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Help with using a new reel -- and check out my fish!
The mojo has returned! Fished for hours, got frustrated, passed off the last snake to Rob Rockcrawler, and he gets a keeper on his first cast! I almost threw a tantrum. But instead, I cast out the salvaged slimey, and got this! My biggest fish ever -- 40"! Seems as though there haven't been alot of "here's me and a fish" pictures on the site lately, but I haven't been fishing very long, and catching a good-sized fish is still exciting for me. We ended up keeping her, because after RRC tried for 15 minutes to get her swimming again, she was still belly up. It was a long fight with a weird new reel -- Abu Ambassadeur 6500-C3 2-Speed Autoshift. Anybody have experience with this reel? Any way to disable the autoshift? Tips on using it correctly? I like it; it casts great; I don't want to give up on it. While eating my fish was cool (baked tail, boulliabaisse, etc), and extracting all the age-able parts (scales, vertebrae, otoliths) was awesome, I'd rather not take a big breeder and make a huge mess of the house cleaning it.
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