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[Flywest]

Newby from downunder!
Have a 2004 starboard helmed F 250 DC 4x4 7.3 PSD with 60,000miles that I bought to tow my boat!
I'm a old phart - who is a charter fishing skipper!
Just like tinkering with engines & outboards etc!

Have a couple lads 17 & 19 who I'm trying to teach what I know about spanner twisiting, but I learned a long time ago before the age of computers n such so i have some catchin up to do to try n keep up with the times!!

Mods so far:-
3 gauges
Zoodad
Deep Trans Pan
Aux Oil Cooler
Oilgaurd Bypass Filter
Propane
Roo Bar
Side Steps
Spot Lights
Long Range Diesel tank
Fibreglass Canopy

Cheers!

[outlawchic]

HI. I'm Val. Welcome to GoGo. Charter fishing, huh? Do you do shark fishing?

[Abrannan19]

welcome to gogo..how did you hear about the site,mate?

[heinzboy]

Welcome TO GOGO. Thats looks like a nice heavy duty grill guard you have.

[DCSpecial]

Welcome to the site

[PSDPlayer]

Welcome to the site.

[UpstateDieselGuy]

Welcome Aboard. Chris

[mikeym]

lets throw another shrimp on the bahbie!

[nummit]

Welcome to GoGo

[Flywest]

Sorry for the lack of response people.

My only excuse is I been away for 5 weeks on a fishing holiday up the coast with my family!

This is the rig all loaded up and headed North!

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a70/troutylow/boattruck.jpg

While up there - we endured 3 cyclones in one month which kinda screwed up the fishing a little. That said - we still caught fish - but we had to work pretty hard for em!

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a70/troutylow/P7040447.jpg

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http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a70/troutylow/P7250013A.jpg

It was a tough month - I think i need a vacation to get over it!

The F truck never let me down and did everything I asked of it, hauling the boat at 60 mph thru 46Degree C heat (114.8f) launching on steep and sand/weed covered ramps etc....flawlessly!

Couldn't be happier with the performance of the truck as a tow vehicle!
That said - for passenger comfort it sucks & the air con isn't worth two knobs of nanny goat poop!

Whoever in their right mind designed a air con that can't direct cold air down onto your feet in the footwell?

With temps as hot as we endured and only rubber mats on the floor - it got so hot my heels dried out and split to the point of bleeding! I couldn't keep my foot down on the accelerator and had to drive using the cruise control!

Someone at Ford design wants rooting up the azzz like a chook - or better still - being covered in honey and tied nekkid over a bull ants nest in death valley on a hot day! Maybe then they would learn to design a car that stays COOL in hot conditions with the air conditioner turned on!

That was the only complaint about the F truck....it's air conditioning sucks big time in the heat of our desert due to poor design...imagine the reflectd heat off the road surface in 114.8degrees F and also towing egt's of 550C (1022f) running under the drivers steel floorpan with no insulation bar a rubber floor mat and a air con that ONLY directs cold air out of the face level dash vents!!

Whoever designed that was a dickwad!

Cheers!

[banksforddiesel99]

Very nice pics. wish i could do something like that, do you guys not wear shoes when you travel? or do you wear sandals and flip flops and such?

[Flywest]

Indeed we don't wear shoes when we travel, mostly all flip flops and sandals.

This is because we are in and out of the water multiple times every day - while launching and retrieving the boat - or while wading the flats etc... we would lose a couple hours a day - putting our shoes on and off!

Of course we could always wear crocks!:D :eek:

I guess a warm floor pan would be a boon for snow and ice cold conditions encountered stateside and in Alaska - but down here, it's just too damn hot down on the floor to be comfortable for anyones feet!

It's a shortcomming that starts to gnaw at you after 10 hours at the wheel, day after day, on the long hauls!

Cheers!

[VERYFAST6.0]

wow thats some massive fishing there

[Flywest]

Not really when you think - we were away for 5 weeks - and spent about $20K on accoms, fuel, & tackle, and a lot of the boats around us landed up to 12 marlin in a week - when we managed only one sail!

Yeah a few photo's can impress easily - but when your in the Charter bidness you need to produce a LOT of fish for your clients, and for the time and $ we were away for we SHOULD have produced a heck of a LOT more fish (and photo's to go with em!).

Our excuse, was the presence of 3 cyclones in one month bringing strong winds and big swells, but worse very low atmospheric pressures down around 960 hectopascals - which just shuts tropics fishing down for a week or more at a time!

The fish just go off the bite - when cyclones come - likely it's the same when hurricanes hit miami I would guess!

Damn frustrating when you get 3 in a row each a week apart in a one month holiday! :(

If we had a few more days with big fish bustups like in that one photo - we'd a got a boat full of fish every day - which the location we picked CAn produce, if there is no cyclones!

Last year they got one cyclone all season - this year 3 in one month - the very month we chose to visit!

The weather gods were NOT very kind to us!

Thats the overall impression we came away with - yet others with better experiences rave about the joint as a fishing destination!

Cheers!

[heinzboy]

WOW, looks like I want to go fishing there. Whats the biggest fish you ever caught?

[Flywest]

The biggest?

Hell I don't know, 70 pounds of Amberjack on a fly rod or 45 pounds of longtail tuna on a flyrod...take your pic - they all pull like trucks and take a lot of stopping!

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a70/troutylow/ShannAbrolhosSambo2.jpg

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a70/troutylow/LTT2.jpg

It's only fishing!

Cheers!

[Abrannan19]

thanks for the awesome pictures

[Whitey96]

welcomr to the site and i would love to have your job

[Flywest]

Thanks guys n gals.

I'd like to keep my job - but I sure as heck wouldn't mind swapping paycheques with some of you! :rolleyes:

Cheers!

[sctpowersmoker]

of some tuna my caught last week "thursday" and some pics of my truck :upyours:

[mooring product]

Is that you holding up the Peanut Dolphin.

[sctpowersmoker]

yea lol im just kidding thats my lil bro im never in the pics cause they always have me cleaning the boat lol but thats fun too !

[sctpowersmoker]

thers me lol nothing special "now i have a shaved head lol

[_CH_]

Flywest - i know who im calling to go fishing next time im your way! looks like it would be well worth the $$..... if you can cook as good as you catch! That amberjack and tuna are HUGE! it would be crazy to get something like that - i know you said they were some of your largest, but do you get a catch like that often?


thanks for the picture sctpower; now we have a new number to call when drinking :D

[Abrannan19]

thers me lol nothing special "now i have a shaved head lol



you are the one on the right...right?

[sctpowersmoker]

yes thats me lol

[sctpowersmoker]

Flywest - i know who im calling to go fishing next time im your way! looks like it would be well worth the $$..... if you can cook as good as you catch! That amberjack and tuna are HUGE! it would be crazy to get something like that - i know you said they were some of your largest, but do you get a catch like that often?


thanks for the picture sctpower; now we have a new number to call when drinking :D

let me know when you would like to go yea them where some of the smaller ones we usaully get between 500-800 pounds of fresh tuna every time :D

[_CH_]

let me know when you would like to go yea them where some of the smaller ones we usaully get between 500-800 pounds of fresh tuna every time :D

http://emoticons4u.com/fingers/fing20.gif
READ young one.... i want to go fishing with the gent from the land down under.

you guys came up with some nice looking fish as well, but youre not in Australia! It might be a long flight, but at least they recognISE the correct way to spell things there; i wish we did.
Thanks for the invite, but i have some friends from FL that ive been supposed to go fishin with for a while now http://emoticons4u.com/mad/1327.gif just cant ever seem to get around to it, and besides the gulf is a LOT closer if i really want to go get sun burned and not catch anything http://emoticons4u.com/sad/584.gif

[sctpowersmoker]

let me know when you would like to go yea them where some of the smaller ones we usaully get between 500-800 pounds of fresh tuna every time :D

my bad i can read how you write tryin to be nice not a dick :upyours:

[_CH_]

my bad i can read how you write tryin to be nice not a dick :upyours:

welcome to gogo where youre allowed to be a dick and no one cares (and punctuation is your friend):D

:upyours: :upyours: :upyours: :upyours: :upyours:

and btw - that spelling thing isnt about you... americans spell things the wrong way on the whole.
AME: color
rest of the worldE: colour

etc....

[sctpowersmoker]

welcome to gogo where youre allowed to be a dick and no one cares (and punctuation is your friend):D

:upyours: :upyours: :upyours: :upyours: :upyours:

and btw - that spelling thing isnt about you... americans spell things the wrong way on the whole.
AME: color
rest of the worldE: colour

etc....

:upyours: :upyours: :upyours: :upyours: :upyours: :upyours: ^^^ :upyours: suck it

[mooring product]

welcome to gogo where youre allowed to be a dick and no one cares (and punctuation is your friend):D

:upyours: :upyours: :upyours: :upyours: :upyours:

and btw - that spelling thing isnt about you... americans spell things the wrong way on the whole.
AME: color
rest of the worldE: colour

etc....

Seeing that you are a smart guy, Tell me why Canadians pronounce the last letter of the alphabet Zed and not Zee. This is not a smart ass question. How do you pronounce aluminum.

[sctpowersmoker]

thanks that what i should have said to him i might not be able to make it to moroso !`

[_CH_]

Seeing that you are a smart guy, Tell me why Canadians pronounce the last letter of the alphabet Zed and not Zee. This is not a smart ass question. How do you pronounce aluminum.

cause they want to, eh?


This might be alittle long, but if its really not a smart azz question ill answer it to the best of my abilities while trying to keep it fairly brief

Which explanation do you want?

A)because the rest of the world (almost) says zed as well…. This stems especially from the common linguistic roots that many modern western (especially the romance languages) languages have in common.
QED:
1. look at the french: the end of the alphabet is (sorry im not too good at phonetically spelling the french alpabet) doobalya-va (w) ; ekise (x); egrik (y) ; zed (z)
2. the last letter of the hungarian/magyar alphabet (a kind of zs) when spoken by a native (maygar is a bitch to pick up....one of my good friends is hungarian and i can still only say a few explatives in magyar) is a lot closer to zed than z, however the second to last letter (an acuall Z) is much like ours
3. the last letter of the spanish alphabet (another romance language) while not explicitly a ‘zed’ is just about as close as you can get and is certainly quite distinct from the Americanised ‘Zee’

B) because they were a crown colony and still recognize the queen as the head of state, and therefore a lot of the traditions and customs are the same as the English from which they originated. The reason that the American differs so much is because we specifically and intentionally chose to differentiate ourselves from the old world upon arrival here. This is (loosely) the same (or one of the) reason(s) that many European countries chose to side with the confederacy during the civil war while Russia chose to side with the union; the respective ways of life resembled their own…. The ‘civilized’ and structured nature of the confederacy was to the aristocracy of France, etc as the industrialization and homogenization of the union was to the communism, etc of Russia.

C) do you REALLY want me to go on? Cause I can….


How do I pronounce it? I pronounce it the ‘American’ way because while I have spent what ill just euphemistically call ‘a good amount’ of time abroad I was raised here in the good ol’ US of A but just as importantly… in TEXAS DAMNIT :D

Ask Toby or Doug, i speak like im from TX.... i just have few little quirks here and there that most people wouldnt even notice. Put me in south tx; on my ranch for more than a day; or talking to a select few people and i even get a bit of my twang back.
Put me in europe(or at least the parts i know) for a day or two and ill still sound like an american, but i bet i could get around better than 90+% of americans, ESPECIALLY those who dont live there/arent expats

[sctpowersmoker]

cause they want to, eh?


This might be alittle long, but if its really not a smart azz question ill answer it to the best of my abilities while trying to keep it fairly brief

Which explanation do you want?

A)because the rest of the world (almost) says zed as well…. This stems especially from the common linguistic roots that many modern western (especially the romance languages) languages have in common.
QED:
1. look at the french: the end of the alphabet is (sorry im not too good at phonetically spelling the french alpabet) doobalya-va (w) ; ekise (x); egrik (y) ; zed (z)
2. the last letter of the hungarian/magyar alphabet (a kind of zs) when spoken by a native (maygar is a bitch to pick up....one of my good friends is hungarian and i can still only say a few explatives in magyar) is a lot closer to zed than z, however the second to last letter (an acuall Z) is much like ours
3. the last letter of the spanish alphabet (another romance language) while not explicitly a ‘zed’ is just about as close as you can get and is certainly quite distinct from the Americanised ‘Zee’

B) because they were a crown colony and still recognize the queen as the head of state, and therefore a lot of the traditions and customs are the same as the English from which they originated. The reason that the American differs so much is because we specifically and intentionally chose to differentiate ourselves from the old world upon arrival here. This is (loosely) the same (or one of the) reason(s) that many European countries chose to side with the confederacy during the civil war while Russia chose to side with the union; the respective ways of life resembled their own…. The ‘civilized’ and structured nature of the confederacy was to the aristocracy of France, etc as the industrialization and homogenization of the union was to the communism, etc of Russia.

C) do you REALLY want me to go on? Cause I can….


How do I pronounce it? I pronounce it the ‘American’ way because while I have spent what ill just euphemistically call ‘a good amount’ of time abroad I was raised here in the good ol’ US of A but just as importantly… in TEXAS DAMNIT :D
ask toby or doug, i speak like im from TX.... i just have few little quirks here and there that most people wouldnt even notice. Put me in south tx, on my ranch for more than a day, or talking to a select few people and i even get a bit of my twang back

keeep going this is funny and still makes no sence :upyours:

[_CH_]

keeep going this is funny and still makes no sence :upyours:

whats a 'sence'?

i cant say i know about that; but i think youll find it makes perfect SENSE :rolleyes:
edit: well to those of us with more than an 8th grade edumakaton that is....or if ya have a bit of common SENSE that is ;) :p

[sctpowersmoker]

whats a 'sence'?

i cant say i know about that; but i think youll find it makes perfect SENSE :rolleyes:
edit: well to those of us with more than an 8th grade edumakaton that is....or if ya have a bit of common SENSE that is ;) :p

You,canadians ,work,in,weird,ways,well not all just you :upyours: that all you can do is sit here an ragg on a 15yr old huh huh ? :o <big><big><big><big>go do something!,with urself please we would all apriciate it

[_CH_]

You,canadians ,work,in,weird,ways,well not all just you :upyours: that all you can do is sit here an ragg on a 15yr old huh huh ? :o <big><big><big><big>go do something!,with urself please we would all apriciate it

uhh, im not canadian.... eh?
and im about to go to dinner (@ fogo toby :p :D :p ) .... but thanks for the idea none the less!

[sctpowersmoker]

uhh, im not canadian.... eh?
and im about to go to dinner (@ fogo toby :p :D :p ) .... but thanks for the idea none the less!

have funn at dinner with ur b/f:upyours:

[heinzboy]

How do I pronounce it? I pronounce it the ‘American’ way because while I have spent what ill just euphemistically call ‘a good amount’ of time abroad I was raised here in the good ol’ US of A but just as importantly… in TEXAS DAMNIT :D





Thats all you really had to Say Brad...:D

[sctpowersmoker]

Thats all you really had to Say Brad...:D

:upyours:

[Flywest]

You guys are about as good at derailing a thread as we are at my forums - it's something we take pride in! :D :D :D

In answer to the question, no we don't always catch such big fish, occasionally we get small ones too - and even more occasionally we get what Paddy shot at (yeah - sweet FA).

There is a difference I think between fishing Oz and Florida that I've been able to differentiate so far (I have a couple hundred florida members on my fishing forums) and that seems to be a factor of how long the uSA has been settled compared to us (at least 100 years longer) and also the population difference (200 million compared to only 20 million for us) spread over roughly the same land mass area.

So - whats happened is - while many (most) of the good eating fish that were available close to shore have been overfished by your large population and length of time they have been targetted - we by contrast have had less time (bye 1/3rd) and less population by 1/10th to overcatch our good eating species close inshore!

As a result - we largely still don't target inedible species for sport (with the exception of Billfishing where we tag and release in accordance with international IGFA rules).

Most Aussies are still into fishing to get a feed of fish for the family and the sport aspect of it is only just taking off now!

We basically are still a kill & grill mentality (but that is changing thankfully albeit slowly).

We don't for argument sake target tarpons Bonefish Permit etc because quite simply they ain't good eating- why would you bother when you can be catching a feed of fish for the table!

So - I think our abundance of species that are good eating and readily available, is probably a lot more abundant than stateside as a very broad sweeping generalisation.

Where I thnk we are behind is - you guys have a better handle on conservation and as a result - a LOT of your species are recovering and becomming great recreational fisheries while we still have a few professionals raping and pillaging the oceans and our fishstocks are in a downward spiral toward decline - i think the USA has turned that cornmer and is on the way back - while we still have yet to learn that lesson fully!

Pretty general statements I know....but thats the feeling I get!

I am constantly amazed by the comparative SIZE os some of the same similar species in the USA - perfect example being the Yellowfin Tuna's posted here!

You guys fgishing isn't all that Bad really considering your population - I reckon we have more fish - and your catch rates would be higher here - but you still got some quality fish to be had in your own backyards!

All the same anyone wants to go fishing - who dies get downunder and makes it as far as the Wild West of our nation (which few actualy do - youi all land in Sydney and go to Queensland and then say you've seen Oz - when in fact the Wild West is probably fully half the land mass containing only 2 million of our 20 million population!

So Imagine a fish rich place Half the size of the continental USA with 1% of the population!

We haven't been able to fish it out yet but we are doing our darndest to do so!

Reason so few get out west is because of flight times - over 24 hours to Sydney - last thing you wanna do is jump a domestoc jet for another 4 hours to West Oz...so few tourists from your nation get to see my backyard!

Probably thats one of the reasons it's still an unspoilt wilderness!

Maybe thats a good thing - but if you ever get the chance, jump at it I guarantee you won;t be dissapointed!

If you like the big open space feel of Texas - you'd love the wide open and laid back style of Western Australia!

We got ourselves miles and miles and miles a just plain nuthin! :D
It's a long ways between anywhere with bugger all in between!
Thats the other drawback - your travelling time to see anything is so large a component of any holiday it eats into doing things time......

Guy I know from
Idaho, Montana, Colorado, Northern California and Utah (see his website http://www.flyfishingtheglobe.net/index.htm )
who allowed hisself 3 months to travel around OZ - hardly got to fish any of Western Australia - because he didn't have enough time - and had to do some really long days driving just to get around the continent in time to head to NZ!

You need time to see this place properly and soak it up - 6 months would allow you to see most all of what Western Australia has to offer...a good Ftruck and fifth wheel campervan, small alluminium dingy on the back and you'd be sweet to see and do all there is to do here at a leisurley pace

Thats what most of our "Grey Nomads" (Retiree's) do - become gypsies and travell around the nation spending the winters up in the tropics and the summers down in the temperate parts mostly fishing and camping - exploring the outback - fossic for a bit of alluvial gold on the way with metal detectors to supplement the fuel fund!!

It's a fun life and can get addictive.
Hopefully some of you might get to do it one day! Plenty worse ways to spend a year than driving around Oz!

Cheers!

[mooring product]

This is one of my top 10 things I want to do before I leave this life. Ireland is #1 on my list of places I need to go. I found out a year ago I have a family over there. 2nd cousins. They sent me a great wedding gift. Room and board for as long as I wanted. Anyone got a spare liver for me?