08-01-2011, 12:47 AM
Thanks much, but I believe my zebco's reel is NOT made of plastic. It's got a metal top, metal bottom, and plastic middle (holds the line), so I dont know if thats what you consider the junk plastic reels. Maybe it is, I might be wrong.
So somehow I managed to work out the string and it's working well, so I guess I'll just use it until the strings busted again, and then I'll replace the string.
Anyways, I took one of the poles my step-dad recovered and went to the river thats behind my house. I used my rapala floating topwater lure, and 5 minutes after casting/reeling, I get a bite. I felt so proud. I had no idea what fish it was, I had to send a picture of it to that friend of mine (haha..I know. Epic fail. I'll learn..), and he told me it was a Rock Bass, and at the size it was (it's the length of my hand, my hands really long), it was a good keeper for eating. I heard of how good they taste. So I put it on the stringer and keep fishing. Then, the string starts knotting up on the pole I was using (well, it hadn't been used in 10 years!) and I called it quits for the day.
As I'm re-examining my fish I caught, I find a nasty little bugger "sticking out" of the fish's tail. I yank it out, and started thinking *that doesn't look right..a parasite, sticking out of the fish. I shouldn't eat it* and threw it back in after removing the worm. Turns out, it was just a little bloodsucker that are common in that water channel. Boy, was I beating myself up for that one.. At least the fish was still very much alive after the while I had him out of water/on the stringer. I'll probably catch him again.
Well I'll restring the two poles sometime this week and go for another try.
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So somehow I managed to work out the string and it's working well, so I guess I'll just use it until the strings busted again, and then I'll replace the string.
Anyways, I took one of the poles my step-dad recovered and went to the river thats behind my house. I used my rapala floating topwater lure, and 5 minutes after casting/reeling, I get a bite. I felt so proud. I had no idea what fish it was, I had to send a picture of it to that friend of mine (haha..I know. Epic fail. I'll learn..), and he told me it was a Rock Bass, and at the size it was (it's the length of my hand, my hands really long), it was a good keeper for eating. I heard of how good they taste. So I put it on the stringer and keep fishing. Then, the string starts knotting up on the pole I was using (well, it hadn't been used in 10 years!) and I called it quits for the day.
As I'm re-examining my fish I caught, I find a nasty little bugger "sticking out" of the fish's tail. I yank it out, and started thinking *that doesn't look right..a parasite, sticking out of the fish. I shouldn't eat it* and threw it back in after removing the worm. Turns out, it was just a little bloodsucker that are common in that water channel. Boy, was I beating myself up for that one.. At least the fish was still very much alive after the while I had him out of water/on the stringer. I'll probably catch him again.
Well I'll restring the two poles sometime this week and go for another try.
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