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justhookit

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  1. A few people have brought it up recently in this thread - for 95% of the people the surge/wind isn’t the problem it’s the aftermath with no power and water. The debris everywhere. The smell. It’s fucking miserable. For close to a month or more. After Harvey I came back home to Port A 2 days after landfall but stayed most nights in Corpus where there was power. I was lucky and was able to find a place to stay. That’s one of the hardest (and most expensive) things to do and I imagine it will be much harder in Florida as it’s a more densely populated area.
  2. Spring Break is typically a great time to fish but if you choose Costa Rica you will want to book all your stuff as soon as possible as it gets crowded and prices are higher. You’ll want to go to either Los Suenos/Jaco or Quepos/Manuel Antonio. They are only about an hour drive from each other and boats from both marinas fish the same areas so it doesn’t matter a whole lot which one you choose. Los Suenos has a nice Marriott property with a decent golf course or you can choose a house/condo on the resort property. You can also stay in Jaco which is a 15 minute drive and there are all kinds of lodging options there. My main dislike of Los Suenos is that it doesn’t really feel like you are in Costa Rica it’s more like being in some resort in Florida or somewhere. Quepos marina has a few condos available on site (95% sure they will already be booked) so you likely will need to stay in a house, condo, or hotel in Manuel Antonio which is a 5-15 minute drive. Mostly inshore or offshore fishing? Great charters are available in both places and I can point you to the right boats. My boat is in Quepos and I’d be happy to take y’all out offshore fishing for a day. I’ll be there all of December through April.
  3. They run a tournament out of there that boats from CR and Guatemala travel for. A friend was going to fish it, but he found out that you have to go in and out of the port at high tide only. So some boats do go there. Figured it was sort of a marina that would at least have some smaller boats available. Weird. The fishing is good, too.
  4. @midtownI can’t believe there wasn’t anyone to take you fishing. Maybe because it was the off-season. We just got back from CR and might have stayed a week longer but the rains were starting to be half day to all day events. But the fishing was amazing, sailfish jumping in the boat, best September any of the locals can remember.
  5. Seems like they got the spot wrong on every play in that series. The RB run I think it was Wisner seemed like they spotted it too close to the goal line.
  6. He is my pledge brothers son. His dad wasn’t a bad athlete but I’m shocked at how good his kid is.
  7. I’ve only been up to that area once and it was years ago so I’m not any help. Just be aware that is about a 6 hour drive.
  8. They are employees of the corporation. Insurance is issued to the owner/company. Captain has nothing to do with it, but most insurance requires a licensed captain rated for the vessel size.
  9. This. I’m positive they told me last year when I tried to exit to get something out of my car that I couldn’t be able to come back in.
  10. Location/land value is a huge chunk of it. I know the current and previous owners. That place is a gold mine, does ok during the off-season and then prints money for 4-5 months a year.
  11. Yeah I didn’t go there much either maybe a few times a year. But they actually had fairly decent food and a ribeye steak dinner that was good. I’m not in town and have really heard nothing yet about what is going to happen to the place. I have friends going there tonight to try to find out what the future plans are. Selling it as is seems to make the most sense to me - it’s worth a really nice chunk of change assuming they own the land. Last time Virginia’s sold it was for 18 million or something like that. Moby’s isn’t worth as much since it’s not on the water but they are going to get paid well.
  12. Just lost another restaurant. Moby Dick’s will be closing permanently Sep. 14th I’m assuming it will be sold and re-open as a new restaurant.
  13. This was today at around halftime of our game. Maybe someone will want a chance at an experience like this.
  14. never actually seen inside the mouth and out the gill plate before. Really sick bite too. Switched right off the teaser and ate my pitch. Think this fish had been caught before and just wanted to show off.
  15. Great win today, didn’t watch but will watch the replay tomorrow. Decided to fish again tomorrow. Wasn’t planning on it but made that call after getting to the dock this evening. Late in the day we found some really good water and bait. And got this footage. Best we’ve ever had, even the drone guy was pumped up and he droned a million dollar marlin on the 4th of July. Had a few people say they can’t see our uploaded videos, so here’s YouTube. Overall 5/7 sails, 1/2 blue marlin so a little slower than it has been this summer, but enough to make us want to wake up in 6 hours and get back at it again. Longer version
  16. I will for sure be there for the Georgia and Florida games. Right now I’m not sure if I will make any others. I’ll text you soon and we can work out whatever you think would work best.
  17. @immamac I’ll donate a fishing trip if you want to do a silent auction or something at the tailgates.
  18. 361 is the only place that you can count on to have sound. I just don’t like going there. I’ll be streaming the game while we are billfishing tomorrow down here in Costa Rica. Welcome to join me.
  19. @Hook1997I bet Black Marlin is the best choice the more I think about it. But I’d go check out their setup first.
  20. It’s Labor Day weekend everything will be busy. Good luck. Not sure if you care about sound but if you don’t, I’d probably try 1886. TV is decent enough. same goes for Black Marlin. I think both their inside and outside bars have TV’s but honestly I don’t remember if they are good for game watching or not.
  21. In the last 10 years tourism has grown a billion percent. Despite that we’ve lost Marcel’s, Pelican CLUB (lost Pelican Landing too but that place sucked), Inferno/Liberty Hall, Shell’s, Irie’s, Harbor Lights, Giggity’s, and La Barateria. All those places were good to excellent. I’m sure I missed one or two. The few new restaurants that have opened range from mediocre to suck.
  22. Yes. And not much of one at that.
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