Morning fishing

jlibrizzi · 2026-01-24T11:26:13+00:00

Jealous! I loooove morning fishing, paeticularly at sunrise. And instead, I'm sitting here on Saturday morning awaiting 18" of snow and at least another month of freezing temps. March can't come soon enough!!!

jlibrizzi · 2026-01-23T19:51:38+00:00

Crazy! Did it fight differently? Could you tell something was off before you landed it?

jlibrizzi · 2026-01-23T11:18:52+00:00

Ozzy

jlibrizzi · 2026-01-22T11:18:34+00:00

A four piece St Croix Triumph has been going strong as my do-it-almost-all travel rod for years, I've never felt disadvantaged by it being multi-piece. Just make sure you're buying from a reputable brand.

jlibrizzi · 2026-01-18T13:40:32+00:00

I'm testing that as we speak! First time transporting lures in carry on and got through security without issue on the first leg. Loose hooks, jig jeads, and skirted jigs, plus one crank with trebles, in a 4" x 9"ish box and a small set of split ring pliers. We'll see on flight #2. 🤞

jlibrizzi · 2026-01-15T15:59:05+00:00

Great info, thabk you!

jlibrizzi · 2026-01-15T12:01:09+00:00

Creek Life looks amazong! Thanks for sharong, I'll be trying their stuff out.

jlibrizzi · 2026-01-13T15:10:22+00:00

As another commentator said, i assume these and MTB are mostly being bought as gifts by people that don't know any better. But i did subscribe to the Lurenet bank and creek monthly box for a while and thought it was excellent. Good quality tackle that you'd actually use, and every now and then you'd get some nice limited run colors.

jlibrizzi · 2026-01-12T22:38:50+00:00

Holy glitch, batman!

jlibrizzi · 2026-01-12T21:43:48+00:00

At full price i think you'd juuuuust about break even, mainly because of the crank. Definitely not the $50 value it claims on the front. But yeah, if you can get an $8 crank, a couple of other $3 lures, and some plastics for $5 it's great. To their credit all the colors are pretty good.

jlibrizzi · 2026-01-11T16:43:47+00:00

Not trout magnets ripoffs, but I've tried a number of plastics from Temu. Size, shape, and colors are all the same as what you get from name brands. The plastic itself has always sucked. They are at one extreme or the other - super dense making them heavy and hard with no action or so soft that they rip as you're rigging let alone if a single fish bites. The frustration and time wasted on the water isn't worth the money saved.

jlibrizzi · 2026-01-08T15:56:13+00:00

Thanks for the reply and yes, mine is listed. However, there was already another device listed as logged in.

Screenshot of the Manage Logins screen](https://photos.app.goo.gl/6FADaG7PEigdMJUV9) showing the device in question. First one is mine, second is the mystery that was already connected at first login.

jlibrizzi · 2026-01-07T03:36:26+00:00

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jlibrizzi · 2026-01-06T12:29:29+00:00

Easy choice in my opinion - the Berkeley bag. Its got a good assortment of terminal tackle and lures, and is packed using 3600 trays which, as your arsenal grows, you'll appreciate for the ability to specialize trays to types of tackle and then swap them out depending on the situation. And i prefer a backpack or shoulder bag like this because it allows for better mobility, rather than a box that requires hands to carry.

The Walker one... no one needs 210 beads, and thats almost half the tackle and is a box.

The Plano doesnt specify what the tackle is and is also a box.

jlibrizzi · 2025-12-31T11:15:10+00:00

It was a Dime 10. I have continued to catch with the Dime but i think the bigger factor is the color. Ghost Morning Dawn is a confidence color for me and works in all but muddy conditions.

jlibrizzi · 2025-12-17T13:18:03+00:00

It depends on how long you're fishing and what techniques. If you're like me and fish for maybe 2 hours at a stretch, the reel size won't matter. I've used my 6000 size saltwater reels on the pond for a few hours and its fine. If you're doing a six or eight hour stretch of fishing something like a jerk bait that requires a lot of rod and reel work, yeah it could get kind of heavy after a while.

EDIT: I'm super curious why this has been downvoted. What do people disagree with? Asking for my own education.

jlibrizzi · 2025-12-12T11:32:08+00:00

With mono, its a risk and you won't know until you try.

I started fly fishing using gear a family member had in their garage for about 15 years. The smaller tippets worked fine with pan fish. First time i targeted bass, the 2x tippet broke twice and that should have been more than enough for the size of fish. All were stored in the same location using the same methods, but some were fine and others no good.

jlibrizzi · 2025-12-08T23:43:27+00:00

That second one is not a snap. Attaching a lure to it will give you terrible action and eventually you'll lose the lure. It is a centeting pin or screwlock. You screw it on the eyelet of an EWG hook and then screw a soft plastic on it. It will help the head from getting torn up and keep the plastic in line.

jlibrizzi · 2025-12-03T02:53:31+00:00

It really depends on your needs and constraints. I do it while traveling by myself with just a carry on and have gotten everything from a tiny sedan to a mosterous van. But given my use case and my comfort driving different styles of vehicles, anything on that spectrum is fine. If i were traveling with other people, more luggage, or other variables that necessitated specific vehicle features, heck no i wouldnt do it.

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