Hello !
New member here. I started fishing trout around the bay area when I was around 6. moved on to bass and bluegills as a teen in the 80s. I just started fishing again this year (seriously, this is the 2 time in my life that I bought a fishing license, it's been THAT long) via crabsnaring and plan to add small rockfish, surf perch, and stripers to my quest. While I bought some new Penn spinning reels this, I am resurrecting some vintage gear I found in the garage like a vintage surf rod that has a Varmac wooden handle/butt with chrome guides, Ambassadeur 5500C, and Penn 920.
see you out there!
jon_elc
Welcome aboard, Jon!
Best,
Fred
Welcome !!
jon_elc!
Welcome to the site!!!
Let us know where in the SF Bay Area you are located,
I live in San Mateo, and get together often with Dominick to talk fishing stuff out in his garage.
If you enjoy wine, we enjoy a splash of the vine from time to time.
Wayne
Greetings, Jon, from Minnesota.
Frank
and i'm in saratoga. welcome!!!!
Welcome from Philadelphia, Jon!
Enjoy your stay.
Sal
Hi.
Welcome! You have found and awesome group of fishing folks, that are here to help!
welcome aboard Jon,
Dave from San Jose
Hi & welcome from the UK - Chris
Good to have you with us Jon, cheers Don, from sunny Western Australia.
Welcome Jon ! :)
Welcome, from San Diego!
Welcome Jon,
Brett from Tucson, Az.
Quote from: El Pescador on June 07, 2019, 07:43:11 PM
jon_elc!
Welcome to the site!!!
Let us know where in the SF Bay Area you are located,
I live in San Mateo, and get together often with Dominick to talk fishing stuff out in his garage.
If you enjoy wine, we enjoy a splash of the vine from time to time.
Wayne
Wayne does the talking and I do the listening. ;D Welcome aboard. Dominick
Welcome Jon!
I grew up on the peninsula in the Woodside area .
Live in the Sierra's now but we have a great bunch of guys from the Bay area that all fish together.
Look forward to meeting you and wetting a line .
Best ,
JT
Welcome from salem va,,,,,,,, ;D
Thanks, everyone! Sorry for the late reply; I've been busy trying to catch the last few dungeness crabs before the season closes. FWIW, I make my own snares.
Jon there's an unspoken rule here, it goes like this.
Pictures or it never happened.
Show us your snares, it's cool to make your own gear.
Welcome ! From LA... "Lower Antioch" Ca. Gateway to the Delta...
Cool
OK, will do!
here's a couple of my earlier snares... I initially learned how to make them from Fisherman's Life and ScorpionTube712 on youtube, but I've been sort of modifying the shape and size, and changing the way to make the snare loops every time I have to make a new one, which is every couple of trips.. 1) rock crabs tend to destroy the hardware cloth. and 2) you lose one now and again from abrasions in your braid.
for example, after making the snare loops with the "U" in the line on both ends, I found that using the "ring" electrical connecter has a longer useful life (it slides the same after 3-4 days, compared to the "U" which seems to get more friction when rubbing "line-on-line" if you know what I mean). but there are people using and selling both types, so maybe it's just based on the line I am using?
Oh you probably want to see some in action, too.
i made a bunch of those for my brother a couple of years ago. he says they work pretty well.
Those are pretty cool Jon. And they get results too.
Nice! Those guys look pretty pissed!
Welcome from Santa Cruz!
Mike
Cool beans...good to have you here....Bill, SoCal