At Fishing Fury, we love shiny things as much as fish do - especially shiny reels. As odd as it may sound, it’s not only important that our reels function well, but that they look great too. Beauty is definitely in the eye of the beholder when it comes to reels though. Personally I prefer the appearance of a round baitcast reel, where as Jon prefers low profile. One thing with both agree on though, is that if we had the money, we would have a serious collection of pimped out reels. Here’s a list of the reels we wish we had, but probably never will.
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Reporting live from the great north at Little Vermilion Lake. We are half way through our trip and currently sitting outside in the cold using the wireless connection here to make a quick update. The weather has not been the greatest but we have still been putting fish in the boat. Click the image below to view the pictures and report.
UPDATE! Instead of having a part two to this article, it has been rewritten and republished as a single mega article! You can still click the image below to take you there. Enjoy!
Two best friends set off on an epic journey across Ontario. They will travel over 4,000 KM, by boat, by truck, by plane, by any means nessecary. And they will stop at nothing to complete their quest.
It took weeks of planning… Months of saving.. A mystical charm crafted in a Japanese temple.. And nearly a lifetime of practice. All to spend every waking moment, for the next week, fishing your guts out in search of nothing less than the fish of your dreams.
The day has finally come! Clive and I will be leaving today for our trip to Little Vermilion Lake, the drive will be long, the music will be loud, and the fish will be huge.
Nothing I can say will help you understand just how excited we are for this trip, and nothing will stand in our way of completing it. & With any luck we should come back with some of the most amazing video, pictures, and stories you’ve ever seen on Fishing Fury, and let’s be honest, we’re pretty bad ass when it comes to the photos.
Trust me, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Our fishing friend Twwly over at Suicidegirls.com has just completed and new fly tying themed photo set, go take a look!
“Part wooly bugger, part egg sucking leech, this fly is guaranteed to mesmerize even the most finicky of trout.
I hope this set of me tying one on and taking some off will have you hook, line and sinker!”
When it comes to high speed photography I much prefer the predatory and projectile variety. Here we’ve got the best of both categories, in a rather insane combination I might add!
Huge tigers leaping in to pools of water to snatch bits of meat.
You can also check out the high speed photography community on Flickr.
While rod repair is at least a yearly occurrence for me, nothing major of course, but a few dings here and there happen and it’s important to stay on top of them if you want your gear to last for years to come. You don’t normally come home from buying a brand new rod wanting to repair it. Unfortunately, such is the case with the Pete Maina Signature Series Musky Rods.
The holes you see pictured above could be part of the manufacturing process, but is highly unlikely since I’ve never owned a rod with such a hole and every photo I can find of the Fuji TCS real seat (example 1, example 2) is lacking such a hole. It just doesn’t make sense from a manufacturing or design process. Not to mention that the hole is off center, has a suspicious looking unfinished lip, almost like it was drilled out and not sanded down, and the simple fact that quite a few of the rods on display had their triggers broken off at this hole.
So because I was tired of looking at it and feeling it, I decided to do something about it. While I may not recommend doing this to your rod, it’s the solution I came up with using items I had around my house that I knew were suitable for the job. All you’ll need to replicate this repair is a few plastic bags, some tape, a round file and some car bondo. What, you don’t keep bondo in your medicine cabinet?
Then just file out the hole a bit, maybe a little extra tape so you don’t get bondo all over the place, especially on the cork. Mix up your bondo, do this part outside because the fumes are pretty noxious, you’ll only need a little bit since it isn’t a large hole and start filling. Be very careful, this stuff generally sets in about 3-4 minutes so work carefully and diligently, don’t worry about excess because you’ll need to sand it all down anyway. Let cure for about 20-40 minutes and you’re ready to sand it down and remove the tape.
Either Pete Maina, missed out on the quality control of these rods, and is quite possibly kicking himself for them being “Signature Series”, or Bass Pro Shops manufacturing process is about as obscure as their naming conventions. I might even go so far as to say they have a mystical drilling gnome wandering about their factory.
We’ll see if it breaks, and how it performs, as we run it through the Northern Pike Gauntlet.
For more photos of the Pete Maina Signature Series Rod Repaircheck out our gallery.
