Like high school students who will write essays on “How I spent my summer, I want to write something similar on “How I’m preparing for the autumn season.” Perhaps it is time to start collecting your fishing backpack with lures, cook and leashes.
Small spool but the roads
Well, of course, what is autumn without metal leashes? I no longer buy leashes because of the weakness of their designs. The swivel from time to time wears out and POPs out of the barrel, the buckle bent in the most unexpected moment. I use a special wire for Cabela’s Single Strand Wire with a thickness of 0.15 inch (0.4 mm), which is very similar to the proverbial guitar string No. 2. This wire is good because after a take pike when the leash is wrapped in a spiral, it can be easily straightened by hand. Curls on the ends of the leash I make the arms using the pliers. Future bent ear, perechitivay wire at a 45° angle and turn after turn doing the twist, keeping this angle. Then a sharp side cutters to bite off the end of the wire, straighten and you’re done. As for the wire I put a bullet. It turns out kind of a Texas rig, but even with a metal leash. This snap-in, better bounces in zakoryazhennyh places and, of course, perfectly resists pike’s teeth and gives you the opportunity to compete with catfish. At the back of the leash (the one in the thick end of the bullets) no problem is attached any lure jig, including offset hook.
I tie the braid directly to the wire without any dopolnitelnyh buckles and carabiners. Sometimes, of course, that the network, particularly thin, treacherous climbs under the turns of the strand, especially when twiching. I refer to this as the inevitable costs. After all, even in Japanese crankbaits fishing line or loop the leash sometimes falls in a single turn. Just need to follow this point and time to correct.
New season – new twist
I always update the braided cord in the early fall. Judge for yourself. At the peak of predator activity – you catch a fresh twist. For 3 months, even with the frequency of my fishing trips (fishing 2-3 per week) the cord will not have time much to rozmaritsa and may serve for winter spinning. In the spring, too, I have enough of last year’s cord, but in the summer I often go fishing on the Volgograd reservoir, where the cord is killed on a steep stone ledge covered with barnacles. Kill cord, which had already served a season – not so sorry. It turns out that the braided line for jig fishing I live exactly one year, and I change it in the fall. What to advise I do not undertake, and can only tell what network I use for fishing on a jig. Recently found an alternative to the popular braided line Power Pro. It was Akara MultiPower. Four-core, strong and enduring. Caught it two seasons.
Every angler pulls the braid on the spool differently. Someone does this at home, holding the reel with the braid between your legs, someone asks his household to help. I did so, but quickly realized that this approach is wrong. The winding is uneven, which then leads to the treacherous loops. I always refer to the winding of the cord very seriously. The first thing necessary to secure the end of braids on the spool and be sure to grab it with tape or band-aid. Of course, pull the braid in all the rings spinning. I use ordinary bactericidal band-aid that is sold in supermarkets. Tear off a small piece and glued the knot of braids on the spool. This must be done to ensure that, when the temperature will fall, the whole wound braid is slipping around the spool. It happened to me a couple of times. Not immediately understand why the coil spins, and the fish is in place. Moreover, such an incident happens it is on big fish! Home check – all held up fine and not slip, and in the morning fishing, on big fish!
Thus securing the network, I’m on a spinning reel, the entire reel unwinding entirely. The opposite end is attached to something (often to the Bush or to a tree branch). Come back, take up spinning and start your retrieve, the spinning bent at 90°. When winding such a method, the braid is not twisted, is wound evenly and with the required force. If you want to podmochat staking, it is necessary for the winding in a similar manner to wind the old network, then again to dissolve, return to the end with staking, fix it with a band-aid on the spool and reel. Now the braided line is wound correctly, with an even pressure. Now when evil strikes, or failure of the bait with the hook, the upper coils of braids will not fall to the bottom and no loop will not spoil the fishing.
Of course, the braided line for catching the fish and twiching lives longer. However, it is imperative to check whether it is necessary to podmochat staking. Well, since we got to light all their spinning reels – not be amiss to wash and lubricate the rollers on the line bale. I washed in an ordinary kerosene and lubricate with special grease, which is sold in fishing stores. In our area quite often happen wind with fine sand. A hurricane can not be called, however, the fine sand within the hour clogged everything you can think of. During the wind, as a rule, no fishing gear. We either fasten the tent or litter collected, or boats and boat watching what wind and waves did not beat them. And the wind with sand spits and carries fine sand. About coil on leaning against a tree spinning, we recall in the last turn, and it threatens her or breakage or severe wear. I after a summer of struggling to remember whether got any of the coils in the water. It is also not very good and needs to be done to the injured coil preventative maintenance. I have these coils give to experts that suggest and other anglers.
To restore order in the boxes
Lures after a summer of fishing, like pencils in a child, always scattered in various boxes and bags. It often happens that we fall not find the right lure in the appropriate box. Most often it is some of the proven crankbaits that in the heat of summer was trying to help you get away from zero, and never came back. An audit in boxes for crankbaits, I like to pay attention to three main things: the sharpness of the hooks, the integrity of the crank and, strange as it may sound, his name. With the tees, like, everything is clear. Regrind dull sting better at home with a diamond needle file. Integrity checking is often reduced to a careful inspection of the blade of the lure. It may appear cracked, chipped, or it starts to wobble. But as the names of the lures for me personally it happens that I forget what is called a Wobbler. Not all manufacturers write on the lure its name. For some time I necessarily sign them. And the fact is that Wobbler shoots for the next fishing trip and unexpectedly come off. What was this lure, what was it called? Then begins the painful search on the Internet. All the above applies to the spinners. My observations show that, for example, turntables are stored in a box large shapeless beam, not just me.
On school clothes
Perhaps in the middle zone of Russia the autumn is coming fast. Anglers in early September wear all-season clothing. We have all the more difficult. The heat wave continues, but the cool of the night and morning dews often catches anglers by surprise. Getting out of the car, coming to the waterfront, and shoes are already wet. You need to get from the mezzanine or bring it out of the garage short boots for morning hours fishing. But it is not important in fishing clothing. Yet the fall did not come into its own fully – there is a time to pay attention to his fishing shoes. Just a week ago, I’m not lazy, got their autumn boots and found that their integrity was violated. It is known that American sizes are slightly different than Russian. They have. Because of this, for example, on my leg, even the best quality deformed.
I advise to pay attention to the boots from the waders. In recent years, many complain that peel felt soles. Ask what glue and how to glue. But the answer is awfully simple. You need to take them to a Shoe repair and have to explain why. For example, my winter boots, Cabela’s master sprawling sewed the seam, and slightly receded from the old location of the seam. Thus he kept the geometry of my leg. Now again they do not leak and will last even longer. As for the boot for the waders, he taped the soles with special waterproof glue, but be warned that they are in any case can not be put on the heater. This waterproof glue loses its elasticity and the operation begins to crack. If someone there is a problem with felt soles is advised to do the same.
This, perhaps, the analogy with the school portfolio over. Remains some autumn-specific, which is also important to remember. The main thing is cold water. Even if the street is not very cold – it’s time to put in your briefcase (or backpack) angler gloves. They do not occupy much space, but sometimes in the morning much help out. I have several years of use Polartec gloves with cut phalanges. I was in the beginning of winter they fish, but in the fall be sure to put them in his pocket, fishing vest or minibag. Still it is necessary to remember about such thing as slipgrip. In the autumn it is not always possible to enter the water to reach the fish with your hand. Slipgrip still adds the length of your arm saving 20 see
And, finally, a few words about the cook. In autumn and spring they are most needed. I often find with the shore, so my design Kukan involves the use of separate fasteners and a few cords. If to speak about the fasteners, I buy an ordinary Chinese cook which cut of the clasp. Get rid of all kinds of swivels. All of this is unnecessary and unreliable. On a separate strong cord (eg, tent) I tightly tied one of the straps, then aplauso the end of the cord to not come undone. Such cords with one buckle I have at least two. You know how difficult it sometimes on a rainy autumn day return to the already “soaked” the cook with fish? For this reason, in my pocket, always have a backup. Yourself clasp in my practice have undergone some evolution. I myself are bent out of Bicycle spokes, and used the plastic fasteners. The last few years I use a closure on which the lock is locked by the spring. Consider this design the most reliable. The only thing I can add – the bigger the buckle, the better. So it is easier to handle, less entangled in the cord in the water. The only disadvantage of such fasteners is a fish on the pictures seems smaller than it really is. The smallest of my fasteners have a length of 14 cm.
I do not know whether I disclosed adequately the subject of his work. I think that is not complete. But I’m always on the Russian language assessment bordered on harsh “satisfactory”. But it’s not in the assessment. The fact how deeply you know the subject and afraid of the exam. I personally fall season not afraid, and am looking forward to it.
