less than 10??!!
hell, i have none yet unless my freshwater open face spin reels count....2. big whup, but i soon will be a tackle junkie!Skipjack Joe - 8-25-2005 at 04:49 PM
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Originally posted by Pompano
...a possible record in that secret pond!
That pond ain't no secret any more. I've seen it at least 4 times.Tucker - 8-25-2005 at 05:42 PM
If you count my "Popiel Pocket Fisherman" I might have had one. But then again, I don't paint my bald spot either!Bob and Susan - 8-25-2005 at 06:39 PM
Hey Tucker...Susan and I've been cutting our hair with a "FlowBEE" for the last year...
Gagets are GREAT!!!bajalou - 8-25-2005 at 06:43 PM
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Originally posted by Pompano
Hardly anybody knows about this secret salmon hole.
Looks like Bay of LA to me.
Tucker - 8-25-2005 at 06:44 PM
Where can I get one of those Bob?
tundra fish
Skipjack Joe - 8-25-2005 at 07:15 PM
Speaking of tundra holes, this summer I finally got my fill of catching grayling. You know how fishermen are. Every new species seems to be especially
desirable.
But I gotta tell you, that's one dumb fish. I would wade through a hole in the river and they just keep on feeding. You stir up the bottom while
wading and they don't even bother getting out of way. First I caught them with dry flies. Then I caught them with nymphs. Then I caught them with on
dry flies that no longer floated. Then I caught them on a dead drift. Then they took dry flies that sank and swung in the current.
I told Alex "you can do everything wrong and still catch these fish". I was trying to teach him to flycast. A drift free presentation is beyond his
capabilities at this time. And yet he still caught fish.
"Papa, I'm now ready for the Henry's Fork and Montana. And all those rivers you've been talking about", he tells me. Boy, is he in for a rude
awakening.
Don't get me wrong. Grayling are a lot of fun. And the beauty is unsurpassed. We were catching them at the foot of the Denali mountains. But
challenging, they are not.soulpatch - 8-25-2005 at 08:40 PM
Thank god Pompano's back. There's some livin' there.
Welcome back Pompano!
mike odell - 8-25-2005 at 08:54 PM
This board has been lacking flavor since you went north!
Are you still north? Get down here on the east cape and help me with a blue or two!!!!
Saludos
how many reels
Sharksbaja - 8-25-2005 at 11:45 PM
that work right? Or just reels?
Many old reels spin,spool, fly I can normally coax aa old one to work when I have to but I usually carry 3 or 4 everywhere I go, just in case!capt. mike - 8-26-2005 at 04:22 AM
whistler, i'll take any/all your cast offs!Santiago - 8-26-2005 at 05:34 AM
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Originally posted by whistler
Word of advice.Watch them ceiling fans.Christmas Island,"GLX Loomis 8wt."
"OUCH!" Hope you had a spare.Bob and Susan - 8-26-2005 at 06:01 AM
Tucker...the Flowbee
If we had only known how good it worked years ago!!!
We saved it's cost already...and TIME waiting in the haircut store....get it at EBAY ~$65 w/shipping
The only thing I miss is the wash by the girl
[Edited on 8-26-2005 by Bob and Susan]Bob and Susan - 8-26-2005 at 06:04 AM
Somone said pocket fisherman...
We were just talking about this last week when my brother-in-law was catching catfish with a kid rod and reel.
I remember them well....
GADGETS!!!
[Edited on 8-26-2005 by Bob and Susan]Skipjack Joe - 8-26-2005 at 04:05 PM
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Originally posted by whistler
Watch them ceiling fans.Christmas Island,"GLX Loomis 8wt."
I never lost one like that at Christmas Island, but that happened to me at Las Arenas hotel. There is a rat, tat, tat sound as the blade pummels your
rod. I was so naive it took me awhile to figure out where the sound was coming from.
Whistler, you probably stayed at the Cook hotel. You know how they feed you in the morning and then you walk out to those trucks all geared up. Well,
this one fella walked halfway out the door before the screen door snapped back and broke his rod in half. He had a Thomas and Thomas 8wt. It was then
that I found just how expensive those rods are. His was around $700. I think he told me they custom make them for you. Fortunately someone else had a
spare.
On another trip down there I had my Ryall reel go out on me. The drag just completely stopped working. I had a dragless reel. That was a 2 week trip.
Imagine using your palm for a drag on every bonefish for 2 weeks! I had a word with Ryall after that.Pompano - 8-26-2005 at 08:08 PM
Mike Odell...Hi, it's been a while. Are you slaying those blues down there on the Cape? I keep hearing from another buddy who lives near Playito
that the fishing is good...but I know him too well. He just wants me to fly down there and go carousing at the Buzzards Roost or such. As I think
about it...that's sounds pretty good! Fishing just makes it rational. If I do, I will ask permission to come aboard.
I had a great finale with the dorado off Mulege shores before heading north. Glad they were there then, because they kind of disappeared soon
after.... a reel bummer for the summer guys. I fished northern Cal. waters near Half Moon Bay with an old Baja bud, then Oregon coast, then inland to
Idaho, Mt, and ND to some old haunts. Fell in Henry's Fork and almost drowned! Lost my sea legs, I guess. Headed way, way up north to fish/revisit
Reindeer Lake in Sask near NWT, Canada and tried to find this campfire spot on an island where my Dad (see photo below) fished and was camp cook that
day for his compadres...over a half-century ago. I had fished that huge lake with him many times growing up. I wanted to take a photo of me in those
clothes sitting at the same place...52 years later. But danged if I could find the exact same spot..too many years, too big a lake.
Went to Alaska and did all the normal great stuff there, too. Barn-door halibut at Seward and Ninilchik was very good...and we have steaks/fillets
coming out our ears! Yukon was the best time coming back...Dollys, bows, char, and shooing bears off. I have some pics I will post later with a
fishing story or two.
But like I always say...it ain't nothing like Baja! Luego, amigo.mike odell - 8-26-2005 at 08:36 PM
Hey Pomp!!
Great to see ya back on this board, Good read!
Serious! E2 me, your more than welcome here at my place in La Rib!
Boats out front, Bring the wifie, come on down, Poco Calor, pero,
A/C on the boat was working as of yesterday! Blues are around, as are some FOOD species, Need a good Deckie!!!
Gotta work a few days between mon and fri but weekends are open!
Saludos!
ps; hooked a beeg booger blue last week, but escaped to my little 10 year olds dispair! She was on the rod! She's already done pez vela, rayados!mike odell - 8-26-2005 at 09:22 PM
I must confess, I am an addict to collecting fishing equipo!, My spouse always say's how much more chit do you really need! My answer is--
It's kinda like cosmetics and jewelry! New stuff is good, and old stuff is also very good! So were still very married! Bought out a friends stuff a
few weeks back, gave up salt fishing, NEED to have a Baja garage sale!!!
Got a pickup load of goodies, 42 rods, 430 marlin lures, spools of line,
marrauders,tuna stuff, extras! But NO! May need this stuff!
Maybe I will take up handlining with the local commercial pescaderos,
I have that stuff too! Fishin greed is an uncurable disease!!
In the words of Mr Chuck!
Saludos to all, go forth and fish!!
I need help with my adiction, anyone, can you help me get off this plight that I'm in??Don Alley - 8-26-2005 at 10:03 PM
I'm in the "I don't know" category. And I don't want to know.
I'm having a building built for them.mike odell - 8-26-2005 at 10:26 PM
Don Alley;
Check out Large Quansanet.com! big fishin equipt storage,
for not much loot, Course I'm funnin !! I personally think that
all older fisherpersons should build larger and more spacious
climate controlled uv protected areas for all of their goodies,
just in case of uncontrolled factors! Garded of course, by a
six pack of Rotwielers!
Tight Lines!
Speaking of grayling
Skipjack Joe - 8-28-2005 at 07:41 PM
Nobody is except me. But anyway, here is a photo of one we got 2 weeks ago.
blueberries
Skipjack Joe - 8-28-2005 at 07:52 PM
One of the great amenities to fishing for grayling in alaska is blueberries. They grow in the bushes along the stream banks. Milk, sugar, and
blueberries - a great combination.soulpatch - 8-28-2005 at 07:55 PM
I'll have to say that I have wound a very few rods and I found it addicting and somewhat Zen...... if I could afford it I have about a hundred
floating around just because.jim janet - 8-28-2005 at 08:18 PM
Stories,I got a hundred Did I tell you about the auction I went to and got a bargain on three new to me rods and reels Only 100bucks. I had to lie and
say my other rods didnt work.The new ones worked this last week 6 spring salmon all 20-20#
JimDon Jorge - 8-29-2005 at 07:55 AM
It is an illness. Too much stuff, where to keep it? Marlin nuts are the worse. Now the got to have lure is the SevenStrand EAL, electronic noise
emmitering lure at 200 bucks each. Ouch.
Great to see fishing boared active. Baseball and fishing, I love summertime!Paulina - 8-29-2005 at 11:24 AM
We just got back from a quickie road trip to Bahia from Ensenada. We must have taken about 10 rods and reels from the garage, and about 40 lbs of
tackle for the trip. We ended up using only 4 rods and reels the whole trip. Two for bait, the other two for the rest of the fishing we did. We used
the same two set ups the whole time as well. One dropper loop set up and one heavy purple mackerel croc. You can never have too much gear, but it's
funny how you end up never using it all.
Like my grandmother used to say, "Better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it."
The fishing was good, no Dorado as they had moved outside. Igor was getting them as he had the range. Doc had a few, but they were small. The bait was
there, but too big. The boys out in the channel used strip bait. We hit the Yellowtail just fine, misc. bottom fish and a Grouper or two.
