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Old 10-13-2009, 11:30 PM   #11
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There aren't many US restaurants willing to pay the premium price for meat. Why pay 20 when you can get it for 10. Those overseas buyers are the ones paying the premium and it isn't really all that good. Most of the guys are getting jack for a days work right now. Even if you pop a big one you have to wait for the auction to see what you are getting for your catch.
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Old 10-13-2009, 11:31 PM   #12
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Hayyyy... Its past delicious... Drive back down here and bring me whats left!

Deckie
We're done up here... Spent the last couple days unloadin the north stuff and loadin on the southern stuff... Unless we accidently step on a stray yellow over at Chub or blackfin off Palm that boat is not likely to see tuna blood til next year...

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I had a '63 Post 38 looked like yours... Is yours that or a 40? Either way she was death on al kinds of billfish until I repowered. Went to Volvos after the detroits... She raised sails with them left and right but I never saw a marlin again... The yellowfins and blackfins ate her transom off though...

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Yeah... Thats what I said, and I meant it... Full fledged sequoia generator...
Yes mine was 38' with 454s, something about the way she cut through the water, and the wood likely absorbed some of the vibration...there were times when we had 4, 800 pounders on at once...a lot of factors went into how much you got in those days, where you bought your ice and bait, how crooked the buyers were, we actually owned our own Jap for a while, but then one guys owned three Coops in our area, so after the Feds shut the Moonies down, we used to catch fish on the NWC and run the 25 miles to Provincetown and sell them to the Lesbians, they always paid the best...$37.50 a pound is about the best I ever did....I guess that's why I still love lesbians.......
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Old 10-13-2009, 11:49 PM   #13
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Well I ought to come clean then... I am a lesbian stuck in a mans body...
I liked my 38... Rode pretty good and as mentioned was a fish raiser... Swapping her power though was a mistake. I had a lot of marlin clients and she wasn't performing up to snuff. Then the other issue was giving up over a ton of weight in the engines she picked up speed. Too much speed. Her old planks coudn't hold their caulking at 24 knots after a life of 17 knots...


I had my own private Jap for a couple years. Name was Takamura but we called him Wang... He paid pretty good but was a picky bugger... "Oh fish was gaffed, oh fish lay on side, oh fish is dead..."Always something...
Still have a cash buyer contact who carries a kit and pays fair but top dollar isn't to be expected.

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Old 10-15-2009, 10:18 AM   #14
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Ever try the titanium rods down the spine to cut off neurological signals to the muscle tissue.This is how you get top dollar if they see the notch cut with wire hanging out.
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Old 10-15-2009, 01:18 PM   #15
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No but I have beaten my deckhand with a titanium spreader bar for putting it in the wrong wake...
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Old 10-15-2009, 06:09 PM   #16
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Well I ought to come clean then... I am a lesbian stuck in a mans body...
I liked my 38... Rode pretty good and as mentioned was a fish raiser... Swapping her power though was a mistake. I had a lot of marlin clients and she wasn't performing up to snuff. Then the other issue was giving up over a ton of weight in the engines she picked up speed. Too much speed. Her old planks coudn't hold their caulking at 24 knots after a life of 17 knots...


I had my own private Jap for a couple years. Name was Takamura but we called him Wang... He paid pretty good but was a picky bugger... "Oh fish was gaffed, oh fish lay on side, oh fish is dead..."Always something...
Still have a cash buyer contact who carries a kit and pays fair but top dollar isn't to be expected.
Funny to read the Jap excuses, ours didn't do it, but one time a buyer told me, after the fish was up on the scale "the fish has cancer in one side we can only pay $11 a pound." I said "that's fine, we'll put it back on the boat and I'll give it to the lobstermen for their traps." Odd how the p[rice went right up to $27.50......it's a business I'm glad to be out of.....
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