Salty H20 Fishing 2025 !!

[glen]

Lee we just don’t say anything when we don’t get a bite. Today was one of those. I tried in the wind but water was chocolate everywhere

[fish4food]

Nice fish Glen and F4F!!! You guys, along with many other talented cats on here, are super fishermen!!

Maybe one day when I grow up I’ll be on glen level. Wait until justletmein starts going fishing. He literally destroys fish populations .

Today wasn’t much better than yesterday but did land a few. Water was off color, bait wasn’t very active, strong incoming tide, and more of an east wind.

Landed 2 trout + a dink and rat red, Wife landed 1 keeper trout, 12 dinks and 2 rat reds. A few of her trout were probably right at 15 but we turned em loose.

[glen]

I need to catch something in the morning. I planned on fish salad on crackers tonight but it ain’t happening.

[justletmein]

Wait until justletmein starts going fishing. He literally destroys fish populations .

I'm gonna use that as an excuse why I can't catch anything now. I must have wiped out all my spots already.

Y'all killing it as usual homie. Always good pics!

[fish4food]

Decided to take apart the Salty Hundo to try and find the cause of the grittiness.

No luck. Over engineered for what it is. To many clip springs where an old c-clip used to work. Also has star head screws on it and not a normal Philips. Also, 2 of them were in spots I don’t know how to get a screwdriver in.

I normally pollish all brass components for a slicker surface. Didn’t matter how many passes I made, I could not get it to lose the surface scratches, or oxidation. Never mind the fact it did not get any better as far as polishing goes.

I’ve got it, so I’ll keep fishing it. Time will tell how it does.

I did send Bates an email regarding the reel going into gear mid cast. Hopefully I get a response.

[LuckyCards2006]

Geeze, that looks like a cluster.

[Quackerbox]

Noe has sworn me off the Bates for sure. Have the wife tag feral if she has the socials. That guys likes women advertising

[slayr]

That sucks, Noe. After my buddy’s episodes with his Bates and now seeing yours, I sure am glad I didn’t pull the trigger on one a few months back.

[bboswell]

Decided to take apart the Salty Hundo to try and find the cause of the grittiness.

No luck. Over engineered for what it is. To many clip springs where an old c-clip used to work. Also has star head screws on it and not a normal Philips. Also, 2 of them were in spots I don’t know how to get a screwdriver in.

I normally pollish all brass components for a slicker surface. Didn’t matter how many passes I made, I could not get it to lose the surface scratches, or oxidation. Never mind the fact it did not get any better as far as polishing goes.

I’ve got it, so I’ll keep fishing it. Time will tell how it does.

I did send Bates an email regarding the reel going into gear mid cast. Hopefully I get a response.

That’s concerning for sure.

yours get fished as much in 2 weeks as ours do in a year though

[hooligan]

Y’all are killing me. I need to get down to the coast asap. Trying to get to corpus in a couple weeks to get some bank fishing in.

now trying to plan an offshore trip to try and get some mahi and tuna so digging through all the old threads I can

[fish4food]

If I could get a do over, I’d have just stuck with the Lew’s Custom Lites.

Even though the brakes are broken, that hasn’t affected castability. They are extremely light, and for the price, work well.

Also they are pretty simple to work on. No issues breaking one down and rebuilding.

Not trying to sway anyone one way or another, just sharing my experience.

[Mayhem]

I might give one of these reels a try.

https://www.floridafishingproducts.com/collections/spinning-reels/products/bahia-baitcaster?variant=49752204050724

[Hollywood]

At this point I am liking my Diawa Coastals. Holding up the best so far.

I have 1 & like it but they are a little special when you open one up to do a deep clean on. Take plenty pictures.

[fish4food]

I have 1 & like it but they are a little special when you open one up to do a deep clean on. Take plenty pictures.

Have any pictures? Send me to me I’d be curious.

Wife worked in her 80, but didn’t break it apart.

[Capt Glenn]

I have 1 & like it but they are a little special when you open one up to do a deep clean on. Take plenty pictures.

Or just send them back to Daiwa for service.