casting tips fresh from Flatrocks

No 1: Make sure bail arm is open before castingTongue out


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LOL!

Wed, 2008-08-27 10:16

Do I sniff a story? LOL

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Had a little birdy drop into

Wed, 2008-08-27 10:18

Had a little birdy drop into the shop today and heard something funny

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c'mon Mako

Wed, 2008-08-27 10:19

spill the beans! 

at least reels don't have bungs in them Tongue out

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oh snap!

Wed, 2008-08-27 10:34

oh snap!

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I don't think that is all he has to worry about

Wed, 2008-08-27 10:39

at the moment!
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haha Kasey

Wed, 2008-08-27 10:39

I think we've ALL done the bail arm trick at some stage. The feeling of abolute futility is hard to forget, as you watch your totally unencumbered sinker acheive the best useless cast you've done to date. Laughing

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If anyone finds a lure out

Wed, 2008-08-27 10:54

If anyone finds a lure out from flatrocks can they please return it to.

thanks

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I do remember hearing some muttering

Wed, 2008-08-27 12:10

"Now I know why I fish out of a boat. I don't have to worry about casting too far"
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He was having a few problems at that time

Wed, 2008-08-27 11:01

He had just completed a major untangling job when he launched that cast. He got some nice distance with it. Just a pity the rest of his line wasn't attached.
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Down at eagle bay this year,

Wed, 2008-08-27 11:58

Down at eagle bay this year, I cast a 65g spanyid raider over the horizon on almost the same trick. I brought the lure forward and then back with a whip and noticed pretty much no line came off. I brought it in and the poor little split ring in the swivel had unwound, but was still caught in the knot in the end of the line, just uncurled =(

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Well, im fairly

Wed, 2008-08-27 14:01

sure he wasnt the only one who threw some tackle out on the weekend that wasn't attached when it hit the water, maybe sherbs knows something..... 

 

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Yeah yeah, wasn't the

Wed, 2008-08-27 14:02

Yeah yeah, wasn't the comments about untangling a knot the sorting out of that knot, lol

we heard it in a different way, but all funny

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enbarrasing

Wed, 2008-08-27 17:55

I did it at my first State Dry casting Competition. Talk about embarrassing.

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Yeah a few people did that,

Wed, 2008-08-27 17:58

Yeah a few people did that, and also heard "this is why I fish from a boat" aswell ;)

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Yeah Dean, but he

Wed, 2008-08-27 20:27

...tried that and apparently the boat sunk deeper than an 'unattached' sinker YellLaughing

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hahaha,i like where this is

Wed, 2008-08-27 18:07

hahaha,i like where this is going, all the secrets coming out lol

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pmsl@ your last comment

Wed, 2008-08-27 18:09

pmsl@ your last comment

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Tony...

Wed, 2008-08-27 20:30

Make it a SHORT plank - don't want him getting vertigo Tongue out

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Keeping me awake

Thu, 2008-08-28 05:48

You all need to walk the plank

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Hope 'things' are feeling

Thu, 2008-08-28 07:03

Hope 'things' are feeling alot better after another day of rest.

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did ya keep them bait-balls???

Thu, 2008-08-28 13:20

did ya keep them pair of bait-balls???? heard they good for bottom bouncing around the back of Rotto.....!!!
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