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  1. The following is NOT correct... Gentle people, The fish targeted in NC are probably or possibly NC Carolina spawned striped bass of the Albarmarle-Roanoke Subspecies that spawns and swims for most of its lifetime in NC Waters.
  2. OK Johnny I'll try to send you one by email in a few days remind me if i forget.
  3. I cannot speak to the Lowrance, but I have had a Hbird side machine since they came out...4 or 5 years. I have 2 boats. I bought the unit for one boat, and liked it so much I bought a second mount and xducer and now run the same machine in both boats. The unit sits outside a lot on the boats, in the water. No issues after all this time. The side scan is designed to locate structure which it does wonderfully. Trees, rocks you can easily see. They will find fish on the side but it takes a lot more practice and experience to do that. A school of small fish swimming fast (bait) looks like a cloud. A big fish not moving looks like a fish! A dolphin swimming by (flipper not the fish) looks kinda like a wavy brush stroke across the screen. As for the bottom machine function mine works in water down to half a foot. I can cruise along and get a good depth reading to almost zero. However, side scan works better in water more that 5 feet deep. Side scan does not work at speed or zero. You need a little forward movement for best results. After having this unit I would never go back to a traditional bottom machine. It is that good. And if you fish structures (bridges rock piles and so on) it is even better. The boats I use it on are a 19-foot cat and a 16-foot Dragonfly Emerger flats skiff. If you can afford one I highly recommend a side scan.
  4. Agree 100000 percent. I bought a used Bluefin that needed some work sent them an email and explained clearly that I got the reel used (no warranty) willing to pay to have it fixed up. They told me to fill out the warranty form (?) and I sent it in with some small fee like $25 for service/return shipping. It came back in less than a week many parts replaced like new!
  5. I do not type too well obviously supposed to be angler. Another thing to consider in fish fighting is water depth. Fish seem to make much more blistering runs the shallower the water. Bonefish in 6 inches blast off more than one in 3 feet and much more than one in 10-feet. A tarpon in a foot goes insane much more than one in 10-feet of water. But this is still off the topic of sails....
  6. Jabster, with tarpon size matters. While they all are hard to hook and keep hooked and jump, the larger ones are much more powerful than smaller ones. They are kinda skinny fish so the larger ones with "shoulders" can give more of a challenge. And Lineas, I asked Jake if he'd been tempted to kill the 400-plus pound fish and he replied that he is way too old to kill fish. And back the original topic sails, all and all, are really fun and should be on every fly angler's bucket list.
  7. I may have been misunderstood. I do not mean to say Jake is getting any traditional type of IGFA record or award. He leadered a big marlin on IGFA 20-pound tippet. What he told me personally is that IGFA has recognized this as a super catch and is going to recognize him in some way as catching what is likely the largest fish ever landed on 20-pound tippet....maybe a letter or plaque or something. He is not getting any traditional or standard IGFA record. A fish is considered "caught" if leadered but that does not make it eligible for any standard IGFA record. For fly fishing you have to weigh the fish on land which in the case of a marlin means killing it. I hope they recognize Jake in some way because when the fish was leadered at boat side everyone knew it would beat the existing record. It could have been gaffed and killed then he would have toasted the current marlin record. He deserves at least a kind word for not killing the fish. None of the IGFA Pacific Blue Marlin fly record fish break 300 pounds and Jake's fish was believed (obviously not weighed) to be much larger than 300. Hope that makes sense. This is off topic anyway. Tarpon are still my favorite anyway as well.
  8. formula, I totally agree that overall (bite fight challenge etc) tarpon are tops. They are my favorite fish. The whole deal....get to see the bite, jump, and pull and even make noise with gill rattling! You see it hear it feel it all. Others you just feel. Regarding Jake and his marlin, Story I heard was the leader got in the rod tip which is a legal IGFA catch. Yes the fish was not weighed. Not boated. A fish does not have to be brought into the boat to be an IGFA catch. But, all who saw it knew it was big and while not boated or killed to weigh the IGFA has recognized it as the largest fish of any species caught on 20-pound IGFA leader. I should not have mentioned that until it is official but but hopefully it will be. It is not a world record just IGFA recognition of a super catch. We shall see. If he does not get an IGFA award I will eat the crow for posting this. Having hooked a big marlin on fly, I know if he leadered it (which means it could have been gaffed/captured/killed/weighed) that alone is a super accomplishment deserving recognition. Big marlin are brutal I can say even though I only hooked one. I am not trying to say one fish/catch is better than another just expressing experience/thoughts. Sails on a fly are super and anyone should do it. That said and having done it tarpon are my favorite. Anything in the tuna or jack family will also give you a challenge. Take your pick!
  9. foulhook, I'd like to know as well! I have only caught smaller tunas on fly no BFs and they really do pull and have a fight till death attitude. Have landed sails on fly and hooked a 300-plus pound marlin on fly not landed duhhhh. But a lot of researchers say billfish are faster than tunas. A lot of web sites say sailfish are the fastest fish but most charter capts I have asked say marlin are faster! It might be that marlin, being larger, are faster longer than sails and thus seem faster. Sails may be fast in the short term? Maybe a tuna fights hard longer...billfish jump and that tires them out more quickly than a tuna that does not jump? Not opinions just thoughts. Who knows? But they are all fun and every angler should have a chance to make their own decision based upon catching them all! Is it speed or overall fight or both or what an angler wants? Billfish (and tarpon) are great because of the visual effect of jumping. For pure pulling tunas are it. So billfish are faster maybe but tunas almost as fast longer? I think Horesly thinks pacific skipps are overall toughest. I'd take his opinion. And are you gonna include weight? Pound per pound adds a whole new dimension to fish fighting. All fun and pick your medicine or fish! Because of their size a BFT or marlin of any mass is gonna be a real challenge on a fly rod. If you want to learn how to fight a big fish go to a Jake Jordan seminar. According to the IGFA he has landed the largest fish of any kind on fly (marlin). Sails are a blast on fly very visual and if you get the chance you should try it. 2cents
  10. And when a bigger fish comes in and oops it is not a sail but a marlin and you get the bite you will hear your reel make sounds you never heard before and will never hear again!!!!! Ninety nine to one you won't land it but it will a thrill while it lasts! No tarpon or sail will strip line off a reel like a marlin!
  11. Backlash, the gear you describe will work, though it is always nice to have a larger diameter reel for gaining line as fast as you can. If you can afford it buy a big Mako or Tibor. I fished that area once and it is blind casting with sinking lines. We had the bad luck of very rough conditions so we could not get out of the inlet to the largest numbers of fish. We had to fish inside the rivers where the fish see much more pressure. Caught some nice other fish on fly but no tarpon. Having been to Jake Jordan's tarpon seminar I also recommend him. He will get you a first tarpon at night so it is under your belt...then you will be more relaxed when going for them in the daytime as the pressure is off. Favorite spot is west side of Andros. It is sight fishing but the fish see so much less pressure than Florida and they will usually bite if you do not really screw something up. The fish there probably run a little smaller than Costa Rica but our biggest landed there was 135-plus pounds very nice fish.
  12. catchnr3, Might be....do not recall the hybrid. Try a search engine. That is how I found it. Since I have a Dragonfly skiff that has done wonderfully I am probably gonna try one of their SUPs. But there is no info on their web site yet. They do have some pics facebook. Not for big water but I know some calm coves where you can sight fish for red drum a SUP would be perfect!
  13. wjc, Since Horsley is on the road I will try to answer for him having been on his trips. They troll hookless teasers usually fake (not bait) mostly on the starboard side. Anger is in the boat on port side (for a right hand cast). When a fish comes into the teasers they try to pull the teasers away and lead the fish up to the boat. Ideal is to bring the fish right to the boat. The all teasers are pulled out boat taken our of gear (IGFA rules no trolling) and the anglers makes a short cast out back. Like 30 feet. Hopefully the sail eats the fly moving away from the boat (much better hook set/success rate compared to fish coming toward the boat). The eat is incredible. If a fish come in but does not tease up to the boat they will sometimes cast a hookless dead bait out and try to let the fish smell/bite/taste that and use that to tease the fish into range. Some fish come in so hot they will try and try again to get the fly even if the angler does everything wrong and sometimes you have the opposite...a fish brushes the last teaser never to be seen again. It does not have to be bait and switch to be IGFA legal. They do it this way because it works most of the time. There are occasions when sails are feeding on a bait ball and you can sight or blind cast around the ball and catch them. If following other IGFA rules this is also legal by IGFA. Hope this helps. It is really fun!
  14. There are several companies now making boards (SUPs) just for fishing/fly fishing. BOTE and Dragonfly and some others. Cannot recall who but there is also a hybrid yak/SUP made in Florida...sit or stand. And some yaks now are being made to stand on. There are also some websites coming up for fishing from SUPs. There is a video someplace online of a nice red caught on fly from an SUP. There are a lot of links...try google and "SUP fly fishing" or "SUP fishing" and you will have plenty to read.... I think I am gonna buy one... exercise, kids can use it, great access to the shallows, with better visibility than a yak since you are standing....
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