jamisjockey

The missus and I both took the basic course offered here in VA. It is required by all PWC operators and will soon be required to operate a boat in the state. I find it crazy that one must have a driver's license to drive, but often nothing in many states to operate a boat.

So in a stroke of idiocy bought some boat rods for my spinning reels. Replaced them with spinning rods but now I've got 4 6' medium action rods that need reels. I'd like to pair them with some lighter reels for light tackle trolling, drifting flounder and light bottom fishing. Budget maybe $50ish per reel or less. Figure on 20-30lb braid. Suggestions?

I've been thinking of switching mine out to single hooks. They are a pain in the ass when the lines get crossed striper trolling, any suggestions on good solid split rings and hooks to use?

Daddy want! 10" of draft I could fish fresh water and skinny salt water in that! Sugar Mama might be jealous, though. I imagine these smaller boats are the ticket right now. At 12k that's less than a new car! http://www.trophyfishing.com/brochure.asp?modelid=141305

Mount a .50cal on the front and use it to hunt Somali pirates.

Quoted for truth. Any bets the lady he let operate the boat was intoxicated?

IMHO the Chesapeake certainly deserves its own board.... I'm actually trying to move down that way. Looking at Chesapeake or VA Beach.

BlueBayou wins the "Best crew" award.

Any VA people in the house? I'm in Woodbridge, but usually fish out of Hampton, or launch on the lower Potomac.

When I was a young Marine I was stationed in Yuma, AZ. There turned out to be exceptional fishing along the lower Colorado River. Bass, bluegill, crappie, carp and catfish in the small lakes and canals, as well as the main stem of the river itself. Anyways, we get this new Sgt from Louisiana. He had a bassboat, a million lures and about 30 rods and reels. Seemed to me like he took all of it out on the boat, too. Me, I had a Tube, 3 or 4 good fishing rods, and usually got by with a couple small plano boxes and a bag or two of plastics. My favored rig was a light spinning outfit with 8lb test. After a trip out with him on his boat once, he told me I'd never catch a big fish with that outfit, and that the whole tubin' thing was a joke. Yeah, okay. What I didn't tell him about was a lesser known spot. You couldn't get a boat into it, maybe a small pond boat. It was surrounded almost entirely by thick brush and cactus. The place we launched 'toons from had a 4' drop off, occassionaly someone would drop a johnboat in that way, but it was scary to watch them turn the trailer 90* and then see it drop 4'..... Anyways, the spawn came prety early out there. About March IIRC. I was out and nailing fish in the 4-6lb range, which was normal for this spot. Out in the middle on a shallow hump, I put my 4" worm into a pocket and worked it back. Line went slack. Started reeling, it stayed slack. Reeled fast, tight, set the hook. 5 minutes later, afer getting splashed and yanked around I was lipping a big fish. Zebco scale called it 12lb, 3oz. Couple days later I tell the sgt about it. "######, you're overestimating the fish...." Until I showed him this.....

I picked up a zippered 3" ring binder at Office Max. I keep my stuff in there. I just barely started logging my information, haven't bothered to put it into a computer yet.

Ouch. I'm impressed you kept fishing, though!

Sadly, I don't have any good GPS coords yet.

That's a serious pig by any standards!

Not disasters or catastrophies, but comical happeneings anyways. I was flyfishing on the green river in utah. Tossed a hopper into a slow moving pool. Didn't see any fish, so I laid down my rod, pulled off my vest, and began dropping my waders so I could take a piss. Along comes a large rainbow and it snatches that damn fly and takes off....pulling my flyrod with it! I went charging in after it and ended up going in over my waders before I caught the rod. Another time, same river. Using a teeny midge fly size 24 or so. Down to my last one and it was slaying fish! Biggest rainbow I've ever hooked slurped it down and went into a snag. I could see the fish under the snag, about 8' down, hooked and stuck. So I undressed to my buckassness and dove for the fish and fly. Unhooked the fish and used the fly to catch about a dozen more before the bite turned off!

With these new props I can hit 90.....

The hotties, or the rednecks?

JamisJockey: I also like to cycle and two of my bikes are Jamis brand. I'm a little ######, hence the jockey part. I work for my wife or take care of my kids. Technically I'm employed by our LLC, but I prefer to tell people I'm an unemployed bum......She's on the boat title....so I named it after her.... Sugar Mama

Remind me never to fish downwind of you!

Mine flushes from a holding tank on the back of the toilet, portapoti style.

Okay I'm pretty confident that our days below freezing are done for the year. Filled and flushed the fresh water so that the sink and shower are usable. Filled the head and flushed it and it doesn't go anywhere.....giving me the imrpession it was already full......I pumped it out last fall. Hasn't been used all winter. Professionally winterized. Do they fill the holding tank with antifreeze solotion? Also, is that pink antifreeze stuff toxic? I was thinking of just running the livewell next time I splash to flush it out, as well as the raw water washdown.

Plenty of boat! I've run my 23' Trophy out of OI. However, never underestimate OI. The moving shoals, narrow channels, and rough inlet conditions can claim any sized boat. I certainly pick my days in my boat when I go down to NC....you'll have a few more days in that boat than I do....

I created my own this spring, put the pages inside a zippered 3-ring binder. Also put pages in there where I can write down GPS coordinates, phone numbers, and other good info. I'm attaching the pages i made (hopefully) I just did mine in word and printed off as many as I needed. Fishing_log_book_page_one.doc Fishing_log_book_page_two.doc fishing_log_book_phone_numbers.doc GPS_Coordinates.doc

Yeah zero recoil from a 9mm. Fake.

I think you're thinking of a wreck anchor. Its a good solution for wreck fishing. I'm using the breakway as a compromise for fishing rocky bottoms or the artifical reefs we have around here. I also anchor alot on soft bottom where a wreck anchor wouldn't work good.