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Hey thanks! As I’m sure you remember, it’s really hard to turn off fishbrain in a place like Alaska, but I’m getting better at it. Always great to be reminded it’s worth it by someone who’s been through the whole kid raising cycle. And we’re starting to fish together! Had my three year old...

The word on the street when I was in Sitka last week was that a dude spearfished an albacore in the harbor. It had been milling about with folks casting to it, but it wasn’t eating. Probably on deaths door given the location and behavior, but still pretty wild.

Well, if I asked for advice I probably owe a report. This trip included my two toddlers, so fishing took a backseat to facilitating their and my lovely wife’s enjoyment of SEAK. That said, I was able to wet a line for an hour or two on four separate not particularly tide or daylight-timed...

+1 for not really wading deep enough to need them. Of course I’ve been embarrassed by a wave or two at PNP just like the rest of us 🌊🌊

Hell, I’ve been fishing from the beaches so as far as I’m concerned today was lights out! Thanks again for the boat ride @ffb . And nice seeing you @Kfish and @jasmillo @ffb is underselling the coho part of that story, by the way. We were poking along casting at reluctant schools of pinks, and...

Compared to the fish I see posted on this forum, all of em are pretty hostile to me.

Mitsubishi Outlander - I do have 4wd which is good!

Great advice! I had ol drifty out on the Sound Friday, which is one of the things prompting this soul searching. Biggest concern with the drift boat is actually that it has an old painted steel trailer, which I don’t think will hold up well at all to a more serious saltwater habit. And if I...

I know it. But I’m a really intolerable person to be around, so I gotta get my own for the greater good ;)

Well there it is! Honestly a center console would be even better - just wasn’t sure about the weight penalty.

This is still a ways off because I want to save up for the right boat, but it’s fun to think about. For background, I got my “training wheels” 16x48 drift boat a couple years ago and have been getting comfortable hauling, launching, etc. But living in Western WA, Puget Sound is really where I...

I had a tougher time finding takers amongst the jumpers. 0-3, two pinks on a fly and one coho on a jig. The pinks are certainly thick now though.

Watching the documentary “Hundreds of Beavers” opened my eyes to the looming beaver threat. Suggest some people on here pull their heads out of the sand.

You don’t get it, the extra movement is essential for getting those notoriously tricky pinks to bite. Really though, I just have a ton of shanks laying around, and with 3 and 1.5 year old kiddos I barely fish anyway, so why not gold plate it!

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Smoked up nice!

Thanks, that’s great to know. I’ve got quite a bit of rocker, so that makes it pretty cut and dry.

Yep, that was one of my big open questions for the dealer who suggested the trailer pictured in my original post. The parallel supports may have been fine, but that’s a totally different configuration than the good ol DB trailer.

All right, thank you for the insights! Probably the underlying problem here, other than trailer age, is that I don’t really use my drift boat as a drift boat. It’s used more as a stillwater/bay boat. And probably the real solution is to transition to a real Puget Sound boat since, let’s face it...

I’m thinking it’s going to be time soon to replace my old drift boat trailer. I’d like to go aluminum so that I don’t have to worry as much about occasionally putting my boat in the Sound. But being in the Puget Sound area, the aluminum options I’m seeing are typically for little skiffs, not...