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Fishing Talk / Thinking of Long Rodding for Something Toothy

« on: March 13, 2015, 07:23:08 PM »

Thinking of heading down to Carlsbad in search of something toothy, maybe a 7 or a nice Leo Saturday night. If any of you guys want to hook up or help a tourist out that would be cool.

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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: Diamond in the Rough ...

« on: March 13, 2015, 03:50:36 PM »

Nice Diamond. We've caught a couple and they definitely have 'Tude. One we were bringing in was doing it's best Alien impression and nobody was in too big of a hurry to go grab it

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Fishing Accessories / Re: Glow in the dark tape

« on: March 08, 2015, 05:05:30 PM »

Tried the Duck Tape brand of glow in the dark tape from WalMart. Completely worthless.

Still like the idea, but don't waste your time or money on that stuff

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Fishing Talk / Re: SNBF VIII....

« on: March 08, 2015, 08:45:20 AM »

That was a Cow!

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Tackle Talk / Re: Knots for various situations?

« on: March 07, 2015, 06:04:47 AM »

Improved Clinch for mono/fluro up to 60lbs. Double Improved Clinch for Braid. Crimps for everything above 60lbs on leaders. I hate futzing with top shots and shock leaders so I fish straight 65lb to 80lb braid.

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Fishing Accessories / Re: Glow in the dark tape

« on: March 06, 2015, 06:35:42 AM »

WalMart has some glow in the dark duct tape for like $6 at 10' roll. Gonna give it a try.

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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Re: another nice session in samo

« on: February 24, 2015, 06:28:44 AM »

You're killing it dude

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Tackle Talk / Crimps, Crimpers and Crimping

« on: February 24, 2015, 06:27:16 AM »

Ok all of you crimping gurus, what's the hot ticket?

 I started with a set of point to cup crimpers, round brass sleeves, and 90lb 7 strand wire. They worked, but what a pain in the butt!

 Now I want to start doing my own Ghost Leaders with 80lb+ fluorocarbon in addition to heavier wire leaders for bigger toothy critters

 So what's your favorite combo of crimps, crimpers and techniques? I know you can over crimp fluorocarbon/mono, but does anybody have a bomb proof set up? What about suppliers and quality? Seems like there's a big difference in price between my local tackle shop and what's available online

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Tackle Talk / Re: Looking for Long Rod Recommendations

« on: February 21, 2015, 11:39:55 AM »

In that price range a lot of guys like the Diawa Emcasts, Bass Pro Shops Ocean Masters and the Penns with conventional reels. But you can't go cheap with your reel or you won't get the most out of the rod. So plan on spending that much or more again for your reel and line.

For myself, I'm cheap and I like bomb proof. Think AK-47 takes a licking and keeps on ticking tough. That's why I use Ugly Stiks and Okuma Bait Feeder spinning gear. They seem to catch as much fish as the expensive stuff they've fished against without any problems. And since I do have friends and noobs use my gear from time to time, if something happens to it I'm not going to worry about it. I can chalk it up to God's will and his way of saying time for new

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Tackle Talk / Re: New Toy?

« on: February 21, 2015, 11:18:15 AM »

Do you need one fishing from the shore? For that kind of money you could buy a lot of beer

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Tackle Talk / Re: casting distance?

« on: February 21, 2015, 11:16:14 AM »

Did the football field thing and got 75 to 85 yards with the 12' spinners using 65lb and 80lb braided line and 4oz weights. Could easily hit 100 yards with the 15' spinner with 80lb braid and 6oz. On the beach is different. Farthest casting is a cannon ball rig no question, only losing 5 to 10 yards depending on whether or not we're using half or whole squid. Half a mac and we can reach 45 to 55 yards. Using the 15' with a double squid and a three way with 6oz 70yards. Half a mac and about 60 yards.

And line off your reel is not a foolproof measure. There can be a lot of line that goes out depending on the arc of the cast that doesn't equate to distance. Even after you reel in slack, if there's wind or a strong current there can be a lot of bow in your line.

Wading out sucks too. I'm too lazy and cheap to start futzing with waders. It seems like I can more than make up for any distance gained by the wade with a strong Off the Ground cast if I wait until the water recedes. I don't mind getting my tootsies wet, which is why I usually wear long cargo shorts when I fish the beach, but that's about as much work as I want to put into it.

If I really need to get my baits out there, well, I've reached that stage in life where I'm more than happy and can afford to buy the young studs plenty of beer to paddle baits out for my tired old lazy a$$

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Tackle Talk / Re: LED Stike indicators

« on: February 21, 2015, 10:01:39 AM »

I'd go through them to find out which ones light and which don't. Then I'd suggest supper gluing the bells/clip and light together and only clipping them on the tip AFTER you cast

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Fishing Talk / Re: Specialty Surf Shark List

« on: February 21, 2015, 09:06:19 AM »

Hmmmm, I'm seeing a trend. Great job with the list

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Saltwater Boat Fishing Reports / Re: Ass Rack Attack MB

« on: February 21, 2015, 08:58:49 AM »

That is just too cool

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Salt Water Shore Fishing Reports / Hello Kitty 2-20-15

« on: February 21, 2015, 08:55:00 AM »

Wanted to recon the other "Secret Spot" for Bat Fight Friday night. Hooked up with Glen on the sand around 6:00PM. Rising tide, no surf to speak of, light wind and no salad. Fished for about an hour with no love on the long rods. Then Cutty and Matt came down and we moved to another spot. Started to get some action from bait thieves. Glen, I and Cutty were long rodding, but Matt's back was bothering him so he was working the skinny with the trout gear. Matt showed the crows and smelt who was boss

Then at 8:15 my rod goes bendo. Wasn't the target species, but it sure was fun. Wanted to get such a pretty fish back into the water as quick as possible, so didn't bother to tape it. I'm 5'9", and there was a bit of a camera angle, but I'm pretty comfortable calling it at least 48"

Then Cutty's rod goes off and he brings in a nice thornback, and then Glen follows with a small variety of our target species. Glenn followed that up with a skate, and that was it, the bite shut off

No monsters of the target species, but no stripes and a pretty nice consolation prize. All in all pretty darn good for a Bat Fight recon trip with some bros in February

Pic or it didn't happen