08-09-2003, 11:23 PM
[cool]Yo, Dryrod. Riverwire is a good source. That's where I bought my Outcast Super Fat Cat a few months ago. As you noticed, they do not charge for shipping...and I got it within a week or ordering.
I used to live in Orange County and fished Irvine and the Santa Ana River Lakes. That was before Laguna Niguel went in. I hear it is good tubin' water. There are lots of good tubing lakes around San Diego too. And, if you get crazy enough, you can go to the coast and launch in the Salt with some of our members in the Long Beach area.
If you can get away to Crowley or some of the other lakes on the eastern slope of the Sierras, in the fall, you can really get some great fishing, without all the crowds of summer. Be sure to take your thermies though.
If you go a few pages back (numbers at the bottom of the main page), you will find reviews of several different kinds of fins...from Force Fins to the newest pair of Plana Avanti's I recectly bought. Here is a link to that thread.
[url "http://www.bigfishtackle.com/cgi-bin/gforum/gforum.cgi?post=48305;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;forum_view=forum_view_collapsed;;page=unread#unread"]http://www.bigfishtackle.com/cgi-bin/gforum/gforum.cgi?post=48305;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;forum_view=forum_view_collapsed;;page=unread#unread[/url]
As far as boots go, you should have something with a hard sole between the waders and your fins. This is necessary when you are walking around in the parking lot, or when you come in and take off your fins. It is especially needed when you walk any distance at all between your vehicle and where you launch. I use the neoprene "flats boots"...diving booties with a zip up side...large enough to get over my wader feet. You can also use those cheap "reef walkers" or even oversized deck shoes or tennies.
A lot of what you will be doing a year from now will be the result of your own trial and error...and a lot of input from folks on the forum here who have all been through rookie class.
If you would like, send me an email or a Private Message through BFT and I can send you some writeups and/or chapters from my book that will help you upload a lot of info it would take you much longer to learn on your own. My email is [url "mailto:pscouten@qwest.net"]pscouten@qwest.net[/url] . If you want to send a "PM" to any of the other members, just click on their BFT name and logo to bring up their personal profile box. At the bottom is the "PRIVATE MESSAGE" button. Click on that and a screen will come up for you to send a private message. When you get a response, it will not only come up on your email screen, but you can see it at the top of all threads. It will have Private Message in red.
Ain't this fun?
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I used to live in Orange County and fished Irvine and the Santa Ana River Lakes. That was before Laguna Niguel went in. I hear it is good tubin' water. There are lots of good tubing lakes around San Diego too. And, if you get crazy enough, you can go to the coast and launch in the Salt with some of our members in the Long Beach area.
If you can get away to Crowley or some of the other lakes on the eastern slope of the Sierras, in the fall, you can really get some great fishing, without all the crowds of summer. Be sure to take your thermies though.
If you go a few pages back (numbers at the bottom of the main page), you will find reviews of several different kinds of fins...from Force Fins to the newest pair of Plana Avanti's I recectly bought. Here is a link to that thread.
[url "http://www.bigfishtackle.com/cgi-bin/gforum/gforum.cgi?post=48305;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;forum_view=forum_view_collapsed;;page=unread#unread"]http://www.bigfishtackle.com/cgi-bin/gforum/gforum.cgi?post=48305;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;forum_view=forum_view_collapsed;;page=unread#unread[/url]
As far as boots go, you should have something with a hard sole between the waders and your fins. This is necessary when you are walking around in the parking lot, or when you come in and take off your fins. It is especially needed when you walk any distance at all between your vehicle and where you launch. I use the neoprene "flats boots"...diving booties with a zip up side...large enough to get over my wader feet. You can also use those cheap "reef walkers" or even oversized deck shoes or tennies.
A lot of what you will be doing a year from now will be the result of your own trial and error...and a lot of input from folks on the forum here who have all been through rookie class.
If you would like, send me an email or a Private Message through BFT and I can send you some writeups and/or chapters from my book that will help you upload a lot of info it would take you much longer to learn on your own. My email is [url "mailto:pscouten@qwest.net"]pscouten@qwest.net[/url] . If you want to send a "PM" to any of the other members, just click on their BFT name and logo to bring up their personal profile box. At the bottom is the "PRIVATE MESSAGE" button. Click on that and a screen will come up for you to send a private message. When you get a response, it will not only come up on your email screen, but you can see it at the top of all threads. It will have Private Message in red.
Ain't this fun?
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