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  1. 39 minutes ago, G650 said:

    Gorgeous day on the water here yesterday, 75 degrees and 10-15 knots with a couple puffs to 20. Was nice to get back on the home waters for first time in quite awhile.

    We were a tad warmer and winds the same. It was sublime.

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  2. 10 hours ago, Larry T. Spider said:

    I started this thread a month ago and we have gone from 38% full to 37%. Doomed.

    Not sure where it lands by the end of the summer if not sizable rains in May, but it won’t be the end. We’ve got one more year before we are all turbo fucked. So hope for floods in May then October then next spring. We need a Noah’s Ark event, they happen, no doubt we just need it in the next 12 months or we are fucked 3 ways til Sunday and then really fucked on Sunday because Jesus hates Austin and it’s sinners.

  3. Last time I went out we got over powered by the wind and that sucked. 
     

    today was gorgeous, another down wind tack that made my heart sing. Wife and I enjoying the dock life with wine and cheese wishing we were in Catalina.

     

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  4. 23 minutes ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:

    Mrs GOTJ continues to make steady progress. Lately she's been big on a high fiber diet which is supposed to help mitigate several of the changes. Of course she's now spending plenty of time in the restroom dealing with the side effects of eating a bowl of Colon Blow cereal each morning. One of the biggest challenges is her getting her progesterone filled since it's stocked out of pretty much every pharmacy in the area.

    bywinona fulfills through a pharmacy for my wife.  Shows up in the mail. 

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  5. On 3/10/2024 at 6:46 AM, tigol said:

    For those looking for online resources, I can vouch for Winona.com. I have received prescriptions from them and they are legit and affordable. My interactions with the staff and physicians have all been prompt and professional. The only drawback is the meds are shipped USPS.

     

    On 3/10/2024 at 9:21 AM, troph said:

    it’s bywinona.com and I’m totally checking that out thank you!! 

    She used bywinona for her HRT and is in her second week of treatment. She’s not mentioned a hot flash but she also tends to not complain much. If I remember I’ll update the thread again later. Thanks again. 🙂

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  6. 8 hours ago, b_p said:

    This site has some amazing footage of ballistic missile strikes and how fast they're moving.  It makes you understand the challenges of defending against hypersonic missiles that can change trajectory during flight.  I suspect all of this was more of a show of Iran's capabilities rather than an actual attempt at trying to take out Israel.  However, from a pure defense standpoint, I'd expect we're learning a lot about how to defend multi-wave and barrage attacks as well as the reliability and effectiveness of the Iranian systems.

    https://www.twz.com/news-features/irans-retaliatory-strikes-have-begun

     

    This attack by Iran and the Russian-Ukraine war have been invaluable to provide clarity on the next generation of war and the capabilities of two boogeymen - Russian and Iran.  I certainly don’t like these attacks and want more support for Ukraine but the intel on wide open display is probably extremely valuable to our military. 

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  7. And by the way, there are a LOT of people out here mad the bullies didn’t get kicked off the team. Hell, leave the peanuts in his shoes and it’s attempted fucking murder, negligent homicide a possible realistic conviction had he died.
     

    There are a TON of families that despise the football first and only attitude. I mean shit they have stupid priorities and still can’t beat Westlake.

  8. 27 minutes ago, immamac said:

    My in-laws lived in LT for ~20 years (hudson bend). I'm well versed in the vibe out there and I still don't really understand it especially the last 8-10 years where the lake has basically not existed for nearly half of that time. When the lake is up though it's awesome to be able to just go to the dock, hop on your boat and go for a cruise on a sparsely populated lake with great views. Outside of the lake access it's very keep up with the Jones's vibes mixed with nepo or fraudulent small business vibes. 

    There’s a shit ton of real but new money out here now too. The remote work revolution changed a lot and there are legit mid sized company CEOs, private equity / VC types, investment bankers etc that live here now too. It’s a very odd mix of rough hollow real housewives kinda shit, (keep up with the jones types), lake rats, Lakeway olds, 17 lgbtq families, and obscene money. 
     

    We try to just opt out, and enjoy the recreation.

  9. 18 minutes ago, immamac said:

    That view sucks. How do you sleep at night having to look at that dump of a view before going to bed. 

    It’s extreme I get it, but there are thousands out here for the lake not the bullshit. I’m just trying to balance out the discussion to highlight the appeal that Austin does not have.  Exception - Tarrytown / Westwood / westlake by lake Austin, etc have a similar vibe and a similar bullshit culture with some variation for politics and city vs burb vibes.
     

    Lakeway / Bee Cave / LTISD blow donkey balls unless you’re here for the lake, boating, golfing or flying airplanes (small private airstrip). It was a retirement community for a long time for a reason. If the recreational aspects not your reason for being out here you’re suspect imo. 

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  10. On 4/11/2024 at 9:01 AM, texasdago said:

    We looked at several houses in the Lakeway area when we decided to move back to Austin.  I'll never forget one of my friends warning me about the culture there.  In essence, he said that the obsession with sports and football almost trumped everything else at Lake Travis.  This was coming from a guy with deep athletic genes running through the family with boys playing across various varsity sports.  

    One night, we went to dinner in Lakeway and I looked around and said, "man... everyone looks exactly the same."  We realized, yeah, Lakeway is not going to be for us.  Bullet dodged.

    Oh... and I have a kid with peanut allergies... mild but has them... hope the family rakes them over the coals.

    I honestly couldn’t stay but for the proximity and access to the actual lake. And I can’t figure out the appeal if not the water.

    But anyway, we have almost zero friends out here. Not our people.
    My kids are lake Travis band kids, at least one coulda been in athletics past 8th grade, it was easy to side step the athletic toxic garbage. We stopped trying to compete athletically with any intensity by the 5th grade. My youngest did decide he likes tennis and playing one season competitively for his school was more than enough for him. He still plays for fun but the athletic culture out here is not something that my sons care for.  My other son surfs sails and mountain/road bikes so we aren’t lacking physical activity. So if you steer your kids from it that toxic world fades away pretty fast.

    Add being out here for the lake changes everything at least for us. I just won’t trade easy unplanned boat nights or these views for Austin bullshit. 
     

     

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  11. 6 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    You’re describing what topwater fishing is to me.  Watching that wake come up behind and then the toilet bowl flush into a 30” sow, or the hand grenade that goes off when that upper slot red somehow wraps their stupid bottom feeding mouth around the back end of that spook.  Caught a >100# YF on a popper and spinning reel, after watching them soar into the sky when they missed it.  Chicken dolphin on single hook spooks around weed lines.  I bet I could catch 20x the fish if I didn’t insist on fishing one lure 95%+ of the time.  But when it’s on, there’s nothing like it (for me). I’ve got a shoulder I got to get figured out because it’s keeping me off the water for far too long. 

    The 8 foot sailfish I caught? The first jack I caught that took 45 mins to land (I was a teenager)? Tuna screaming with the line, marlin jumping (didn’t land)? More dorado and wahoo than I can count, multiple limits caught in half day trips - reds / trout, trophy trout and trophy reds, I mean I could go on and on, all on conventional tackle all take a back seat. Sorry, I get you like what you like, but the skill and effort catching on a fly especially with barbless hooks is next level.  You should try it will rock your world.

  12. 18 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    A 10# sow is tough enough on a corky, I don’t have enough years left to make that happen on a fly.   Hell it took me 20 years to break 30” on conventional tackle. 

    To each his own.  My top 5-10 fishing experiences are all on a fly rod. 11-15 probably conventional off shore but give me another 5 years and those will drop further, after that it’s back to the fly rod. And I’ve barely scratched the surface. No permit, caught but haven’t landed 12-14 pound bonefish you have not heard a reel scream until you’ve seen a large bone take off, caught but haven’t landed a 50 lb tarpon and the fucker jumped 3 feet into the air before it through the hook, caught a heavy weight GT which is a catch of a lifetime, caught a 28-30 inch red, caught a slot from 60 feet away with a perfect cast and the momentary skill of a pro, and more reds and trout than I can count, almost all I saw them before they saw me and I targeted them. I’ve hit the mother load of 10+ trout in 30 mins on a fly rod more than once but first with Hollywood, on a fly rod is an incredible way to hunt fish. Add barbless hooks and it’s even more satisfying - and this part cannot be overstated - releasing a fish after a fight almost unharmed just startled is the holy grail imo. And I started  fly fishing at 43-45 years old. There’s always time. You get bored it’s the next level. The draw is inexplicable. 

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  13. 7 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    Make no mistake, I’m sure he’s happier than he lets on.  I chalked it up to what it’s like when you hook a red while fishing Baffin in Feb.   Off my line carp, I’m here for the sows.  On legit 30+ fish days I’m sure you’re looking for something new to bite.  I assume because I’ve never been a part of something like that. 

    That’s why we fly fish. 

  14. 25 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    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. 

    That’s cool. They deserve to get bored. The rest of us have a lot more fishing to do before we are entitled to be bored. The power of humility, gratitude and appreciation is real. 

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  15. 2 hours ago, fattyflattie said:

    This is someone who easily has triple digit sails, and they probably getting close on blues.  Grew up fishing the Marlin tournaments.  It’s (big) blues or bust for them, for whatever reason.  I always personally loved them.  And tuna.  And trout.  

    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.

  16. 1 hour ago, fattyflattie said:

    Don’t think sails are as bad, and the light gear helps. Have a buddy that fishes down there 1-2x a year and they’ve had a couple 35+ days over the last few trips.  Unreal.  Thing is, sails no longer do it for them.  Which would suck imo. 

    My view is as things stop working for you it’s important to be more responsible for the full catch. Hard to do off shore but I’m sure catching a sail when you set up the rig, you figure out where to go and how to hunt for them is way more satisfying. In the end most of us tourist fish for pelagics, that’s a very narrow fishing experience and 95% of the fishing is done by someone else. I compare it to a Colorado vacation float trip for trout versus soup to nuts doing it yourself. Night and day difference. 

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  17. On 4/8/2024 at 10:31 PM, Shot Caller said:


    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.

    The last time I fished CR we caught 8 and I thought it was an epic day. Caught a really large sail trophy pic worthy and since I hadn’t ever caught one they let me get the pic. The rest we left in the water.  I went home so effing happy. 45+ ??? Wouldn’t know what to do.

  18. On 4/8/2024 at 12:06 AM, TreatyOak said:

    As someone who thought I worked insane hours in advertising in NY, her job has been fairly astounding to us. She was a computer engineering major at Duke and interned at Morgan Stanley in NY two summers in school. Since graduation, she has been there full-time. The hours are like nothing we’ve ever seen. She will stay at her job (with a promotion in Aug) and has already accepted a job at another private equity firm & start in Aug of 2025. I have no understanding how the industry works as it seems to have its own unique structure, but perhaps all finance is like that. She has worked on some pretty cool deals, as well. I would encourage it, since your son can bank a lot of money and then be very valuable to so many different companies. 

    yeah I think the law equivalent is about 10% less in hours but a whole lot less in pay. I worked 100 hours per week rarely but it happened. 65-70 was pretty standard - a lot of 12 hour days and a few hours to organize, think, catch up on the weekend. not great but manageable when you're young and no kids. but bump that up to 75-80 hours and more often at 100 hours per week and that will burn. but the money and the skills for sure.  good luck to her that's awesome.  world will be her oyster for sure.

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