularly in the salt? It is a bit cheaper than Penn oil and quite a bit cheaper than some of the other oils out there.

Very nice video and good looking fly

Very nice! Do you bend the hook shank on your spoon flies?

One thing I have noticed about the fish down here in Florida, at least the redfish and snook, is that on cold but sunny days they tend to like mudbanks, especially black mud. That stuff retains heat pretty well and they seem to gravitate towards it like a space heater. Sinking flies and jigs fished slowly work. I fish a lot of backwater creeks for snook and normally fish the outside curves where the deeper holes are, but on cold sunny days find a lot of them sunning on the inside curve where there is a shallow muddy bank with slow drop off. I spooked quite a few with the jon boat before realizing this. I usually cast the inside curve bank first when approaching and then settle the boat on the bank and fish the outside curve thoroughly. This works well for back creek reds and trout too, though the trout tend to be in the deeper holes more.

Good stuff Denduke. I recently ate bass for the first time and it was pretty tasty

Thanks for your generous offer and for Mikes generosity as well, even though I tried to snake him by bidding one ounce over him😁

I'll do the Price is Right bid.: 9lbs 9oz

Good stuff on ways to fish it, thanks for info everyone

How do you fish these in still water? Do you pop them like a popper? Slide them across the surface? Let them still?

That would probably work well with a sinking line too, like some do with crease flies

out to the gulf stream when I realized I forgot the tackle box. Deep sea fishing with only the hooks that were left on the rods from the last trip. Of course we got into sharks so it became a day for pleasure boating

Not sure why that one didn’t embed