BPayne

I once had a riveting conversation with a conspiracy theorist on a flight where he stated that China controls our weather….yup….China! With that in mind, every time I am planning a fishing trip, I go have a chat with the local Chinese Restaurant proprietor to get the inside track on what’s REALLY going on! All joking aside, the weather where I live changes a good bit and the weather forecasts usually get it wrong except in the dead of summer. A bum knee is good for feeling changes in barometric pressure. I’m pretty good at knowing when rain is coming haha.

Well, just checking back in with an update. I received my Testors Liquid Cement for Plastics (ABS) and applied a small amount to the area around the hook hanger and let it set over night. I just did the freezer/warm water trick and I am pleased to report that there were no bubbles! I dried the bait and proceeded to apply a second coat (hopefully that doesn’t hurt my fix) in the hopes of building up another layer of “plastic” to keep from any future issues arising. I hope this info proves useful to other members in the future! Cheers and thanks SU!

They will absolutely smash them! They really like rats

What perfect timing! I went to do the super glue/baking soda fix last night, but my super glue had thickened up too much over time and I was going to have to go get some more before I did that. Just found this Testors product online with a precision tip applicator. It will be here tomorrow. Thanks for posting this!

Well, I managed to stick two decent fish this week. On Monday, I stuck a 4lb12oz fish on my new Bucca Trick Gill. Today, I stuck a 5lb3oz fish on my new Bucca Trick Shad. I would say these two are going to be real winners for me in the future! I can only imagine how they’ll perform for me from my kayak . Cheers!

Well, this trick worked like a charm! The leak revealed itself IMMEDIATELY. The unfortunate news is the bubbles were emerging from in between the grooves of the metal wire of the front hook hanger. I’m not entirely sure the best course of action for fixing it there since I can’t exactly drill that out or remove the hanger and I don’t want to impede the hook. As stated, the amount of water in the bait is literally the equivalent of about a quarter of a drop, so I’m not sure that opening a hole to dry that out is worth it. I just would like to seal it to prevent any further water incursion. Would filling that small groove with baking soda and super gluing it do the trick?

I’ve definitely used that method to find leaks in tires! I guess I just figured that holding the bait underwater would’ve worked, but I suppose I’ll get my spray bottle out and see what I can see. Thanks. I will update once I’ve done this!

How did you locate it? Like I said, I spent a good amount of time trying to locate a leak yesterday and came up with nothing.

What’s up Underground, I ran into something yesterday that has me perplexed and thought I would put it to the experts here to settle. I threw around my THUT TK yesterday and when I was loading up the truck at the end of the day, I pulled that bait out of a compartment in my kayak and the sunlight must’ve hit it just right and I saw a sort of condensation cloud in the front half of the bait. This spot was about 1/2”x1/2”. If I lightly tapped the bait, I could get the moisture to run down and form a few tiny droplets. I got home and filled my sink with water and held the bait underwater at multiple different angles without the lip in and squeezed it as hard as I could. I couldn’t, for the life of me, get the bait to bubble…not even a bit. For background, this bait hasn’t seen much use AT ALL since I bought it new from THUT (may have thrown it 2-3 times including yesterday) and it has never been dropped or casted into anything (hasn’t even caught a fish yet). As best I can tell, there isn’t a leak and, as stated, there hasn’t been anything that happened to the bait that could’ve caused one anyways. I store the baits inside, so it isn’t a temperature/sunlight thing. Only thing I can figure is the bait may have been made in a humid environment and the water temperature yesterday caused that humidity to condensate. Who knows? Well…hopefully you guys do! Any thoughts?

Greetings all, I’ve been super busy with work and just now got around to fishing for the very first time of 2024 today. I was hoping for a bass, but this lake has a pretty solid population of bowfin in it as well, so there is always the chance of attracting one of these nasty bass turds . Anyways…first fish of the year is a 5lb5oz bowfin on a WCZ TK in mode B with a transfer tail and a 1g board weight. Pretty cool eat. Cheers.

I have made an excel spreadsheet that I log every fish 2lbs and over. I log the details such as time, location, moon phase, barometric pressure, lighting conditions, wind, and bait used. It’s not perfect by any means, but after 4 years of doing this, spotting trends has become interesting….now w if I was just a good fisherman, my spreadsheet might be more impressive

In my case, the USPS tracking never updated from the creation of the label. The rod just showed up about a week later. I would hold out hope that may be the case for you as well. Definitely sick rods!

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It’s not worth the time it took you to post this question! Send it to me and I’ll dispose of it properly! You pay shipping!

I know you said you don’t want a round sized reel, but the Conquest 200’s are much smaller than you would expect and can be palmed easily. Those Conquests are truly built like tanks.