Andy135

🤣🤣🤣🤣👍👍 You tell him @ever optimistic! @Saintly Fish is just strutting cos he think's he higher up the pecking order...

It's to do with their colour temperature. Most LED's are what's called "Cool white". They have a bluish tint to them. Personally I agree - the light is a bit too stark for me. I'd have preferred a warm white colour temp but couldn't find a deck light anywhere in anything other than cool white. I guess this must be the cheapest type of LED to make. More details on colour temperatures here in case your interested: https://ledmonkey.com/blog/2018/02/01/led-monkeys-guide-to-led-colour-temperatures/#:~:text=The Various Applications for the Colour Temperatures&text=Warm White LED light bulbs,a Kelvin Rating of 6000K.

Should we stop pecking on him then? Is he getting into a flap?

Very nice boat 👍 I had an Orkney 440 once - kept it on the river Dart. Good boats the Orkneys but I found their freeboard was a little too low. Made having my kids onboard more stressful than necessary as I was always looking out in case one of them went for an unscheduled swim!

I have a 9 weight and plastic reel for pike and salt. I just need to find the time (and weather) to get out and use it properly. Mind you, when I did use it more frequently, back in the day, I found that even a small pike goes well on fly gear 👍

You mean you'd actually share your nuggets? 😉

Welcome Gary. Good to have you aboard! You have some great fishing in that part of the world. Very lucky 👍

Don't egg him on Geoff...

@Saintly Fish you swine! You changed my post AGAIN! 🖕🤣

Statistically, you're bound to find a funny joke sooner or later. Keep looking... 😉

There's no helping some folks eh? 🤦‍♂️😉

You could be right.

Need a better picture to see what they are. Grub screws? Bushes?

Hey, we're not allowed to take threads off topic, remember??!

You crack me up Steve... you've poached all the egg gags...

I think you're on the money there Ian. The fact that the Kenzaki's operate under their rating is the clincher. Their 20-30 is more like a 20-25.

Before I clicked on this post I could see that Odyssey was the poster, and for his sake I really wanted it to be a proper, belly-laughing good joke cos he's on a run of rubbish jokes at the moment... He's still on a run of rubbish jokes.

Ok, then the next line class up would likely be fine. The weight of the reel would be more significant than the weight of the rod I'd have thought.

Of course, another option would be to use 20lb line on an 8-12lb rod, then increase the drag on his reel so that he can exert more force and bring the fish in quicker. Better for the fish but a harder fight for Leo. The rod action will feel floppier/less able to contribute to the fight but I guess that he's less concerned about the feel of the fight than about the capture of a bigger fish at this stage in his fishing career. Might be a "best of both worlds" trade-off to consider. Do you mean it's mass is light enough for him to hold all day? If so, I'd be surprised if a rod of the next line class up would be significantly heavier?

The line class of rod doesn't dictate what size of fish you can catch - it simply makes the fight swifter or more drawn out e.g. if you catch a big fish on a light line class rod, you'll have to play the fish in more gently as the light rod can't bully the fish in quickly. But a light rod can absolutely handle bigger fish than the line's breaking strain. You simply set the clutch on his reel to give line at less than the b.s. of the line, so it never experiences enough force to break. Then you net the fish so that the line (and rod) doesn't take the strain of lifting a large fish out of water. You need to think of the rod and reel as a system, rather than as individual items. A light rod, paired with a reel that has a properly set clutch can tame most fish. The question then becomes one of fish welfare as it's one thing to be sporting but another altogether to be under-gunned and have to exhaust the fish (and Leo!) before netting it.

Not to take this off topic, but yes. The leverage of the rod makes the clutch setting feel stronger, even when it's set quite lightly.

I always understood it to be the breaking strain of the line they were intended to be used with. The rod maker will make certain assumptions about the type of fishing you'll be doing with a rod of a particular line class and will design the action of the rod to suit those assumptions e.g. 6-12lb rods are more likely to be used for bream, plaice and so on, in smaller tides and shallower marks - therefore no need to haul up a 1lb lead every time, therefore the action of the rod can be softer and more sporting on lighter fish.

Thanks for sharing Scott. Good write-up. It was definitely one of those days - a bit underwhelming all round but at least it was a day on the water 👍

Fingers crossed for you Luke. Keep us posted 👍

Finally managed to fit the new light last night. Not bad at all.