Sickle hooks/J hooks are not a panacea... I will attest to the fact that i land more fish than i used to by using them. I use a lot of different hooks, but I have found that Sickle hooks have increased my strike to land ratio.....
Welcome sdhuntandish....
I'm not a trout/salmon fisherman by any stretch. I mainly fish walleys and bass. I'd really like to hit up Arrowrock or LP this week to try to catch my first Kokes. I don't have downriggers, but I do have linecounter/leadcore rods set up for walleyes.
I would be interested in your Walleye pursuit here in Idaho... Please PM me with any info you may have...
A/R was on again today... Trolls out did sling blades for me again... (I hate that) I love to catch these pigs with 6lb test on sling blades... one nice thing is when the fish are this big, even LL gives the sensation of a good fight.
Slingblade/Pinkhootchie was ok.. Lake trolls seemed to out do them with either Kok-A-bow or the usual "Mack's" silver/red wedding ring... I have had two Kok-A bow's lose the trlr hook on attempting to land fish. Not sure what the issue is... It's not a drag setting... I love watching these guys fight right until the end..... Several Gulls left the lake well fed
.. Jt
JIMBOJUMP, for your edification
.. it's only one other opinion... According to Tom Pettigrew, a Forest Service engineer, the cause is an unlikely source: your car's suspension. (Well, maybe not yours specifically, but it's not innocent in this matter, either.) A vehicle's suspension system distributes the shock and energy of road irregularities with a bouncing rhythm called harmonic oscillation. At each downstroke, the wheels exert extra force on the road, causing the particles in the road to either pack or displace at regular intervals. Once a pattern of ruts starts to establish itself, it becomes self-reinforcing due to what engineers call forced oscillation. The next car hits the same irregularities in the road and bounces at the same rate, causing the pattern to become more and more defined. Forced oscillation overcomes minor variations in oscillation rate that might otherwise arise due to differences in car weight.
Wouldn't variations in speed affect the washboard pattern? Sure, which brings us to another critical part of the feedback loop: you, the driver. Drive too fast on a washboard road and the downstroke exerted by the car wheels may meet the road at a point where a bump is ramping upwards. You know what that means: You bounce off the ceiling. Instinctively most drivers slow to a speed at which the downstrokes coincide with the troughs between bumps, reinforcing the pattern.
Washboarding is inevitable in any unpaved road that sees fairly heavy traffic. The only way to avoid it is to: (a) radically redesign how automotive suspensions are made, (b) give up suspensions altogether, or (c) keep off those dirt roads.
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http://www.straightdo either way speed becomes a factor.. physics wins every time.... IMHO, when they graded the road they were unable to cut it deep enough to get rid of the ruts to begin with... however; that road is waaaaaaaayyy better than it was before and it has lasted longer than I thought it would... LP is bound to come on strong like years past... :0 Good luck to all,, Jt
