Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
I just finished a couple of rods for a client in Bimini - specialized
for heavy shark fishing - $900 just for the components.

Tom, what that just for the rod[s] only? or the complete kit. reel and
all?

Tim wrote:
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
I just finished a couple of rods for a client in Bimini - specialized
for heavy shark fishing - $900 just for the components.

Tom, what that just for the rod[s] only? or the complete kit. reel and
all?

"specialized" ?

I think I answered my own quesiton.

Rods alone.

On 16 Jan 2007 07:56:41 -0800, "Tim" wrote:


Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
I just finished a couple of rods for a client in Bimini - specialized
for heavy shark fishing - $900 just for the components.

Tom, what that just for the rod[s] only? or the complete kit. reel and
all?

Tim, you can spend thousands for a deep sea rig, or hundreds - maybe
less than a hundred if you look hard. No different than buying a car.
A Chevy will get you to the same place as a Rolls with the biggest
difference being bragging rights.
Just mentioned that because nobody else has.
Hell, there's people fishing with twine and safety pins.
Not suggesting that works for tuna, but you get the drift.
Getting out there is the real expense, not the expensive reel.

--Vic

Vic Smith wrote:


Hell, there's people fishing with twine and safety pins.
Not suggesting that works for tuna, but you get the drift.
Getting out there is the real expense, not the expensive reel.

--Vic

I can't tell you how many fish my Grandpa caught with a bamboo pole or
just a stick a hook and a worm grasshopper, or a junebug.

I suppose for big blue water you could always use some nylon cloths
line, a grappling hook, and some calves liver....

On 16 Jan 2007 14:36:39 -0800, "Tim" wrote:


Vic Smith wrote:


Hell, there's people fishing with twine and safety pins.
Not suggesting that works for tuna, but you get the drift.
Getting out there is the real expense, not the expensive reel.

--Vic

I can't tell you how many fish my Grandpa caught with a bamboo pole or
just a stick a hook and a worm grasshopper, or a junebug.

I suppose for big blue water you could always use some nylon cloths
line, a grappling hook, and some calves liver....

Hehe. Caught plenty with bamboo and hoppers myself.
BTW, the only time I ever fished off my navy can was when anchored in
the V.I.'s. Found the rod locker and put on a piece of stinking ham I
pulled from a bone in the galley trash.
Hooked something right off and it just moved away at about 3 knots
until the line ran out. Couldn't slow it down a bit. It didn't even
know it was hooked.
I like to think it was a 500 lb. Jewfish, but it was probably just a
sub. Don't get me wrong about fishing gear. I like good stuff, but
when the price gets high enough I'm perfectly happy to buy used.
I'd feel pretty bad spending k's to get skunked when I can get
skunked for a couple hundred.

--Vic

On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 23:46:29 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

One of my Dad's friends had one of the funniest WWII stories about
hooking a sub I ever heard.

The short of it he thought it was a fish and wouldn't let the rod go -
pulled him right off the stern of a DE.

Heh. Must have had a better rod and line than that piece of junk my
can provided. Only way I could have been pulled off was if I tied the
line to my.......

--Vic

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:22:26 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

I like to think it was a 500 lb. Jewfish, but it was probably just a
sub.

ROTFL!!

One of my Dad's friends had one of the funniest WWII stories about
hooking a sub I ever heard.

The short of it he thought it was a fish and wouldn't let the rod go -
pulled him right off the stern of a DE.
\
Better than the sub hooking a net from a net boat. That happened off SF
some years ago.

What all did you catch while sitting on the can?

(snarf!)




Vic Smith wrote:
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 23:46:29 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

One of my Dad's friends had one of the funniest WWII stories about
hooking a sub I ever heard.

The short of it he thought it was a fish and wouldn't let the rod go -
pulled him right off the stern of a DE.

Heh. Must have had a better rod and line than that piece of junk my
can provided. Only way I could have been pulled off was if I tied the
line to my.......

--Vic

On 22 Jan 2007 16:08:19 -0800, "Tim" wrote:

What all did you catch while sitting on the can?

(snarf!)

Just crabs. Hey, that snarfing sounds pretty bad. Hope it gets
better.

--Vic