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Towboat Trash
Member White Shrimper Boot Club
Joined: 25 May 2009
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Location: somewhere on 130 miles of beach
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 Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 11:26 pm Post subject: PINS 7/17 Warning Long |
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Well hello again everybody....
Seems like I'm back around again a lot here lately. That's okay, because come Tuesday you won't see me around for about three weeks! Thus is the life of a sailor. As I write this, my entire neighborhood (minus the fools in the gang who keep spray painting trash cans for their "posse", until they day they are accidentally forced to go on a PINS trip with me and run ALLLLLL my my baits out to say around 25 feet of water) are absolutely going nuts. I finally got my fish, and gave them all away, and wouldn't you know it, the neighbors came knocking on my front door an hour or so later with cooked kingfish! Some broiled, some pan seared, some on the grill. Man, they must have known I'm a bachelor and eat Ramens a lot! Or.....they just are awesome. 
Either way, the day actually started out yesterday, when I came back from PINS horrified at the goings on of a typical Saturday down there. I have a rule, no Saturday fishing, and sure enough, it was pretty wild with people spanking their kids at the waters edge, buttbags trying to do 40mph by all the camps, and even a nudist colony. Lord, the people that are attracted to the water. Makes me wonder about all of us! Lol. 
So as I woke up this morning after dealing with some late night stuff, I had it in my mind that it was time to put in some work. Somewhere along the line, I've progressed from being totally excited and challenged by the surf stuff to becoming irritated, and tired of the whole distance casting nonsense, when all of the fish I ever caught were taking advantage of the structure in the closer guts. I've gone full circle, I've come back around, and I'm still some days doing 360's in directions yet to be known. That's just the way fishing goes, and the more experimenting I do, the more I realize it's less about the result but more about choosing an area of life that has yet to be tamed or understood. Since I was a teenager, I would take off for the deep woods and drive my parents nuts. It didn't take long in the fishing town in Georgia I grew up in to get an old boat and I would take off for the swamps and the cypress forests, coming back the next day, or even the day after, just me and a rifle. Thought there was something goofy with me, but like the guys on the shrimp docks I grew up around would say, "Just a pirate, born 200 years too late." Who else reading this has ever felt that way? Like there is no more booty to plunder, and no more lands to conquer? I know I have. It's a restless feeling, that dominate a lot of fishermen I've known in my life. And the way I read things...there's nothing wrong with that.
I got to the beach late around 9 and promptly checked the water out and saw a lot of nothing on the high tides that have dominated our mornings here recently. After scoping out some seriously HOT babes....and realizing they were not interested...in men...I knew it was time to move on. On to the 5 mile marker I went. Argh, the Ellen GeDeneres disease lately....
Well....needless to say in a minute here, recently I've done a lot of talking with an Ocean Kayak Representative....namely "Team Buddhahead," who not only has been, and is today, a great friend of mine, but who also is an expert rod builder and restorer, and who additionally possesses vast knowledge of the West Coast fishery and deep sea and near shore techniques from personally spending almost a decade in the industry, working his way up to captain. I have great respect for Gary. And I believed him when he told me the Trident/Prowler 13 was a great boat. You all know...I want to run baits....but the Malibu 2 was getting up in years...say about 10....and I was tired of getting pushed back every time a wave came my way. Getting seasick. Worrying about if the goddang thing was gonna sink out from under me. Been there and done that. And PINS ain't no beach to play with like that. Nobody wants to get in the water LEAST of which me. Which is funny, because growing up, Captain Darwin on the boat I worked on would freak out and curse me and the other deckhands out for swimming around the shrimp nets at the end of the day when we left 'em hanging from the outriggers and dropped the hook for the night. We told him to shutup and go look at his dirty magazines and be quiet, we didn't need his dumb self. Today....I get up out that water quicker than ever. And occasionally, I feel bad, until I remember him keeping us on that back deck till 4am, claiming...."We're gonna get into them this next try, PULL THE TRY NET !#$#$!#$#!4~"
So when I felt like it was time to get a different boat and Gary recommended the T13, I rented it. And....absolutely loved it. Took it to Bob Hall pier area, met about 10 hot babes, then went out in surf rough enough that the tourists called the lifeguard. Never got dumped. Amazing. Fast....has storage....and....I do believe I can run a bait in it. Sold all my old junk, and before I knew it, had the money for the darn thing.
Wouldn't you know it. Extreme EXTREME pimping.
I felt like a freaking GIGOLO.
Was waiting to get hit in the head.
I took off for the outer reaches of humanity with all speed available.
Off I went.
The boat was fast, and the ability to troll every lure in my box had me pumped like some mid 90's reebok pumps.
Annnnnd, the turtles would come and try to bite the crap out of me.
And somewhere out there......I realized.....this was my calling. I felt free, I felt alone, and I felt like I was fishing. Nothing else could compare!
And I finally got close to the rig I had been wanting to nail.
The water 4 miles out was CRYYYYYSTAL clear.
And there were hundreds of triggerfish,spadefish, and french angelfish....and even a few kings!!!
They just kept coming!
And this big turtle would be the 3rd one of the day to come check me out...but this guy came right UP to my hand.....and looked at me. After a while....he swam around the stern and took off back off for the deep places...that apparently called his name....
Off the deep I went.
And the beach was apparently CROWDED!!
But not so much when I left.
The end result is that I love the Trident 13, I had a productive day, I left them MORE than biting. I didn't feel like I could fit the fish in my boat. It was INSANE out there. Fish jumping out of the water chomping on air trying to nail baitfish. Baitfish jumping over the kayak. Sheer insanity. And I loved every second of it. See if I sit on the beach in the future playing with whiting. And all of my rods fit in the boat's hull when it was time to head back through the breakers. Awesome.
Well. That's about a wrap. Thanks for reading and best fishing to all.
-colin
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Livtoday2
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Great report Colin. Oh the mental pondering you have!
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wallhanger
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| I really enjoy these reports |
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lil-red-hunter14
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| wallhanger wrote: | | I really enjoy these reports |
X2. They're awesome |
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HOMERFROMCORPUS
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Great report. The way you write it amlost feels like I was with you especially when the bait fish were jumping over the Kyak.
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SailBad the Sinner
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Colin, truly poetic. Jimmy Buffet would himself be proud. Keep the great posts rolling in like the waves you ride.
"I'm an over 40 victim of fate.
Life ain't to late!"
BTW, EDG disease is cureable. But you gotta get to them before they look like Janet Reno or Janet Napolitano. It's like fishing, show them a bait they haven't seen, and twitch it just right! |
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lil-red-hunter14
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| Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 10:31 pm Post subject: Re: PINS 7/17 Warning Long |
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| Towboat Trash wrote: | Well hello again everybody....
Seems like I'm back around again a lot here lately. That's okay, because come Tuesday you won't see me around for about three weeks! Thus is the life of a sailor. As I write this, my entire neighborhood (minus the fools in the gang who keep spray painting trash cans for their "posse", until they day they are accidentally forced to go on a PINS trip with me and run ALLLLLL my my baits out to say around 25 feet of water) are absolutely going nuts. I finally got my fish, and gave them all away, and wouldn't you know it, the neighbors came knocking on my front door an hour or so later with cooked kingfish! Some broiled, some pan seared, some on the grill. Man, they must have known I'm a bachelor and eat Ramens a lot! Or.....they just are awesome.
Either way, the day actually started out yesterday, when I came back from PINS horrified at the goings on of a typical Saturday down there. I have a rule, no Saturday fishing, and sure enough, it was pretty wild with people spanking their kids at the waters edge, buttbags trying to do 40mph by all the camps, and even a nudist colony. Lord, the people that are attracted to the water. Makes me wonder about all of us! Lol.
So as I woke up this morning after dealing with some late night stuff, I had it in my mind that it was time to put in some work. Somewhere along the line, I've progressed from being totally excited and challenged by the surf stuff to becoming irritated, and tired of the whole distance casting nonsense, when all of the fish I ever caught were taking advantage of the structure in the closer guts. I've gone full circle, I've come back around, and I'm still some days doing 360's in directions yet to be known. That's just the way fishing goes, and the more experimenting I do, the more I realize it's less about the result but more about choosing an area of life that has yet to be tamed or understood. Since I was a teenager, I would take off for the deep woods and drive my parents nuts. It didn't take long in the fishing town in Georgia I grew up in to get an old boat and I would take off for the swamps and the cypress forests, coming back the next day, or even the day after, just me and a rifle. Thought there was something goofy with me, but like the guys on the shrimp docks I grew up around would say, "Just a pirate, born 200 years too late." Who else reading this has ever felt that way? Like there is no more booty to plunder, and no more lands to conquer? I know I have. It's a restless feeling, that dominate a lot of fishermen I've known in my life. And the way I read things...there's nothing wrong with that.
I got to the beach late around 9 and promptly checked the water out and saw a lot of nothing on the high tides that have dominated our mornings here recently. After scoping out some seriously HOT babes....and realizing they were not interested...in men...I knew it was time to move on. On to the 5 mile marker I went. Argh, the Ellen GeDeneres disease lately....
Well....needless to say in a minute here, recently I've done a lot of talking with an Ocean Kayak Representative....namely "Team Buddhahead," who not only has been, and is today, a great friend of mine, but who also is an expert rod builder and restorer, and who additionally possesses vast knowledge of the West Coast fishery and deep sea and near shore techniques from personally spending almost a decade in the industry, working his way up to captain. I have great respect for Gary. And I believed him when he told me the Trident/Prowler 13 was a great boat. You all know...I want to run baits....but the Malibu 2 was getting up in years...say about 10....and I was tired of getting pushed back every time a wave came my way. Getting seasick. Worrying about if the goddang thing was gonna sink out from under me. Been there and done that. And PINS ain't no beach to play with like that. Nobody wants to get in the water LEAST of which me. Which is funny, because growing up, Captain Darwin on the boat I worked on would freak out and curse me and the other deckhands out for swimming around the shrimp nets at the end of the day when we left 'em hanging from the outriggers and dropped the hook for the night. We told him to shutup and go look at his dirty magazines and be quiet, we didn't need his dumb self. Today....I get up out that water quicker than ever. And occasionally, I feel bad, until I remember him keeping us on that back deck till 4am, claiming...."We're gonna get into them this next try, PULL THE TRY NET !#$#$!#$#!4~"
So when I felt like it was time to get a different boat and Gary recommended the T13, I rented it. And....absolutely loved it. Took it to Bob Hall pier area, met about 10 hot babes, then went out in surf rough enough that the tourists called the lifeguard. Never got dumped. Amazing. Fast....has storage....and....I do believe I can run a bait in it. Sold all my old junk, and before I knew it, had the money for the darn thing.
Wouldn't you know it. Extreme EXTREME pimping.
I felt like a freaking GIGOLO.
Was waiting to get hit in the head.
I took off for the outer reaches of humanity with all speed available.
Off I went.
The boat was fast, and the ability to troll every lure in my box had me pumped like some mid 90's reebok pumps.
Annnnnd, the turtles would come and try to bite the crap out of me.
And somewhere out there......I realized.....this was my calling. I felt free, I felt alone, and I felt like I was fishing. Nothing else could compare!
And I finally got close to the rig I had been wanting to nail.
The water 4 miles out was CRYYYYYSTAL clear.
And there were hundreds of triggerfish,spadefish, and french angelfish....and even a few kings!!!
They just kept coming!
And this big turtle would be the 3rd one of the day to come check me out...but this guy came right UP to my hand.....and looked at me. After a while....he swam around the stern and took off back off for the deep places...that apparently called his name....
Off the deep I went.
And the beach was apparently CROWDED!!
But not so much when I left.
The end result is that I love the Trident 13, I had a productive day, I left them MORE than biting. I didn't feel like I could fit the fish in my boat. It was INSANE out there. Fish jumping out of the water chomping on air trying to nail baitfish. Baitfish jumping over the kayak. Sheer insanity. And I loved every second of it. See if I sit on the beach in the future playing with whiting. And all of my rods fit in the boat's hull when it was time to head back through the breakers. Awesome.
Well. That's about a wrap. Thanks for reading and best fishing to all.
-colin |
I know that feeling you had towards the end of the post. The lake in my neighborhood up here in Leander is full of baby shad fry and at times, the white bass will school up and go nuts. Sometimes 25X25 yards in the lake. You can throw anything and it gets picked up! |
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Jason Slocum
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| Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 2:49 pm Post subject: Tree in the surf |
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| Can anyone give me an update on where (what mile post) the big tree is? Last I saw it was around the 5mm? Thanks Jason Slocum |
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robul
Full Grown Flour Bluffian
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| great report man. Love the enthusiasm. |
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Finsonpins
Flour Bluffian in training
Joined: 02 Apr 2009
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Location: Corpus Christi
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| Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 3:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Awesome report as always! |
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Towboat Trash
Member White Shrimper Boot Club
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Location: somewhere on 130 miles of beach
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| Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 1:05 am Post subject: Re: Tree in the surf |
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| Jason Slocum wrote: | | Can anyone give me an update on where (what mile post) the big tree is? Last I saw it was around the 5mm? Thanks Jason Slocum |
Don't get me lying...but I think around the 3.5 or the 4?
Glad you all like the report, I always enjoyed writing and fishing gives me the excuse!
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FIDO
Full Grown Flour Bluffian
Joined: 19 Feb 2009
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Location: Aransas Pass, TEXAS
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I just want to go on record as saying, if anyone ever decides to do a PINS version of Swamp People, Colin you sir would be a must have. We should write History and make that happen. Anyone who as ever met Colin would agree by the way.
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rabbit
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 3:47 am Post subject: |
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Been there and done that. Great report and pics Yup its another world out there. Glad you enjoyed it.
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