I have never fished so much for nothing considerable in my life, than since Turkey Day of '10 until now. I try to get out fishing 1, if lucky 2, times a week, but lately the weather has been putting the damper on that. So... Being the type of person that can't sit still long enough to watch 1 quarter of a football game, I began many projects.
Project 1. Skiff Work
- Hand Built Cup Holders
- Painted Bench Seats and Hull
- Built a gas tank storage / bait tank table top
Project 2. Rod Wrapping
- Seeker Black Steel guides suck and fall apart at the welds so...
- Removed Old Guides
- Got a wrapping lathe
- installed high end guides on my black steels - all black wraps
- Became addicted to rod wrapping so...
- removed every sticker on my black steels
- wrote my rods "nicknames" and model #
- re-wrapped, and epoxied back over
- They are now "custom rods," all black, with awesome guides.
- Sweet
Project 3. Simplify my life
- I surfed since I was 10 (20 Years)
- I snowboarded for a very long time
- Skatetboarded since 5 (25 years)
- Snow Ski whenever possible
- Wakeboard
- Ride beach cruisers
- ETC
- Fish a lot
- sooooo.
- I'm selling almost all of it, cause I never use it anymore
- All surfboards, snowboards, a pair of skies, boots, bindings, skateboards etc. etc
- And the skiff - all the work goes to waste of course
- All the $ is going to a newer, mo better skiff for summer
- If I have enough left over I'll get another yak and call it a day
Simplified Life - I work, play with the kid, hang with the wife, build my own rods, and fish for inshore and offshore for pelagic species.
That's what I do when it sucks. What do you all do?