Devin
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Get face tattoos. It works for gangs, it will work for us.
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Hey, thanks for asking and giving us some Android feedback.
Yeah, I put it out awhile ago, but there’s no joy on the app. Unfortunately, it’s not happening and without typing out a long, sad story I’d rather just leave it at that.
For Android I just use my browser and keep LAFB Elite open in a tab. I did the same thing on iPhone. But, to be frank, 99% of my Internet usage is on a desktop computer. I’m that odd-duck that doesn’t use a phone for everything.
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I’m itching to know how you did.
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I don’t know if I should put this in the “get it now” list or “next boat” list.
I do know that I want more batteries and an auxiliary power system. Failsafe upon failsafe, especially for those times I’m fishing days on end.
Eventually I’ll camp out at Venice, and the lead acid batteries I’ve got will last a few trips, but Venice is trolling motor intense, as you know.
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“then he told me he was live scoping and there was a big school of trout where he was. I watched this dude absolutely whack a limit of trout on livescope,”
Yeaaahhhhh, I kinda wonder if FFS is the equivalent of spot lighting deer. Like the fish don’t have enough pressure as it is. I never got FFS because of the stigma that comes with it, that and then I become that much more UN-relatable from the average inshore angler (bass boat, side scan, bow graph and casting tackle notwithstanding).
A common theme in our current era is second-order effects of unchecked free-for-all in technological advances.
Could that guy catch a limit without FFS?
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As I’m sitting here thinking about it, wherever I see rafting mullet (a much larger forage), speckled trout whack the daylights out of the bait.
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That’s a great point. I know the trout I’ve caught were eating smaller fin fish. So if they’re used to applying minimal sucking power to eat their primary forage, when they see yours they won’t hammer it as hard, resulting in a “short strike”. Very interesting.
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That’s fascinating. While I was fishing out west in Lake P, I’d see trout on side scan come off the cover I was fishing and spread out in open water. I think I got them fired up. I confirmed this by casting out there and catching them in the open water. I’m still learning.
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Did appear that the trout were circling the rig?
I’ve always hypothesized this: they tend to move in a school and that’s why we see them come-and-go during fishing. They arrive, you catch a few, then they move on, then come back and you catch more until you eventually limit out.
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In a Texas Rig the weight is separated from the hook. So the weight cannot be unwittingly used by the fish to gain leverage on the hook using the weight when it shakes its head. This helps keep hooks firmly planted. That’s why heaviest is not best when it comes to jigheads. On a Texas Rig the weight just goes up the line and exerts little to no pull on the hook, keeping the hook planted.
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I would love to get FFS to help me learn and understand speckled trout, but would have some serious coming-to-Jesus thinking about using it to whack limits. I’m still thinking about this, but I think my standard is “you should be able to catch without it”. The irony is that you wouldn’t use it then.
With that said, I think he was just on them and you weren’t. I wasn’t there, so I really don’t know, but if he had them in front of your boat and you were opposite of him, then that was all there was to it.
Now, if he was following the school, then that would be something else altogether.
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We bend the knee!
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That is a brilliant idea.
I have tried that and I think it does work, but it definitely works best when the peg is further up or there is no peg at all. This radically changes how that bait falls through the water. Not a bad thing, just something to keep in mind.
I stopped doing it because losing tungsten on the Trestles is expensive and I used up all my lead bullet weights and just never got more.
I think rigging a stinger is better to keep them pinned, since the issue is mostly them short striking the bait. I was lazy and did not do that.
I really ought to go back to experimenting with a Texas Rig. Thanks for reminding me.
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Also, you can just walk up to them in public and ask. They love that. No one does that anymore.
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I got a smartphone again, but I don’t run Google or Apple. No way. Absolutely not. No social media, either. It’s just a utilitarian tool that does what I need it to do. Minimal screen time and I’m not copper-topping for the data/attention conglomerates.
