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It is a 19 footer just like mine. It probably has the 140 mercruiser in it. It's a nice package.

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Please stop showing your phone numbers. It is just another tidbit of information that somebody somewhere will gather and in the end use to scam you. Use private messaging.

Leave them out in the sun a while, they'l snap real easy afterwards.

I always used to think that the farther forward and the higher would be the best thing to do. (masts). The bad part is that when something goes wrong, the lines may end up under your boat with all the trouble that it may cause. I do not see anything wrong with the pulleys on the top. I made one small edition to the tow lines. Drlfc's son calls it an "Old Man"s Rope". This is a rope with a bayonet hook that goes around the tow line and then to the side of the boat where it is tied up roughly at the back of the front seats, or just in front of them, It makes it a lot easier to pull the lines in instead of trying to get them with a pole hook. Wherever you make your connection, front or center, make sure that the tow line does not go on or under your dipsy rods. I bet there are a few sad stories about rods that got caught and went into the lake. I myself got crazy lucky. when one of my rods got pulled out. It went under and in pure frustration I jerked up my downrigger rod and miraculously the line caught the dipsy rod and I could bring it back on the boat. I have used lanyards on the dipsy rods ever since.

What boy scout troop were you in? A burning cigarette with unlit matches at the end and some straw to camouflage and ignite it will do the exact same thing and allow you to get far away before the party starts. You see, the boy scout troop that I was in is called IDF

I added some pics and a dolphin video to the first post

I was staying in Santa Teresa which is a popular surfing spot , but it is hard to reach ( Cesna flight and unpaved roads) The place where I fished from is called Mal Pais. Probably the only charter that is on the net over there is "Jason tours" When you see his website it seems like a big operation, but it is a one man operation. He is a very good and pleasant person who speaks good English. As for Santa Teresa , it is a dusty little town where the beach crowd of young ladies, who seem to compete in how scantily dressed they can get, are very well represented.. If you want to go there you should count on renting a 4 wheel drive vehicle. US dollars are accepted in every place.

I just came back from Costa Rica where I visited my daughter and did some fishing. It was incredible. I went out for 2 deep sea trips and two near shore trips. The catch included rooster fish and mackarel tuna near shore while off shore the first day produced 5 mahi mahi (none less than 20 pounds), 2 sail fish of roughly 200 pounds each and 2 20 pounder tuna. The second off shore trip was plain incredible. I caught about 25 mahi mahi ,again, all very large ones. Every time I brought another one close to the boat, there were a few swimming alongside with their incredible colors clearly showing. The captain said that we averaged one mahi mahi every five minutes. Then we went tuna searching again and we found them alright . They were just in front of a huge school of dolphin. I brought in two. One a 20 pounder,and one a 40 pounder, the third one I fought for 40 minutes and had to hand the rod off to the mate because my arms were just too tired. He brought it in and it topped out at 55 pounds. This was easily my most successful fishing trip ever. Once my son comes over to help me transfer pictures i will post a bunch of them. Edited 25 minutes ago by rolmops VIDEO-2023-01-30-08-04-35.mp4

This question has come up before. Sometimes the local volunteer fire department will take them to use for training purposes. I usually save them for the fourth of July, but you also can just ignite them in a place where they will not case alarm. Do not throw them in a campfire.

I feel that as bitcoin values decline ,so will the will the need for this utterly needless polluter. My hope is that they will go bankrupt .

Thank you for this. You just put some whip cream on my morning coffee. I barely got my breath back from laughing at Jimmy Kimmels's skid on George Santos and now you top it off with a cosmic Dr Snip.

Sorry, I meant to say otter boats which allow you to run lines 20 feet apart.

What saddens me in this case is that we do not seem to learn of our previous mistakes. First we dumped PCBs by the thousands of tons into our lakes and streams and made fish inedible and gave a lot of the polluters a free ride to make bigger profits by not having to clean up after themselves and now we find out that the same was done with these forever chemicals. As long as big money has big political power we will just keep on having our precious resources polluted so more profit can be made.

I have the same experience, but I solved the problem by changing from Sam Adams to Yungling. Now I’m good again. It might be that the culprit is hops instead of alcohol.

You can easily run 3 longlines on each side of your outriggers. Running a longline out the stern is asking for trouble. I once fished solo about 8 miles offshore, the lake was as flat as glass and the fish did not bite at all. Out of sheer boredom I put a junk line out the hole, a 12 colors leadcore . not 5 minutes later a king hit a rigger line and almost at the same time a steelie hit the leadcore.. The 2 fish managed to make the mother of birds nests out of the leadcore and when they were done doing that, they both broke off.

I find that more lines out is usually because the bite is poor and boredom sets in.

Seeing that you use a smaller boat, I would start with otter boats or something similar and run weighted steel or regular steel on both sides. This is to stabilize your rig. As you probably know, that as soon as you move in the boat it will change direction. Having the otter boats minimizes that. Next I would run the downriggers and the dipsies. Again in order to stay on course, I would never have one down rigger out of the water for it will make the boat pull in the direction of the rigger that is in the water.