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6/16/2008 1:55:12 PM

just got a Penn 80 International reel from a friend. looking to pair it with a rod. any suggestions? pm please, i won't be online til tomorrow

6/17/2008 7:11:38 PM

Depends on what you are using it for. But I would go with a bent butt rod. I like the Penn Rods, but think only the International V rod comes in Bent Butt.

6/17/2008 7:51:50 PM

i inducted my girlfriend into the pen15 club.


she hadnt heard of it before, she cant be trusted.


on a fishing note:


the POCKET FISHERMAN FISH COUNT: 7

6/17/2008 8:12:59 PM

Lake Johnson, Shelley Lake or Lake Raleigh? Looking for bass.

6/19/2008 12:40:47 PM

I caught a bass in Lake Raleigh once

6/19/2008 1:57:44 PM

good size?

6/19/2008 3:36:36 PM

Anyone else gonna be in the Jolly Mon King Tourney this weekend???

Should be fun if the weather is good, I think were planning on fishing saturday

6/19/2008 4:43:45 PM

Went again last night and caught nothing, wish I had a boat

6/19/2008 4:44:20 PM

No it was really small.

6/19/2008 4:47:09 PM

caught more kings again today...its been an ok week with them within 10 miles of shore at bogue

6/19/2008 5:21:15 PM

If the weather holds, were are on. And we fishing with a hardcore crew

6/19/2008 5:36:31 PM

damn I wanna go fishing, even though my legs and feet have yet to recover from seven days straight of it last week

6/19/2008 6:01:51 PM

where yall getting bait? We came up dry at little river

6/20/2008 8:35:35 PM

What type of bait?

6/20/2008 9:41:47 PM

29.6lb king... Barely made it back, how did yall do?

6/21/2008 10:54:33 PM

bad bad day at the jolly mon tournament

fellow SKA member/captain was killed and 3 boats capsized during the round of storms


my friends boat tried to run south and avoid it but had some fuel issues and ahd to go through it


was blowin 70 knots

6/22/2008 3:36:01 PM

1 Tuna, 1 Gaffer. Everyone who was fishing offshore run in early because of the storms that were coming and they all got clobbered. We stayed out there and didn't get touched.

6/22/2008 9:09:40 PM

Glad we decided to sit this one out...was apparently a very rough weekend.

6/23/2008 4:24:40 PM

yea, it was rough for a bit where we were too..
We fished out of murrells inlet so we stayed out of it for the most part, we had to make a 32 mile run into ocean isle in an hour to make weigh in, and just barely made it... Barked several times

Ended up 9th

6/23/2008 7:48:03 PM

I love to hear the dogs barking

6/23/2008 8:32:11 PM

ben is so rad

6/23/2008 8:33:29 PM

Well during the tourney we ruined our fish bag, any recommendations on a new one? A pelagic would be nice... but not really in our budget

6/24/2008 5:17:10 PM

Might try to look for a used one or win a tournament and buy a new one.

6/24/2008 5:26:42 PM

bumpity

6/30/2008 8:06:26 PM

I read your post right after I made my thread

I had forgotten about this thread

6/30/2008 8:07:03 PM

please see:

message_topic.aspx?topic=533560

7/13/2008 2:11:05 AM

just went fishing with my roommate at the local fish pond (i live on a WMA in SC) and my roommate totally schooled me. im used to fishing on lake norman, where you can put a hotdog on a hook, sink it to the bottom, and wait. the bottom is too soft here, so i spent the first 30-45 minutes with nothing, while my roommate was getting bites seconds after casting out.

we didnt keep count, but i think he ended up getting somewhere around 10 fish, while i got somewhere around 6 or 7 (and i had 2 poles set out).

im just glad to finally catch something, and i caught a nice buzz while i was at it!

maybe there will be pics next time.

7/13/2008 10:26:07 PM

I'm heading to Beaufort Tuesday...FINALLY. Seems like I've been working all summer while everyone else has been fishing. Hoping to get hit up the inlet at the Cape and Beaufort inlet and see if I can get on the spanish bite. Also may try to get out to a few AR's and try out the king fishing if anything is going on. I (think) I am fishing in the Tred Barta Billfish tourney next weekend. Anybody else going to be down that way and drowning bait?

7/13/2008 11:28:17 PM

I'm going back to bed.

7/14/2008 4:14:10 AM

i'd like to go drown that idiot tred barta

7/14/2008 7:29:08 AM

We went out yesterday and pulled in a lot of small black tip sharks, one 4 foot bonnet head shark, a few big bull reds, some smaller reds, and some stingrays.

Was a decent day.

7/14/2008 8:46:55 AM

Noodle.

7/14/2008 9:14:34 PM

If there are any fisheries students who have knowledge of freshwater species shoot me a PM.

7/16/2008 7:29:35 PM

we're having a fishing tournament in the cooling lake at work tomorrow

7/16/2008 9:09:08 PM

won the tournament with a 26.73 lb catfish

[Edited on July 17, 2008 at 3:57 PM. Reason : a pic was taken, i'll post it when they email it to me]

7/17/2008 3:57:12 PM

woooooooooooooooo

fried catfish tonight

congrats

7/17/2008 3:57:42 PM

i released him

the big ones aren't very good to eat

7/17/2008 3:58:05 PM

yea I know

it was more wishful thinking than anything

7/17/2008 3:58:48 PM

werd

caught several eating size cats, but threw them back too

7/17/2008 3:59:46 PM

7/21/2008 7:22:05 AM

Nice fish!

7/21/2008 10:59:18 AM

damn...came here to post that....we need to hit up rappahannock sometime


get a few people from tww to chip in for gas etc....would be worth it to bring home 8 or 9 25-45lbs cats

7/21/2008 11:10:36 AM

where is that?

7/21/2008 11:11:08 AM

va....gets fed by the chesapeake(sp?)....really southernish deep rooted kinda heritage in the area...few plantations(one house is really really nice)

[Edited on July 21, 2008 at 11:13 AM. Reason : probably about 3 hours from here or so? not sure...i'd be down to help fund it]

7/21/2008 11:13:25 AM

cape fear river is closer and is famous for large cats (50+ lbs.)

[Edited on July 21, 2008 at 11:14 AM. Reason : been wanting to try it out for a while]

7/21/2008 11:14:14 AM

shit i want to try the mighty mississippi...i remember reading tom sawyer or huck finn...get them confused...anyways theres a part where they catch a 100lbs cat...god i cant imagine fishing in the 1800's

7/21/2008 11:18:10 AM

ha, I hooked in to something a couple years ago by the cape fear memorial bridge and it felt like a damn car. broke off just before reaching the surface.

7/21/2008 11:20:06 AM

best sound in the world is getting a pole bender that pulls your line out and the drag just going "WREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"

[Edited on July 21, 2008 at 11:22 AM. Reason : .]

7/21/2008 11:21:28 AM

that fucker up there ran about 75 yards before i turned him around. was foul hooked near his asshole and it made things tough.

[Edited on July 21, 2008 at 11:26 AM. Reason : fishing from the bank with a 6500 ambassadeur ]

7/21/2008 11:24:29 AM