wolfer
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- Birthday 07/15/1950
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About Me:
I am retired living on the Oregon Coast at Winchester Bay on the mouth of the great Umpqua River.
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Interests (Hobbies, favorite activities, etc.):
fishing and more fishing, garage saling
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What I do for a living:
retired and fish for food
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Winchester Bay Oregon
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Just curious. I bought kastmaster clones. they swim sideways and the hook point is on one side or the other unless you add a second split ring . do your fish get hooked in the side of the mouth or bottom lip? Do you miss alot of hook-ups? I bought 2 oz for surf fishing or casting bay for salmon or trolling. I have been tieing bucktails to single siwash hooks have not fished them yet waiting for springers still early.Most people on oregon coast throw spinners or bait. Trolling herring.
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Silver Salmon or called Coho from the Oregon Coast have white inside the mouth on their gum line. Chinook or King salmon have a black gum line. Normally they are hatched sometimes 100 miles or less upriver and return from 2 years to 4 or 5 years. Silvers?Coho average 12-25 #s Chinook average 20-50# average some go to over 80 #s Native Chinooks are getting smaller because breeding stock over the years have been taken and eaten.
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I have an original leathermans tool i carry on my belt and it has a file with two sides one is flat and the other has a v cut into it for sharpening hooks. It was made in Portland Oregon. It also has a pair of needle nose pliers with wire cutters, bottle and can opener, a couple flat and a phillips screw drivers and a pair of sissors. I would be lost without it.
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I use a levelwind for trolling in the river and ocean but i use a mitchell 402 for surf, and lake fishing out of a boat. i used to hate spinning reels because they coil bad but with the Mitchell 402 with a pum and cross wind cam the line(mono or braid) does not coil. Or very little. I rarely cast with a levelwind because I am not proficient with them and occasionally get backlash. I do have a Mitchell 600 multiplier that is not a levelwind I have been practicing with in the surf because it will cast further than a levelwind or a spinning reel.
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I understand. I am not experienced with the big pond either. I can follow a set of waypoints. Even radar does not tell if there is a boat too close or coming up on you fast. or sitting still in front of you. Anytime you cross the Bar you are taking a risk last year we had 3 commercial crabbers sink in one of our local bars just south of me and it is one of the safer bars. (coos bay) I am on the Oregon coast at Winchester bay on the Umpqua river Bar.
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I intended to follow a friend out. I want not only the last waypoint I want to make a trail of waypoints from the bar to the reef and back.so If I get stuck in the fog I can follow my waypoints to get back home as I cannot afford a radar system. and my fish finder does not have a plotter. My main reef is 8 miles from the bar and to the southwest. I can manually mark waypoints along the way but I think the radio will set waypoints for me.
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I have this radio. I bought it last year and it was during the summer so I did not study the manual but used it to listen to bar conditions and monitored the coast guard. This radio has a gps but no plotter. It has a built in gps antenna in the radio but has very little range. It does however have the ability to mark waypoints. I was reading in the manual and think I read that it will mark waypoints itself. I am wondering if any of you have this radio. What I would like to do is follow another boat out to a reef where they catch ling cod and rock bass. I think I might be able to follow another boat and the radio would mark waypoints all the way out with out doing it manually I think the book called it pinning. Can this be done or do I have to mark waypoints myself on the way out to the reef?
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Thanks I appreciate the photo I disassembled and cleaned the reel last night and got it back together. I bought a cheap 302 to get a PUM should get it soon coming from ebay I will install the pum then try it out. I am learning slowly. I am suprised I found your post again. I am having a hard time making a post and loading some photos off my computer photo program. I try to post on a new thread and it seems to add the post to an earlier thread. Never been to a forum like this I am lost. is there a place to get instructions? Not even sure I can get back here.
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I have a shop in my small coastal community that has hundreds of vintage rods to search thru. I saw a video of Conolon Rods being built at a factory. I am using Mitchell reels and would like to match the reels with rods. I am wondering if anyone knows how long they made Conolon rods. I want to find ones that will work in the surf.
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I was trying to make a new post about flatfish but it tied me to a fishing rod post I made previously. I tried to delete the post and start over but do not know how if staff can delete the post I would appreciate it
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I have a shop in my small coastal community that has hundreds of vintage rods to search thru. I saw a video of Conolon Rods being built at a factory. I am using Mitchell reels and would like to match the reels with rods. I am wondering if anyone knows how long they made Conolon rods. I want to find ones that will work in the surf.
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Is it hard to replace a pinion gear for a 402? I have to replace mine because the hole for the rotor key is oval shaped and the key popped out. I fortunately found it. do you have to take the whole shaft out or does the pinion come out by itself?
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thanks Jimmy
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LOL I bought a cheap 3 section 15' surf Rod from Amazon I got free shipping for prime to my PO Box. I was shocked when I picked it up. It was in a clear plastic bag and there was no damage. Probably because postal employees could see it was a fishing pole and treated it better.
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Thanks to all of you for your replys. I have one other question. I assume they have stainless steel guides will recent braided line cut thru the guides?