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| Picou
Lunker Username: Picou Post Number: 1224 Registered: 8-2004  Rating: N/A |
We rented a beach house in Sea Isle on Galveston West Beach. The home is beachfront with a private walk-over to the beach.  Along with this rental I get access to a 900' private pier over the bay that I fished growing up as a teen when my father built beach homes downt there. I will be fishing every night or flounder gigging in San Luis Pass. The kids want to fish some and go crabbing also so we should have a lot of coastal activities going on all week. We stay from Sunday to Sunday the last week in July and I am looking forward to it. I'll be hooking up with a TRB member on the first Sunday night to fish his canal lights, drink a few cold beers, and go do some flounder gigging. Hopefully Emily stays way South and just provides a little tidle surge to clean the seaweed off the beaches... This is going to be a long 9 days...   Thank you Lord for my family and the waters I get to fish
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| Big_p
Moderator Username: Big_p Post Number: 430 Registered: 7-2004  Rating: N/A |
To bad it isn't a week later Picou you could go on our offshore trip with us the 6th.  Good luck and I hope to see plenty of weekday updates on your progress. We were going this weekend to put the hurt on the jetties but the weather just doesn't look like it would be worth the trip. | ||
| Picou
Lunker Username: Picou Post Number: 1226 Registered: 8-2004 Rating: N/A |
I saw that trip 'P' and had it stayed the previous weekend I would have probably joined in. I hope to hook up with Bigdog during the week for a little fishing also. I will make every effort to give updates. All depends on if I can get internet out there. Hopefully I can jump onto a neighbor's wireless... Worst case, I should be able to dial into work and do it from that account. Thank you Lord for my family and the waters I get to fish
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| Will
Bluegill Username: Will Post Number: 171 Registered: 2-2005  Rating: N/A |
Good luck and have fun. Hopefully the weather cooperats for you. Vegatarian: Indian Word for Bad Fisherman | ||
| Wes
Moderator Username: Wes Post Number: 121 Registered: 8-2004  Rating: N/A |
Good luck picou. catch a bunch. | ||
| Charles
Moderator Username: Charles Post Number: 395 Registered: 7-2004 Rating: N/A |
Rip some lip. | ||
| Sturm1022
Crappie Username: Sturm1022 Post Number: 345 Registered: 1-2005  Rating: N/A |
that is too cool! helluva view my fat fingers cant spell I'll probably turn into a floating turd and Picou will break the knob off my post counter immediately. ATW 2/10/05 
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| Fishinaggie88
Crappie Username: Fishinaggie88 Post Number: 331 Registered: 8-2004  Rating: N/A |
Sounds like a blast in the making!!!! Good luck, looking forward to the updates. Love to fish and hunt. | ||
| Atthewall
Crappie Username: Atthewall Post Number: 376 Registered: 11-2004  Rating: N/A |
Good luck to you and your family Mike! | ||
| Bigun
Crappie Username: Bigun Post Number: 461 Registered: 8-2004  Rating: N/A |
Good luck PQ! I'm sorry about never getting those baits mailed to you. Think there is still time? I've just been to dang busy between the midget trip and Caroline's dancing in San Antonio. It kinda looks like a SNOOK! | ||
| Picou
Lunker Username: Picou Post Number: 1230 Registered: 8-2004 Rating: N/A |
Don't worry about it Bigun, I have plenty of baits to take and I am not through shopping... I am headed to Cabelas hopefully this week to take advantage of the sale and pick up Jessica her first rifle -- Remington 700 ADL synthetic .243 w/ scope for $359. I am very excited about fishing and flounder gigging. I bought Connie her own lantern and I will get her a gig also for the trip. I sure hope there are some flounder up shallow at night with the moving tide. The tides are going to be moving out at dark so I have hopes of getting some flatfish action. Thank you Lord for my family and the waters I get to fish
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| Bigun
Crappie Username: Bigun Post Number: 470 Registered: 8-2004 Rating: N/A |
Quit being a tightarse PQ!! You should have bought the underwater lights. You would never use a lantern again and probably not much less than a lantern!!! Good luck however! It kinda looks like a SNOOK! | ||
| Picou
Lunker Username: Picou Post Number: 1232 Registered: 8-2004 Rating: N/A |
I used the underwater light many years ago and did not like it -- at all.... I like the lantern for giving me more illuminated area and it also gives me light out of the water when I need it. I just hope that the flounder are up in the pass and in shallow enough water to see them. I will keep an eye on the tide charts and try to spend as much time in moving water as possible. I am excited about night fishing and giggin. Since most of my fishing will be at night, I doubt that I will ever make it to fish the surf in the mornings but there is always a chance. I certianly have bought enough lures for it... Thank you Lord for my family and the waters I get to fish
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| Bigun
Crappie Username: Bigun Post Number: 471 Registered: 8-2004 Rating: N/A |
Man, you just gotta cajun improve them. Change them out to a twelve volt bulb and use small gel cell battery. You light up everything and have a Qbeam to walk back with!!!! I'll meet you down there one night with mine and walk circles around your lantern and show you how to gig flounders.It kinda looks like a SNOOK! | ||
| Picou
Lunker Username: Picou Post Number: 1236 Registered: 8-2004 Rating: N/A |
Wade, though you knew me better than that. What you have outlined takes effort.... LMAO about you showing me how to gig flounder...  Thank you Lord for my family and the waters I get to fish
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| Fishinaggie88
Crappie Username: Fishinaggie88 Post Number: 334 Registered: 8-2004 Rating: N/A |
Sorry PQ I have to side with Wade on this one. I used to rig my own lights with 12 volt bulbs and float a car battery on a inner tube behind me. Monted the light on a 5 foot handle with a refector (to keep light out of my eyes) and can be used under or above the water!!!! Just have a couple bulbs in case you break one. As long as you dip the light every once in a while it usually won't get hot enough to break when you put it under water. WORKED FREAKIN GREAT!!!!! Best of both worlds, if a little chop or water a couple feet deep, you can use under the water, in very shallow water you could use above the water. Added bonus. You can lay it in the water (floats with wood handle) to use both hands after you stuck a fish. man,,,,,,,, I have not stuck a flounder in probably 10 years,,,,,,, (Message edited by fishinaggie88 on July 19, 2005) Love to fish and hunt. | ||
| Bigun
Crappie Username: Bigun Post Number: 473 Registered: 8-2004 Rating: N/A |
That I do know about you PQ.... It kinda looks like a SNOOK! | ||
| Picou
Lunker Username: Picou Post Number: 1237 Registered: 8-2004 Rating: N/A |
Pull a car battery behind huh... What about those times that I have to walk across the sand? Then I have to lug that battery behind me. Bigun, I would have to rig a belt to hold the gelcel, then make sure to have plenty of wire to allow me to set the pole down if needed, have to re-charge the battery before every trip, etc... The lantern is so simple, I am using the canisters and one lasts all night long (not that I stay out that late). The only thing I have to deal with is the lantern, no extra wires, not harness, no battery, no strings, etc... When I stick a flounder I hold the lantern and gig in the same hand and then reach down and string the fish while pinned to the ground. If I am gonna drag anything out there, it is going to be a cooler of beer... The light is probably better when in deeper water but usually where I am gigging the deeper water is too sandy to see thru anyway. That is why we stick to a foot or less water generally. Thank you Lord for my family and the waters I get to fish
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| Bigun
Crappie Username: Bigun Post Number: 477 Registered: 8-2004 Rating: N/A |
man, you are still having to string a fish also. Get you a stainless steel bar drill a hole in one end and round and sharpen the other with a grinder. Tie a string in the hole with a cork on the end. Run fish thru spear! Man, you are gigging in the caveman days. I would gig circles around you! And by the way, you put gelcell in a backpack. Only way to go. (Message edited by bigun on July 19, 2005) (Message edited by bigun on July 19, 2005) It kinda looks like a SNOOK! | ||
| Big_p
Moderator Username: Big_p Post Number: 435 Registered: 7-2004 Rating: N/A |
JUst carry a welder with you and throw the leads in a promising looking body of water.  I think this is the first episode of "Trash Talking" on FTN. I like it and hope to see lots more in the future. Once again PQ good luck. Warm those fish up for me as I will be there the next week. | ||
| Bigun
Crappie Username: Bigun Post Number: 481 Registered: 8-2004 Rating: N/A |
Big P, I had not thought of that yet. I'll try it next time Anytime me and PQ talk it is trash talk. You must have missed this somewhere Big P! It kinda looks like a SNOOK! | ||
| Charles
Moderator Username: Charles Post Number: 399 Registered: 7-2004 Rating: N/A |
Good gawl, all of this crap to go fishing. Why not just get a stick of Dynamite and be done with it! Have a fun trip PQ. | ||
| Picou
Lunker Username: Picou Post Number: 1238 Registered: 8-2004 Rating: N/A |
I was thinking the same thing Bigun... There has been some trash talk for sure. Trash like -- Wade can fish... Thank you Lord for my family and the waters I get to fish
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| Fishinaggie88
Crappie Username: Fishinaggie88 Post Number: 335 Registered: 8-2004 Rating: N/A |
PQ LMAO!! Granted the battery was a pain if you had a crossing to make.That was 20+ years ago before the gel packs!!! I always thought there was a healthy amount of smack being talked on this site. Love to fish and hunt. | ||
| Dean
Bluegill Username: Dean Post Number: 257 Registered: 4-2004  Rating: N/A |
PQ - I have one of them Honda Generators and a 1000wat studio light. All you need to do is find a spot where there is a nice flat near a sharp drop and set it up and they will come. You are wilcome to use it! Wade - if you come to gig then let me know. I want to go at least once and it would be cool to hook up! All In A Days Fun!!! 
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| Picou
Lunker Username: Picou Post Number: 1241 Registered: 8-2004 Rating: N/A |
I just checked my service provider and they have a dial-up number for Galveston so I should have no problems getting online from the beach house. I just hope I have pictures to provide... I try to keep the camera handy...  Dean, I don't really know where to go set that thing up to fish off the shore -- within a reasonable driving distance from the house. I'll look at the pass on the East side and see if it may work there. I'll call you and let you know. Thank you Lord for my family and the waters I get to fish
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| Bigun
Crappie Username: Bigun Post Number: 485 Registered: 8-2004 Rating: N/A |
To far for me Dean. Now if it was hog hunting I would think about it. It kinda looks like a SNOOK! | ||
| Dean
Bluegill Username: Dean Post Number: 261 Registered: 4-2004 Rating: N/A |
PQ - Check it out when you get there. I can bring it with me if it looks feasable. Looking forward to taking out some of my agressions on those poor innocent flatties!!!! All In A Days Fun!!!
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| Picou
Lunker Username: Picou Post Number: 1243 Registered: 8-2004 Rating: N/A |
BTW: Bigun... You could not gig your way out of a wet paper sack open on both ends... Thank you Lord for my family and the waters I get to fish
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| Bigun
Crappie Username: Bigun Post Number: 487 Registered: 8-2004 Rating: N/A |
That there sounds like fighting words....good thing for you we are to lazy to fight! Son, with your equipment I'd limit before you saw your first one! If I did not have a charter tomorrow, I'd go out tonight and show you how it was done before you left. It kinda looks like a SNOOK! | ||
| Picou
Lunker Username: Picou Post Number: 1244 Registered: 8-2004 Rating: N/A |
Excuses... Excuses... If you would limit so fast, what does tomorrow have to do with it? I think you are just skeered that I am right!!!!!!!!!! Thank you Lord for my family and the waters I get to fish
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| Bigun
Crappie Username: Bigun Post Number: 489 Registered: 8-2004 Rating: N/A |
It kinda looks like a SNOOK! |
