In like a Lion, out like a Lamb.
I actually believed in the folklore behind stuff like that when we were young.
March here started off windy, but mild.
Does the wind count as "Lion"?
The "Ides of March" approach, as does St. Patty's day.
The 17th is also the start of the 1st annual "Trojan Weekend Fishing Fiasco" in Galveston, TX.
Details of that trip......what can be relayed to you without fear of arrest or divorce, will be forthcoming shortly afterwards.
In the meantime, it's free for all time.
Comments on any topic are anxiously awaited!
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GB
Don't make us read between the lines on that trip guy.
We want facts man, facts.
Or we start writing about what we think happened. LOL
You guys have fun and be safe.
I'm still working on a newsworthy title for the event.....
"Great Galveston Fishing Fiasco"....
A better ring to it, don't ya think?
Hey Flygirl....
You mentioned the 'Vette you loved.
I remember Sam driving a 'Vette just before he left for the service.
That's not the one you ended up with, is it?
GH.....
Hawaii's been pretty hard on helicopters lately.
Heard you lost another one this week.....an Ems bird?
GB
Yeah, GH & I want to scoop on this "Galveston Shoot Out"...All Guys? That sounds like major trouble for the Texas coastal region. Do you go off-shore fishing? Sounds like a lot of fun...enjoy your trip and bring back lots of tall tales for the BLOG.
Vette: I never got a hand-me-down Vette from Sam...I wish he'd been that generous with me!! I bought mine from a very spoiled son of a co-worker of my mom. If Sam was heading out for Ft. Knox, I must have still been in high school... That might have been the black hard-top he had around 1963 or 64. He had several during the those years and I can't remember the order of them??? He had and still has this "Vette Fetish". I had a 1979 vette that I sold to him in the early eighty's. He now has another one that's a funny color blue (not exactly my favorite color), but he just had to have another one...
But his real baby is a 1957 Chevy!!! He done a really good job of restoring it. He's always doing something to it; he's very funny with his old '57 baby. We all have our memories that relate to cars & music...right?
GB - No doubt, it will be a fiasco - but what a fiasco!
Really, I like FG's title the best. The Great Galveston Shootout
GG - you'll get all the facts as they really happen - or at least 'as we really see them'.
And FG, we have been all thru this before. Is it all guys or not - who all is invited - Why can't we go to Galveston??
We finally had to come right out and tell PT and FF that - No, they could not go fishing with us. Tools said "No Women!" and that is what he meant! Isn't that right, GB?
Yeah, that's what Tools said, heaven knows why......the fish don't care.
I'm lookin' forward to the next mini....
Galveston in the fall, on a big ol' fishin' boat.
Gals, can you bait your own hook?
GB
No, it was a Cessna. Engine trouble they think, so sad. Second one in two years, this was on Maui, the last one was on the Big Island. Paper today, said the nurses are now refusing to fly.
FF - I guess we'll have to talk some more.
Galveston Shoot Out:
"Peeeeeople Do We Need a Cop" here? Oh, do we have boys vs girls? Trojan Gals are very competitive, right?
We can bait our own hooks, right?
Maybe there's challenge Shoot-Out in the making? ha, ha.
Gotta fess up though, I've got about 15 years experience in off-shore fishing!!! I can troll with the best of them, cut squid for bait, rig ballyhoo, and follow a weed line. Surprised??
I have to admit though, anchoring at a grouper hole on a windy day can make me puke!!! I admit it!
Seriously, your all-guys, annual,Galveston trip sounds like great medicine for the winter blahs...may the seas be calm and the box full of fish!
Fly, I can bait a hook! As for the rest of the things you mentioned, I don't even know what you're talking about! I'm game to learn, though.
OH I can make calamari! Does that count?
The guys offered to give us an honorary set of testicles if we wanted to go fishing, Fly.
I thought that would be great since I would automatically get a pay raise at work. If the rest of the equipment was included, taking a leak while roughing it would be a lot less bothersome. Certainly a benefit to consider.
However, since they can’t give me a big brass set, I’m happy to let them do their male bonding without adult supervision.
Having camped out with guys for extended periods of time, I seem to have lost my enthusiasm for it.
Instead, I’m going to a quilt retreat at a B&B in east Texas, gourmet catered meals, beautifully appointed rooms, and no cell phone reception! Ahhhhhh
Wait! There are no computers there! No Blogging! OMG!
PT
No Camping for me either. I may be able to bait a hook and "school 'em up", but I come back to shore at the end of the day looking forward to a shower and all the comforts. Trust me, you can fish, have fun and have comforts.
We are kind of "girly" aren't we?
As for the honorary testicles...they wouldn't get me any advantages. I do enough "men's work" without an honory set -I don't want any more "men's work"...
However, the ability to "leak' in the woods sounds good to me.
I wonder how long my HP Notebook battery would last? Not long enough!
We wish them well in their Shoot Out Adventure!!!
Grouper Holes.. There's this great Grouper hole about 2/3 hours out leaving from Tampa Bay. Calm day - seas weren't bad. Hard to tell how far out, because we kept stopping to catch and net bait. And no coordinates - The fisherman I was with kept them to himself. He had a commercial fishing license and was pretty stingy with his fishing hole info. Just 3 of us on a 27' Whaler. We anchored over just 2 or 3 holes all day and pulled up one grouper after another. We only moved to look for bigger fish. Most were in the 8-10 lb. range. Several in the 12-15 lb. range and a couple of monsters of 25 lbs. +/-. Kept the choice ones for ourselves, put back most (all of the larger ones got put back) and sold a few to help pay for the fuel out and back. Mostly on live bait and from the bottom - smoked a couple of old reels. Lost a couple big fish that we could not even turn in the right direction - up. Slept well that night. What a trip and looking forward to another one like it next week. Probably not Grouper, though. But no less fun. A couple of beers, a couple of cigars, a couple of old friends and some fish!!!!! GG, That is the way I see it. And you probably won't get much more out of me.....No matter what!
TD
You've just described one of the GOOD Days Off Shore!!! When they're good, they're GREAT!
There are lots of good, deep Grouper Holes out there and yes, the fishermen do protect the "numbers" for them!!! You should see my Hoosier Boy's dirty, old notebook full of numbers. It's kind of funny how they protect their "numbers".
Sounds like you had a really great day on the water. Catching Grouper is a lot of fun, but when the big ones dive down thei holes...it's hard to get them back up. I've lost so many leaders on rocks...I can't count them! The main thing is that you had fun and it was a calm day! You were probably our about 20 to 25 miles max. That's usually about how far out some of the really good holes are!! Good for you and you buddies. Glad you had a nice size Whaler...those are very dry boats and ride well. I'm partial to Mako's... but do have a small Whaler for the bay.
Great Luck on your next trip...might try Dolphin fishing in the Keys.
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