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justhookit

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  1. Regardless, while I’ve fished a few kill tournaments I don’t like them. I much prefer catch and release tournaments where you get 3x points for a marlin (1.5x for a white marlin), and 1x points for a sailfish. It’s all on video. Even better, most of the tournaments I fish lately have a certified observer on board assigned randomly to a different boat every day. You don’t even have to take video (but we do just in case) and the observer calls the species and the catch or no catch. Simplifies things for everyone. Now I guess a team could bribe the observer but if they approached 99% of them that would get them banned for life. For the most part the higher end tourney teams are on the up and up and will DQ fish on their own if they feel like they did something wrong - like touching a line by accident.
  2. That’s pretty easily solved though. Video the catch and bringing the fish into the boat. It’s going to be pretty obvious if a fish is attached to any other lines or weights.
  3. That would be my guess. There’s a well known Texas billfishing team that is banned for life from tournaments. I still don’t know exactly what they did but people don’t look too kindly towards cheating when there is that kind of money on the line.
  4. This one in the scheme of things is fairly small. I don’t know what their entry fees are in a tournament like that but there are billfish tournaments where the ENTRY fee can approach 100,000 and the winning team can take home over 3 million. A few years back a team got DQ’ed from a 2.5 million dollar payout on the east coast. They didn’t exactly cheat it just turned out that a person on the boat didn’t have a valid fishing license. Now this dude was clearly cheating and I’m surprised wasn’t caught sooner. Polygraph tests are mandatory in billfish tournaments pretty much all over the world. @fattyflattieyou probably heard what happened this summer with Billy the owner of Freeman boats. I’ve been tournament fishing a little over 10 years now and I think that’s maybe the 4th time I’ve ever heard of something going bad. The other 2 or 3 times were pretty technical rules DQ’s and not somebody stuffing weight into the cavity of the fish. Holy shit.
  5. They all look like that in the dark.
  6. He was too busy watching aggy give up 475 yards to Arkansas. And Miss St.
  7. I mean just wow. What the fuck is that call
  8. It might have even been close to a full yard. Just ridiculous
  9. Porous attitude and winning liver works too. Freaking beautiful day down here hopefully next weekend is just as good for y’all.
  10. Are you drunk or high?
  11. I mean the OU guy goes out right in front of you and you call that a TD?
  12. Yeah surely there was something we didn’t see. But it’s Big12 refs so who the fuck knows.
  13. No worries I sort of figured that’s what you meant.
  14. Unfortunately this is correct. When Pelican Club/Liberty Hall/Inferno closed for good we lost our only really good restaurant. Venetian is still solid, the others are basically tourist food.
  15. I mean, except for the whole 140 mph winds in Port A and Rockport. And 10 foot storm surge but yeah it was just flooding.
  16. You going to Dallas for OU? Turns out I have to be in Austin that weekend and I’m really pissed about it. Watch party somewhere?
  17. First weekend of October is always busy and the weather is going to be perfect. Redfish have started running. Summer hotel rates are over. Went to Venetian last night and the only time we could get a reservation was 5:30 and if you didn’t have a reservation you weren’t eating there.
  18. It’s because rolling 8 footers at 14 seconds or more doesn’t happen. On occasion maybe a bit before and after a tropical storm. Wave heights 99% of the time in the GOM are wind waves on top of the swell, or freaking sideways to give us that great washing machine feeling. Also people are notorious for overestimating wave heights. We didn’t take our boat in anything over 4 foot and would only do that if it was a tournament. 6 foot was absolute no-go ever. Heck we cancelled all charters if it was predicted to be over 4 foot or wind greater than about 17mph. Like fatty said it’s all about the period.
  19. Negged Yeah their basic Tex mex sucks. But order any of the specialty dishes/tacos/enchiladas or even seafood and it hits the spot for sure. Sunday after the Alabama game had a large Bob and order of Matt potatoes for the table, Asadero tacos and 2 Mexican martinis. Slammed and went hard.
  20. Ouch. This is going to suck for awhile. I’ll definitely be using the puddle jumper instead of a driver the next few trips down. This will create problems for travel to a lot of places but for the purposes of this thread the main issue will be San Jose to Manuel Antonio will take 6 to 7 hours at least. https://ticotimes.net/2022/09/26/pananamerican-highway-in-costa-rica-closed-for-at-least-three-months
  21. @kevwun Unless things have changed since I went in the spring the list gets put out around 4. But they don’t call you. You’ll need to show back up a little before they open at 5. As long as there aren’t a jillion people before you you’ll be seated pretty much right away. Weekdays have been great lately , still a surprising number of tourist families, but weekends are crowded but not summertime bad. This weekend is going to be really, really busy on the island.
  22. They almost always overestimate storm surge but yeah this doesn’t look like this is going to be much fun for a lot of people.
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