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Old 12-31-2009, 07:51 PM   #1
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Just In Time!!

The curse is broken! After 200 or so hours this summer in LJ, with nothing to show but about 6 farmed fish and an ultra-dink 2 lb YT, the heavens finally had compassion on me and shocked the sh*t out of me with my "first" !!



I never was blessed with my "beginners first" (which was totally unfair I might add) but this makes up for it(kinda, I'm still kinda pissed about that). And just in time. Last day of the year and too broke to get a new license! lol.

Got to the launch around 2pm expecting nothing, as has become my custom. No evidence of today being any different than the last 40 miserable, obsessive, fruitless trips. Got out to the general area I heard the fish were at and looked around for a little with the ff. Then for the first time since I started using the sonar(only used it a few times yet) I saw marks which were unquestionably fish marks. A perfect little cluster of upside-down "u"s. Dropped the iron to the bottom and two cranks up, whack! Now I've got stuck on the bottom more than enough times to know this was DEFINITELY NOT the bottom. The question now is what the hell is it? (definitly not a yellow...I'm pretty sure they don't exist) and are my knots good? Not pulling out much drag, is it too tight? After what felt like ten minutes, but probably more like five, I finally see color. "Holy fu*kin shit they do exist!" Gaffed it nicely and flopped it into my lap. Ahhhhhhh. Like shooting black tar heroin. But I digress.

Probably the smallest of the yt's caught lately but he's mine and I love him.

Here's my roommates cat "Tuna". Guess who helped name him.



I'm training him to become a warrior. That's blood on his face


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Old 12-31-2009, 08:01 PM   #2
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Sweet report!!! Way to keep at it and now you have a really good reason to get that new license. More
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Old 12-31-2009, 08:04 PM   #3
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WTG! on your first and many more to come
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Old 12-31-2009, 08:28 PM   #4
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Nice job Ben!
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Old 12-31-2009, 09:25 PM   #5
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Like shooting black tar heroin. But I digress.
ahhh the good old days... but I digress


excellent report
congrats
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Old 12-31-2009, 10:16 PM   #6
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WTG! Happy New Year!
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Old 12-31-2009, 10:53 PM   #7
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Congrats! sounds like you've paid your dues
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Old 01-01-2010, 12:45 AM   #8
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Happy New Year!

Congratulations on the yoyo YT!

Damn good feeling.
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Old 01-01-2010, 01:24 AM   #9
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Ben,

What a way to end the year!!! It took me
two years at LJ to get my first yellow. I hope
2010 only gets better for you!
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Old 01-01-2010, 02:08 AM   #10
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Ben,

You have been paying your dues for a long time, you have spent alot of time on the water looking for that guy. I am super stoked for you. You have earned that fish..
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Old 01-01-2010, 08:09 AM   #11
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Stoked for ya

We spoke when you were paddling out and I was going in. I don't have a fish finder and had just spent a couple of hours chasing currents and getting blown off them as soon as I stopped paddling. It was a good day for the hobie and I had some serious boat-envy on the way in. You were kicking back smoking a ciggy on the Revo, just slicing out through the chop.

Good job using your sonar to find the fish. The guys that get good at that catch a LOT more fish. Just having the sonar doesn't seem to do it. You also have to put your boat over a fish and know how to recognize it. Time on the water.

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Old 01-01-2010, 09:50 AM   #12
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now that is the way to end the year!
perseverance pays off...FINALLY!
WOW...sounds like you REALLY deserved that fish...


oh...
and as for the shooting of the black tar...
there would be no fishing going on!
aren't there some kind of meetings for that?
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Old 01-01-2010, 09:50 AM   #13
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i know how you felt
way to break the dry yellow spell

congrats


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Old 01-01-2010, 12:18 PM   #14
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very cool report,

nice fish
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Old 01-01-2010, 12:19 PM   #15
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Nice
Great way to end the year. Congrats!
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Old 01-01-2010, 01:52 PM   #16
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Great job....way to stick with it
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Old 01-01-2010, 05:13 PM   #17
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I know EXACTLY how you felt..WTG!!!!!!

(heres one from yesterday. I tried sending it via pm, but got errors..)



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Old 01-01-2010, 05:20 PM   #18
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Nice job Ben. That's a well earned fish!
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Old 01-01-2010, 05:37 PM   #19
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great fish. enjoy the feeling.
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Old 01-01-2010, 05:59 PM   #20
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Probably the smallest of the yt's caught lately but he's mine and I love him.

Awesome! That's what it's all about.
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