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[Evan in CA]

😮 Just been watching updates on your fires! Saw drone footage flying over houses after houses burnt to the ground in suburban areas, blocks of houses wiped out! We get bad fires here but iv never seen anything like this here in my life.
How on earth did suburbs, not little bush towns living amongst forest and bush like here that get burnt, but such residential large town areas go up like that!?
Hope people here and their families and friends are ok!

Hi chilli, it’s crazy to see neighborhoods that are miles away from the mountains catch on fire like that I’ve never seen anything like that before. I know one coworker lost his house he grew up in. It’s sad.

 

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[releventchair]

Good morning everyone

Evan!!!

 

[Surf_Pirate]

Good morning everyone

there he is

 

[Surf_Pirate]

As the locals here say: “It’s as cold as the night Crissie Wright came ashore”

Schooner Crissie Wright ~ 11 January 1886

Beaufort, NC Post Office Mural Portraying Crissie Wright by Simka Simkhovitch (1939) Found at Havelock News It is said that Crissie ...

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[newnan man]

I worked with a guy who used to say:
"It's colder than a well diggers ass in Alaska."

 

[Oregon Viking]

spinning rod and reel or fly rod?

Spinning rod for me. Catching a Steelhead is like lightning strikin' your pole.
Only thing fights harder is our striped bass.

 

[pepperj]

Spinning rod for me. Catching a Steelhead is like lightning strikin' your pole.
Only thing fights harder is our striped bass.

I still remember my father hooking up with a big one.
Worked that fish until it burnt the bearings out of the reel assembly.

We went home, changed reels, went back to the river. His first cast he hooked it again, this time it through or around a deadhead tree, and snapped the line.

 

[Chilli]

I still remember my father hooking up with a big one.
Worked that fish until it burnt the bearings out of the reel assembly.

We went home, changed reels, went back to the river. His first cast he hooked it again, this time it through or around a deadhead tree, and snapped the line.

It seriously sucks losing a big fish. I hooked and fought a 5 foot plus long King Salmon in Yeppoon when I lived there for easy 45 minutes. It stripped my line 8kg 350 meters down to the last several metres, I thought ok this or nothing and grabbed the spool stopping it. The mono must have stretched several more meters and it turned. From all that distance I could see its tail and dorsal fin cutting the water surface. For a kingy it was a beast. I finally was winning, more runs but less each time till finally i have it near the rocks almost beat.
Im "you gotta be I kidding me this things gonna make the local papers".
Its beat now, I go to reach down with my big long handle net and for crying out loud, the net caught on a button of my shirt, my movement as I desperately tried to free it spooked it and it gave one last run straight around a nearby moored yachts anchoring chain.
😭
Was the catch of a lifetime, lost by a damn .....button.
I felt your fathers pain with that one. Best fish iv ever lost.

 

[oldmxrat]

 

[Surf_Pirate]

Spinning rod for me. Catching a Steelhead is like lightning strikin' your pole.
Only thing fights harder is our striped bass.

Now i know what to bring when I visit

 

[pepperj]

It seriously sucks losing a big fish. I hooked and fought a 5 foot plus long King Salmon in Yeppoon when I lived there for easy 45 minutes. It stripped my line 8kg 350 meters down to the last several metres, I thought ok this or nothing and grabbed the spool stopping it. The mono must have stretched several more meters and it turned. From all that distance I could see its tail and dorsal fin cutting the water surface. For a kingy it was a beast. I finally was winning, more runs but less each time till finally i have it near the rocks almost beat.
Im "you gotta be I kidding me this things gonna make the local papers".
Its beat now, I go to reach down with my big long handle net and for crying out loud, the net caught on a button of my shirt, my movement as I desperately tried to free it spooked it and it gave one last run straight around a nearby moored yachts anchoring chain.
😭
Was the catch of a lifetime, lost by a damn .....button.
I felt your fathers pain with that one. Best fish iv ever lost.

My father built a 12ft plywood boat. 3hp old Evinrude motor. Had to bail water with a tobacco tin till the wood was swollen up.
My older sibling sat in the bow, I sat in the middle and was holding a trolling rod.
I was preschool age, hanging on with a death grip holding the steady pull of the Willow Leaf troll.
I still recall the line being taken off the spool, the drag was set where it clicked the line going off and it sung.
My father was telling me to set the hook, tighten the drag, I placed my fingers on the drum.
The line burnt a stinging cut, and I handed everything to my father's waiting hands.
The fish got off, but it was a good memory for years the big one that got away.
Maybe I'll cast a few times this year, see if one bites.

 

[Surf_Pirate]

Am I wrong, but shouldn't it be some kind of mandatory that a T-net entry member have to list his or her state of location on their profile? Yes I suppose you could lie, but there should be more to becoming a part of this forum than what it is....