On Nov 30, 4:28 pm, "Calif Bill" wrote:
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On Nov 30, 2:55 pm, "Calif Bill" wrote:
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On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:14:25 -0800 (PST), wrote:

On Nov 29, 6:00 pm, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:45:58 -0800 (PST),
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On Nov 29, 4:39 pm, wrote:
On Nov 29, 4:33 pm, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

Damn - I never knew that.

Yes you did

And I'll tell y'all another thing......
If you need your bait to go to the bottom, they have these things
called weights that you can use that will do that for you, they are
smaller than a comparable size rock. Now you know my
secret............

Wow - that's really informative.

Do you also use a rod with a reel or just a cane pole? :)

Both will work! It's an amazing thing. The weight actually makes the
lure/bait sink......
I've seen it with my own eyes!

Well, then I guess it's true.

Stones worked great years ago, and probably work well now. As well as
sparkplugs. We used to use sparkplugs casting into the rocky area of the
Pacific shoreline as they were cheap and you put them on a dropper and
saved
the rest of rig when you snagged. As to the rocks, a few years ago when
we
were traveling in Italy, we went to the fishing museum on Lake Trasimeno.
They had bronze hooks from the Romans as well as weights that were a
worked
circle of rocks that were recovered from the lake bottom, We a really
interesting museum. Lake was a large shallow body of water, that looked
nasty. Talked to a couple of guys that had been bass fishing, and
loading
an about 16' Tracker bass boat. Cost them about 2x what they cost here.
I
think the website for the museum ishttp://www.museodellapesca.ch/.- Hide
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Let's have a little contest then, Bill. You use stones and sparkplugs
for weight, I'll use what I want and we'll go bass fishing and see who
has the best results........

Not all of us just fish for bass. You surf fish the rocks of the ocean and
you may not be able to fund your IRA after buying all those expensive
weights. Lots of my bass fishing, is with weightless Senkos and if I add
weight I use a small nail. Still pretty cheap for the weight. Wish I could
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Bass Pro Shops has a clone of Senko that I like even better. Not that
I use them all of the time, but.....
Again, if you want to go surf fishing with sparkplugs, have at it!

On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 07:47:41 -0800 (PST), wrote:

On Nov 30, 4:28 pm, "Calif Bill" wrote:
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Not all of us just fish for bass. You surf fish the rocks of the ocean and
you may not be able to fund your IRA after buying all those expensive
weights. Lots of my bass fishing, is with weightless Senkos and if I add
weight I use a small nail. Still pretty cheap for the weight. Wish I could
say the same for the Senko.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Bass Pro Shops has a clone of Senko that I like even better. Not that
I use them all of the time, but.....
Again, if you want to go surf fishing with sparkplugs, have at it!

Not bass, but when I was at St Pete Beach a couple months ago there
was German kid, about 8 years old, who hooked a maybe 4 foot tarpon at
the beach.
He had one of those dimestore Zebco rigs, and my wife and
his family walked about 200 yards down the beach trying to land it.
His dad looked exactly like Adolph Hitler, but no mustache.
The fish never ran out, but down the beach in a couple feet of water,
very light surf. I kept my mouth shut, as the kid was doing a good
job on the drag with Adolph's instructions. The fish finally lost the
hook, but the kid - and me - had a good experience to remember.
Luckily there were few swimmers, and they were deeper than where
the fish was running.
I think the kid said he was using a spark plug as weight, but my
German isn't too good.

--Vic

"HK" wrote in message
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Not to worry; I don't take fishing very seriously anymore, either. I know
how to catch fish and do when I feel like it, for the most part, but
certain kinds of fishing really have no appeal for me these days. I like
sight fishing most of all, and if I find some interesting bottom
structure, I like jigging and drifting over the structure. I like drift
fishing with live bait. But anchoring to bottom fish, or trolling umbrella
rigs? Nah.

Go catch a 400lb tuna.

Eisboch

Eisboch wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
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Not to worry; I don't take fishing very seriously anymore, either. I know
how to catch fish and do when I feel like it, for the most part, but
certain kinds of fishing really have no appeal for me these days. I like
sight fishing most of all, and if I find some interesting bottom
structure, I like jigging and drifting over the structure. I like drift
fishing with live bait. But anchoring to bottom fish, or trolling umbrella
rigs? Nah.

Go catch a 400lb tuna.

Eisboch




And then what? Fillet it?

"HK" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
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Not to worry; I don't take fishing very seriously anymore, either. I
know how to catch fish and do when I feel like it, for the most part,
but certain kinds of fishing really have no appeal for me these days. I
like sight fishing most of all, and if I find some interesting bottom
structure, I like jigging and drifting over the structure. I like drift
fishing with live bait. But anchoring to bottom fish, or trolling
umbrella rigs? Nah.

Go catch a 400lb tuna.

Eisboch


And then what? Fillet it?

You betcha.

Give half away to friends with instructions on how to grill fresh.
Chow down yourself.

Freeze the rest and enjoy all winter.

Eisboch

Eisboch wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
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Not to worry; I don't take fishing very seriously anymore, either. I
know how to catch fish and do when I feel like it, for the most part,
but certain kinds of fishing really have no appeal for me these days. I
like sight fishing most of all, and if I find some interesting bottom
structure, I like jigging and drifting over the structure. I like drift
fishing with live bait. But anchoring to bottom fish, or trolling
umbrella rigs? Nah.
Go catch a 400lb tuna.

Eisboch

And then what? Fillet it?

You betcha.

Give half away to friends with instructions on how to grill fresh.
Chow down yourself.

Freeze the rest and enjoy all winter.

Eisboch



I don't eat frozen/thawed fish.

"HK" wrote in message
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I don't eat frozen/thawed fish.

The charter guys have one of those "seal-a-meal" vacuum bagger things that
they bring to the boat. The filets that aren't going to be immediately
consumed are put in them, iced down, then transported to the freezer. I
never had tried any preserved this way and was amazed at how fresh it was 2
months later.

Eisboch

HK wrote:



I don't eat frozen/thawed fish.

So you don't eat in restaurants? Few have fresh fish and those that do
won't have it out of season.

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:45:58 -0800 (PST), wrote:

On Nov 29, 4:39 pm, wrote:
On Nov 29, 4:33 pm, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

Damn - I never knew that.

Yes you did

And I'll tell y'all another thing......
If you need your bait to go to the bottom, they have these things
called weights that you can use that will do that for you, they are
smaller than a comparable size rock. Now you know my secret............

'...
--
John H

On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 13:40:41 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 07:47:41 -0800 (PST), wrote:

On Nov 30, 4:28 pm, "Calif Bill" wrote:
wrote in message


Not all of us just fish for bass. You surf fish the rocks of the ocean and
you may not be able to fund your IRA after buying all those expensive
weights. Lots of my bass fishing, is with weightless Senkos and if I add
weight I use a small nail. Still pretty cheap for the weight. Wish I could
say the same for the Senko.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Bass Pro Shops has a clone of Senko that I like even better. Not that
I use them all of the time, but.....
Again, if you want to go surf fishing with sparkplugs, have at it!

Not bass, but when I was at St Pete Beach a couple months ago there
was German kid, about 8 years old, who hooked a maybe 4 foot tarpon at
the beach.
He had one of those dimestore Zebco rigs, and my wife and
his family walked about 200 yards down the beach trying to land it.
His dad looked exactly like Adolph Hitler, but no mustache.
The fish never ran out, but down the beach in a couple feet of water,
very light surf. I kept my mouth shut, as the kid was doing a good
job on the drag with Adolph's instructions. The fish finally lost the
hook, but the kid - and me - had a good experience to remember.
Luckily there were few swimmers, and they were deeper than where
the fish was running.
I think the kid said he was using a spark plug as weight, but my
German isn't too good.

--Vic


If he was yelling, "Meine Zündkerze springt auf dem Boden!" then he was
saying, "My spark plug is bouncing off the bottom!" With a four-foot tarpon
trying to escape, it sounds like something the kid may have said.
--
John H