'BOX SCREWED UP PART 2

[WAHOONBOX]

OKAY......THE DAY CONTINUES ON


MORE FAT ALBERTS......I MEAN IF IT WERE RUNNING A FAT ALBERT CHARTER YOU COULDN'T FIND ONE WITHIN 150 MILES OF THE INLET....BUT TODAY.....THEY WERE EL THICKO !

NOW .......NOW FOR THE MOMENT OF TRUTH.....THE MOMENT OF WRECKONING.....


YES....I SCREWED UP......AGAIN.

THERE IS NO OTHER EXPLANATION....AND I GIVE NO EXCUSES

AROUND 3PM FRIDAY........THE DOWN DEEP ROD ONCE AGAIN GOES OFF .....MYRON WAS RIGHT ON TOP OF THE REEL IN 2 SECONDS TO MAKE SURE THE FISH DIDN'T CHARGE THE BOAT.....AND HE CRANKED FAST AND HARD


5 SECONDS OF SUFFIX RAPIDLY LEFT THE PENN 130 2 SPEED AND EL SLACKO ....EL SHITO QUICKLY FOLLOWED! ...........GEEZUS H .....WHAT THE HELL NOW??????????


WE RETRIEVED THE FISHLESS LINE AND .........THE HORROR!


THE CHAFFE GEAR WAS STILL LODGED IN THE INLINE 240 SPRO...... ONE INCH OF LEADER WAS STILL INSIDE THE CHAFFE GEAR....CUT OFF




O SHIT. O SHIT O SHIT

MY BAD....MY MISTAKE ....MY IGNORANCE


THERE IS NO OTHER EXPLANATION OTHER THAN I EITHER OVER CRIMPED THE 1.3 DOUBLE BARREL CRIMP......PLUS........ I PROBABLY DID NOT LEAVE ENOUGH "FLARE" ON THE END OF THE CRIMP.....THEREFOR "CUTTING' OR SCORING INTO THE LEADER AS I CRIMPED

WAS THERE A DEFECT INSIDE THE CRIMP FORCING A "CUT" INTO THE LEADER AS I CRIMPED? MOST LIKELY NOT!!

BUT NONETHELESS.....SOME LARD-ASS TUNA IS SWIMMING AROUND WITH 45 FT OF BRAND NEW FLUORO ....ALONG WITH $20 LURE AND AN 11/0 TUCKED AWAY IN DA PIE HOLE


SHORTLY THEREAFTER....DARYL SOFTLY SAID: " GET EM IN......WE'RE GOING TO THE HILL."






LOOK CLOSELY AT THE TWO PICTURES BELOW

DO YOU SEE THE DIFFERENCE ? (THE PINK LEADER IS ONLY FOR YOUR VISIBLITY)


ONE CRIMP HAS THE PROPER "FLAIR" IN FRONT OF THE "LOOP"


AND THE OTHER ONE HAS NO FLARE



BYE....I'M OUTTA HERE......IN TOTAL DISGUST AND SHAME.

THIS IS NOT THE ACTUAL RIG....I MADE THIS PICS A A REFERENCE

[shoefish]

Oh man, it just makes you nauseous thinking about it. I have a feeling that that happens more often than you think, only most people wouldn't admit it. Thanks for sharing Marty.

[Boonebird]

10 Bucks worth of floro
20 dollar lure
300 bucks fuel
Wahoo srewing up You got it



Priceless. Sorry wah.

[giggyfish]

Put it behind you Box, mistakes are made every day . Just think the Japanese market wasn't open anyway. Next week put the screws to em and pile up the coin to make up for it.

[Dave Sikorski]

Thanks for helping us learn by your mess up BOX.

People often forget how important every single part of tackle is. Can't mess up anywhere along the line when playing with giants.

-D

[backman]

A friend of mine made a line tester out of old elevator parts and a 200# scale a few years back.

We had a grand time a couple snowy winter weekends experimenting w./ how things break.

Two things I remember clearly:

* First crimp failure at low % of line strength invariably was caused not by overcrimping, but by not crimping enough and the line sliding and breaking w/ in the crimp and leaving a small stub of line in the loop end of the crimp. A typical slip was at 40 or 50# on 150# line; ie at a pressure setting you could expect to see in an initial run off.

* the double barrel copper crimps did not perform as well at 100% line strength as did the single Jinkai or Momoi aluminum ones. That could have been the fault of our crimper/crimping or due to the aluminum ones making a better flare than the double barrelled copper ones. If I recall correctly the double barrelled ones failed at ~100% while the aluminum ones went up to 125% before failing; enough of a consistent difference that I switched over to pure aluminum.


FWIW ^2 - we also blew up a number of used Mustad 7691SS and 3407 hooks in the experiment. We looped the hook through and eye and applied pressure at the line end with the elevator mechanism and more than one hook either bent or shattered under 100#+ of pull.

[Squidnation]

A friend of mine made a line tester out of old elevator parts and a 200# scale a few years back.

We had a grand time a couple snowy winter weekends experimenting w./ how things break.

Two things I remember clearly:

* First crimp failure at low % of line strength invariably was caused not by overcrimping, but by not crimping enough and the line sliding and breaking w/ in the crimp and leaving a small stub of line in the loop end of the crimp. A typical slip was at 40 or 50# on 150# line; ie at a pressure setting you could expect to see in an initial run off.

* the double barrel copper crimps did not perform as well at 100% line strength as did the single Jinkai or Momoi aluminum ones. That could have been the fault of our crimper/crimping or due to the aluminum ones making a better flare than the double barrelled copper ones. If I recall correctly the double barrelled ones failed at ~100% while the aluminum ones went up to 125% before failing; enough of a consistent difference that I switched over to pure aluminum.

FWIW ^2 - we also blew up a number of used Mustad 7691SS and 3407 hooks in the experiment. We looped the hook through and eye and applied pressure at the line end with the elevator mechanism and more than one hook either bent or shattered under 100#+ of pull.

Bingo - you took the words right out of my fingers. I switched earlier this year to aluminum crimps. Some extremely knowledgeable people on the big boat dock showed me the way on getting rid of the double barrel copper crimps.

[Holy Smoke]

Bingo - you took the words right out of my fingers. I switched earlier this year to aluminum crimps. Some extremely knowledgeable people on the big boat dock showed me the way on getting rid of the double barrel copper crimps.

Care to share with the crowd

[dunn6253]

I can picture the next video: WAHOONBOX EXTRACTS HIS REVENGE. This video is going to contain the biggest slaughter of gbft that this side of the east coast has ever seen. Thanks for the lesson, as im sure we all have learned something from this. Im sure there is more giants in your very near future, don't dwell on this one.

[Bluewater Lady Charters]

Marty,

Nobodys perfect 100% all the time. Happens. More important was our changes were working.
It was a beautiful day on the water, 500#+ tunas airing out, lots of life and everytime we got a bite, the excitement for a second or two, is it him?
Can't ask for much more. Sometimes it's just about the pursuit.

P.S - One thing I am pissed about. Spell my name right, two r's. My last name is not Hannah.