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Mac8111

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  1. So many years ago I was down in POC on one of the company group trips I put together each year.  (We take our distributors from around the state fishing when they achieve their goals. Usually ends up like 25-40 people.  Amazing amount of eating and drinking and we will have 7-10 boats booked for bay trips, My dad would always come down and cook big ass filet tenderloins and fish with me).  We have the guides usually meet everyone at Clark's and they head out from there.  I had booked myself a house on a canal in Dolphin Point, so my guide I usually fish with would just come park at our place and pick us up there.  Made it a lot easier when you are loading wading gear and beer.  This guide can certainly be a dick at times but we always caught fish so I tolerated him.  At this point I am doing 3 large trips per year on top of my personal fishing. 

     

    So that morning we get up and there is some weather activity out in the gulf.  Guide tells me that the weather is moving across this way and we are going to slide in behind it and fish the surf.  Back then I really enjoyed fishing but I hadn't become obsessed with it like I am now.  So we head out towards the jetties and then make that turn down south as we clear them. Less than 10 min later, SHIT HITS THE FAN.  That thing is on top of us, driving rain sideways and lightening all around us.  On the boat is myself, my dad, my boss at the time and my buddy who works for the distributor.  We can't see shit.  Rods are humming from the electricity in the air.  I am for sure thinking that this is how I go down.  Guide is trying to turn us back to the jetties but he can't see shit and waves are kicking our ass.  Eventually he manages to get us back inside.  We are all pretty shook.  At the time, the rumor was that our company was going to pick up the rights to this Zubrowka Bison Grass Vodka and I had found  a bottle while walking through liquor stores and I brought with me just so we could try it out. Once we are clear of dying I grab the bottle out of the ice chest  and start passing it around. We finish it off while sitting there along Matagorda shoreline.   Even the guide was drinking and he never drinks on the boat.  We end just fishing that shoreline and not catching shit. 

     

    So that afternoon I head over to Clarks and our boats are starting to roll in.  All the other Captains were smart and stayed in the marina until the storm actually passed and then went and hit the surf and crushed it.  One bigger boat even went out to the first set of rigs and brought back some snapper.  Errrrrrrbody had fish except us.  I was pretty pissed.  Eventually I got smart and was tired of his BS so I started fishing with other guides and started picking up more and more skills and knowledge. 

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  2. I’ve got a friend who tested positive in early July. He’s fine, just lost sense of smell and taste.


    Today his wife makes one of those posts “ This is why everyone needs to wear a mask!!! we were just becoming a Covid free House and now one of our daughters tested positive. Now we are in round 2. This is so awful”


    Meanwhile, in the last six weeks they hosted a graduation Party at their house, a gender reveal party at their house, and there are at least three check in’s of them at bars with several groups of friends and there is not one mask in any single pic they posted during those events.


    Funny thing is that when the Houston Rodeo was first cancelled, he posted a bunch of shit talking about the Mayor.


    Some people will never get it.


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  3. Fucking wear your kill switch, especially when others are on board. Why is it ok to put them at risk? Jesus Christ. Plus it is the law now. Wear your mask while you are at it.


    In regards to the accident, why were they out there at that time? Seems very foolish with that storm surge rolling in.


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  4. Great flick. Great Recommendation.

    the wife wanted to watch the movie where the guy accidentally books his wedding at a nudist / swingers resort. Featured Luke Wilson.

    I was able to save the night by showing her this trailer and then feeding her sushi and two bottles of champagne.

    I don’t think anyone mentioned the guest appearances by Jake the Snake Roberts or Mick Foley.


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  5. I have made a career out of under promising and over delivering. But given that fact that I have never ever had success at fishing from the surf, I felt like if I stuck my nuts out there on this one I could maybe wish my prediction true.

    Fuck it. I’ll go look for some flounder tomorrow night. They love me.


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  6. Hitting the surf in the morning Prediction is 2 mph NE wind in Port A. Already have a super spook tied on one rod and a tandem buck tail / Gulp rig ready to go on the other.

    The fishing gods will be good to me tomorrow. Y’all check back in tomorrow afternoon for pics of my personal best.


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    The fishing gods are are cruel and fickle.


    No wind this morning but waves were stacked. I was casting by 5:45. No luck on top water or my tandem rig. As the sun came up I saw how dirty the water was. Like milk chocolate. Thought I would try a gulp and popping cork. That netted me a skipjack and a small shark. My buddy got him three gafftops.


    So this is my personal best today ....

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  7. What’s the deal with the druggie, Jimmy? Why did they pluck him from a crack hours and give him a brand?

    I don’t remember exact details but didn’t some old man ask Dutton to take him as a favor?


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  8. Hitting the surf in the morning Prediction is 2 mph NE wind in Port A. Already have a super spook tied on one rod and a tandem buck tail / Gulp rig ready to go on the other.

    The fishing gods will be good to me tomorrow. Y’all check back in tomorrow afternoon for pics of my personal best.


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  9. We jumped into Red Oaks last weekend. 30 min episodes. Actually has some pretty funny parts to it. Several hot chicks. A couple nude scenes early on.

    We finished Season 1 already. Nice little filler series. So far only one WTF episode.


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  10. No. It’s fucked down here.
    ive been saying it for months now. Beaches are not the problem. The goal of the beach closure is to severely reduce the number of tourists coming down. It worked the first time. It worked 4th of July weekend. It will work this time.
    Port A can handle tourists. Not right now though. It’s akin to dumping 15 million people on Austin next weekend. Y’all want that? Stay the fuck home.

    My issue is there aren’t any refunds being handed out on rental properties.


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