Team Bullfighter:
Time to get out there and fight those "bulls" of the seas.
Get that gear tuned up and no holiday slacking. Did you see some of the fish that Dean Panos has been putting in the boat lately?
Seems like there are a few decent size fish out there over a buck and a half.
I've only been out there only a few times too in the past few months and that 200+ fish is still eluding my spread. Seemed like the last one we got, preferred the biggest squid of the bunch. It wasn't dyed red, it was just fresh and the size of a Giant Rollo (Caramelly chocolate), candy for swordfish.
I hope to catch that big one before 2004 gently slips up notch.
Good luck.
P. S. - If you are going to respool a reel or so, may I suggest you consider Jerry Brown "Line One" Hollow core Spectra. This would enable you to have the most simplistic line-up this side of straight mono-filament. It is spliceable without a glitch, long lasting and will finger trap directly to a wind-on strength monofilament. That is what I am thinking to do the next time I may need to respool.
To arms, to arms, to whack any boat thieves that dare consider to intrude upon the space of those Valiant fighters that do battle with the Gladiators of the Sea. RT