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26 minutes ago, Zwylde said:

Sorry, never seen this before.  What is it?

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it's a pad (the spikes are soft) that you put your extra fly line in so it doesn't fall in the water, tangle on the boat and is otherwise accessible for smooth casting. I let out about 50 feet of line when we are hunting for reds and that's a lot of excess line to be just lying there without something to keep it in place.

some use buckets instead.

on calm days such tools may be optional for some, but on windy days they are pretty much a necessity for fly fishing.

in that pic I have a fish on the line and it's taken all the slack and I've got it on the reel so you can't see how that pad is used here.

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5 hours ago, Celery Man said:

Is this guy here?

https://www.chron.com/life/wildlife/article/austin-texas-bass-record-20158294.php
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because it makes me happy that this guy is out there catching giant fucking bass downtown 

Saw this elsewhere.  So freakin' cool.  How amazing would that be to hook into that big girl with downtown as your backdrop!?!?

Also, someone said he looks just like Bob from Bob's Burgers.

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Town Lake used to be one of the best big bass lakes in the state. Then they put grass carp in the lake to "manage vegetation" and they destroyed the big bass habitat. Good to see it's rebounding. Maybe Nicole needs an award from Parks and Wildlife for her work adding nutrients to the lake. 

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I just love that he looks like the most Austin character of all time doing an extremely Austin thing, and he’s wearing a Sam’s Town Point trucker hat while doing it. It’s too good.

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48 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

I just love that he looks like the most Austin character of all time doing an extremely Austin thing, and he’s wearing a Sam’s Town Point trucker hat while doing it. It’s too good.

If he’s here, he probably posts in the guitar thread. That’s Willie Pipkin, guitarist from the South Austin Jug Band and the Little Elmore Reed Band. According to discogs, he also played guitar on a couple tracks on the last Charley Crockett record. 

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1 hour ago, Foggy Notion said:

If he’s here, he probably posts in the guitar thread. That’s Willie Pipkin, guitarist from the South Austin Jug Band and the Little Elmore Reed Band. According to discogs, he also played guitar on a couple tracks on the last Charley Crockett record. 

Ah cool, it said he played guitar for a living, I was curious with who

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Fished the guad two weeks ago with a lawyer buddy and then struck out on the coast hunting reds last week. I think I’m going to take some casting lessons. Hard day, overcast, windy, water was low but fish weren’t really moving. Saw plenty too late, only had 3 legit shots. I need to increase my percentage from 1/4 or 1/5 I net to 1/3 or 1/2.

my buddy’s first trout on the fly… 
 

 

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