going kayak fishing in style

[TriGuy]

German Style that is

Tomorrow we hit the Delta for Striped Bass

[Honda]

German Style that is

Tomorrow we hit the Delta for Striped Bass

I love catching stripers. They are very hard fighters and if you get one big enough when it'll rip your tackle up.

[TriGuy]

I love catching stripers. They are very hard fighters and if you get one big enough when it'll rip your tackle up.

I will be using a 10' Orvis Clearwter 8wt fly rod with a ECHO saltwater reel loaded with a 8 wt floating weight forward line with a 10' fast sink tip tied to a 2' section 20# test braided line tied into a 3" clouser minnow streamer fly. should be fun

[Flaco]

nice, i am just a little jealous

[Honda]

Looking forward to your fishing report!

[TriGuy]

It was frustrating as all get out. Mid channel, fish boiling everywhere chasing baitfish. No matter what streamer fly I tried not a single hit. I was out there for 5 hours....still I enjoyed the solitude.

[Honda]

It was frustrating as all get out. Mid channel, fish boiling everywhere chasing baitfish. No matter what streamer fly I tried not a single hit. I was out there for 5 hours....still I enjoyed the solitude.

It happens. You'll get them next time.

[UTAH]

Those are the type of kayaks I like - where I can keep my knees up to take pressure off my back. Nice.

Hunter

[TriGuy]

[FredK]

Real German style would be using the farm tractor. At least that was the going to town for the rural folks vehicle when I was there serving there in 69-71. A few lucky soldiers had the hand me down VW's.

[Truckman]

A few lucky soldiers had the hand me down VW's.

I was one of those "lucky" ones, Fred, although I left about the same time you were getting there...I survived both of the hand-me-down VW's I owned, and one of them even survived my ownership...Standard procedure seemed to entail saving enough money to buy 3 months of insurance plus finding another GI ready to pass his custodial ownership on to another...Average buying/selling price for a 10 - 20 year old VW was $100 between GI's at that time...We had to pay $5 to the base administration for the on-base parking permit after showing proof of insurance and a valid US drivers license...My '53 VW was consigned to the base scrapyard with a seized engine, but my '56 went on to new life with another "lucky" GI when I was done with it......Ben

[FredK]

Those were the days, Ben.
Mostly bummed a ride pitching in on gas. One fellow stepped up to a Mercedes when out of town and it promptly broke down. One of my cooks re-upped and promptly bought a new Dodge Road Runner with his bonus. That was a trip to ride in.

Got there and the dollar was worth a little over 4 marks. Left 2 years later and it was worth about a mark. Not sure how one was buying fuel at those prices, since I don't think the pay went all that up.

Glad I got to enjoy the country and see some of the sites though.

[Truckman]

Wow, Fred!...I didn't know the exchange rate dropped that much after I left...It was always 4 to 1 on the economy...I also knew some guys who spent their re-up bonus on new cars...One had a Camaro SS/RS shipped over, and another one went to England and drove back in a really special Morris Mini Cooper SS, twin engine AWD...Only two seats in that one, and the way he drove it nobody wanted a second ride...Gas was 50 pfennigs a liter on the economy, and 15 cents a gallon on base with a ration card......Ben

[Dave Grubb]

You guys are making me jealous---the closest thing to a sport car for me was an M-151 jeep, at least in Korea and Nam. But---the gas was free

[TriGuy]

this was my first vehicle. I kick myself for ever selling it.