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johneod75
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 Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 11:04 am Post subject: My New Rack and quick PINS Report |
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Well I decided that, with Sharkathon coming up, it was time to tear my half a$$ rack off the Tahoe and build something much nicer.
The ladder also provides extra storage for taking stuff down the beach and hinges upward so that I can still get in the back of the truck when needed. I ended up just using treated plywood for the deck for now as I didn't have time to order a sheet of Starboard before this weekend.
The kids and I loaded up Saturday afternoon and ran down to around the 10mm along with my father-in-law and my buddy Drew. Birds were working the beach like crazy and this is what it looked like as far as you could see.
Got set up around 4 pm and started rigging baits immediately. Ran out a whole ray on the 80w, half a black drum on the 9/0 and a whole Sheepshead on the Daiwa 900. Around 10 pm the 900 took about a 15 second run but was dropped and never picked back up. The 9/0 got cut off at the braid around midnight and the stingray came back in whole when we got up. Ran a whole blue fish out on the 900 in the morning and it sat all day without getting touched. Live mullet produced blue fish and skipjack throughout the day and I picked up a nice 23" red on a live small skippie. Around 2 pm I say birds working about 600 yards offshore and bait getting hammered so I hopped in the yak with a bay rod and a nice shiny lure. Got out to them and it was HUGE skipjack that I played with for about 15 minutes. There were also plenty of 3-5 ft sharks cruising through them. Came back in and loaded up and got off the beach around 5 pm. It was a good time as always even though we struck out on the long rods.
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HOMERFROMCORPUS
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| Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 11:22 am Post subject: |
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Your talent to weld aluminum speaks for itself. One of these days I am going to do some exerpimenting and see if I can figure out the right settings for my welder for aluminum without blowing holes all thru it.
Good report and sounds like the day was fruitful.
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ltorna1
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| Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 11:42 am Post subject: |
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| nice work John and nice report. Let me know when you bring the yak to the surf again, I'd like to try to get some kings. |
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johneod75
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| Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 1:39 pm Post subject: |
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| HOMERFROMCORPUS wrote: | Your talent to weld aluminum speaks for itself. One of these days I am going to do some exerpimenting and see if I can figure out the right settings for my welder for aluminum without blowing holes all thru it.
Good report and sounds like the day was fruitful. |
Thanks for the compliments. Do you live in Corpus? I wouldn't mind coming by and helping you get your settings correct in return for a cold one.
Luke I'll definitely hit you up as soon as I have some time for btb.
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