Zach Matthews
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Wow Corey (and Stu), nice images! It makes you wonder how/why that fish ate your streamer with that sculpin hanging out of his mouth.
Hey Bob –
I think that is also known as a “half wells” (thus the “reverse half wells” that we commonly see now, mostly for aesthetic/marketing reasons).
I think I would throw it in a sealed barrel with some of the stuff Dave describes (sand, chains, etc.), and then either roll it down a hill or find a way to roll it behind the car.
If anything, spey reels usually have LESS drag than other reels of their size. There’s just no need for a 3-inch cork drag plate in a reel meant for salmonids. But a lot of anglers have ended up with Pates or Tibors or Seamasters on their spey rods due to the weight of the rod (requiring a balancing heavy reel) and the capacity requirements. That’s why I quoted you some older models that aren’t as expensive and were mostly designed before everyone got large-arbor crazy (which just eats backing capacity, frankly).
Zach
Get a double action pump and be sure to keep it well lubed inside. I’ve broken more than one. You can uncap it and you’ll find a lot of grease in the piston tube; over time, that grease will work off the main gasket of the plunger, causing undue friction and eventually straining the piston shaft (i.e. the thing you work up and down). I have a few of these pumps; I actually bought a backup that’s smaller than normal at an auction a year ago; I keep it strapped to my pontoon when floating so that if I hit a puncture and develop a slow leak, I can pump it back up (this also goes for changing weather conditions).
This is economical and perfectly adequate.
I think you guys will really like it. I’m a huge junkie for paleo science and always have been. Rinella’s chapter on early North American man and their effect on and destruction of the big game populations was some of the best stuff in the book, leaving aside his personal story, which I found darn near epic.
One of the coolest chapters was his description of helicoptering in to a lonely plateau on what is today the Bering slope. He and a scientist climbed to the top of a sort of escarpment, where you could see game movement (caribou nowadays) for miles. The scientist described finding a spearpoint on the very spot they chose to survey the terrain; man has been hunting the same way for a very long time.
Zach