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    2 hours ago, HyNoon said:

    I'm going for my first trip next month,  getting kinda excited...

    My first trip was 4 years ago! freaking love it.

     

    On 8/23/2020 at 10:19 AM, dmoto said:

    My go to marinade for mako shark steaks:

    1 cup orange juice

    3 tablespoons of olive oil

    2 tablespoons of soy sauce

    4 chopped garlic cloves

    1/2 chopped onion

    1 teaspoon of red pepper flake

    Salt and pepper to taste

    Marinate for an hour or two

    Grill 5 min a side over medium high heat and baste with leftover marinade

     

    Thank you! will plan on this for Friday for sure!

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    This is what I took with me. The 30lbs did great with some fighty yellowtail and let the sardines swim far far away.

    had no bites in the 80lbs set-up but it looked real nice :)

    I took pics of it before I left in case I needed to know to stay away or reorder. I do recommend the Pline as the mono.. bird nesting was basically eliminated even with me setting up the reel the night before the trip.

    have fun!

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    On 8/17/2020 at 10:51 AM, Heat said:

    A couple of the Penn Fathom Lever Drag 2 speeds are on sale on Amazon at the moment. 15 and 30 sizes. Very tempting with the 30 but I got a bit better deal on my 40N, so I am going to hold out hope that it will drop a tad more, otherwise no biggy. Either way it is still a great deal on a reel that is one of the best reels you can buy for the money at regular price. The 30 would make a great 30-60# (maybe sweet spot 50#) offshore reel for bluefin and other large pelagics. The 15 is a sweet little reel but I think I would rather have the star drag in that size. Pretty sure the star might have more drag.

    Just came back yesterday after the 1.5 day'er with the Relentless crew. 21 of us have chartered with these guys 4 years in a row and the last two years we had YF and BF Tunas 25-30 lbs fighters. This year apparently the Tuna just aren't biting within range of the 10 knot boats but they had a lead on some big yellow-tails. We netted 29 yellow tails and a few rock fish of the 18 of us that ended up fishing. Most were 25-30lbs, but the winner was a 40lbs for the pot of $$$.

    We were 75 miles off the coast in CA waters, I brought my Fathom 15LD on a 7' Carnage II rod with 30# mono and a 30# Fluoro topshot. The Yellowtail were lazy biters, but my two I got from belly hooking the bait and letting them swim with about 150-200yds of line. these yellow-tail were fighters and the like to dive down to the rocks and break the line. The 15LD was perfect for the drag and the long fight. I brought my Squall 60 2-speed with 80# braid topped with 80# Fluoro to troll but nothing played with the lure.

    The Fathom 15 did great last year with the 25-30lb YF and BF we brought home.

    Highly recommend the Relentless and crew, and VERY MUCH recommend getting a group of friends together to do the overnight, much easier to work around the rail when you know everyone a little bit.

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    1 hour ago, Lazy-H98 said:

    A few years back Arizona Game and Fish wanted to drum up some interest for the OTC opportunities down south.  To help promote the OTC deer, javelina, cudimondi, quail and predator hunting in January, they invited Randy Newberg and crew.  Since then they have been pounding 36B.  Now the likes of Gritty Bowman, Ryan Lampers, HUSH and the Hunting public are clearing their schedules to spend January down in Arizona every year.  

    Newberg, THP and HUSH have yet to bag an archery Coues over the last 3 years, but show the duck, quail, rabbit, and javelina in the area which is very cool.

     

    I thought OTC Javelina was only in the metro regions and the 36s needed a draw or left over tag?

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    12 hours ago, BusterAZ said:

    While predation by wolves cannot be discounted, it is not the main factor that caused this population decline. Wolves were reintroduced in 1995 and that handful didn’t make substantial kills to this herd for several years. The major environmental factors that caused the elk herd decline was the succession of meadows into forest and harsh winters. The 1996-97 decline was the result of winter kill and not the dozen wolves that were reintroduced. This data is cherry picked to provide a false narrative. Furthermore, the wolf population in this area as been reduced for several years without any elk population rebound. The  data points to habitat as the main culprit. Elk don’t have nearly as many food sources in a mature forest as meadow areas. The previously large herds in this region can be attributed to post burn ecosystem that had more food sources for the elk. Essentially, the forest matured and preferred food sources (grasses, shrubs, etc) were choked out by the forest canopy. Below is a link explaining the severity of these historic fires, which kickstarted the secondary succession in these region.

    https://foresthistory.org/research-explore/us-forest-service-history/policy-and-law/fire-u-s-forest-service/famous-fires/the-1910-fires/

     

    I don't have a dog in this fight, but read p25 onwards of this:

    https://collaboration.idfg.idaho.gov/WildlifeTechnicalReports/Elk Statewide FY2019.pdf

    Harsh winter made the big hit, but wolves taking young Elk are clearly cited as the reason recovery is not faster.

     

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    6 hours ago, jim said:

    Almost every crew on you tube came to Az this year. I think we will see a huge influx of out of state hunters in Dec and Jan because of the amount coverage and exposure this avenue provides. I don't know if it's a good or bad thing. 

    Any good videos as a result?

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    6 hours ago, mc68 said:

    When I saw these bills I was surprised by the one dealing with hunting near waterholes, and don’t see how it would be enforced.

    I think it just suggests to anyone seeing a camera or blind near water that they can cut it down or remove it because it's not legal.

    I read he is running for a different office since his term limits in the House are up, maybe his new next role has more sway over these things? Hope not.

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    3 hours ago, stanley said:

    One of my good friends & hunting buddies is a lobbyist with visibility to this bill (No, he is NOT lobbying on behalf of it.).  He said it is basically already dead in it's current form.

    S.

    Did he tell you why they were being written? Is it related to particular incident or area of the state, or just campaign donation nonsense?

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