Got there about 10. WT still only 53. Ran about 4 miles. Nice green color. Started catching them at the first spot. Bunch of sub 15” fish. Jig caught em all. The 17” fish in the 3rd picture was an absolute tank. Drove home in the rain😐
I know lots of guys buy high dollar reels and I have to. But I’ve been using this one exclusively for the past 3 years without issues. I won a sales contest and used the gift card to replace all my pfluegers with these. Lighter, deeper spool, great drag and higher gear ratio. $67.
Regal LT Deep Spool Spinning Reel
My buddy and I hit out around 10 and quit at 2. WT had dropped to 50 from 55 on Wednesday. And the fish didn’t like it. I caught 4 any buddy caught 2. Biggest was a 17.5”er. River dropped significantly too. Made running even more sketchy. I think the fish are still in winter mode.
My in-laws farm was a quail haven for decades. About 400 acres with nice thick fence rows and intermittent wood lots. It was common to jump 5 or 6 different coveys on each hunt. Back then the locals would do planned horseback hunts running dogs for coyotes. They would notify everyone in the area and my father in law would put his cattle in the coral so the dogs wouldn’t bother them. They would run coyotes all over the county. I enjoyed seeing them come the area. Sometimes as many as 25 on horseback.
Then people began to complain and the tradition died off. Now you would be lucky to jump one covey on the same land. And in fact, the last time we hunted several years ago we jumped so many coyotes it was ridiculous. My father in-law said the demise of coyote hunting is what devastated his quail population.
I do. The wind was blowing down current and between the 2 it wouldn't hold on the big gusts. set it up per the directions but that was back in 2017. I'll have to look at the settings again. I also think I need a tune up. Brushes maybe. On the river or Taney it's running nearly 100% on the time. Especially in spring when the river is high and when Taney is generating.