“I blew out My flip-flop
Stepped on a pop-top
Cut my heel had to cruise on back home”
Fishing has been steady but predictable. In South Florida , we have seen our usual dolphins in the 14-25 lbs range, occasional kings, bonitos, etc. but not much to get excited about. Our recent trip to Spanish Cay turned out to be an adventure due to the perennial problems with our boat’s computers and the Suzuki triplets acting up. Add four days of bad weather and monsoon storm and it was one of those trips we could have skipped. But we did manage to catch a few fish.
Luckily, our friends in La Gomera (Canary Islands) are having a good season. Although a grander continues to evade them, CP sent us a couple of pictures of some good size blues from earlier in May. Richard and Tim had a couple of big fish on their first week there. They will be back in July for more action and CP will continue to fish the area with Jose Luis until August when he will join us at the WMO. By the way, Richard and Tim are fishing with all StingRay equipment and CP will be testing an all-new StingRay rod series later on this season.
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Big Blue exploding out of water
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One of Richard’s blues
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Cockpit Chaos and Tolimar 80 in action
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Charles (CP) Handling a big blue
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Our friend and neighbor Chris from Palm Beach Gardens sent us a couple of very nice pictures of
kingfish caught on live bait. His crew caught these while ‘tuning up’ for the upcoming tournament season.
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Chris and the Southeastern Freight Team
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Chris holding another of his blues
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There is a lot of excitement here as we prepare to open our retail store and continue to increase our product line with some great items. We are looking at an exciting summer with the upcoming ICAST show, our WMO participation and then the grand opening in September. Make sure to stay in touch with us by subscribing to our newsletter.
Keep
those pictures coming…….
Posted on Jun 24th, 2009 by ray | No Comments »
Dolphin Aerobatics
MAHI WEEKEND!
Saturday was a perfect Chamber of Commerce day. Cool and calm, the water was clear and visibility endless. Alan Seidel flew in from New York for the occasion and Doug and Richard also joined us.
The day started rather slow and we did not see action for the first part. We started our trolling pattern at the wrecks off the Lake Worth inlet but gave up rather quickly as traffic was quite heavy with tournament participants. Staying within the 3-mile range, we tried the always reliable Breakers area but we found ourselves in the middle of a boat show. Not that we are anti-social but we would rather have some elbow room while fishing. Finally we headed straight offshore.
Alan and Richard
Mid day and after a missed strike, I asked Alan if he did not mind putting his ‘lucky rod’ out. He brought a lightweight four section caster with a 30 wt. barrel reel that he claims works all the time. John and Alan put it out with a 7” feather and we trolled at around 7 knots. Lucky indeed, within 10 minutes, a nice 23 lbs acrobatic cow hit the lure and put on a magnificent show. We could not have written the script better than how it turned out.
Alan Seidel
We could see the bull hanging around the boat and we put out a number of choices ranging from bonito strips to feathers. But as by magic, a few boats showed up while we were busy with Alan’s fish and one of them hooked the bull in a trolling pass close to the boat. A little disappointing but that is how the game is played. A few minutes later, Richard landed another cow, this one weighted in at 17 lbs. Doug completed the weekend with another 17 lbs cow.
The reliable and tasty dolphins have finally arrived so summer must be around the corner. We are looking forward to another successful year of StingRay fishing.
Doug Talbot
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Posted on May 8th, 2009 by ray | 1 Comment »
North Platte trout
We have some new pictures to post. The first one from Trent Schemerhorn, our official Rod and Reel Pajama tester. The picture is of a 42” brown trout from the North Platte in Casper Wyoming. Trent tells me that the real big one got away, so this smaller trout had to do for the picture.
Alan Seidel obtained his first StingRay rod and reel by winning an auction at the recent Wall Street Cares golf tournament. Alan is one of those guys that dream about leaving the big city and heading down to a tropical island to run his own fishing camp (sort of a fishing Norman Paperman). Here are some of his trophy catches:
This is one big striper
Nice Jack Crevalle
A keepr tuna from a recent trip to Cabo
We are now entering the prime spring fishing season and as you start bringing in your catch, remember to send us pictures featuring your StingRay product. We will send you gift certificates and other neat stuff but only if we can clearly see our product.
Posted on Apr 27th, 2009 by ray | No Comments »
