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A thread about fishing.....just for the halibut.....
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He didn't suggest gay activities with my dad or something sexual about my mom so I missed the connection.
If we don’t surf when I next visit let’s fish with whatever rich guy has THAT set up
RIP Buddy's dad, spine/spinal cancer? He was I think 60-something when he got it and lasted like 10 years.
Edit: Got bit a couple times tonight, think they were ladyfish or something else not all that big. Nothing landed, but a decent sunset with some nice lightning from a distance, poor photography though. Storm probably 60 miles away hitting the Griffinator?
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anyone leavong newps or LB and have extra room for a non fisher to provide tequiila and comedy relief...say the word.
Got some small snook off the mangroves Saturday evening. My advice for people fly fishing for gulp feeders like snook and bass, especially smaller fish, is to crimp/crush the barbs. Yeah, you might get jumped/head shaken off a bit more, but for me throwing a 5wt at fish basically guaranteed under 22" with most 14-18", they often hit these little flies so hard it winds up way down there, and going basically barbless or with just the bump, it's a much easier release with way less chance of damage.
Next up will be getting some bendbacks. I asked a guy at Black Fly Outfitters about this one time and he looked at me like I had 15 heads. Hadn't heard of the fly, couldn't get behind a hook-up baitfish. My logic is, it will snag less in the mangroves falling hook up, it will not snag on oysters or grass or stuff on the bottom as readily, and the snook will get it more often in the roof vs down towards the gills.
Got 4 false albacore on slow pitch jigs in 100' on Sunday. Fished with basically snook gear, 20# braid on 4500-5000 class reels. Skunked on snapper but they're closed, and on light gear the albies can fight like hell.
The gullet feared by the mullet. If it wasn't a guppy it'd look cooler.
Next up will be getting some bendbacks. I asked a guy at Black Fly Outfitters about this one time and he looked at me like I had 15 heads. Hadn't heard of the fly, couldn't get behind a hook-up baitfish. My logic is, it will snag less in the mangroves falling hook up, it will not snag on oysters or grass or stuff on the bottom as readily, and the snook will get it more often in the roof vs down towards the gills.
Got 4 false albacore on slow pitch jigs in 100' on Sunday. Fished with basically snook gear, 20# braid on 4500-5000 class reels. Skunked on snapper but they're closed, and on light gear the albies can fight like hell.
The gullet feared by the mullet. If it wasn't a guppy it'd look cooler.
If I had to pick a saltwater fish to perform fellatio on me, snook would be a likely bet. They still have a sandpaper thing going on though. Thumb will get chafed a bit during a good day of catch and release wading. The ideal release is to lip the fish, unhook it, face it into the current, and it will typically close its mouth around your thumb, breathe, then swim off, sometimes with a f--k you splash.
their range is actually extending southwards with climate change, still a bit far north of me, but not much.
Crimp (smash down with pliers) the barbs on your hooks just like everyone does when flyfishing so you can catch and release with a good healthy release without too much damage to the fish.
That is what is called "barbless" hooks and you can just let the little fella off the hook to go swim away without any real damage to live life to the fullest until it gets hooked again by some dumbass that doesn't know the rule of conduct for catch and release.
translations
mangrove = shrub or small tree that grows in coastal saline or brackish water
bendback = fly fishing lure, refers to the slight bend made on the hook shank at the throat of the fly
gullet = the passage by which food passes from the mouth to the stomach; the esophagus
snook, albacore (albies), snapper = types of fish
Shameful self-promotion!!! Come fish with me here in Oregon - I'm running an Erbbros discount. 
