Riggers Ready!!
 

Haven't used 'em inna while, but Sunset trip comin' up soon and great access to Kings there ... had to redo shock-cords, but other than that, they're ready for some scrollin' 8) ...
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90.../IMGP08772.jpg

I've never used these rods/reels for kings, but I believe they're up to the task ... we gonna find out ;D ...
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90.../IMGP08812.jpg

Now if Mother Ocean will just cooperate ... just have to wait to see if she's in the mood for me to fish her ;D ;D ...

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Oooowww Looks good ;D

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DITTO
Those rigger bases are the same my boat had.
Grandaddy had them installed at the boatyard where he bought the boat in "75.
Now their long gone, except for the holes in the gunwales. :'(

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Looks good REEL and I hope you catch a bunch of fish and have a great trip when you go.

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they look great now get them wet ;D

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Looks great!! Good Luck!!

You been holding out, I have never seen your boat with enclouser??

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MJ for the money shots he cannot have anything that interferes with the profile of the captain ;D

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Awesome riggers DAWG! Go get um! Ready for battle!

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Reel, we ditch the the bungee's and the cord onour riggers, instead use 80# mono and use a short piece of line that runs thru a cheek block(sail bote stuff), saw it on a Viking once and tried it, you can adjsut the tension to handle what ever speed your trolling or however much drag you have, when you store the riggers upright for running, you can really tighten the lines to keep them from flapping

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Reel,

The day is fast approaching.

We are going down on the 25th, be there through the 3rd.

When we were there last week the surf was full of weeds, the kind that hold dolphin. Reports were that dolphin were within 5 miles of the beach and kings were in the surf.

The wind was blowing when I was there so I didn't test out the reports, but plan to soon.

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Looks like we're gonna miss again R'man :-/ ...Well be pullin' out on Sun-22nd...hope that close-in dolphin report holds up 8) ...I'll let ya know ;) ...

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Spare...thanks for the idea on the check-block tensioning ;) that's good...soon as the sun destroys these new bungees, I'll switch 'em over 8) ...

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it worked good for us,I've converted several other boats to that set up with no complaints. how do those riggers work out on the v, was thinking about putting some on mine, right now I've got three down riggers in the shed, would use them in Moultie if there were any stripers, but no one is catching any. No one around here uses downriggers offshore

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These Rigger Bases are by a company called SOS ... they're reel nice ones with good operation ... the poles are about the cheapest I could find and work good, too ...the "heart" of the system, though are the release clips ... I used the Goldfinger clips cause of the adjustability ... quick, easy and very precise ... don't get to use the riggers a lot, but they've performed great on all the kings we've been able to get on... ;) ...

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they are starting the megadock tournament today, prefishing has been slow, I'll let you know whats being caught. The patriots point tournament, was pretty good two weeks ago, everything was caught close in, but its fizzeled since then

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RATS!! :P ... MAYBE THINGS'LL PICK UP NEXT WEEK UP AROUND LIL' RIVER 8) ...turn the damm caps OFF ::) ...

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last report before I left the marina, five sails released, no marlin, big dolphin was 31( two weeks ago it was 56), no tuna, 39 wahoo, half the fleet didn't fish today because of that front that rolled thru last night. There was some high dollar hardware on the dock today, I'll get some pics tomorrow at the weigh in

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Reel, check with Charlestonfishing.com, they have a grand strand report

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Good idea...had forgotten 'bout that ;) ...I'll be checkin til Sun for updates, but this doesn't look too sporty :P

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/data/Foreca...US52.KILM.html

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REEL,

Here are reports for where you, and I will be.

http://oifishingcenter.com/fishing_report.cfm

They have been catching sail 10 miles off.

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SAY WHAT!!!!!!!!

You have got to be kidding. Oh well.

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Major Motion called in a Bill Fish release about an hour ago, must be a Marlin, no one would call in a sail, and yes they are catching sails close in

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I'd like this to look a little better for Tues & Wed , but this might be doable..

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/data/Foreca...US52.KILM.html

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REEL,

Thats the normal weather summer pattern. The 15 kt winds will be in the afternoon when it gets hot.

Get outside at daylight and fish til the wind picks up, then you have a nice following sea back in. ;)

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That is good description of last time I was out... ;) ...