Guest Josh Glovinsky Posted August 29, 2013 Report Share Posted August 29, 2013 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike G Posted August 29, 2013 Report Share Posted August 29, 2013 Wishing Gary Larson was here... Nu Canoe = Gnu Canoe... Picture? The Yak Kayak... Picture? Watercraft for Quadrupeds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikea Posted August 29, 2013 Report Share Posted August 29, 2013 needs a weed guard, nice vid thanks for sharing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronk Posted August 31, 2013 Report Share Posted August 31, 2013 Mike You mean you're advocating putting legs on bassbugs in defiance of your guru LK's admonition?Sacrilege! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike G Posted September 1, 2013 Report Share Posted September 1, 2013 Mike You mean you're advocating putting legs on bassbugs in defiance of your guru LK's admonition?Sacrilege! It seems that our moderators are willing to let taunting go on even though it mucks up a good thread like this one. Therefore, since the taunt is directed at me, I can only reply by taunting back. Hey ronk! Before you muck up a thread with taunting here, you should at least get your facts right. If you did that it would eliminate over half of what you post and save us the time of reading and correcting your errors. In this post you are 100% in error. First, no one named Mike is advocating anything here. Josh is the one who said, "Put some legs on 'em." Second, if LK means Lefty Kreh, then you have that all wrong too. Lefty has written a lot about the value of rubber and silicon legs on poppers though there are some things he does not recommend. If you did some homework, you might know what they are. But these are just a few of the things you do not seem to know. They say, "It is never too late to learn." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronk Posted September 1, 2013 Report Share Posted September 1, 2013 It seems that our moderators are willing to let taunting go on even though it mucks up a good thread like this one. Therefore, since the taunt is directed at me, I can only reply by taunting back. Hey ronk! Before you muck up a thread with taunting here, you should at least get your facts right. If you did that it would eliminate over half of what you post and save us the time of reading and correcting your errors. In this post you are 100% in error. First, no one named Mike is advocating anything here. Josh is the one who said, "Put some legs on 'em." Second, if LK means Lefty Kreh, then you have that all wrong too. Lefty has written a lot about the value of rubber and silicon legs on poppers though there are some things he does not recommend. If you did some homework, you might know what they are. But these are just a few of the things you do not seem to know. They say, "It is never too late to learn." Hey MikeG 50% in error anyway,I apologize. Re the other 50% I direct you to page 163 of LK's "Advanced Flyfishing Techniques" wherein he states that" bassbugs should be sleek" for better casting.Rubber legs make a bug less sleek & harder to cast.They can also cause line twist.Nowher in his discussion of the design of bassbugs or in the accompanying bassbug drawings does he advocate rubber legs.As far as I know LK has always been a minimalist when it comes to bassbugsYou claim he advocates rubber legs.Chapter & verse and Ill apologize for the other 50% Btw Personally if a bassbug comes with rubber legs I usually fish 'em if there's no line twist.The worst offender re line twist is a rubber legged sneaky pete.One thing you can do ts attach a small swivel twixt the butt & tippet to eliminate twist & lengthen the life of the leader too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim J Posted September 2, 2013 Report Share Posted September 2, 2013 The moderators know what they're doing. You decided to not take our advice. I'm not surprised. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike G Posted September 2, 2013 Report Share Posted September 2, 2013 "50% in error anyway,I apologize. Re the other 50% I direct you to page 163 of LK's "Advanced Flyfishing Techniques" wherein he states that" bassbugs should be sleek" for better casting.Rubber legs make a bug less sleek & harder to cast.They can also cause line twist.Nowher in his discussion of the design of bassbugs or in the accompanying bassbug drawings does he advocate rubber..." Ron, Go to pages 54 and 55 of Fly Fishing for Bass by Lefty Kreh. There you will find the other 50 percent of your errors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronk Posted September 2, 2013 Report Share Posted September 2, 2013 "50% in error anyway,I apologize. Re the other 50% I direct you to page 163 of LK's "Advanced Flyfishing Techniques" wherein he states that" bassbugs should be sleek" for better casting.Rubber legs make a bug less sleek & harder to cast.They can also cause line twist.Nowher in his discussion of the design of bassbugs or in the accompanying bassbug drawings does he advocate rubber..." Ron, Go to pages 54 and 55 of Fly Fishing for Bass by Lefty Kreh. There you will find the other 50 percent of your errors. I don't have that book but I'll take your word for it and apologize.If in one work wherein he describes a well designed bassbug he emphasizes sleekness for castability even to the point of saying a bassbug should be only lightly dressed with tailfeathers & not making any reference to rubber legs which reduce castability & in another advocate their use it seems to me he's being inconsistent in the advice he's offering.Please provide his quotes. While I'm ok with rubber legs on both surface & especially subsurface flies I wouldn't want any on a big blockhead.Their bulk as well as their tendency to dig into the surface as you start to backcast make them among the hardest to cast w/o making them still harder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavin Posted September 25, 2013 Report Share Posted September 25, 2013 I've been putting legs on blockheads for years....It works great on smooth water.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Josh Glovinsky Posted October 16, 2013 Report Share Posted October 16, 2013 Gavin, Those are nicely done. I like the legs off the back too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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