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Topic: Introduction: Top Water and Spear Fishing  (Read 1557 times)

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TPH

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Hey all,

My name is Troy. I live in Santa Cruz I primarily target lings and rocks, I surf cast when I don't have the energy of hauling the yak around. Also starting to target halis but no luck yet! I got a vibe sea ghost 130, still need to get a fish finder setup in that bad boy, right now I just use my navionics app while i'm out on the water lol. I only have been seriously fishing for the past few years but I have grown up all my life by the ocean, I also surf on a pretty regular basis.

I also recently started getting into spear fishing as well, definitely would be interested in finding some dive buddies here to get more time down below.


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Hi Troy, welcome to the madness.
I'm Sean. I am up in Bonny Doon, so fish the north coast SC/San Mateo during the summer.
Keep an eye out in the hookups section, as the season heats up there will be some good invites in there.
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Hi Troy, welcome to NCKA  :smt006
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TPH

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Hi Troy, welcome to the madness.
I'm Sean. I am up in Bonny Doon, so fish the north coast SC/San Mateo during the summer.
Keep an eye out in the hookups section, as the season heats up there will be some good invites in there.

Great to hear, I don't have a Facebook or anything so I will keep an eye open on that. Yea the bite is a little slow right now but its great to be getting back out there


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Welcome aboard Troy  :smt006
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Welcome to the madness, Troy!
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Hey Troy! I'm Mike, from Santa Cruz as well. I'm down to hit it up sometime, just shoot me a message! I'm off Sundays and Mondays.  :smt006


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Welcome to NCKA Troy.   :smt006
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Welcome. When the water warms up, the halibut fishing in SC should pick up.

I'd suggest getting a gaff to deal with landing all of those halibut you're going to catch this summer...
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TPH

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Welcome. When the water warms up, the halibut fishing in SC should pick up.

I'd suggest getting a gaff to deal with landing all of those halibut you're going to catch this summer...

Thanks, yea I've picked up a gaf specifically for dealing with halibut