June 20, 2008
If you have been paying attention lately, you know that Shimano has been giving some good deals on their current
Curados &
Citicas, either via rebate or store sales. When a manufacturer does this, they are usually trying to clear inventory, thus the introduction of a new model or models to replace the existing.
Well the first glimpses of the newly revamped Shimano Curado & Citica are here!!!!! The new line will be the Curado E and Citica E's.
Pictures by TackleTour.comCouple things you will notice right away, they are going back to the muted Green finish of the Curado Bantam that was so popular with many bass anglers and many of us still have several of these, as they were proven workhorses. The profile is a bit smaller to compete with the
Abu Revos that have entered the market in the last couple years. Even better news, the price point of the Curado E is thought to be $179.99 vs. the
Curado D currently at $199.99
Looks like these reals will launch in a burner (7.0:1) and a 5.0:1 to start and the Citica E will have the 6.2:1. See a complete breakdown of this new real and the Citica E
http://www.tackletour.com/reviewcuradociticapreview09.html!!!
So start saving your pennies, not sure when the launch date is but ICAST is right around the corner and they should be available shortly after that!!! I think this is a reel I will be ordering right away, the look of the Curado D's never really excited me, but something about this one has me fired up again. I have been a Curado guy since the old Red Curados that most guys never knew existed.
The Red Curado was a great reel as well, but it had evolved a bit from its early design:)
Rich
RichLindgren.comRich's Bassin' Forum
June 18, 2008
Well my quest for a big northwest tench continues. I'm making progress, it has to be said, but that progress is oh-so-slow. My run of males has come to an end and I've started picking up some female fish. As you might expect they are a good bit heavier than the males and I've just heard that the water record has recently been broken again - not by me though.
I'm just not getting the fish shoaled up. It doesn't seem to matter whether I feed heavy or feed light, I only get one or two bites a session and the bites always seem to come just before I'm due to head home. Don't get me wrong, it's not as if I'm fishing the same times every day, sometimes
I leave early and sometimes I leave late but the fish always come in the last half hour of the session. I stayed until dark last night and picked up my only fish of the session at half past ten, with the light well on its way. The bobbins hadn't moved all day and I only had a couple of line bites shortly before I caught the fish so it was probably that fish that caused them. I stayed on for another half hour, packing up in the dark but never got another indication.
I'm feeding maggots and casters at the moment with a third rod out fishing method at range. the method rod is picking up the odd bonus fish and I'm catching with corn, lobworm or caster on the hook. I've had four fish since my last report but nothing big, all
sixes and sevens with the biggest a nice fish of 7lb 13oz. The water and the weather are still cold and I expect they won't spawn for a couple of weeks yet so the chances of a big fish are still high.
While I'm waiting for bites I've been creeping up on some of the bird life and trying to get a good picture. It's not easy without specialist gear but I'm quite pleased with my pic of a yellowhammer.
June 7, 2008
What, I hear you say, no blog entries for nearly a month! Edwards must be struggling. Well you would be right, the tench fishing has been quite hard work for the last few trips. I've not been blanking, in fact I've not blanked at all but what I've caught has been fairly unspectacular. Four days fishing has produced just four tench and strangely enough, every one of them has been a male fish. Male tench are nice to catch, they fight like stink, but they aren't as big as their female counterparts, especially at this time of year and the biggest I've had over the last month weighed 6lbs 8oz. It's been a long wait in between bites and most of the fish have come to corn fished at range but on the last session I was determined to get them feeding closer in. I ladled in half a gallon of maggots just twenty yard out and fished two rods over it, one on maggot and the other on worm. As a contingency I also fished a method feeder rod some fifty yards out and as you might expect, that's the one that produced my only tench of the day - another male.
I picked up a few pretty little perch on the worm rod but the maggot rod remained untouched with just the odd line bite to move the bobbin. I had to leave at seven in the evening and I packed up the method rod first. As I turned to put away one of the other rods the bobbin on the worm rod slid steadily upwards. I struck into a heavy, ponderous fish which steadily took line for maybe thirty seconds before the hook pulled out. That was the fish I was after, no doubt about it. The line was covered in tench slime when I reeled in just to confirm that I had, indeed, lost a big female tench. I cursed as I put away my remaining gear, back to work the next day and no chance of a fish until next week. Bah!
