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Post by Ticket Mouse on Apr 29, 2008 12:36:08 GMT -5
Really wish I could be there. Have fun.
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Post by Ticket Mouse on Apr 29, 2008 12:36:40 GMT -5
I'm going to church at the Our Lady of the Guadalupe, but I should have some great pics. That's a big church in downtown Dallas. |
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Post by cyn on Apr 29, 2008 12:37:18 GMT -5
That is a bold-faced lie. I know being chased by suped up Suburbans driven by men in green uniforms was a traumatic experience but I know you remember. that might be how your dad got to America... but I drove across the Rio Grand. also... you're getting your rivers crossed. get it right |
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Post by Ticket Mouse on Apr 29, 2008 12:42:21 GMT -5
That is a bold-faced lie. I know being chased by suped up Suburbans driven by men in green uniforms was a traumatic experience but I know you remember. that might be how your dad got to America... but I drove across the Rio Grand. also... you're getting your rivers corssed. get it right Corssed? BTW, my dad was born in Dallas. |
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Post by cyn on Apr 29, 2008 12:43:49 GMT -5
haha... I fixed it! i told you my spelling is effed up!
so you're going to El Paso after all?
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Post by cowtownmike on Apr 29, 2008 13:00:09 GMT -5
takes Rod to answer my questyun... thanks Rod... I'll be there What question? |
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Post by cyn on Apr 29, 2008 13:01:26 GMT -5
REALLY MIKE!!!! COME ON!!!
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Post by cowtownmike on Apr 29, 2008 13:12:58 GMT -5
I'm going Cyn. Don't forget the cinco de mayo party afterwards, which will be insane. RP-you ever heard of fishing with these yo-yos? |
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Post by Ticket Mouse on Apr 29, 2008 13:16:06 GMT -5
Yep...and my buddy and I have the worst arrival schedules. I get there at 11:15. He arrives at 3. He departs Sunday morning at 9. I depart at 4:30. He's having family pick him up Friday so I may have to wait a few hours at the stinkin' El Paso airport.
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Post by cowtownmike on Apr 29, 2008 13:18:31 GMT -5
9 am to 4:30 pm waiting at the EP airport sounds brutal.
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Post by fischer on Apr 29, 2008 13:27:27 GMT -5
el paso is brutal.
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Post by Ticket Mouse on Apr 29, 2008 13:32:06 GMT -5
I figured he'd like some time to spend with his family and he'd get a late flight getting out...I guess he doesn't like his family much. 9 AM? I'm going to try to work something out with AA.
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Post by cowtownmike on Apr 29, 2008 13:34:42 GMT -5
You should say screw it all, I'm going to Dendon.
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Post by The River Assassin on Apr 29, 2008 13:44:33 GMT -5
Ok Mike, this is going to be long, but here you go.
First, I have fished with Yo-yos before but they are mainly made for small channel cat. If you get lucky and catch a small yella cat he will tear that thing to shit before you get there in the morning, so we never use them.
We do some rod and reel fishing but only to catch small channels so we can tail bait them out for bigger fish. Yes, this is very illegal but the game warden doesn't come around very often so we take our chances.
I mostly fish drop lines. It's about a 20 ft. long line with a weight about 2 ft from the bottom and one hook on the end. You tie these to green limbs that hang out over the water in the deeper holes.
If we are feeling frisky we run a trot line or two, but they are a ton of work in the river if the current is swift and in the part of the Guadalupe I fish most of the big yellas stay close to the bank, so unless you get really lucky all you catch are gar.
We also use fiber glass poles. You drill a hole in one end and tie a line to it. If you don't have any where to tie a drop line we can just stab a few poles in the ground. They work really well in the summer when the water is hot and the fish are not very active. They like to stay under the bank and with those poles we can drop the bait right on their front porch. Three of the five yellas we caught last trip came off of poles, so they work very very very well.
For bait during the day we use Johnny Catfishes special home made lye soap. You put lye, water, lard, red food coloring, and a secret ingredient that the fish love. I would tell you what it is but then I would have to kill you. And, no it is not any blood bait and any stinky crap like that. I don't want to eat any fish that thinks stink bait is a good meal.
In the evening we bait out live bait. Mostly we use perch, but sometimes we will mix it up a little. Goldfish work well, also mudbugs if we can find them. Some people like to use minnows or some other shinny fish, but they tend to die on the hook. Most yella cats feed in the early morning hours, so our hope is that our bait will stay on the hook until the morning when the big boys get hungry. Gar is the biggest problem in the river but they usually only feed during the day. We try to bait out as late as possible to ensure they don't eat all of our bait. Some people like to bait out at night but it is a pain in the ass and very dangerous when you are hammered drunk, so we just do it in the late evening.
Then in the morning we get on the river between 7:30-8:30 and start the whole process over. I hope that answers most of your questions, if you have any more send’em this way.
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Post by cyn on Apr 29, 2008 14:23:47 GMT -5
You should say screw it all, I'm going to Dendon. HERE HERE! Mike are you going to the show? |
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