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General Talk / Re: Signs of intelligent life in America
« on: January 12, 2025, 10:02:29 PM »
If I remember right somebody here pointed this guy out

Anyway pretty good summary of what’s coming for the community that was hit and pointers about dealing with the trauma of it all


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General Talk / Re: Signs of intelligent life in America
« on: January 09, 2025, 09:11:19 AM »
Thx r-hopper

This one’s actually from Canada, same continent at least


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General Talk / Re: Signs of intelligent life in America
« on: January 07, 2025, 12:49:36 PM »
Scott T! Blast from the past!

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General Talk / Re: My trip to Vietnam (loooooong post)
« on: January 06, 2025, 01:30:51 PM »
Same kind of thing in China

You’ll see tiny little motorized thing with mattresses stacked 10’ high behind the driver

This might be a thing of the past but just barely. Around 2009 i was walking with my boy on one of the huge boulevards in Beijing, I hear the clipclop coming our way and it was a guy riding an old fashioned flatbed wagon loaded with melons pulled by a mule. It was booking along at top speed and blew right through a red light

Shoulda got video of that one

Thanks for the travelogue, VN looks like a place we need to plan a trip

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General Talk / Re: Signs of intelligent life in America
« on: January 06, 2025, 01:21:32 PM »
How did you do that?

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General Talk / Signs of intelligent life in America
« on: January 05, 2025, 10:47:04 PM »
Mostly Youtuub is about classical music for me but then you come across gems like this



It inspires some optimism

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General Talk / Re: My trip to Vietnam (loooooong post)
« on: January 05, 2025, 10:41:52 PM »
What a beautiful place, you’re a lucky dude

The Yangtze River had similar landscapes all of which are now hundreds of feet underwater after it was dammed

Somewhere I have a dvd (sent to me by a marine scientist during the MLPA shitshow) showing the amazing seafood farming going on there

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General Talk / Re: Commercial Grade
« on: January 05, 2025, 10:34:16 PM »
I was gonna set up for crabbing but maybe I’ll do the lazy thing instead

The commies need every break they can get these days

30x30 will be the end of a lot of them

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General Talk / Re: Snares vs traps?
« on: January 03, 2025, 12:27:53 PM »
Looks like some good options

10-15 years ago the son of our favorite local old school Japanese grocery (which we really miss) was making them, I think out of Pacifica

Speedy the depth was easy but chasing them took a lot of energy re they’re fast and if you don’t keep up with them they get out of sight in the murk. I had around 4 minute breath hold at the time and the crab workout was challenging

Friends kept a big pot of boiling water going on the beach while I was in the water

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That seaweed looks pretty nutritious

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General Talk / Re: Snares vs traps?
« on: January 02, 2025, 01:08:48 PM »
When I used snares before I rigged them on a line and bottle float and left them while I fished. The only advantage is size

Carrying hoops on the stealth or tarpon is impractical and unsafe for any surf launch situation. The airfly’s look good and I’ll look at the Durasnare

Up Mendocino way I used to freedive for them Was a lot of fun chasing them they’re actually pretty fast

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General Talk / Re: Snares vs traps?
« on: January 01, 2025, 02:06:58 PM »
Maybe 15 years ago I dropped snares at hmb and got enough for the family. I attached them to braid with plastic bottle floats while I was fishing the reefs

I’m looking for snare recommendations

There’s somebody making snares in sf that look workable called airfly

Another option is to freedive for them which I used to do up north. Not sure I still have the breath for it

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General Talk / Re: Happy New Year 2025
« on: January 01, 2025, 01:26:57 PM »
Happy New Year OG

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General Talk / Snares vs traps?
« on: January 01, 2025, 01:26:06 PM »
Anybody using snares instead of traps?

Im pondering local crab excursions and don’t care about bringing home limits

Also don’t want to paddle anything remotely resembling a parade float

If I had a hobie ai or ti I could see carrying traps but not on either of my current paddlacs

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Safety First / Re: What would you consider safe conditions?
« on: December 30, 2024, 05:14:50 PM »
This subject could fill a book

I agree about wind especially as my bod got old and stamina evaporated

Swell I disagree mostly, big is good on a kayak if it’s long period … except maybe around reefs or going through a beach break or through jaws. Other than that I’ll take big long period swell over small short period swell that’s going to be steeper and more random and a lot harder to paddle

I always fish alone All my wife cares about is I come home with the fish

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