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    Deep Dropping In The Straits

    Bent butt fish rods are traditionally for high speed trolling for marlin and tuna and wahoo. When fighting your fish standing up, they give you more leverage and comfort over the long haul. With deep dropping the bent butt rods are able to reach further out off the gunnel at a lower angle to...
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    Spin rod with levelwind reel?

    Fishing rod blanks have a spine which adds strength and backbone to the rod and dictates which side of the blank faces up. On the spinning rod the spine would be on top and on a rod made for a level wind the spine is on the bottom. This way you get the proper parabolic arc for your fishing...
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    First Ever Multiplier Mooching Reel

    Yes, the quicker the fish comes in the and the quicker the release or the bleeding and into the cooler the better. Fish have a very high metabolic rate and when you catch them they are often exhausted when you finally get them to the surface. A build up of lactic acid during this time can...
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    First Ever Multiplier Mooching Reel

    Higher speed reels preserve the quality of your fish for the table and aid in the survival rate of the ones you release.
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    Bottom painting aluminum boat

    If you use a bottom paint with copper you must apply a epoxy barrier coat before applying the bottom paint. This will keep the copper from reacting with the aluminum.
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    Point holmes launch

    It seems people launch on almost all tides. You can watch for yourself and take notes. http://www.pointholmesrecreation.ca/rampcam/
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    2020 Haida Gwaii Reports

    Nice intelligent and polite you man. Makes one have hope for the future generations.
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    Downrigger question.

    Keeping the ball in the water keeps it from whacking the side of your boat when it would otherwise be swinging wildly side to side.
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    2020 Vancouver-Howe Sound-Sechelt Reports Thread

    Besides digging, there is all the rest. Welcome!
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    Clothesline type shore anchor system.

    You will have to sink a five gallon bucket full of concrete offshore where you want your boat to sit. Than you tie one end of a rope to the bucket and run it to a floating buoy. Tie a loop in the rope next to the buoy. Run your clothesline through the loop at the buoy and run it through a...
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    Staying fresh on the chuck

    If you stand at the helm all day, find a thick rubber mat to stand on to take some of the shock and add comfort to the ride.
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    Baja-off the Beaten Track

    The developers of the Sueños resort renamed it from Bahía de los Muertos because they didn't think older rich gringos would be interested in buying property in the Bay of the Dead. All Mexicans still call it Bahía de los Muertos for the members of the Spanish navy that were killed there by the...
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    Cabo bound

    Latest report from the Gringo Gazette: https://www.gringogazette.com/?q=content/fish-report-95#sthash.Q3VVzmGl.IsCFDgoP.dpbs
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    Baja Snook -Off the Beaten Path

    Bahia de los Muertos yellow tail !
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    Line twist

    Make sure when you first spool up your reel with new line that you take it off the spool from the right direction otherwise you will get line twist. A sure test is to fill your reel part way and then give your reel some slack between the reel and spool. If it coils up like crazy, you have the...
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    2019 Ucluelet Reports

    Purple Haze hoochie perhaps...
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    2019 Sidney Reports

    Sorry, this is not the "Onion."
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