Alex Argyros
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Thanks, JC. And all those lower leases are very close together. You enter one you’ve pretty much entered them all.
Where is the list of lease locations?
Since we will have some holdovers, this could be a great season for the Guadalupe. Not a bad way to begin, Cooper. Hope to run into you.
Alex
Nice to see that you’re back, Ron.
Alex
What happened to the flows decrease?
Here you go: dustinscott00@gmail.com
I’m on okay. You might want to contact Dustin for some assistance.
Will do. Thanks, Jimbo.
Another problem that I encounter too frequently is people parking at our lease sites to access the river who are not LAP members.
Alex
But what are the “strikes?”
Alex
Same here.
One tip that Devin gave me regarding the use of micro-thin lines (such as 4x sighter material) is to keep your tippets very short. He says that his tippets are only 3-5 feet total when using 4x “line.”
Alex
Thanks, Scott, for the photos and the text. I’m drooling. See you on the Guadalupe.
Apparently, David Arcay, uses a “line” that is .165 mono. And he does rather well in world comps.
As you might remember, I fished a bit last year with a rig that Devin Olsen recommended. Essentially, the entire line was 4x Rio sighter material.
My sense of it was that it worked fine. Its real advantage was in diminishing sag. With a 4x line I could cast pretty far away with essentially no sag. It was a bear to cast, but I eventually got used to it. It did wrap around my rod tip a lot, but I could deal with that. But it was really hard for me to see. I tried fluorescent orange wax, but I didn’t like it because it left multiple messes (my hands, clothes, rod handle). And besides, the wax increased the diameter of the “sighter,” so it ended up being much thicker than 4x.
Now, if I fished the diaphanous streams of Spain and France, I might go to a line that is essentially 5x. But for the Guadalupe, it seems like overkill to me.
Alex
Great report, JC (there, I just dropped your name).
Talking about name dropping, I’ve had a short correspondence with Pat Weiss. He told me that his preferred technique on new waters is a single Walt’s Worm (shlubby, not sexy).
Alex
