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Posts posted by justhookit
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4 hours ago, El Diablo said:
Who was the bartender at Salty Dog? Fuck, can't believe I don't remember.
Timeframe? There’s been a bunch. we recycle bartenders here in Port A pretty fast. Owner of the bar is Rhonda.
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4 hours ago, CoTex said:
The correct answers are:
Nuevo Laredo (outside la zona);
Anything in south San Antonio; and
The salty dog in port a. Did a flash dance there one night spraying my beer all over my friends and swinging my shirt overhead. When my shirt hit the ceiling fan decades of dust and shit blew all over the shrimpers. Then things got serious.
Honorable mention - Most dangerous goes to tie - Mccurtain County Oklahoma and Hull, England. For whatever reason those people really like knives. I would rather try my chances in Mogadishu than there.Lol @ Salty Dog. Just no. Yes it gets a little rowdy with tourists at times, but the local methheads can’t even afford a beer there. In case you were serious, it was torn down after Harvey and the new place will open next month. From your description, are you sure you aren’t thinking of Shorty’s? That would be where decades of dust might fall on your head. But again that would be a hard no. How long ago was this? Sure you aren’t thinking of Aransas Pass? I’m not sure I have seen a shrimper in a bar here in the 15 years i’ve lived in Port A.
The Flats (now closed but probably opening again soon) sandwiched between Bernie’s and Shorty’s got a little sketchy towards the end of its run with a murder and multiple stabbings. You were just as likely to run into a multi-millionaire there as you were a hardcore thug. I’m not sure you get the gist of the thread.
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1 hour ago, Beau Vine said:

Until now that was wiped from my memory. Thanks?
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4 hours ago, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:
The first tarpon I ever jumped was approaching 100 pounds. He tailwalked a mile, I fought him back to the boat, hooked pulled. My body was literally shaking for the next 2 hours. Might as well be a drug.
Dude, I probably jumped off 20 of the bastards before I ever got a good release on one. Fuck those fish. They make hooking a white marlin look easy.
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6 hours ago, Brew said:
On the subject of long runs there was a thread on THT in the last week or so about a guy making the run from Orange Beach to Abacos in a 40’ Invincible Cat in one run. It was an interesting read on the way back when he made the 800 mile run in around 20 hours including a fuel stop and a trip through the locks across FL. Some people have bigger balls (and more money) than me. There is another one following a boat on the Great Loop that is more my speed.
Thanks a lot. Got home and was planning to go to sleep but no. I’ll finish it tomorrow. Lots of thoughts about what a stupid idea it was but that guy propbender has been around a long time. Glad it was him and not some idiot.
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4 hours ago, Chewbacca said:
Thanks. That answers my question. I was thinking for serious fishermen that there would be times that even a 4000 gal tank won't be sufficient. So barrels on the bow it is...
EDIT: Looks like they have bladders now. If you search for No Compromise sportfishing, you can find this on the second or third link:

I’m shocked they didn’t have bladders. Everyone has had them a long time - heck I even have 2 250 gallon ones and I’m a poor in this world. They may have had an issue or needed both bladders and barrels for where they were fishing the tournament. It’s extremely rare for a boat that big to need bladders ever, and especially not in slow boat travel mode, but in a tournament where you are going to need to run 30+ knots over 700 miles round trip you gotta have ‘em. We made that same run last year to fish off Louisiana from Port O’Connor. It’s a beating on everyone to do it and I hope I never do it again.
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10 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:
So only 20 hours at cruise on a tank? Seems like you would want more range than that to do longer trips?
Yes, but that is your cruise speed with engine RPMs roughly in the 1800-2000 range. when you are doing longer trips you generally slow boat at 8-12 knots, burning far far fewer gallons per hour to extend your range.
My boat at cruise has about a 350 mile range. But by going slow we were pretty easily able to go straight across the gulf from Texas to Mexico. Basically slow boating doubles our range.
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11 minutes ago, Deej said:
Some poor girl was on the sidewalk at 3rd and Congress today when some homeless guy charged at her yelling, "You're so hot!", and tried to wrap his arms around her. Some random dude ran up and yanked him off her. Good job, random dude.
Was it the new shirtless, barefoot guy (at least new to me) that has been wandering there and on over to Lavaca the last few days? He’s been pretty aggressive.
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3 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:
I know you don't care when you can drop that kind of money on a boat, but what kind of fuel burn are you looking at to fish with a boat like that? 5300hp has to go through that 4000 gallon fuel tank rather quickly, no?
They are probably near 200 gallons an hour at cruise.
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8 minutes ago, davidg said:
Bert is/was more about the party than the boat. I worked at a company Bert owned part of. Never got a ride on Bandit but did fly in one of his planes a few times. True 1% does have it's niceties.
Sorry you missed out on Bandit. They’ve got a great fishing program going and consistently do well in tournaments. Bert’s a good dude, too.
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22 minutes ago, crash_davis said:
i question if any fish has ever been caught from that boat.
It’s rigged to fish including the extras like sonar that you don’t put on if you’re not serious about marlin fishing. That and 1300 hours on the engines means they fish a lot.
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Nope. You couldn’t pay me to take that one. Hate hate hate enclosed bridge for fishing. Nice when traveling though. It does have a sky bridge though so maybe.
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Great. Now all 3 of you can view it here instead of there
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7 minutes ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:
Pretty sure it was just, "Beer." Or if you were on a diet, "Light Beer."
Yes. In a black and white can. It was terrible.
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Since we are on the subject, some fun notes-
the boat I mentioned above, Smooth Move, travels between Costa Rica and the U.S. hitting both tournament circuits and fun fishing in between. Owner is out of Louisiana and had a 500,000 dollar budget for the captain to purchase t-shirts, stickers, koozies etc. when they back in to weigh-in’s at tournaments they have 2 t-shirt guns like you see at sporting events to shoot shirts into the crowd.
Bandit, an 82 or 84 foot Viking based in Port A has an owner that gets seasick and hardly ever fishes. He sends clients out on the boat and during tournament season he hires additional captains and mates to be his fishing team. The reason he has a boat that big is because he had a 74ish Viking, but then another guy in Port A bought a 78 foot boat. He got pissed his boat was not the biggest in town so he bought a new one.
the craziest I’ve seen is in Los Suenos in Costa Rica. The Russian finance minister or something like that has an 80 foot fishing boat there. And a 140 foot yacht. He also has matching yachts and fishing boats in about 10 other places. A few years ago we were fishing a tournament there and there are certified observers that come on your boat to record your sailfish and marlin releases. You have to feed them and we generally do sandwiches or fried chicken. Friend of mine gets assigned to the Russian boat as an observer. It’s a party with like 15 guys and a bunch of paid women. This is a serious tournament with some of the best crews in the world. They start the day at 6 am with multiple bottles of vodka and drink all day. It gets to be lunch time and they bring my friend lobster, and caviar in a Faberge egg.
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They definitely fish them. The ones that tend to sit at the dock and/or just be used as yachts tend to be the smaller 50-70 foot boats. Also, any boat you see in Costa Rica fishes, and usually a lot. If you are there you are serious about the fishing part.
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Well after we buy the Surly Clubhouse above there should be plenty of money left in the wreath fund for a boat. I vote for the new Spencer named Smooth Move, but it’s red so someone will have to pitch in for a paint job.
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15 hours ago, fattyflattie said:
Mechanical man was the first fast boat I remember (I’m certain there were many more, just in my mind). She blew by us once (35’ Bertram with triple nickels) and it was like a Ferrari and a pinto. I could hear the turbos from several hundred feet away, over the roar of the 555’s at 80%. Such a beautiful boat.
Know what you mean. We are happy to cruise at 26 knots on my boat and probably 75% of the fleet just blows by us. The last few years I’ve spent a lot of time fishing a Davis hull finished out by another custom builder that was better at about 29 knot cruise and last season is Texas we fished a 63’ F&S. That boat was amaaaazing. There’s nothing like cruising in from 300 miles offshore at 34 knots and then punching it when you get close to the jetties to pass everyone at 39 knots.
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36 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:
I still don’t know how the C’est la Vie, No Comprimise, and even Mech Man class back in there to weigh.
Ha I know. And with so many boats now in the 70-90 ft range, Mechanical Man is simply a mid-size boat now when it comes to the tournament trail.
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It’s pretty much impossible regardless of who the builder is to build anything other than basic, basic quality in Port A now for less than 200/ft and I imagine it would be similar or more at Sanctuary. Quotes for my house came in 200-270 in January and I’d bet if I got new ones now it’d be even higher.
As y’all know Port A is starting to price a lot of people out of their vacation/retirement home plans. My guess is Port O’Connor is next.
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I haven’t heard anything and haven’t asked, but there almost has to be something up at Sanctuary. We’ve kept a boat there a few times during POCO and Lonestar Shootout and it’s great. So much better than dinging your props (or worse) in the shithole of a marina at Caracol. Every freaking year there are multiple boats with issues.
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It’s all on their website. You can do single game or the whole season with varying price levels depending on the package and extras you choose. We had the smallest version and generally had 10-15 people at any given time coming ang going. I think they do packages up to 100, but it’s not like they go around counting how many people you have in your area.
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It’s fine for what it is. We had a package for 2 years, but not doing it anymore. Can’t beat the convenience.
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Haha yeah, uh sign me up for eggo’s tax plan
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2019 Poker run gooder or die thread
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Damn this thread makes me miss the 1/2 on the gambling boat that used to run out of Port A.