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Sports Category => Outdoors & Recreational Hobbies => Topic started by: VillainousHero on May 02, 2024, 09:33:09 PM
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There's something about the internet. If it's on it, then it must be true. NOT :D
There is a lot of information available and given that there are some people who really do represent that information and making it available to others.
Then there's those internet influencers who merely entertain and regurgitate the information in a misrepresented way. What is up with all these people online doing youtube unboxing of fishing equipment and then giving their in depth review. People talking about Diawa and Shimano and don't even know the real difference when it comes down to it. Yes there will always be a fanboy of a certain manufacture, but do they really know what they're talking about or just throwing words written down somewhere by someone else.
People can't even get their parts descriptions correct like, rotor, pinion gear, level wind, ARB, etc.,...now they just throwing words out there in their vids.
I guess I get bored sometimes...
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There was a concern like that a long time ago on the radio
about foods, too.
Some dietitian was talking on the radio and was asked
why were there so many other things said by others
in pamphlets, etc. about foods that seemed to be
different from what she was saying.
She said this country has free speech and so
people just say things as they want to but that we all
have to be careful about who we get the information from.
I went on TikTok and looked at a video. A guy was talking
his favorite 3 lms baits. One he calls Senko. But other
posters said that's not a Senko. It's actually a plastic Gulp
night crawler. :2funny: :2funny:
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I hate seeing how people net fish on the internet. It's like no one knows how to net a fish correctly. I always see people trying to scoop the fish with the net and fails. Well eventually they do end up scooping the fish.
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Our world is full of unskillful people. Unskillful in fishing. Unskillful in netting.
Unskillful in videotaping.
What surprises me, too, is that people do a netting video or something and
it doesn't even show the whole netting process. Like they don't even
show that the fish got fully netted and yet they put that on the net for others
to watch. Just a segment of the netting process... Like someone reaching
for a fish with the net and that's it.
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I haven't been paying much attention or even bait clicking anything about fishing lately. However just then our fellow Hmong fishing folks are suddenly all over the Worden's Rooster Tails inline spinner lure. I guess Hmong folks have finally begin to figure out the fall fishing, late fall fishing white bass/striper runs. In part it's thanks to technology and social media.
So Rooster Tails remains a cheap and effective way of catching fish. Or just rediscovered on the internet influencers.
What influencers don't know is that Rooster Tails are build kind of cheap and if you buy from WallyWorld, about half of them run clunky. It's just something one knows if one actually fishes with such lures and it's nuances. IYKYK. So the question is, are the influencers just looking for likes or are they intentionally misleading the mass?
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I don't know if MN still outlaw the use of catching live bait from one body of water and taking it to another body of water. If it's illegal. Dang these internet influencers are just now shooting themselves.
Told them they need to delete their posts. :D
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Best kept secret.
Secret Pro's don't want to reveal.
Game Changer.
World's strongest fishing knot.
Everybody has a click bait lure. :D
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Why do people always reach up on the rod blank to pull leverage on it?
For the life of me, I have never reached up on my rod blank beyond the handle grip to pull on the rod with a fish on it. My musky rod and surf rod, may have an extended fore grip on the rod blank, but those rods are designed for that intended purpose.
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When influencers suddenly blurt out claims of having super far casting distances... :2funny:
120 yards is really like 120 feet given the combo they used. Even a pro like KVD has his longest casts measured into like 70+ yards. That's not a casual cast method he uses. He is using a full body momentum and casting lures in the 1 oz. Plus he has his performance tuned casting reels, not something someone is going to get off the retail shelves.
Most common casting reels don't hold more than 100 yards and most people use much thicker line diameters.
Most common spinning reels may hold more than 100 yards. Still most people use much thicker line diameters and the expectation of spinning reels is, that one will be constantly cutting line off the reel from use.
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So since Northland Fishing Tackle of MN was sold to GSM Outdoors which is based in Texas...What happens to all their Pro Staff?
Are they gonna all quit making youtube videos and being part of the Northland social media?
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Dang it's just Blaque Phrydai and facebook is showing mark ups of items people bought.
That vexilar going for $400 is resold for $600 already. :D
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Supply and demand or perhaps just showing off or an attention seeking stunt...? ??? ;D
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Bait the empathy...
I'm so smart but even I was doing this wrong... ;D
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Social media marketplace is complaining about how sales price of new item is below their asking price of used equipment... :D used equipment priced at about 70-80% of new retail price.
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When internet influencers can't tell the difference between rod power and rod action... :D
medium power medium action?????
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Oh no. Another person doesn't even know how to describe their fishing rod and is giving their rod review.
The spinning reel is connected to the butt handle. The whole butt of the rod.
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If there's anything about fishing hacks...it's always interesting.
Sometimes you see things that people do just like how you do it too. Sometimes you wonder what duh? Sometimes you may learn new things. Sometimes it's the same stuff regurgitated all over and over again.
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Our internet influencers are at it again trying to get creds.
Fishing pictures and comparison...M N crappie is 18" long, but your knees must be about 12" thick. might just be the camera angle...
That is one huge person to have such a fat and wide knee.
I don't think my knees even came close to past 6" thick even in my heavy youthful days. Right now both my knees side by side don't even measure past 8" thick. Yeah I've gotten thin.
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Saw a picture of a guy just holding a valid 12" crappie in his hand...
Hmmmm it's about the size of the MN 18" crappie ^
;D
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Ice Fishing Pro's says...
a lot of times the big panfish are the ones on top of the school
a lot of times the little panfish are the ones on top of the school
so which is it? It just means that on that day, the big ones you caught were the ones biting at the top of the school...but did you check the bottom of the school to see if the big ones could be caught down there? Nope...
say whatever you want...I feel like the big ones are swimming up the ice hole...
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If it weren't for the internet, I would've never read or see how this fishing hack(ed) trick works.
It's the method of dropping your fishing spool into warm water and letting it soak to loosen the line up some before you spool it onto your fishing reel.
Sure it will work but there's two things that happens. First the warm water will soften your line up, but it also means that the nylon line will absorb water easier into it. Second when the line dries up on your reel, the transition from warm to cool actually sets the line memory coil onto your nylon line much more so.
Next time you go to cast, you will see an even worse line memory coil set in. You've been hacked.
And that line that you didn't use, that was on the spool and is now all wet. Well it doesn't dry off that well because it's on the spool, so there's a chance that it will mold or the moisture weakens your line. Hence you always want to store your fresh line dry and away from high humidity. Dunking it into warm water just ruined all of that. You've been hacked twice!
You can thank your internet influencers for hacking you. Don't let that one guy who tells you to remove your reel spool and soak it in warm water to soften the line up. Now you just got water into your drag system on the spinning reel. Or for the bait casting reel, you've probably just soaked your spool bearings in warm water. Good luck with that.
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BFS = Big Fishing Scam!!!!
well supposedly it was coined by the Japanese for Bait Finesse System/Style for them using lighter tackle and rigs for bass fishing.
Now everybody on the internet is supposedly some authority on it...
claims like you can't use a ML rod for BFS
BFS is not spinning gear
BFS is 4, 5, 6, 7# fluorocarbon lines
****
It's just the lingo and catch phrase...cuz we all know that people have been finesse fishing a long time ago...What happened was the tournament bass fishing culture that was all about big baits and heavy gear that was televised and changed the industry for a few decades.
Most of all is now having a selection of bait casting gear better suited for light weight lures and matching bait casting rods to go with that.
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Finally Someone else admits that braided fishing line is great for ice fishing.
Not just inside the warm up shack but when it's really cold. He said like - 20F but he should've said like 20F and below.
The ice forms faster and it's easier to just scrap the ice off the braid lines and muscle the braided lines off the side of the ice hole when it sticks.
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AI rendering can make anyone catch a trophy new world record... :D
Not that I measured fish eyes, but do they also grow proportionatel y bigger in bigger fish too? Or are they more like most animals the eyes are relatively the same size. Younger fish, do have bigger eyes...just noticing.
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Gosh, even pro's or product reps...don't even know what a rotor on a spinning reel is. :2funny:
Everyone thinks it's the round thing...that's the spool.
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A long time ago when people listed their used products online, it would be priced as used.
With online sales, marketplaces, auctions, etc.,...how come it's so easy for someone to list such products for above retail price? Especially when listed as used and no longer needed. :idiot2:
It's not even listed as rare legendary pokemon...
When I croak, I hope my kids will just bury my fishing stuff with me. Better that way. :2funny:
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Product A vs Product B
after a lengthy monologue
IMO it doesn't matter which one you choose...
So your opinion doesn't matter...
must the current trend of influencers...
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they are sponsored by the product
get paid to say good stuff and promote the product
O0 O0 O0
only buy what your budget $$$ allow
when the fish bite they bite they don’t care what you use
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Cast braid the furtherst?????
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojZ0eZnwuy8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojZ0eZnwuy8)
really? :D
for entertainment purpose...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA-9LmYAjik (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA-9LmYAjik)
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If our influencers are so against tip heavy fishing rods, then why is practically most fishing rods tip heavy?
Reality check, a tip heavy rod casts more consistently, and also further with less effort. Something about the physics in that.
Another reality check is, the moment you tie a lure on and use it, your fishing rod automatically becomes tip heavy. That defeats our influencers argument.
Finally reality check point three is, well your lure, your line, is all going to go under the surface of the water. At which an upright tip fishing rod is now fighting against the lure and line in the water.
For even topwater fishing lures like poppers and walk-the-dog type lures, the recommend technique is point your tip down towards the water.
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As usual...after the big summer clearance sale, from Joe's
Then suddenly there's a lot of used stuff for sale. Just waiting for the re-sale from others to show up any time now.
The bought new - never used - for sale.
Personally I never understood the high priced of used stuff or the not needed anymore. It's not vintage or collector item. Not even limited edition item. But things are what they are.
...And with the tariff price hike of imported items. Which in retail has no effect on previous items, but some people are just gonna price hike things as if...
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There's no such thing as Fall fishing, it's all a lie that the fishing industry is trying to get you to buy lures.
says our internet influencers... :D
Then finally adds that maybe up north, cuz they ice fish, so maybe there's a possible fall fishing season.
cuz dude lives in the south...south carolina :D
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Our internet influencer are so confident that they say...
A five pound fish cannot exert more than five pounds of force. Your ten pound line will never break.
because such person was able to catch a fish weighing more than 10 pounds.
If one has never bomb cast a lure, then one doesn't even know how powerful the force and strain it puts on fishing line at the moment of the swing. Imagine having a lousy spinning reel and the bail flips in mid cast. Poof your fishing lure or rig breaks the line and off it goes flying. Yeah that 10 pound line wasn't that strong.
Sure it's important to make sure your line is strong enough to haul in the fish you want to catch. Reels have drag and can be set to less pressure preferably less than the line strength. Rods flex and absorbs some of the initial impact shock on a fish strike. However it's more important to make sure your line is strong enough for the type of casting intended for distance.
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Here's a tip, don't make this mistake...
Here's a mistake, you're not following this tip...
So...which hack is this? :D
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With the advent of social media and internet
The soft plastics rigging = multiple ideas.
How people are gonna say..."they copied my idea" of rigging technique
less about how two different people can come up with the same rigging technique mutually exclusive of each other.
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Fishing debacle...Left or Right hand retrieve reel.
Our internet influencers are so set on how to tell people they are using the wrong side handle crank retrieve...
Really?...Isn't it just personal preference at the end of the day.
In general the dominant hand should be better at casting, so the rod should be in that hand for the cast. Whether one chooses to hand change after that, it's a personal preference.
I know why I prefer right hand crank reel. Cuz if I go grab the net, it's preferable to be my right hand grabbing the net.
Spinning rod, I cast with my right hand.
Casting rod, I cast with my left hand.
Personal preference. I can switch hands if I need too but might be rusty.
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Oh my internet influencers, where have you all been. Living it up to your likes and failing to do the reel real service to your fans.
Not that I have a need for a new spinning reel, as since I don't get to go fishing as much as I would like to. Rather I just don't run to go fishing anymore if it's just for a few hours or more like just a few minutes as I used to do so when I was young. Anyways as it is always the yearly ritual of which reel should one buy in terms of price and performance merit. I have been out of the loop and out of sync as since it's become the times of internet influencers doing their thing for views. A bunch of no sense U-tubers or Tik-docters just reinventing the wheel that someone else has already done. Cuz they fail to offer any real world advice in the field.
So which spinning reel? I am used to say a Shimano Stradic, but since that reel has been given such a price hike just for the spool oscillation system that's proven to work in real world trials. It's the standard that anything that performs below that, well is less than the ideal standard. And anything that performs above the Stradic, well seems like a lot of money for a little more of diminishing returns. Sounds all good on paper specs, but real world scenarios and examples often is very coincidental or situational unique. One just never know the true value of any tool, until one has found the exact benefit for the right situation.
So it seems that for freshwater fishing, I have overlooked the Shimano Ultegra spinning reels. Don't know how I did that, but going back to the Ultegra since inception for USDM models and the quick followup to the FA series. As of current version is the FD series so it's been a few generations. So a lot of technical jargon specs gets added to each generations as trickled down from the flagship spinning reel from the Stella. That's how Shimano does it. So back to the Ultegra, it features the worm gear oscillation system. That is unique to all upper tier Shimano spinning reels. Previously the Stradic would've been the lowest tier of spinning reel that separates it from low tier. Making the Stradic the actual mid-tier spinning reel in the echelon of all Shimano spinning reels models. However as the world evolves with the changing technology and economics of price tiers. The Stradic has essentially become an upper middle tier. Such that marketing strategy of renaming the Stradic Ci4+ successor as the Vanford to even price hike it way above the upper mid price tier semi premium bougie tool. I have to look a lot closer at the Ultegra and what it really means as affordable mid tier reel. Yes I have truly overlooked it.
So the Ultegra has the worm oscillation gear, unique to all Shimano upper tier reels. Separating it from all lower tier Shimano reels that uses a normal round gear for the oscillation system. The direct results is plain even line lay onto the spool that one can rely on, especially when spooling on new fresh line at home. More importantly is over the course of a day's fishing, the more reliable even line lay plays ever more as an integral importance to preventing the foul bird nest of a rats den. As much as I liked my old Sahara/Symetre reels that was position just the below the Stradics of old, the line lay was evidence and proof of the performance of the worm gear oscillation system. Now we have multiple reels below the Stradic and multiple reels above the Sahara models, because the price point has expanded. The Sahara has now become a breaking point of $100-120. That's a far increase from the days of the old $50 and has been steadily climbing throughout the last decade. The Nasci, is the replacement for the Symetre model. A few cosmetic changes and added one bearing upgrade is really the difference overall and now priced at $125-145. The the prized Miravel, which is marketed as an upgrade but really cosmetic changes and the featured Ci4+ material for the frame and possibly composite rotar of the same material for the Magnumlite rotor technical jargon. It's really a Nasci to Miravel, but like the marketing strategy of the Stradic to Vanford. And we are back at the Ultegra, the secretly lowered tier Stradic. It really is a sleeper model. It's the Stradic mimicry if it were to be labeled as anything else for a comparative analogy.
So I only own one Ultegra 4000FA model. It's been years, so this reel can be said to have been great to me for me. I will also say that I've pretty much use it for catfishing only, so it's a cast and sit and wait thing. Not heavy use, nor abused for it's purpose. As since it's been used as a comparison to the Stradic C5000FL, it wasn't a fair comparison to begin with. If I were to had compared it to my Sahara 4000FB, it would totally blow the competition at this level. At the time of purchase the Ultegra FA was $150 retail and I bought mine on clearance price - so I got it much lower by 20% discount if I remember right. It was just ICAST July 2025 when the Ultegra was price from $159 to $179. Then the August 2025 import tariffs price jacked that to $179 to $199. That's Stradic level pricing so Stradic mimicry.
So my internet influencers, why are so few of them like probably only one of them actually will say, "The Ultegra is the best performance value mid tier spinning reel." Yes it's been a real sleeper reel. Don't waste your money on anything below the Stradic mimicry - um Ultegra and own the only actual technological upgrade that has the best performance merit in a general open face spinning reel. Even if one uses it for some lame old catfishing cast and sit and wait, but what if one just decides that hey, I want to cast a lure for cat fishing. Bawhooom! It's a saving grace the Ultegra has the good levelwind line lay oscillation system. Feel free to cast as much as you like, in the dark and not have to worry so much about a birds rats nest of a line do-ZZZZZZ's tangle. But it may still hapen due to user error and not actually equipment malfunction. Well at least the odds will be in ones favor to reduce that with the Ultegra.
Yes going forward, I will recomment the Ultegra as the alternative to the Stradic. If I ever do need another freshwater reel and trying to be budget conscious in some form.
Ultegra!
Sounds a lot like Acura Integra...That kind makes me think Shimano Twin Power is a lot like Toyota Supra Twin Turbo. Where does that put the Stradic? Celica Supra? GT4 AWD? RCS concept really. If only zombie apocalypes happened the RSC concept would'be been realized. ;D
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Ah the annual internet idiots posting about fishing equipment breaking under normal use...
The totally snapped off spinning reel stem
The totally broken off rod at the reel seat, bait casting one too.
Typical lure plastic body impact broken on the lure body.
None of it covered under manufactures warranty defects.
Gosh does manufactures warrenty cover idiot use?
Well knowing wally world, it's not too far fetch that's possible. Buying a baitcasting reel and opening it just to find out, it's got no spool in it. Spinning reel just to find out the entire drag stack is missing. You bought that combo, clipped the zip ties off just to find out the reel seat is actually broken. The zip ties were holding it together.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM1ENA1eJUg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM1ENA1eJUg)
Very good explanation of the 2025 Ultegra FD series.
Wish they would've mentioned the worm gear drive for oscilation system. Of course not because that is like talking about a very old technology from like 20 years ago. Aerowrap II.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtgfkCom0m8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtgfkCom0m8)
Very good different perspective into choosing spinning reels. It's also about comparing the two major marketshare players Shimano and Diawa.
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I don't go for fancy stuff. I just want a reel that
reels the line and fish back to shore in some ways.
It doesn't have to feel smooth or look hot.
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Yeah, there is a point of just form and function. That's how I started and fished most of my life. How I rely on the Shimano Stradic spinning reels and used my FG models for about 20 yrs. For bait casting reels, it was the Curado E series right around 2010 or before when I bought them. That was also about the tiime when I went almost dedicated to bait casting reels and bought into the Metanium MG7 casting reels. Funny how the internet WWW sort of boom right about after the Y2K apocalypse-never as the 90's came to an end. Also when budget performance items was more powerful than any other time in the industry and price drops was part of it.
Getting old, older now. It's sort of become a love for a hobby. Where I still appreciate my total junk Shakespeare Ugly Stick rods and reels and even Zebco Rhino Rods and Classic 33 spincaster. Not to compare it against a Shimano Stella spinning reel or a Calcutta Conquest round casting reel.
G.Loomis rods was never in the good looks when they engineered it for form and function eventhough it became the industry's premium rods standard.
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I'm not saying quality rods don't do better.
They do do better in casting, reeling, line
fray-prevention, etc.
But anything kind of goes for me.
I have a Loomis rod. I'll get one more or
a St. Croix to suit my Stradic reel that's been
sitting unused. :2funny: :2funny: :-[ :-[Then I'll have a complete
set for anything freshwater.
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Expecting the worst Blaque Phrydai sales ever in record. :D
15% off is not going to address 25% tariffs :D
so they say...
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The holiday sales are upon us and the internet influencers are at it again...
Giving their recommendation s for which fishing rod type to buy.
And how they contradict each other...
One person/group recommends fast action xtra fast action graphite rods...etc.,..
The other person/group recommends moderate action, parabolic rods...etc.,...
funny how they recommend that one take the tip of the rod and poke the ground and give it a push test to get a feel for the rod. - absolutely worst advice but hey that's what internet influencers are all about.
Cuz that's how someone buys a rod and breaks it on the very first cast or very first fish they caught...
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The holiday sales are upon us and the internet influencers are at it again...
Giving their recommendation s for which fishing rod type to buy.
And how they contradict each other...
One person/group recommends fast action xtra fast action graphite rods...etc.,..
The other person/group recommends moderate action, parabolic rods...etc.,..
Like most things in life, opinions vary...
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Like most things in life, opinions vary...
Of course.
Well some of our internet influencers well, they have an opinion and only theirs is the right one. LOL.
Sometimes we just have to laugh at the popcorn show.
I like it better when people are sharing their real experiences, even if they state it as an opinion - but base on their personal experiences. Such as fisherman A says in his opinion - when it's a ______ condition fisherman A likes to use _______ types of lures with _______ types of rods and lines. In the media that's more just information sharing.
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Of course.
Well some of our internet influencers well, they have an opinion and only theirs is the right one. LOL.
Yep, seen that enough times from ignorant narrow-minded folks that think their way is the only way... ;D
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Shimano Poison Ultima
So internet influencers were saying this is the best rod for Forward Facing Sonar.
I'm thinking he's just saying cuz it's like one of the most expensive freshwater rods. That's like saying this $1k flyrod is the best. Not that I own any of these rods nor do I own a $3k+ sonar tech just for fishing. However there was one merit to why he said. He talked about the Shimano tech lingo of Hi-Power X and Spiral-X Core on this rod.
In effect he mentioned about on the hook set on a big fish and when you feel the rod wobble. So most people wouldn't know nor can tell until they fish very different rods to feel the difference in the moment that aligns with those conditions. He talked about the level of feedback and rod response against input from tip and handle performance. It's like when one is bobber fishing and finally pulls that fish out of water and it's dangling and flipping. The rod is either shaking wildly from that or either controlled to just a tip flickering as a comparison.
As for the hook set moment, there's two extreme ends where one just merely flip the fish or felt like stuck on a log. If one is overpowering the small fish and pulling/flipping them while fish has no chance to even fight back, it wouldn't matter. However when it's almost like sticking into a log and that log surges into an angry torpedo there's a lot of subtle nuances in the rod performance. He talks about how the rod would vibrate and shake wildly at the end of the hook set moment. There's a guy who's not just talking for youtube likes, but actually giving out personal experiences that conveys expertise.
In my limited experience, I can confirm what he says is true feedback. In a way that's why I'm a St. Croix fanboy for their Legend Elite rods of the old style going on for 20yrs+, eventhough a lot of people talk about how dull or how heavy a rod of that price is compared to others. They have their own fancy tech lingo of ART and IPC. Which in effect creates a rod that flexes under load but resist the flex ovaling of a tubular rod as well as torsion rigidity.
Anyways it almost made me consider buying a Poison Ultima Rod to try out. Alas they don't actually have one particular model spec. that I would like to try out. So until they expand the line up into something I would like to use...The Poison Adrena rod models is their entry of premium rods so they have a lot of model specs. I do have a few of those rods and they are on par with the St. Croix Legend Elites but still differrent in many nuances.
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Finally at least one internet influencer admitted that the tennessee ice fishing rods...suxxx. Well not really but that person admitted that when you get a bigger fish, it feels like the set up is about to fall apart. Of course soft cork will flex under load. That's no secret. But to have someone to admit it finally, is exonerating.
The whole industry is built upon that. Like 99% of the listed top quality rods are built upon the most stupid and cheap concept of having to tape your reel onto a round handle.
Even a cheap $5 reel seat is better than that.
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Apparently the world just discovered or rediscovered an old timer's trick to fishing a jig head and soft plastic minnow. Now they have all these names or tricks to it. Strolling, hover strolling, mid strolling, minnow shaking, minnow rolling, etc.,...
Half of them claims that you only need your typical spinnig gear and twitch the rod tip. The other half of them says you need a better more specific rod...Just this year Shimano released these Expride B Solid Tip Spinning Rods for like $339 retail. Yikes...over my head.
Half of the trick is really about how one threads the hook into the soft plastic, not centered balance. If the rig is unbalanced, it blows out or rolls onto it's side. Well if you're just twitching it and it likes to roll onto it's side, it somehow makes fish want to eat it. Since it looks like an injured bait fish.
It's really all circumstantial . We know from experience that if fishing with an unbalanced rig, fish don't want to bite it. While at the other times, seams like an unbalanced rig is what the fish wants. Goofy.
So really the technique sort of falls in the same technique as jigging midwater with a feather or a hare/rabbit fur jig. This is where one needs to twitch the rod tip to get the lure shaking. Whereas in soft plastic here, they are not just looking at the shaking, but in effect to get the rig rolling to the side to side.
Old timer use additional split shot just above the jig head to get that off balance shake. Or they add a button, like from your dress shirt because it causes the jig to roll or wobble just a bit. All of this was just recently discovered with Forward Facing Sonar.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=popxphQjRJE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=popxphQjRJE)
oh the explanation...
This is probably why one shouldn't buy Pro endorsed products...no matter how much a paid out they get from their rankings...
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So this minnow rod tip shaking thing...
Now it's just been re-invented again. Just applied to your hard baits. Jerk bait in the bass world.
So in the bass fishing world, there's this cold water technique that is primarily for jerk bait fishing. A rod tip jerk and pauses in between method. And of course, for bass fishing they do prefer the suspending version.
Anyway so it appears that the rod tip twitching/shaking method applied to jerk baits, seems to be another internet newly discovered rage. Social media calling it pro secret tip. Well it's just another old timier's method from 20-30 yrs ago. Which doesn't sound trendy at all.
soon...the new year rage will all be about rod tip shaking all kinds of lures...giving it a twitch or pop to break the monotony of steady retrieve...
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Social media...record ings of fishing violations...p osting of pictures showing and posted narratives of such violations...
gosh...I am wondering if people do end up doing that, to themselves.
Fishing should be just a simple, outdoor recreational activity...wel l it used to be a lifestyle, a survival. Somehow people just like to make all kinds of rules and such...your lure has to be such and such configurations ...no live bait - of any kind...barbles s hooks...etc.,...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwVrIue0aPs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwVrIue0aPs)
Much respect to the people who just puts out good content on the internet. As usual they forget to answer the question they proposed. LOL.
However a common mistake that even people just do, is high stick your fishing rod. Whoops it broke on the hook seet. That's a Medium Heavy power or even Heavy power rod that he broke and it was down on the rod blank too. Plus using it in a auto hook setter, probably prior damaged.
I have the same rod. Use it for flying a kite and it doesn't break. Only problem was I don't have enough fishing line on the bait casting reel and it doesn't have enough drag or winching power against a kite.
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AI narrative fishing tips...
I've been watching a couple of AI generated fishing tips on Youtube. Gotta love the wonderfully AI generated pictures. Very crazy looking fishing reels and lures. LOL. Something like how a child would draw a picture without the full knowledge of how physics and mechanical functions works.
While most of the informative narrative is convincingly true, once in a while it gives a false or incorrect statement. It's like a typo that is very easily overlooked.
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No one has found the perfect ways to fish or to handle
an equipment. At most, those internet influences come
up with things based on their opinions only.
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It used to be that short videos of fish caught under the ice and seen in the ice hole were always of blurry quality as such. However this year, so many post on FB and YT have some stunningly clear detailed fish caught and that just so phenomenally clear. (And sometimes looks like the water depth angle is off, like it's too straight through looking glass).
And then I get that AI generated or enhanced or filtered or whatever software programs are used...
plus what's with the UL rods that everyone is suddenly using?
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Once again our fellow fisher folks are at this proof thing again. Talking and showing how big (long) their crappies caught is.
So bottom of standard bucket is only about 10" diameter. Your crappie does not touch edge to edge and is claimed to be 12 inches long.
So exterior dimensions of bottom of milk crate is 12 3/4" and it's squared. Your crappie barely measured from end to end and is claimed to be 14 inches long minimum.
Geez if you gonna lie at least don't provide proof. :D or your measuring ruler is a lot shorter than standard.
So there's this unspoken rule of fishermen...if it's a big fish, add to inches to the story. ;D
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All spinning reels are the same blah blah blah...LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoAsHtmV0jg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoAsHtmV0jg)
Never did I ever think he was gonna change his mind...The test product, Shimano Twin Power spinning reel.
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Our internet influencers have solved the line spooling on a spinning reel for zero line twist...no they haven't.
Here's one example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMYDWSCKzok (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMYDWSCKzok)
Or one can just face the reality of that, spinning reels spools will always line twist. It's the physics of it.
If one ever wrap up cords like electrical extension cords or even a garden hose, one knows that it will always twists. However if knowing the counter twist wrapping technique like for example: called the over/under method
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKlaXb-fLrg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKlaXb-fLrg)
I admit, I get lazy and don't do it or forget to do it. But once in a while I do so for my fish stringer and it works great. I mostly actually use a metal chain fish stringer with those clips.
That would be so great if a spinning reel could somehow mechanically do that.
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AI generated...bu t still fairly imformative about fishing rod sensitivity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdgfKR3-zDY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdgfKR3-zDY)
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How to cast a baitcaster...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XI23wQmxkU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XI23wQmxkU)
Some good info.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXSxEL1uH9s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXSxEL1uH9s)
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The days of internet influencers might be near it's end...cuz AI generated blah blah blah is about the same...that and the so called algorithim feed thing...