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finally an answer! we were all in the dark up here as to why the conoco and the giant stations were locked down last night and this morning. lucky i had a reserve tank on the 460 or i woulda been afoot this afternoon trying to find fuel! they are back up and pumping now. lee

very glad he made it through. rock and rolls a tough gig..... lee Insanity runs in the family-it practically gallups!

think i got a winner lol for 'dego best pic of the season...tuna pic that is... and a couple of runner-up's....... just wish i coulda been there to take the pics!!!!!! lee

at first this pic from the royal looked like a serious contender for 'dego photo of the season so far. blue sky, blue sea, 30 lb forkie, big smiles and all. but no-the next photo shows the cut and it's sadly ineligible. good try. i guess i will just have to force myself to keep looking at the pics rolling in.

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oh my ! ohhh MY! a cz75 seldom if ever looked so good..... lee

do NOT let that tag go unhunted! draw odds are under 10% these days for a reason. i was in a management program in 2008 and didn't hunt my last 3C tag-regret it every fall. i live in the unit and can be a friend. but better yet contact forum member shane koury-KouryGuideService. good luck, lee

the harbormaster at cholla bay sells them if you think you need one. his name is Villa.

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thursday 8/29. cool : http://www.976-tuna.com/e107_plugins/landing/audio.php?btrack.22.1377792669

http://www.976-tuna.com/e107_plugins/landing/audio.php?btrack.7.1375889125 some copy and paste pics from the Grande yesterday and the report from the Excell. Daily Fish Report Captain Justin Fleck Wednesday, August 7 10:39 AM The Excel stops at the local Bluefin grounds & lands 120 Bluefin, the largest weighed 184 lbs. Justin Fleck checked in from the Excel with this report. "We had a good day yesterday at the local Bluefin grounds, 50 to 60 miles from home. We had a drift right out of the gate for 80 of those fish. Most of the fish were 35 to 50 lbs., a couple 65 and 70's mixed in. To top it off at the end we hooked a big one that we fought for 2 hours. with a 40 lb. test we ended up getting it, it was a 184 lbs Bluefin caught at 50 miles. We went back and got another 40 so we ended up with about 120 Bluefin yesterday. The weather was a lot nicer than we expected. We see a very good sign of fish on the local grounds we expect it to be good for awhile. And the grade of fish is phenomenal for being that close.

Tommy's second skipper gettin' it done. hunting season and bugling bulls are upon us but................... this post was on another site but here's the copy-n-paste...... Polaris Supreme Upcoming Trips Sun Aug 25 2013, 07:30PM by Richie I've said it before and I'll say it again. Bluefin are the most unpredictable fish out there that we fish for. If you would have told me yesterday that we were going to have a day like we had today, I would have laughed in your face. Never again though. I will never trust this fish. For the last several days the bluefin fishing was very poor. I really thought that it was over for the year. I was wrong. Today we experienced the best bluefin tuna fishing I have ever seen. This is on a quantity to quality ratio that I'm talking about here. In my 13 years of long ranging, today was the best for the Bluefins. Just after 6:00 this morning we stopped on a single fish mark under the boat. Just after 6:00 tonight we left them. The whole time we drifted it was pretty much wide open. The fish were from 25 up to 75 pounds. Most of them being in the 30-40 pound range. Once again we went into battle and we won. Oh yeah, we fished in the rain. At around 11:00 it started raining and it never stopped. Everyone on board was absolutely drenched all day and it was awesome. By the end of our stop no one was fishing so Mark and I grabbed a couple of rods and boated 3 of them ourselves. It was only Mark and I fishing and I was bringing one in and wouldn't you know it, when the fish was at gaff, there was Mark's spectra tangled all over my fish. 2 anglers fishing and he manages to make a big tangle. MAAAARK!!! I would have made him put on the dunce helmet but he was already wearing it. Heres why. There was a 2 fish tangle and Mark grabbed 1 of the rods to unwrap it and he dropped it right in the water. MAAARK!!!. Unbelievably another person fishing managed to hook one of the guides on the rod and we got it back. Fish and all. I immediately tossed Mark the yellow dunce helmet and he wore it all day. Needless to say everyone on board is beat tired and we will not have any trouble sleeping through the night tonight. We're headed for the yellowtail grounds now and will be there first thing in the morning.

if anyone from the white mountains/northern AZ wants a partner let me know. my buddy had to move to MN for work. biglakejake@hotmail.com lee

Jaguar cams?

just put 2 and 2 together and found that the story on bloody decks above posted by sun devil matches up to the video i re-posted the other day. flagstaff boy got this trophy! this is show and tell on steroids!

week old video i found on youtube........do they still do 'show-and-tell' in gradeschool these days?

beam me on deck scotty! phazers on thrill! whatever-might as well be outer space this year. http://www.976-tuna.com/e107_plugins/landing/audio.php?btrack.5.1376502548

http://www.azgfd.gov/eservices/documents/bonus/5-2013/2013%20Pronghorn%20and%20Elk%20-%20Bonus%20Point%20Report%20-%20Bonus%20Pass%20by%20Genus.pdf genus 3 is elk lee

good luck Josh and have some fun bwana! a little hungry here for some strange fajitas....warthog is fine even hyena if you stick somethin'...........if it was alive b4 u stuck it i'm game....... good luck, lee

this 4b bull is not from my bunch and if anybody knows the hunters i've been curious about the score on this one for years. we had an early ML tag in 4b a few years ago just email me at biglakejake@hotmail.com can we all spell dolly parton? lee

Big, strong hunter gatherers almost always end up as crippled up, fat old dirt farmers and bottom fishermen. any interest in a gardening forum here? i guess i could just go to better homes and gardens forums........ but i don't think they would get my references to toad anaheims and monster kentucky wonders-much less the 400 class tomato plants....... lee

nice morning haul...........

Eclipse Sportfishing Good Times, Blue Fin Tuna Tue Jul 30 2013, 08:14AM by Terentius Eclipse Sportfishing Captain Steve and the Crew captured 104 Bluefin Tuna, (84 in the 30-50# class) 23 Yellowtail and 4 Dorado... they reported nice weather and a great group of guests... Depart tonight on another 1.5 Day trip if you got the dough go see the show......

the pepper patch Suzy-bear gave her little life to protect from the marauding wapiti. look at them gooooooooooooooooooooo......one season they may get to the phone line.....

well, gardening isn't a competition but i am a fisherman too so bragging some is just kinda natural. a toad anaheim is a pepper over 12". a monster kentucky wonder is a bean stalk that climbs to the end of a 9ft pole and then reaches up another 2-3ft trying to get up to the overhead telephone line. the last 3 years all of my tomato plants went crazy and produced over 100lbs of tomatoes EACH! thats 400 class in anybody's book. lee