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  1. I had Lucky 7 in north Austin send a few dozen cards off for me to PSA last month. Hope to get some 9s and 10s.  Getting a Ryne Sandberg 83 Topps rookie graded that seemed like it should be a 9.  
     
    They told me not to send any of my 135 point cards. The thick cards hardly ever grade well they said.  Thoughts?

    Good luck on your grades! They’re right that thicker cards are much harder to grader….soft corners are notorious. I’ve sent some nice thick patches and patch autos off to be slabbed to SGC (I feel they’re easier on the patches)…had some 10s, more 9s and a few 8s. If you want them slabbed, go for it…if you’re looking to flip or sell, it might be better to sell raw.
  2. Iirc they got heavy into bills in the 70’s, family and friends as crew. The old man is almost 80 now, so yeah he’s not captaining the boat anymore, or hunting bills in the gulf for that matter.  They’ve downsized their SF (to a smaller one) and chase pelagics down in Mexico and CR now.  For many years it wasn’t uncommon to have 2-3 captains from that family tree running boats fishing the big tournaments here (Poco, legends, TIFT) at any given time.  Salty, salty family on both sides. 

    fattyflattie - can you share the boat name? Curious if we know them. Our boat was the Wahoo. BHYC A dock in Freeport and then took her to SPI and we fished all those tourneys.

    New here but have lurked forever on all the old sites. Dad was a silver spur way back when and then ran swift boats in Vietnam.
  3. Yeah but who is doing the real fishing? Until they are up at 1am the night before getting the rigging just right - or owning the boat and paying the crew to do that - then they aren’t really fishing.  
     
    and I say that with all due respect as a pelagic tourist who has caught plenty of bounty fish all over the western hemisphere and has also spent time with an owner and saw what really goes into pelagic fishing the night before.

    That brings up memories of offshore tournaments on our boat. Long days and short nights. Waking up at 3-4, leave the dock at 430 to clear the jetties at 5 to put lines in at 7 AM sharp. Lines out at 4-5 PM and hauling ass back in to wait in line at weigh station and fuel, then clean everything. Wouldn’t trade those memories though. When I was in HS / early college, we were “sponsored” by one of the beer distributors…snuck a few
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  4. Was in Port Mansfield last week and weekend for a tournament.  It was really nice Thursday.  Windy on Friday.  And really windy on tournament day. We caught a lot of fish, but not the right size to win anything.
    I love fishing down there.  Fished two artificials.  Gulp white shrimp under a popping cork.  And a topwater.  Redfish were killing the topwaters in the flats.

    PM is great fishing both inshore and offshore since it’s so out of the way…pristine actually. We used to fish PMFT back in the day too. I remember one of my dad’s salty friends saying he found a gold doubloon after a storm and I thought he was full of sh*t. Turns out they occasionally was ashore after storms or dredging from those 1654 Spanish fleet wrecks.
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  5. I finally got around to going through some of my old cards and was going to see about selling them. Late 70’s, 80’s football, baseball, basketball. Some really good cards but I have no idea what condition some of them would be graded. I have 2 NBAhoops Jordan cards (the regular card and the All Star game) that to me are mint. Dan Marino, John Elway rookie also. Any idea what these would be worth without being graded? Don’t know how to load pics

    Check out https://130point.com/sales/#

    That’s where I go…database of all eBay sales…you can check raw, graded etc on there
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  6. Yeah we ended up 4/5 on sailfish the other day and 0/2 on blues and I would have been thrilled with that back when I had my boat in Port A. But for here it was by far our worst day of the season. Most days we are getting about 30ish billfish bites, a few days in the high teens and a few days with 45+. Tournament coming up on Saturday and hopefully the fishing picks up again.
    I fish out of Marina Pez Vela in Quepos. Los Suenos about an hour north of here is good too.

    That’s awesome! I can’t imagine 45+ billfish bites. Like you said, that’s a great day in the gulf. I remember being ecstatic going 2/4 on blues in a day. We fished out of the Sea Ranch and did a lot of the Texas tourneys.
  7. Yes it’s still fun! I got back into it when kids found the cards I collected as a kid. There’s more access now to find out what you’re looking for with eBay, whatnot and fanatics live. Breaking is also fun and more avenues to sell or trade cards. Flippers can be annoying and low balls, etc but definitely still fun.

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  8. A-Tex Devil - check grades comps at 130point for latest sales. I’ll use that to decide what to grade. Market’s really picking up now so if you send them off now you should have back before summer (if PSA). Diamonds also look good in the SGC tux, which is a little cheaper and faster if you’re not looking to flip.

    I had to slow down my breaking and been hunting singles. eBay is easy to sell but can sometimes be slow. You can always consign with someone on WhatNot too.

  9. Some beauties in here! Took my kids to the Dallas Card Show a couple weeks ago. Everything was slabbed and overpriced (was hunting raw), but we bought some wax. Daughter pulled Wyatt and son pulled Ethan.

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