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NaCl,
You're the best. I laughed my a$$ off on that one.

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Ray,
GMC makes less trucks because no one buys them!

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I was just thinking it would be polite to support the local economy.

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Welcome back.

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It costs the same to tow both of them to the shop. I know, I've owned both brands of trucks.
Now it's only Fords.

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That would be the exwife, wouldn't it?

mark poulson

You might want to call Jordan at Anglers, and ask him which one works on your boat.

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Chris, I'm a carpenter, so I had a small diamond hone in my bags for touching up cheisels on the job. I put it in the boat, and use it to sharpen hooks. It cuts fast and smooth, and it's big enough, 1 1/2"X3", to let me sharpen the entire hook length, so I don't change the angle too much, ...

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Ron, You're right, it's good to see that there is an institutional awareness of the problem. I know from talking to someone at the state water dept. that the state water people are hard at work trying to limit the damage an infestation would do. An aggressive onsite program of dipping or spraying bo...

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Just say something in Japanese to start. Almost no one here will know the difference, and it will get you started. The ones who do know will probably just laugh.

mark poulson

Do you lip him, or just swing him aboard?

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Thanks for the great setup and photos. As for how fish take a swimbait, I hung a 4lb on a Huddlestone 12, with the jig hook, and it was all the way in the fish's mouth, hooked in the top of the mouth. That fish had come up from behind and inhaled the bait. Maybe it's the size of the bait. I catch lo...

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Take some senkos of different sizes with you when you go. If you don't have an O ring tool, you can just pull the senko through the O ring, if you do it slowly and gently. Otherwise, you'll have a lot of half senkos for dropshotting.

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I put a Flatfoot in my Tracker 175. Mine is an '04. The Flatfoot has a sloped rear end, so it cleared my storage locker. I pulled off the front panel that has the trim controls mounted to it, so I could look underneath the deck before I cut to see if anything was in the way. Turns out there are two ...

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Well, it should have been in a magazine!

My short term memory keeps getting shorter.
Sorry I didn't remember and credit you properly Marty.

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Some of us actually do have to work sometimes, contrary to popular belief.
Although work is way over rated.

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I bought and use O rings from a plumbing supply, but I saw a neat deal in a magazine or somewhere. This guy used aquarium tubing, and just cut it into smaller lengths. It's clear, so the color of the senko comes through, and it looked like it would be plenty strong. And a lot cheaper than O rings.

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That's how I was going to rig them. Looks like that, or maybe a circle hook. I'm afraid they'll get swallowed when I fish them deep, like the fat Ika.
I'll be up there tomorrow, too, to fun fish. If I see you before your tourney, I'll share some of mine.

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From what I have read, the courts are actually siding with the people who don't want the Delta raped. In the same issue of the Times, on the same page, was an opinion piece by a Times commentator. He basically said the same thing, that the Delta needs to be protected from both the water theives and ...

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Yamamoto twin tails, Robo kickin' kraw, Paca Craw.

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Kelly,
Have you fished the Hudbug?
If so, how do you rig it?

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In most of these things, we don't hear what really happened, ever. Ask any cop you meet, you'll find out most of what goes into the news for public consumption is distorted, or half true, or just inaccurate. And we all know when politicians get involved, innocent people get flamed. But part of our s...

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At least it has a little color since the '04-'05 winter rains. I swear it was clear to 20'+ before that!
When it was low, you could see the trees in the orchard in front of Station.

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:lol: Hey, just giving you a hard time. :wink: Actually, I've been catching them all different ways lately. The water never got cold enough to really change things. Knock on wood! Just for that, we'll probably have an artic freeze for three weeks, like back east. My older daughter is in Boston, and ...

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Push the envelope! Now I get it.
All this time I've been licking them.

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You have to have faith in the system. We are a nation of laws.

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Today's L.A. Times had an article and an opion piece about the Delta and it's problems. It talks about a report released Wednesday by the Public Policy Institute of Ca. The article, by Bettina Boxall, talkes about the general problem, and then some of the possible fixes. Has anyone read it? Do you g...

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Like a rattlesnake with no rattles and a bad temper.

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Great looking site.
Looks like you guys will have a ball.
Good luck!

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The end with the skirt is a harder rubber, so it holds on the hook better. I rig through the skirt, just like a hula grub.

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You ever hear the nursery rhyme "Puss and Boots"?
Put a boot up the puss' butt. No more hair on the carpet.

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sTony,
All I get is the dreaded white screen. I tried to download the latest Quiktime, but it didn't help, or I didn't do it right.
Help!?

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John,
When she gets out and feels better, take her to the Oak Pit. I'll treat.

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I would have a shallow jerkbait tied on, and throw it on the edges of flats near deeper water. I'd fish a smaller rattletrap across the flats. Also a med diving crank. I'd bring a hula grub on a jighead up the face of the dropoffs leading to the flats. I'd fish a jig along steep rock walls and point...

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I'm a boat owner, but don't fish tournaments, other than club, so I'm asking this just from curiosity. What is the distinction between pro and am? Is it just if you enter as a boater/pro, or is there a monetary amount of winnings that moves you from am to pro? From what I read, an am can win a lot o...

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Ralph, Stick to the steepest walls you can find. Either on the west walls, the rock walls near the Island on the ski arm, Sharon's Rest new walls, the rock points outside of birdsnest, or the walls and points in new crapper cove on the north side of the fish arm and around to red clay. Pitch to ever...

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Rob, Nice to finally meet you. Thanks for coming up and introducing yourself. I did get two fish on your pattern, more or less, and farmed a third. No size like the winners, though. What a beautiful day! Too bad the fish didn't want to come out and play a little more. I did see some nice fish, thoug...

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I think it's one 'a them estrogen deals. To keep the males from asking for oral sex.

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What's an operculum?

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Ken, That looks like one of those junk emails that come through, advertising things to make you "The Man". :shock: Seriously, if we don't kill ourselves off first, there are some really exciting things coming down the pike. Wait 'till they come out with a carbon fibre line that's as thin a...

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Oops. Hit the send before I typed a reply. I guess that's premature something or other. :wink: Anyway, that nanotube stuff is exciting. Even if desalization is expensive, it is the only fully reliable method of insuring a constant and increasable water supply, unless, of course, you've got someone w...

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The Mississippi has too much water most of the time.
Ask you uncle about a 1500 mile long pipeline. It seems to me, if they can do it for oil, they can do it for water. And water generates a lot more development and income for any state than oil, except maybe Alaska.

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Glad to hear you're okay.
We missed you at the AC Castaic last Saturday.
Hope to meet you at the next one.

mark poulson

Take some time every day and visit the library here. Well worth it.

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I heard they have peacock bass in Hawaii, and largemouth.

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Maybe they could create some new reservoirs, with hyroelectric generation capabilities. If they're clever, they could set it up like the Pyramid/Castaic deal, where the let gravity take the water down to Castaic from Pyramid, generating electricity, during the week, when demand is high and the power...

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Dave, That sounds like the same idiot who said, "Lets not give industry subsidies to help them clean up their pollution, they'll never move overseas". :cry: Man, I'm starting to feel like the old timers I used to work with who always complained about "the good old days". Maybe my...

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Gerry,
Have you been fishing the salt?

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