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Old 02-25-2011, 10:24 PM   #1
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What do you do when the fishing sucks?

I have never fished so much for nothing considerable in my life, than since Turkey Day of '10 until now. I try to get out fishing 1, if lucky 2, times a week, but lately the weather has been putting the damper on that. So... Being the type of person that can't sit still long enough to watch 1 quarter of a football game, I began many projects.

Project 1. Skiff Work
  • Hand Built Cup Holders
  • Painted Bench Seats and Hull
  • Built a gas tank storage / bait tank table top

Project 2. Rod Wrapping
  • Seeker Black Steel guides suck and fall apart at the welds so...
  • Removed Old Guides
  • Got a wrapping lathe
  • installed high end guides on my black steels - all black wraps
  • Became addicted to rod wrapping so...
  • removed every sticker on my black steels
  • wrote my rods "nicknames" and model #
  • re-wrapped, and epoxied back over
  • They are now "custom rods," all black, with awesome guides.
  • Sweet

Project 3. Simplify my life
  • I surfed since I was 10 (20 Years)
  • I snowboarded for a very long time
  • Skatetboarded since 5 (25 years)
  • Snow Ski whenever possible
  • Wakeboard
  • Ride beach cruisers
  • ETC
  • Fish a lot
  • sooooo.
  • I'm selling almost all of it, cause I never use it anymore
  • All surfboards, snowboards, a pair of skies, boots, bindings, skateboards etc. etc
  • And the skiff - all the work goes to waste of course
  • All the $ is going to a newer, mo better skiff for summer
  • If I have enough left over I'll get another yak and call it a day

Simplified Life - I work, play with the kid, hang with the wife, build my own rods, and fish for inshore and offshore for pelagic species.

That's what I do when it sucks. What do you all do?
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Old 02-26-2011, 08:34 AM   #2
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I used to wrap rods too.I still have my wrapper and dryer.I have a hand wrapper and not a power wrapper.Works fine its just slower.I Plan on wrapping a few rods again soon.I have wrapped five rods in my life and only have one left,My 800M.I feel every So-Cal fisherman needs an 800M.I actually broke 4" off the tip stuffing in Yak so now its a 775MH Custom.
I made my own dryer from a B B Q rotisserie motor.It works great.I had an awesome Graphite USA rod that I lost in the surf and I want to wrap another one.
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Old 02-26-2011, 10:12 AM   #3
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I used to wrap rods too.I still have my wrapper and dryer.I have a hand wrapper and not a power wrapper.Works fine its just slower.I Plan on wrapping a few rods again soon.I have wrapped five rods in my life and only have one left,My 800M.I feel every So-Cal fisherman needs an 800M.I actually broke 4" off the tip stuffing in Yak so now its a 775MH Custom.
I made my own dryer from a B B Q rotisserie motor.It works great.I had an awesome Graphite USA rod that I lost in the surf and I want to wrap another one.
Nice wrap on that! Even though it can be tedious and monotonous there is something relaxing about it and I always think of all the fish I'm going to catch on that rod while building it. Fun chit. I'll post up a few pics of mine once the kid settles down for a nap.

I'm thinking about buying a blank to wrap for targeting T-sharks. What would be a good stick for that? Thinking of an 80# rod with my 2 speed Talica spooled with 100# spectra to an 80# flouro leader. I recently got a 400# capacity chest freezer so I can now harvest and process a T shark or two.
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