tvc184

[quote name="mat" post="1024139" timestamp="1310523502"] Sounds like a good trip. [size=10pt][b]Where's Destin? [/b][/size] You sure don't catch Trigger fish like used to. [/quote] Pensacola, Fort Walton area of Florida. The upper coast about half way down the panhandle.

[quote name="PNG Proud" post="1022437" timestamp="1309916312"] [quote author=vhs link=topic=85278.msg1021061#msg1021061 date=1309232299] Hitting the Dupont Outfall in the a.m.  Hope to get on some reds...Has anyone been out there lately?  This is my first time out there this summer. [/quote] If you REALLY want some reds, go to the jetties.  Caught 17 there Sat. [/quote] Any slots?

[quote name="westend1" post="1021948" timestamp="1309563691"] OK   I have a couple of friends with lighted piers on south Pleasure Island.  Next week, two lefties, me and Three Balls, take on Hippy and TVC for all the marbles.   Losers change parties.  Who is in? [/quote] But you will probably wait until the tide is coming from the left side of the piers.

I don't know that it was 30 minutes. I was more like one of them and then a 10 minute gap. Then it was 3 that were 20" or larger in about 5 minutes. My largest was 18" but it looked small next to those bulked up 20 inchers.

Things are starting to heat up.

[quote name="bearbryant" post="1021166" timestamp="1309301128"] I'm interested in this Muzzle loader gun.  Anyone have any knowledge of this weapon.  Does it meet the standards of TPWD for a blackpowder gun?  [/quote] If you are talking about muzzleloader only, I think it does. I think it does because it loads only through the muzzle. The season is not cap and ball or blackpowder but muzzle loader season. From TPWD: [b]Muzzleloader: Any firearm that is loaded only through the muzzle. Note: A cap and ball firearm in which the powder and ball are loaded into a cylinder is not a muzzleloader. Muzzleloader deer seasons are restricted to muzzleloading firearms only.[/b]

The Elite is the best of that group with the mid-length handguard.

[quote name="vhs" post="1020847" timestamp="1309111212"] I'm guessing one of the houses on the water at Sabine Lake down toward the causeway.  Man there is some good night fishing off those docks.  My brother-in-law got an invite to one and smoked the trout.  I have fished from a boat just off the docks and didn't have much luck.  I guess its a case of who you know. :) [/quote] I had a guy that let me go to his dock on the south end of the causeway and we could kill them from his pier. Ike took care of that little honey hole.

In place.

[quote name="rykerx144" post="1020724" timestamp="1309024167"] question is?  Was it a private pier or was that a nice way of saying none of your business, we aint saying?  LOL [/quote] Actually it was a private pier AND we ain't saying.  :D

With all the wind and then rain, I'll bet it still looks like crap.

Private pier.

We probably put about 50 on the dock with 20 keepers. We lost about another 20 (at least) that dropped off the hook as we were lifting them out of the water onto the dock as we were about 6 feet above the water and a 3 foot rail. About 12 of the keepers were at least 17" with no really big ones except the mega-speck that OTB let go. NEVER NEVER NEVER try to pick a speck out of the water with your hands......  ;D It would have gone 4 pounds minimum. We thought it was a redfish.

[quote name="indianforever" post="1020287" timestamp="1308782809"] i just bought a boat and planned on fishing around stewts island this weekend...does anyone have any advice for me...it will be my first time out there and i dont know where to fish around there or what is the best bait for that area or even if thats a good place to fish or not [/quote] Yeah, pick me up and let me show you.  ;D Lots of options on the north end. I don't know with as windy as it has been and with all the rain but specks have been schooling. You could go chase birds or bait on the water. You could also anchor or slow drift (as mentioned, the wind will probably prohibit that option) with cut bait or crabs for reds on the sand bars and channel south of the island. Also be very careful in the area as it can get very shallow in what looks like open water. Instead of running about a mile east of the big bridges to the islands you could run the same distance west and fish around and in the east Bessie Heights canal. The "best" bait is generally shrimp if you can get some but I rarely use them. I hate buying them but love it when I can get some in a cast net. Mud minnows, soft plastics, finger mullet are good options. What is it that you are looking to catch?

[quote name="Old Three Balls" post="1018912" timestamp="1308271228"] [quote author=mat link=topic=82035.msg1018841#msg1018841 date=1308252559] [quote author=Old Three Balls link=topic=82035.msg1018836#msg1018836 date=1308250408] 3 of us kept 18 trout, 2 reds, and 1 flounder last night.  not too bad :) [/quote] Keith Lake? [/quote] partially.  then some night fishing. [/quote] I might be on the way to check out some night action in a bit.

[quote name="Big Ford" post="1017915" timestamp="1307831984"] 13 boats...$650 paid out...winning 5 fish weight was 10 lbs 14 oz, big bass was 3 lbs 5 oz. [/quote] Pretty good haul for the river.

[quote name="thetragichippy" post="1017490" timestamp="1307658123"] [quote author=tvc184 link=topic=84849.msg1017488#msg1017488 date=1307657703] I don't mind the give and take but the calling people the KKK and other names gets old, not to mention the rules. It doesn't seem that hard to just address the issue and not the person. [/quote] I give new posters some slack on learning how to post. I recall my first post being very argumentative.....as a matter of fact I remember going a few rounds with you!  ;D  But one thing we never did was never call each other names.....we argued the facts (or at least I did  :D) [/quote] Yeah, I called you a hippy.

I don't mind the give and take but the calling people the KKK and other names gets old, not to mention the rules. It doesn't seem that hard to just address the issue and not the person.

Usually live shrimp is good no matter what else is happening if you can get them but certainly not a necessity. I catch a lot of fish every year and rarely use any live shrimp unless I just get lucky and catch a few in a cast net while going for shad. What are you fishing for though?

But I made it today. I only fished about 2.5 hours and had to leave. We had 5 in the boat by then but Trece and his buddy are still out there. We had four specks (20, 18, 18, 15.5) and one redfish (27.5). Trece had two specks and the red and I got two specks.

[quote name="Buccaneer#3" post="1015869" timestamp="1307022675"] Can you duck hunt on Lake Conroe?? [/quote] I thought that it was legal but you have to comply with all other laws like your shot can't cross a property line without prior written consent, etc.

I know the correct way to pronounce Atchafalaya, that's about it.

[quote name="trece balas" post="1015615" timestamp="1306901764"] two of us limited out on nice specks in an hour and 20 minutes this evening on keith lake :) [/quote] I was available.  ???

I think that people probably want to know: 1. Acres? 2. Number of members? 3. Family lease? 4. Past history? 5. Lease rules such as deer per membership? 6. Full access for the year or just during hunting season? 7. Family plot being leased out or a lease like from a lumber company? 8. Anyone else have access to the property? 9. Bottoms, creeks, trees?

[quote name="The-NHS" post="1015163" timestamp="1306767867"] [quote author=tvc184 link=topic=77929.msg940182#msg940182 date=1293796013] [quote author=beechnut link=topic=77929.msg940147#msg940147 date=1293772844] Been looking for a good working Gatlin Gun. TVC got one? [/quote] Not yet. I used to have a Galil machine gun that I carried for a few years and that was fun but alas, it is gone also. [/quote] What all is needed to have a an automatic gun? Isn't their some extra hooplah you have to do in order to legally own one? Just curious. I've wanted to get one for awhile. [/quote] Machine guns are lawful to own. The deal is that you have to pay for a federal tax stamp. The stamp is only $200 and a one time deal. You apply for it and clear a background check and if everything checks out okay, you get the stamp.... if you can get a police chief in your city or the sheriff in your county to sign off on it. If not, you can incorporate and get the stamp by forming a corporation and going around the signature requirement. Forming a corporation though might run a person $2,000 or so. I haven't checked into it lately. Once you get the stamp, you can go buy a machine gun from another person that lawfully has one with a stamp. The problem there is that privately owned machine guns had to be manufactured before May 1986 (I think). After that, all machine guns have to go to law enforcement or the military. With the 1986 cut off date, there is a finite number of machine guns for sale. That means big bucks. It is like any other rare item like a rare coin. So you might get lucky and pass the background check and pay the $200 stamp and go out and buy that machine gun. The problem is that the machine gun will likely go for $3,000 or more simply because they haven't been made for public ownership in almost 20 years. So if you have to incorporate then the entire cost might be $5,000 or more. It is not hard therefore to get a machine gun and there is nothing illegal about it. Most people simply don't want to spend the money that it will cost. At $3,000 for a best case scenario and $5,000 or more for the worst case scenario, it just isn't that appealing. By the way, you can also have a short barrel rifle or shotgun (lawful sawed off shotgun or short barrel rifle like an AR-15 with an 11 inch barrel) or silencer by the same means. Those items are still being manufactured though so it isn't nearly so expensive as the $3,000 machine gun. All you have to do is get the stamp at $200 (plus more if needed to incorporate). A short barrel for an AR-15 might run about $200 so if you can get a law enforcement signature, for a total cost of $400 you can have a shorty AR-15 and a dreaded "assault rifle".