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That is a crusher for sure. Did they hang him on a scale?
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Put it on the derby scale. It went 55 pounds. Problem is I didn't have a derby ticket! Oh well. Thanks Calvin for hanging the pic. And for all the info to keep this weekend warrior up to date on where the fish are
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That's a great fish, ticket or not.
I weighed my first king on the derby scale at Ship creek in Anchorage about 2 weeks after I moved up. The guy at the derby shack went bananas when it rang in at 29.76lb, seems the magic weight in the derby that day was 29.80 and I had won a really nice Lamiglas rod with a shiny new Penn baitcaster on it. Oh except for the part where I hadn't bought a derby ticket.
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Posting a pic for TrapperJ. A true May Monster. Never seen one bigger in May from around here. Congrats! Damn, beautiful fish!! Nice work.
Ping pong balls for the win. Once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable I keep my circle small, I’d rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
Ain’t easy havin pals.
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A fish that dreams are made of!
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Trapper - what a toad!!! Nice work!! Can you tell us more - troll or mooch, bait or artificial? That is a fantastic fish!!
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Hey Joel- Congrats on the new boat and best of luck with her she looks real fishy! I haven't been on here much lately because of work sorry I missed it. Seems like yesterday you had the baby man has she gotten big and what a smile.
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quote=AKwolverine]Trapper - what a toad!!! Nice work!! Can you tell us more - troll or mooch, bait or artificial? That is a fantastic fish!![/quote]
AKwolverine I got him trolling. Mooched as well and picked some fish up that way too
It was pretty fast fishing and for whatever reason we lost the first three of the day at the boat. My buddy said "It's ok we got that out of our system so when we hit a 50 we'll landed it! A few minutes later we hooked him and was the first fish in the boat that day!!
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Nice fish. What are the "big" ones gonna look like later in the season?
“Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.”
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Kings galore.. Mooching is yielding some pretty good results.
The proverbial "quintuple header". I'm going out tomorrow to try and catch my FIRST king of the year. Only fished kings for about 2 hours so far this year.
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The guy watching tossed his rig down after I shut the video off and hooked up too. What would 6 on at a time be? It's going to be ugly tomorrow. Gonna have to slow the fellas down or we'll be back to the dock before lunch.
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Could I say "I have a sextuplet going right now!" ??
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Posting a pic for TrapperJ. A true May Monster. Never seen one bigger in May from around here. Congrats! Damn, beautiful fish!! Nice work. That's for sure!
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I'm going out tomorrow to try and catch my FIRST king of the year. Only fished kings for about 2 hours so far this year.
Got the first king of the year. 20# white. Daymn tasty . . .
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Good table fare huh? We gotta strain down here folks call tule, ain't very tasty. Nice fish Yahoo got there though...
Ping pong balls for the win. Once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable I keep my circle small, I’d rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
Ain’t easy havin pals.
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Kings, kings, and more kings. 96 for 96 on the allowable kings for my clients in my first 3 groups. Some nice ones thrown in too! Halibut has been tougher, but we've had some good days on halibut if we grind it out. Good thing the kings are coming quick! Day off, and then back at it tomorrow!
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Congrats on the classy old troller Calvin. I've always loved them and the halibut schooners. Can't beat a 471 for reliability either. Much less finicky than a new diesel with common rail fuel injection and a computer. Nothing a good cowl muffler and a little sound down won't help if the noise gets tiresome. You'll love the furuno 295 it'll pay for its self quick. If you're ever feeling flush check out the furuno WASSP it will open your eyes
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Thanks. Picked up a Furuno Navnet VX2 for my new charter boat this morning. Found a good used one at a price that didn't kill me. I use a first generation navnet almost every day and it sure gets the job done. The wassp stuff looks crazy.
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Vx2 is good stuff. I never got into having all my electronics integrated probably because I'm a bit old fashion and at the time I was shopping furuno's autopilot sucked in comparison in my opinion to simrad Robertson stuff. I would love to have a radar overlay my chart plotter though.
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