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Lol, mph, not knots! It's a 4 cylinder 50 hp from the 70's, 😆!
Oh, ok so like around 20 knots then. You'll have to forgive me. I was in the US Navy and I'm a commercial Fisherman as well as a cutter. I don't do MPH when it comes to Marine applications. Everything on the water is in knots and nautical miles to me. But that's me!😉
 
Pics of trolling riggs Now? Deal me in! What's the anny? View attachment 995175My salt water King Salmon Slayer. View attachment 995176The weather break on the console is removable. It slides down into the four rod holders on the console then secured with pins. I really only use it in the fall for hunting and also winter traveling. I just haven't taken it off yet this Spring. 😉
Nice rig!
Did someone say king salmon?
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I agree the 4 lb axe with 28” handle View attachment 995066is about ideal for driving falling wedges,…but it’s heavy, lol. 3lbs or less is my preferred every day carry. If I was in big timber working the boundary or doing urban logging I’d pack it but the sale we are currently working on trees aren’t that big and 95 % are dead an rotten tops. Some of the white fir the top breaks out just from the wind resistance of the tree falling so I try not to do any wedging. For spitting wood by hand I really like the fiskars x27View attachment 995079But I mostly use the hydro anymore View attachment 995083Finally got most of the rounds I had laying around split, just need a little more to finish filling the wood shed then start bringing more in for next year.
👍 Like the wood shed! I figured you had to have a Council somewhere! 😂 Weather your preferred weight or not!😉
 
My hand tools for splitting wood. A 12 pound sledge, An 8 pound maul, A 6 pound Council, and a small assortment of wedges. You can see the ones I use the most are mushrooming out.
Nice collection. Now read this thread that @Philbert just bumped: Splitting wedge . It's in Off Topic so you may not have seen it. And then go clean up those mushroomed wedges before you hit them even one more time.
 
Bow- stern always confuses me, as well as port and starboard! 😆
What say ye?!?! Keel haul the skerrvy rid'n land lubber! 🏴‍☠️ If be it he survives ?!?! Haul that weevil to his feet, secure him to the main mast! Then be it ten lashes with a cat-o-nine Bosun! Just to remind him! TO STEP TO IT AND STAY ON'EM!!!😂😂😂🏴‍☠️😉
 
What say ye?!?! Keel haul the skerrvy rid'n land lubber! 🏴‍☠️ If be it he survives ?!?! Haul that weevil to his feet, secure him to the main mast! Then be it ten lashes with a cat-o-nine Bosun! Just to remind him! TO STEP TO IT AND STAY ON'EM!!!😂😂😂🏴‍☠️😉
Arrrr ye matey, I kinda understood that, scary!
 
Arrrr ye matey, I kinda understood that, scary!
Well, if it was 300 year's ago, and we were in the british Navy. It would basically mean. Don't ever forget the difference between bow and stern, fore and aft, and port and starboard again! But with more actions and less words!!👍😂😂😂
 
Yours as well! Nice king to brother!👍 Good on ya!
Thank you! King fishing in Alaska is on my bucket list.
Funny story about that. My wife and I went with her parents on a cruise/land tour of Alaska. It was fun but not my kind of vacation. I was about 35 years too young at the time!🤣
Anyways, we had a stop in Ketchikan and we did a shore excursion salmon fishing trip. My wife and I meet the "guide" at the dock. We shove off and go salmon fishing. We're trolling for about 15 minutes and there's this commotion from the back of the boat. The kicker bracket broke off and the kicker was hanging by the control cables and was spinning around whacking the transom until it sucked water in and quit! Now I'm a little nervous about this guy's maintenance procedures on his boat. We ended up bottom fishing for halibut and I caught a 15" long flounder on an 80 lb standup rig. Could barely feel the fish. It was an interesting trip to say the least. I always research and pick my own guides now. Paid way too much for a sh**** experience.
Definitely coming back on a proper fishing trip sometime in the next 10 years. Love it up there!
 
Hooked this 40 pound Soaker at about 11:40 pm and landed him at a little after midnight on 17lb test a half hour before sunset! A solo evening of King trolling. With the exception of my fishing partner Angus on the bow. A 45 minute King salmon fight, and one of two of the best King fights of my life! 💪 The tide alone pushed me the entire fight over a nautical mile and a half off station from where I first hooked up!👍IMG_20200812_212139192.jpgIMG_20200812_212052937_HDR.jpg
 

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Right on...average size 3 year old. They've been getting some 24 pounders already this spring. There will be a real chance at some 30-35 pounders this August.
Any king is a nice king, but anything over twenty pounds is a reel treat! 👍Pun intended! 😂 And a 30 -35 plus is a Soaker of a hog!
 
Another couple good days on the water! 👍 A 100 lb halibut on 25lb test. I was actually trolling close to the bottom and targeting kings I was marking on the sounder when I hooked this Butt!IMG_20200818_143958588~2.jpgIMG_20200818_144032541_HDR~2.jpgI didn't catch these two small silvers and 28lb king on the little red Kayak. 😉 I just use the kayak to get to and from Jader's mooring. You can see it in the back ground in the halibut pics. 👍IMG_20200812_220525897.jpg
 
Darn, now we're talking about boats??? :) I sold my Stratos RIGHT before the country shut down 2 years ago, planning on buying a deep V. Probably a Tracker Targa 19 with a 200 on the rear. But as soon as I sold mine, everybody bought up pretty much every boat that was on dealer's lots, so I couldn't find anything that I wanted prior to the next Spring. Then we bought the house up here, and it kind of moved down a little on my list of priorities while trying to get settled here. Now I'm looking again. I'm hoping that by next Spring maybe they're will be some more back in stock on dealer's lots? And possibly that the prices won't be as crazy as they are now? I think the prices we're just going to have to live with, but I'm hoping that the supply chain starts to run a little more efficiently soon. I ordered my side by side last June, and didn't get it until December. Six months for a machine I thought was a little ridiculous. Also, did someone mention Kings??? Caught these on Michigan a few years ago. They're fun to catch, but I'd MUCH rather eat the Sockeye that we caught when in Alaska.King Salmon.jpgBoat.jpg
 

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