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You played hooky to get a hook wet, eh?
Looks beautiful, mate!
it was...untill about 5 minutes after the photo was taken.a nasty squall blew out of nowhere.wind and rain were going sideways through the boat and waves as big as my truck were tossing me around so i had to hightail it back to port.
no fish today.oh well,that's spring in the north...you never know what's about to hit you.still better than work,though.
Catch anything Doc?
Awesome pic looks like the weather was great.
it was...untill about 5 minutes after the photo was taken.a nasty squall blew out of nowhere.wind and rain were going sideways through the boat and waves as big as my truck were tossing me around so i had to hightail it back to port.
no fish today.oh well,that's spring in the north...you never know what's about to hit you.still better than work,though.
it was...untill about 5 minutes after the photo was taken.a nasty squall blew out of nowhere.wind and rain were going sideways through the boat and waves as big as my truck were tossing me around so i had to hightail it back to port.
no fish today.oh well,that's spring in the north...you never know what's about to hit you.still better than work,though.
i'll tell you the story of the one that got away....after i got off the open ocean int masset inlet the waves were much more manageable,so i dropped my halibut rig.first drop,nothing-so i pull up and move to another spot where i've gotten action before.
i pull off the brake on the downrigger,and let'er fly,but i didn't slow it down soon enough so the cannonball hits the bottom and the downrigger does another half-turn out,dropping a loop of cable around the base.so i reach down to pull it back onto the drum when a fish hits it and pulls it tight(hali's hit fast or not at all,i've found)so now ive got a fouled cable and a fish on the line.
as i'm trying to tie off the cable so i can get the line loose on the drum,the thing keeps pulling out the slack untill i have thirty feet more line out than depth...fifteen minutes of desperately trying to free the line and the rig snags....snapping the cable.
so now i've lost the fish,the hali rig($10),the cannonball($35),and have to replace the cable($25).first chance i get,i'm going back there to see if i can catch that bugger and hopefully it's still packing my gear around.
stupid fish![]()
it was...untill about 5 minutes after the photo was taken.a nasty squall blew out of nowhere.wind and rain were going sideways through the boat and waves as big as my truck were tossing me around so i had to hightail it back to port.
no fish today.oh well,that's spring in the north...you never know what's about to hit you.still better than work,though.
sounds like houston in winter - if you don't like the weather just wait 5 minutes
that's what you get for not working on the GT and giving us more pics! lol
i guarantee calgary's worse, we've got a weather phenomenon called a "chinook" there's only 1 other place in the world that gets them, and they call them something else...
essentially, what it is, is a random blast of hot air, that can turn the temperature, often from -20ish to plus 10 celsius in a matter of hours, because of the drastic change in temperature, and the dry air in the area, it is not uncommon for a chinook to make over a foot of snow, disappear in 1 day, most of the snow melts, however, a good portion of it evaporates into the air, which is max, 55% humidity
chinooks have been recorded to have raised the temperature 41* celsius, in 60 minutes
i guarantee calgary's worse, we've got a weather phenomenon called a "chinook" there's only 1 other place in the world that gets them, and they call them something else...
essentially, what it is, is a random blast of hot air, that can turn the temperature, often from -20ish to plus 10 celsius in a matter of hours, because of the drastic change in temperature, and the dry air in the area, it is not uncommon for a chinook to make over a foot of snow, disappear in 1 day, most of the snow melts, however, a good portion of it evaporates into the air, which is max, 55% humidity
chinooks have been recorded to have raised the temperature 41* celsius, in 60 minutes