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This just came in today.
"We would like to offer you an assignment aboard the USNS @&%#*!, located in Diego Garcia, starting OOA August 23."
Now I need to figure out a way to get a bomber 12wt setup without the wife finding out I just spent a butt load of money???
Congrats! I'll loan you my rarely (really, never) used Winston BiiX 12wt for a bottle of bourbon and a shitload of pictures!Quote:
Originally Posted by 2nd mate
^^That would be amazing. Just tell me what type of Berb you desire. I was just in the shop jerking off a hatch nine plus and was trying to figure a way around a new rod AND reel .
Something fun to read your reports with!!Quote:
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PM your addy and I'll get it out..
I for one am pretty stoked for the pictures that are sure to come. Safe travels and post often.
Rod = sent. should be there any day.
Thanks, I just came home from the cape to a package at the door.
Nice! Hope it works for you. Love to see the final setup when ready. Oh shit, I should have also mentioned I've got new 12wt RIO tropical floaters you can have if you don't have anything already.
RE booze swap - to prevent any unnecessary shipping expense, call this place: http://www.ambassadorwines.com/
it's right down the street and they really like bourbons&rye, great selection. Ask for the "young/short guy", he'll tell you what to deliver.
glad I checked the thread as I was headed out shopping. I will call the shop in NYC. I will take any lines you are willing to part with. Right now I am going back and forth with my local shop he says a 12 plus is too much and I say the nine isn't big enough. we might be compromising on the 11 plus. Pretty sold on hatch anyway.
I bought and sold a Hatch 7+ for almost the exact same amount, they seem to hold value, at least used-to-used.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2nd mate
pickup please, avenue 2.
Woohoo!! Gonna get drunk tonight!! (...no, probably not..., but imagine if I did...pukin in the kids room and all that awesomeness!)
HATCH 11+ in hand, loaded with 400+yds pf 65# power pro. Waiting for my flight details. big boner
any tips on must bring gear would be welcomed.
Watch your fingees.Quote:
65# power pro
Aquaphor for taint chafe.Quote:
any tips on must bring gear would be welcomed.
And a camera so you can regale us.
I've been delinquent on sending a line, do you still need a 12wt floater?
thanks, I am should be good to go.(and a bit tipsy) If I manage to loose the one I have it would be a cool adventure for you to ship one the said undisclosed location.Quote:
Originally Posted by mushmouth
I seriously cant believe I am going back. I might put the reel under my pillow tonight......that is if the wife hasn't tossed all the shit off the bed during baby making practice...:) but then she might discover I just bought a fly reel......con fayu sid
look before crossing
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gear is ready to go(thanks Mushmouth)
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its nice to land a looker as your first fish back
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I dont remember this may turtles in this area
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one image off the go pro, I need to figure out how to insert videos.
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It really is amazing to be back and after only a few casts on the flats it nearly all came back........I blew the rod swap and a chance at a Gt after only 5 minutes of fishing
I have no idea how to catch a permit. Saw 2 schools, all tailing and some loners and barely got a look.
Thank you very much Mushy and also Matt at Capefish(you too Devo) and the guys at First Light Anglers. So happy to be back and chasing these fish.
back in the good old "land of the bigs" first look as 830 am just before I head out for some casts
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they are starting to get bigger
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big fella here
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Still fucking clueless about how to make Permit eat my shit. I am using 20lb strait with a brown/grey/olive crab. I think I will try some white crabs wrapped with pink and see if those work.
One moster bone missed, but landed many others. My crabs are working for them and the big fellas cruising on the outside of the schools seem to be taking the bait with a well placed cast. Happy as a clam. Headed to sea to run the equipment, it will be a few days before i will get a chance to fish again....on the flats that is:)
Its not gay for us since we left the lagoon, as in happy. Pretty shitty weather day 1 and not much happening. Day 2 we started to get dialed in and a bit more happy. Day 3 was very very gay(happy) A synopsis of day 3 below
take the 950 ft steel, jet powerd(okay gas turbine) sportfisher at 8.5kts
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mix with one of these
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a bit of this
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and you get this
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and this(assuming you have a good steward department)
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tons of 5-10 pound skipjack tuna, plenty of yellows, a few wahoo and a marlin??????
2 marlin stole the show. The old man was letting out a skirt rig he just checked and BOOM! a 10 ft marlin hits. Thankfully he let the line go. Later one hit a small tuna 100 ft behind us and bit him in half. Pretty fun hauling a 50 lb yellow by hand, we use 2 people. One big one tore the line right out of my hand as it hit. The line felt like it was attached to a rocket and somebody shot it out of my hand. Another tuna hit and spit so hard the line snapped into the air and 150 ft back at us. More of this next month, back in the lagoon soon and headed for the flats.
Nice work! Be Safe out there.
One of many little spinoffs contributing to N.Br.Penob, peat/springhole-filled, headwaters initially found/fished 48yrs ago:eek:
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Just 8-10" munchkins...but from same strong fighting, fast growing DNA pool of brooktrout in the state(ME).
visual..torture fixed..
Steve
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lets just go ahead and set the go pro to some random setting....the one where you turn off the sun for a week
So it has rained for a while and after no fishing for a few days it was time to head out regardless
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Sooooooo, you are telling me you just cast at them and don't strip? I can do that.
HOLY SHIT! Little help please.
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Here you go sir'
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Guy in back- "so Mate...I thought you were going to take me out, teach me to cast, and put me on the bones?????????"
Guy in front- "is that as far as he can extend his arms?"
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finally got one
Great to see it all coming together!! Thanks for the photos!!!
So Sick, so jealous....
Nice FLA lid!
Pac Perm. Rad.
Fuckin sweet.Quote:
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I've been eating it all week and I think I may be growing a third nipple. Could this be the mercury levels ?????:fmicon:
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Got a monster on finally after 15 days.
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for a couple seconds I decided to take a break form fishing. 2 hands and no rod.
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there goes mushy's rod and my new reel, still hooked to a 70lb GT.....off towards the edge of the reef and into deep water
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Time to resume fishing
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back in the fight
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for another few seconds.........broken leader. The 1 foot of 50 I would use as my weak link broke. 8 ft of straight 80lb from now on. I think next time I will try to manhandle the fish, I really think with this rod/reel I can stop the fish dead and prevent him from going over the edge of the reef. The drag was only at 15-20% in my estimation. Hopefully I will get a chance again with one of these fish. I will post the video in a couple months(very $$$$$$ here for internet) when I get home. Its pretty funny watching me try to chase down a fly rod in a foot of water. Also there was a nice bluefin trevalley that ate a crab and took me into the gel spun on the 8wt. One of the best days I have had.
Ahahaahahahaa!!!!
IMO the best looking fish out here. https://www.tetongravity.com/images/...n14__forum.jpg
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They eat crabs.
Seriously my favorite thing on TGR, I know you are thousands of miles away from your lovely wife and family but I am still dripping with envy!
Keep the pics coming.
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Hate it when that happens.
Same here. I dig the shit out of this.Quote:
Originally Posted by teleee
Fish more, work less. This thread is the only thing i check TGR for anymore.
After adding a few more miles each way to my fishing commute things have started to come together.
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I was able to grab this guy after a HUGE 80+lb black GT spit the hook. Nice consolation prize I guess after I had blown the previous 4 GT's I had on. It ended being a good warm up fish I guess.
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then when we are no more than 100 ft from the bikes and an end to the fishing day....this thing is just mellow cruising only 3 ft off the beach. I calmly walked back 20 feet away form him and dropped a light cast 6 ft in front of him. He then misses the first strike and circles back and hammers it. Some waves were splashing so the POV came out a bit crappy.
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really happy to grab my first big guy, he felt slightly heavier than a 45lb plate. It is still hard to stop thinking about the black Gt I had on about an hour before this guy. the black one must have been twice as big as this guy. From 100 ft away he looked like a mega grouper cruising the flats, that was at least my first thought until I saw a 2nd Gt with him. he hit and ran straight at me then turned and spit the fly. I can't believe I had 4 Gt's on today and landed 3. One was a baby so I guess I only had 3 on.
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back to the office
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Woooohooooo!!!!!!! When you get done, lets buy a big boat and bring germans out for $15k a week!
edit...finally that rod gets to feel some love!! I think it need to be buried out there somewhere!
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None of this today. It was still a GREAT DAY. I Figured I might be looking at a weekend of 25+ miles of biking each day and figured I would not head out too far and go to an area where I know there are decent bonefish #'s and permit and is a bit closer by bike...just to save my legs a bit.
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Fishing for bones today was kind of like this...........when this picture was taken a few years ago we were shooting a bundle of steel 55gal drums with a bit of gasoline in each. replace gasoline with bonefish and thats pretty much how the day went.
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Here was the prize of the day. It could be that these fish have had it with all the crabs I was throwing over the last 20 days, and previous 3 years??? Crazy Charlies with any chartreuse seem the new thing to fish.
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His belly was thick
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Go pro battery died so this is a shot of his topside off the video i shot with my camera. This is an accurate shot of how big he really was.
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see you later big fella.
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one of these too........false hooked him so does it really count?
bump! I'm getting all itchy...
triggers coming, not the kind of an M240 either.
I need some new wading boots, any reccos? I might go sneaker style but the thought of a shark biting my leg without boot seems less attractive than one biting my leg with a neoprine sock on. I suppose I am geting a bit loopy since I have not fished in a week.
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a green spotted trevelly
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sunday is usually golf day, notice the tan line. they even let us play six to a group.
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"I didnt drop my beer"
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Coral Sands Golf Course OPSEC
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it had been a while since I fished in the lagoon, with winds shifting it is now more of an option
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the bigger of the two triggers landed. The fish crunched on my pliers and would not let them go for a good 30 seconds. one crab per catch, destroyed everytime by the "lepper" teeth.