things learned surf fishing.... part 2 surf tournament style.

Things I learned.... Mike is a friggin' riot... even with his red high beams on. Getting up @3:30 and catching the sunrise with coffee is priceless. Had an awesome time, Thanks to Mike and OTW and others for the prizes. The OTW sand spike is like a locked Dana 60 of surf fishing fishing! I learned that a Moscow Mule is a new Favorite drink. Thanks Erica and Chris! I also leaned that when its that hot , you can drink all day and not piss! (a good thing). Man was it hot, didn't get a break with the land breeze and the flys. Bill I hope you made it home ok with your cooling issue. Sorry I didn't stay as long as I had planned, must have been the 3:30 am thing.. or perhaps the 10 beers and a Mule.
Thanks to all who came out, what a great time.

Mike , did you guys hook up on any sharks? Those Shark rigs were sick.

Steve

Had a great time! Discovered that my little water sprite tans very easily! Little monster is darker than me!!!
Here's some fun pics from the day:

Mike with the Shark Rig, not sure what Geoff's doing - muscle memory maybe?

Sonja and I had a great time, nice to put faces to user names. Hot as hell and sunburn hurts bad but had a great time....

I was bummed that I didnt get back to join you guys. When I was there early a guy looking at my Jeep said here you have string on your motor. Well I left to meet the rest of our gang at Conquest Rd and on the way on the beach I hear and feel a bang. No sense stopping now almost there. Any how it turns out it was my fan belt to my alternator. Now Im sitting on the beach and try to start the engine and no go. The battery is dead. So first task at hand is to find two new belts. The main belt got twisted and buggered up when it ate the broken belt. So I found them at Hazzard Auto arts and paid with a credit card and had them hide them outside for me because I new I couldnt get there before they closed. So I figured I myswell enjoy the beach because my problem will be there later and the northbound traffic really sucked. So we grill on the beach and are having a goodtime and then I go in the ocean and throw football with my son and his girlfriend only to lose my wedding ring after almost 28 years. So the adventure continues. I then borrowed a battery jump pack and put it on the Jeep for an hour to recharge my battery before attempting to get the beast home. I get the Jeep running and know I have limited run time and get to the crossover only to have a Suburban stuck because he didnt air down. I explained my dilema and they left me thread the needle past them and I manage to get the Jeep home. I ran picked up my new belts got them on and while I was at it fixed my no parkng lights issue found a wire pulled out of the plug connector behind the e-brake pedal. Jeep is back in business but I am exhausted. I drank a few more cold ones and called it a night. I will be there for sure next year because it looked like a real good time.

Steve by Quadna71, on Flickr

Advantage of getting there first...

I can say now that I have gotten better at the art of casting, I really need to get my own pole - something bigger then I was using yesterday Still no luck finding a purple one so I think I may just have to modify one myself!

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Sooooo Jodie needs a pole.... Thought you sold them

she wants one bigger...the ones she has are too floppy for casting

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...I'm glad to see a lot more people enjoying surf fishing.

A few of your posts imply you're really introducing the surf fishing culture to DeJA. You do know we've been surf fishing for a long time, right?

http://www.delawareja.com/forum/index.php?topic=407.0

I'm willing to bet that it's just more of a seasonal thing for a majority of people and that's why there has been an increase in attendance over the past couple of months. Summer, beach, drinks, relaxing, etc. That being said, it was really good on you to procure those great prizes - things like that will keep people interested and coming back for future tourneys

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Geoff caught unguarded!

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FAIL! Video set to private!

It was actually fun, bad part was it was tough to keep the Jeeps an even distance apart so either my ass was dragging in the sand or the straps were so tight they were about to snap. Good times.