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RottieOwner

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Hi there,

My name is Peter and I just joined up with this forum.  I've been freediving for about a year and a half now.  I do a ton of freediving off a kayak.  Currently, I have the Wilderness Systems Ride 135.  Hopefully I'll swap it for a lighter, smaller kayak soon...

BigJim posted about the DOTY tournament in another forum, and it sounded so fun that I signed up here.  Really excited to use the DOTY as a way to improve my skills and set some goals for bigger fish/abs next year.

I live out in Palo Alto and dive 1-2x per week typically and am always game to carpool.


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Welcome Peter!!!

Glad you made it over here dude and look forward to having you compete in DOTY next year!!

Once you get 10 posts you can see the "members only" fishing and diving reports where the best fish porn is.  :smt002

Any questions, just let us know!

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Sincerely,

Jim

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LoletaEric

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Welcome to the club.   :smt001
I am a licensed guide.  DFW Guide ID:  1000124.   Let's do a trip together.

Loleta Eric's Guide Service

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Hi My name is Walt I'm an AVID almost rabid sports fisherman usually targeting unusual or challenging edible fish or other aquatic animals,I've already purchased a touring kayak that does not have the required stability to fish from! I read some-one's post here that said to try out various models to see what suits 1 best and he was TOTALLY Correct in that particular assessment! Mine is very fast and fun yet stability is a decided issue when short of breath and 100 plus yards from shore.A very small wave caught unexpectedly side-wise will turn me over so fast i don't even have time to react other than gasp for breath at the water temp and frantically grab @ my yak, Afraid to use the common surf leash as it may become an entanglement factor! Can rarely find a yakking partner to buddy with to increase my safety factor,So being the risk taker that I am I OFTEN Solo!
Avid lifetime sports fisherman,Caught three monkey-face prickle-backs  today two very large,cooked w/skin on in oven garlic salt and pepper generously sprinkled ! It was Absolutely Delicious! Never more will I remove the skin until after cooking,likens the skin to either freshwater trout or salmon and the back-bone pulls free just like a trout in a single piece,merely remove top and bottom sets of bony prickles,they also come off as a unit if your careful w/a common fork,It's another white meat tougher than fall apart fish,yet flakes quite well! Three Eel's fed 6 adults w/ enough extra to feed two more adult servings,Perhaps Breakfast. Another trip tomorrow/Loves the end of the year low and negative tides it allows me to fish up to waist deep,yet catch 2'4" prickle-backs w/ fat slabs of meat(Can u tell I've Always been a meat fisherman?) Why would I bother catching any critter w/the possibility of causing its death/catch and release is for under-sized fish and affluent anglers!


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Welcome to NCKA Peter & Walt  :smt006
"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...it's about learning how to dance in the rain."


 

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