LET'S GO FISHING!  (As if I got time)

Hello, Jean.  Taking a break from my home fixups here to talk about
fishing.  What? No traffic here since 04/05, when
-=> JEAN PARROT wrote to RUSSELL TIEDT <=-

 RT> What ways are recommended for truing/fixing stainless steel spools for
 RT> Penn  Fishing reels.

 JP>  Here is what I did when faced with the same problem. I stripped it
 JP> down
 JP>  and carefully rapped the face against a hard surface to warp it back
 JP>  into shape. I had marked the rim where the lip was out of line first.
 JP>  It did not take much effort to make it right. And it kept its balance
 JP>  as there was no metal removed.

On your reel, was the flange (aka lip) at one or both ends of the spool
actually bent or warped out of line?  I have a hard time visualizing how
this could happen.  I'll chat more about that in a msg to Russell.

How did you figure out how and where to mark the rim where the "lip" was
out of line??

 JP>  Try it and let me know. I have 7 or 8 Penn reels, dating to 1948. Most
 JP>  of them are loaded with braided monel line. You can not find this any
 JP>  more. I use them still to troll for lakers.

Hee.  I think I may still have a Pfluger reel vintage 1951 or so, which
I got for Christmas when we moved to a house on a lot fronting a creek.
For all I know, it still has that old black braided rayon or dacron line
on it.  The line is no doubt rotten by now.

Is that a brand name "Monel", or monel as in "monel
metal?"  Dunno if
I've ever heard of that. Last offshore fishing I was active in,  maybe
25 years ago, for deep trolling offshore, sometimes a reel was rigged up
with a "wire line", which was single strand stainless steel wire.  While
trolling with a heavy weight ahead of the leader and bait,  the wire
would let the bait go deeper, due to less resistance going thru the
water than the more commonly used Nylon monofilament.

Lakers?  Yeah, yeah, and you couldn't bring back a bit of the meat to
share with a fish-loving friend here in FL because it is too "delicate"
for the trip- - and then when I go to email you about where you can look
in Montreal for some nice dry ice as is used by "Omaha Steaks" to send
overpriced beef all around the country and it arrives via UPS maybe 4 or
5 days later still frozen hard as a rock - - then you tell me that it is
too bad, but trout season is now over.  Hee - just teasing.

Since you're over there on the Gulf Coast,  here's today's fishing
forecast for the Gulf of Mexico from the Orlando Sentinel (landlocked,
just like me, but there is also some pretty good fishing in these lakes
right now (not that I got time to go and wet a line)).

"Gulf of Mexico - Fishing HOT - if you find the spot
Seatrout are plentiful in Cockroach Bay and the Little Manatee River.
Live shrimp are the best baits.  The Skyway Pier is the place to catch
Spanish mackerel, if you use small chromed spoons or jigs.  At
Homosassa, the seatrout are so plentiful on the incoming tides that few
people are fishing for redfish.  The fish are at the mouths of feeder
creeks arounds rocks and kelp beds.  Use live shrimp."

Heck, Jean.  I'm so far out of fishing that the last few times I've gone
and used live shrimp for bait,  I'd have been ahead to just take them
home, snap their heads off, and boil them up for a few minutes to have a
really delicious and really fresh plate of boiled shrimp.  AFAIK, fish
is just like vegetables - - fresher the better.  I've been waiting for
cheap sweet corn for 6 ears for a dollar here.  Did you know that when
it is good and fresh, you can eat sweet corn right off the ear, without
even cooking it??  The longer after it has been picked,  the more the
sugar in there turns into starch.  Let fresh ears sit in the fridge for
a week or so, and it is a mere shadow of its former self.

Darn!  I just ate some fried chicken awhile ago, and now I'm hungry
again. I still have some snapper left in the freezer from that last trip
to Islamorada in the Keys - - maybe I should thaw some of it out.

- - -  JimH.


... Bother, said Pooh, as he tried to think of someting on-topic to add.
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