Went camping at Perris this weekend. We hooked our nylon box-kite to my swimbait rod with the a 400 calcutta te and about 150 yards of 20# big game. What a blast!!! When the wind died down once, I had all 150 yards out. By cranking as fast as I could I kept it off of the ground, saving myself from picking 150 yards of line from foxtails and stinging nettles. When the wind picked up again, I just raised it at the end of the rod. I hit the thumb-bar and was spooled again in two minutes.

Lots of honking and thumbs-up from people leaving when they saw what we were doing. I had it spooled and pulling hard for about 20 minutes. Great way to get rid of line memory. Too bad that it was the only tight line I had that day.
NoTrollMotor

What? No pic. I'd love to see that. My dad has a windsock in his backyard that I gave him that is a bass. Wonder if that would turn some heads on the end of my Big Bait Special?

thats hilarious, me and Brian#2 did the same thing with a POS tuna stick and a gheto penn. it was a blast to pull on.

I have a pic, but the digital camera is at home (screwing off at work right now) I'll post tonight.
NoTrollMotor

Dude, I found an off season use for my swim bait rod last night...as a skunk prod. Little stinky bastard set up camp on my patio about 3 am in the morning and the only thing handy with my mind still in a haze was to grab the longest thing within reach at the moment, that was my GLoomis 8-footer to try and coax the little bassard to get gone. Only problem was my swimbait was till tied on and attached to the reel. Running the ragged edge of panic to try and not get covered in skunk bunghole cologne I nearly got the trebles buried in my hand. But in the end the stiff staff did it's job and like my last few outing with that rod and bait combo, I got skunked yet again.
BMC

What??? You didn't have your bow and arrow handy? I wonder how that skunk found his way into the metropolis known as Norco. I hope Skip didn't get sprayed...Late.

Naw dude, Skip went panzy on me until he realized that once I was out there it was two against one, then he discovered that extra package between his hind legs were balls and thought he'd get all bad. I thought about telling him it was a kitty cat (his arch enemy)but realized how detrimental the situation was and how much money I would have to spend on tomato paste to get the smell off him. In hindsight I must have subliminally realized my trout bait rod is use to getting skunked so the choice was more befitting. I wonder if the G Loomis folks ever considered such a unique use for their product?