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[FoD]

What years were you in country ?
me 69-70-71

I was yachting with the Navy, so we had all the pleasures of a cruise ship, 71-73, didn't get the good golf course country club scene like you enjoyed ... (note any sarcasm here )

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[Doc]

I was yachting with the Navy, so we had all the pleasures of a cruise ship, 71-73, didn't get the good golf course country club scene like you enjoyed ... (note any sarcasm here )

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[GregM]

Its a pretty rare Atlantic Lancet caught 200 miles plus off of Hatteras. Its 50 inches long but the taxidermist wasnt able to duplicate the 16 inch long feathered tail as it was so fragile. The Mako was 8 footer.

That Mako would scare the shit out of me. I'll stick to their painting

 

[GregM]

That is very awesome Doc!
My step granddad was a crazy Greek from Galveston. He medically retired as a senior captain with the Houston Fire Department after falling through a 4 story building during a fire. Anyway, in his younger days he was a big shark fisherman in the Galveston area. He actually caught 2 world record fish off a pleasure pier in Galveston.
The first was in June 1937, a 551 lb Goliath Grouper. The 2nd was New Years Day 1939, a 736 lb Largetooth Sawfish. Both are still State of Texas records today and will not be broken due to these species not occurring in State waters anywhere close to that size. Gus Pangarakis was a very colorful character. We called him the "Chief"....he was truly larger than life...

Your grandfather and I share the same heritage

 

[FoD]

Welcome Home !

Thanks Doc! If you've ever watched Platoon, that one line where King says something like we get out of here the rest of your life is gravy has always seemed like the true understanding. Glad you made it back home. ?

 

[Doc]

Thanks Doc! If you've ever watched Platoon, that one line where King says something like we get out of here the rest of your life is gravy has always seemed like the true understanding. Glad you made it back home. ?

Tom Beringer was Vicious I

Thanks Doc! If you've ever watched Platoon, that one line where King says something like we get out of here the rest of your life is gravy has always seemed like the true understanding. Glad you made it back home. ?

Tom Beringer was Vicious in that movie...on that note we often guarded Navy River boats in Cambodia (like Apocalypse now) and the Mekong Delta with the AC-130, those guys “had the biggest balls of them All” quoting AC/DC...BTW Coast Guard was up in those rivers also...Their Boats were bigger than the PBR’s, we guarded both, we had an OV-10 below us in front of the river convoy flying treetop and drawing gunfire, he would put a smoke rocket on their position, then we would hose them with the 20 mm cannons.
Regards
Doc

 

[txquailguy]

I used to Snook fish in Marco and chokaloskee...
Regards

Doc I would LOVE to catch a Snook....We have some in deep south Texas waters but I have never pursued them. I would love to do that at some point....it's definitely on my bucket list. ??

 

[Doc]

Doc I would LOVE to catch a Snook....We have some in deep south Texas waters but I have never pursued them. I would love to do that at some point....it's definitely on my bucket list. ??

They are just now showing up in north fla, for about a year now..they say they were prevalent here in the 1950s. Maybe climate change brought them back, but if it freezes they are history unless they go to deep water and it was 19 degrees here two days ago..but they can’t resist a live shrimp on a 1/0 hook ...

 

[FoD]

Tom Beringer was Vicious I

Tom Beringer was Vicious in that movie...on that note we often guarded Navy River boats in Cambodia (like Apocalypse now) and the Mekong Delta with the AC-130, those guys “had the biggest balls of them All” quoting AC/DC...BTW Coast Guard was up in those rivers also...Their Boats were bigger than the PBR’s, we guarded both, we had an OV-10 below us in front of the river convoy flying treetop and drawing gunfire, he would put a smoke rocket on their position, then we would hose them with the 20 mm cannons.
Regards
Doc

Yeah, I would say plenty of guys had them and never realized the high wire they walked. I am glad to have met a few in this life.
Best to you Doc, happy New year.
Terry

 

[txquailguy]

They are just now showing up in north fla, for about a year now..they say they were prevalent here in the 1950s. Maybe climate change brought them back, but if it freezes they are history unless they go to deep water and it was 19 degrees here two days ago..but they can’t resist a live shrimp on a 1/0 hook ...

That's been a problem in south Texas at several points in recent (30 year) history. A several cold front would come down and cause a major fish kill. Snook are probably the most sensitive coastal species to temperature we have in semi-tropical US waters.

 

[Doc]

Yeah, I would say plenty of guys had them and never realized the high wire they walked. I am glad to have met a few in this life.
Best to you Doc, happy New year.
Terry

Backatcha.......

 

[txquailguy]

That's been a problem in south Texas at several points in recent (30 year) history. A several cold front would come down and cause a major fish kill. Snook are probably the most sensitive coastal species to temperature we have in semi-tropical US waters.

Doc....I don't think mentioned this but when I went back to school in 2010 I started out in a marine biology program at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi before I transferred to Texas Tech and got involved with quail. I have a great love of scuba diving so I figured I'd try to make a living at it when I first had this biologist idea. I interned/volunteered in the Ocean Health and Fisheries Lab at the Harte Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies. It is a wonderful, state of the art, research institute on the campus there in Corpus. I was so fortunate to get involved in some really cool projects helping graduate students in the lab and field. One young lady was working on a study looking at the different stocks of Spotted Sea Trout (Speckled Trout). Bay stocks and Gulf stocks. It seems it had never been determined if the different stocks of trout along the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts mingled or stay separate. I believe it was determined they mingle...lol. Crazy study....line caught 60 surf trout and 60 bay trout. They performed surgery on the fish to insert a 1/2 lip stick sized transmitter inside the fishes belly (suture heals in 24 hrs). Fish were tracked by receivers mounted on underwater structures up and down the coast (Big money on these kind of studies). The transmitters cost $750 each/one use.....receivers (50-100) $3,500/each.
We Sat tagged sharks...line caught 750# of red snapper each research trip of an age and growth study. Took these snapper back to port....filleted them (each person on the research team took home 6 months of fresh snapper) we took the heads...removed the otiliths (look that up), took a micro slice of each otilith and mounted to slide....can read like a tree ring to compare length and weight for age determination.....lol. So without getting too wordy....lol...I got involved in some really cool research in college as an old fart!
Forgot the coolest study I helped on....this young lady was looking at ways to minimize mortality in red snapper/deep dwelling game/reef fish that tend to bend (nitrogen fixation) when brought to the surface quickly by anglers. This was a crazy study! We built these minature atmospheric chambers that were positioned on scaffolding over indoor circular tanks holding up to 50 red snapper. We would catch the fish in a net one by one, put them in the stainless chamber and purposely overload them with nitrogen under different treatments. The goal was to develop a mechanism/hook set that can put undersized fish back down to the bottom and release them without harming them. The videos were crazy...you could take a severely injured fish, attach them to this mechanism/barbless hook, quickly drop them down a line, pop the line, and watch them swim away like nothing ever happened....really cool!!!
There's more to tell..so you need to come to the rally this summer and we'll talk about cool fish stuff!!!

 

[Doc]

Doc....I don't think mentioned this but when I went back to school in 2010 I started out in a marine biology program at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi before I transferred to Texas Tech and got involved with quail. I have a great love of scuba diving so I figured I'd try to make a living at it when I first had this biologist idea. I interned/volunteered in the Ocean Health and Fisheries Lab at the Harte Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies. It is a wonderful, state of the art, research institute on the campus there in Corpus. I was so fortunate to get involved in some really cool projects helping graduate students in the lab and field. One young lady was working on a study looking at the different stocks of Spotted Sea Trout (Speckled Trout). Bay stocks and Gulf stocks. It seems it had never been determined if the different stocks of trout along the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts mingled or stay separate. I believe it was determined they mingle...lol. Crazy study....line caught 60 surf trout and 60 bay trout. They performed surgery on the fish to insert a 1/2 lip stick sized transmitter inside the fishes belly (suture heals in 24 hrs). Fish were tracked by receivers mounted on underwater structures up and down the coast (Big money on these kind of studies). The transmitters cost $750 each/one use.....receivers (50-100) $3,500/each.
We Sat tagged sharks...line caught 750# of red snapper each research trip of an age and growth study. Took these snapper back to port....filleted them (each person on the research team took home 6 months of fresh snapper) we took the heads...removed the otiliths (look that up), took a micro slice of each otilith and mounted to slide....can read like a tree ring to compare length and weight for age determination.....lol. So without getting too wordy....lol...I got involved in some really cool research in college as an old fart!
Forgot the coolest study I helped on....this young lady was looking at ways to minimize mortality in red snapper/deep dwelling game/reef fish that tend to bend (nitrogen fixation) when brought to the surface quickly by anglers. This was a crazy study! We built these minature atmospheric chambers that were positioned on scaffolding over indoor circular tanks holding up to 50 red snapper. We would catch the fish in a net one by one, put them in the stainless chamber and purposely overload them with nitrogen under different treatments. The goal was to develop a mechanism/hook set that can put undersized fish back down to the bottom and release them without harming them. The videos were crazy...you could take a severely injured fish, attach them to this mechanism/barbless hook, quickly drop them down a line, pop the line, and watch them swim away like nothing ever happened....really cool!!!
There's more to tell..so you need to come to the rally this summer and we'll talk about cool fish stuff!!!

That’s Fantastic ,I was taking Organic Chemistry at the Universityof North Fla and they had a phenomenal marine biology lab there in escambia bay, some of the students and I would go to Ft Pickens and put shark lines off the little pier. We would take the bait a 10 lb bonito and put it in a cardboard box and float it out, then free line it out to where we wanted it , then jerk it out of the box and it would sink to the bottom..and that’s how we got the bait out !
also since you are in Texas, I lived in San Antonio for about a year working for kinetic Concepts and we made several trips to Padre Island for Trout and Redfish.
Regards
Doc

 

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All this talk of fishes...

 

[Arly]

We got a tab of snow over the past few days so we've been out skiing in it here. What have you been up to the last day of the year?? In photos.

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