Shimano TDR

[Lipripper]

Shimano TDR. Free...... but...

I have spare rods of spare rods...

It is a good one to hang a weight on and run a third out the back (especially for our upcoming pink year)

Medium heavy, 12-30 lb line, 8ft

I would like to see go to a young fisher person that will use it.


Free to the best story.. (bonus points if your kid tells the story)


It is unused, as new. Shipping can be discussed, its on the south Island




Edit: I may be able to find a decent reel for it too if it is a good story

 

[sly_karma]

This one time, at band camp...

 

[Lipripper]

You don't win.......

 

[Karma-Kazi]

Age restrictions are? LMFAO

 

[Lipripper]

You are too old KK.....but you do fall into the height requirement

 

[Gear'n'beer!]

ok lippy, after lenghty phone convo's with my son (I'm at work....bored silly) He emailed me his story. He is 10 and comes from a long line of completely mediocre but occasionally lucky fishermen:

Hi, my name is Jacob and here is my story.

I am 10 and a grade 5 student. My dad takes me fishing to Campbell river every year to fish for pinks in the river and he thought I would tell a story about that but my last time fishing was my favourite.

We were out fishing in October. It was the same day as the sooke coho derby but because I had soccer we didn’t go out until the afternoon. It was pouring. Dad launched the boat and I held it with my sister Katie while dad parked the truck. We went out of sooke and dad hit a deadhead in the pouring rain which killed the fish finder. Dad fought two coho and I fought two coho which ended in 3 in the boat and 1 released. The whole time we were fishing the humpback whales were hanging around which was pretty cool. We kept hearing music too which we didn’t know where it was coming from but turned out to be dads iphone in his pocket playing music. I taught my 8 year old sister Katie how to steer the boat and read the GPS. I also explained to her how down riggers work. She wasn’t really interested but she had fun watching us fish. I netted fish for my dad and he netted fish for me. We headed back in to sooke as we were soaked and I helped my dad load boat onto trailer. We went to serious coffee and dad got us hot chocolate.
It was a pretty fun day.

 

[Lipripper]

Sweet... That humpback show out here was pretty sweet this fall

GnB if you didnt see the other post in the General... http://www.sportfishingbc.com/forum/showthread.php?21711-Kid-contest

I'll leave it open till next friday then there will be a vote thread.

I do have a lightly used, great shape 2000gt Reel I will throw in too.

We have Jacob in the running... Good luck

 

[Juniorfisher333]

Hi, my name is Dylan.
Today i will be telling you about a fishing story i experienced with my best friend Dawson.
Ok, so we were at Dawson's cabin in Port Renfrew, Which we go to every year. We asked Dawson's dad to take us out to Swiftsure Bay.His Dad was very willing to, as he loves fishing too! So, he took us out on his boat to Swiftsure. We were just going for maybe catch a couple of Coho or spring. So we were just trolling along for about an hour. We were starting to get ready to pack it in for the day when
to our surprise, the rod started to bob down. Dave(Dawson's dad) told me that we could both reel this one in. So Dawson picked up the rod, he started to hook it when it really started fighting. We were really surprised at how much fight this fish had. After about 10 minutes of
fighting Dawson's arms were getting tired so I took the rod. I was really surprised at how strong this fish was. I had to put my leg on
the side of the boat to hold me steady, so I wouldn't get pulled in. It was creeping to about 30 minute of fighting when i was tired-out.
Dawson took over for me. Now it had to be about 1 hour of fighting when we saw a fish emerge from sea. We were completely amazed at this Halibut. We had known that this would be a big fish. You may not believe that we pulled this fish in, although we are pretty
strong for 5th graders. Dave was also very amazed that we managed to land a 65 lbs. halibut. Since then we have told this story many times to amaze our friends. We hope you guys enjoyed this and we could use a fishing rod because Dawson's has recently snapped.
Thank you,
From: Dylan and Dawson.

 

[Finished Business]

awesome story guys! its got my vote!

 

[Lipripper]

Thanks for that Dylan

You write very well, you're in.

Good luck

 

[Karma-Kazi]

Its litterally "Neck and Neck" right now. Cmon guys there has to be some more kids who can write a fishing story out there?

-KK

 

[Lipripper]

Now it is literally "Neck and Neck and Neck"

OK so it is 3AM and dad says hurry and get up Rockfish will be upset if we are late. I guess i can sleep in the car but those two talked fishing all the way to sooke and argued about who was right AHHH. We get to the boat and start out in the dark and it's a bit scary but i have the two experts running the show so its ok. We fish for pinks all morning and it's a blast playing maybe 20 or more so then the pros decide it's time to fish springs. We head to deeper water and start fishing deep. The experts are still fighting about how deep how fast how much mustard on the sandwich when the rod goes off. Dad says that rockfish better play this one as it is a big spring. Well we finally land it and it's a 17lbs nice fish. Five minutes later another hit and dad takes the rod and with lots of drama lands a nice 18.5 lbs spring. The adults then promise that, i a mere nine year old girl, can play the next fish and that i should take a nap and they will wake me if we get another strike. Yeah right! The pros then decide to stack one side which in the heavy current caused that side to tangle so they said. The two adults then were focused on the mess they made when suddrnly the other rod was pounding like crazy and the line was going out like really fast. I got so excited i could hardly think but i hit dad in the arm and pointed to the rod that was bouncing crazy. He grabbed the rod and set the hook and started to play the fish so i hit him harder on the arm and told him it was my turn to play a fish so he passed me the rod and the fight was on. It took me about 20 minutes to play the fish and listen to the two experts disagree about how best to handle this fish but at the end of the day it was the biggest fish at 27lbs and i was the winner. This was one of the best days of my life and i will always remember it Thanks rockfish

Ms Newf has thrown her hat into the ring.

I will cut it off tomorrow after I get home from the 6 mile gathering

 

[Kildonan]

My youngest has something typed up about kicking my butt at fishing on a family vacation, I forgot to look at it and post it. I'll try and get to it later today.

 

[Lipripper]

I am going to wait for Kildonan on this one and it might be tomorrow (Get it up before noon man ) ....We chatted at the pub and he just has to throw, it up it is already written.

So... Last call if you (or your Jr) wants to throw a hat in.

 

[Kildonan]

Thanks for waiting, Lippy!

Here's the story as written by my daughter, unedited.

My name is Julia and I am ten years old
I would like that fishing rod because I want to beat my dad at fishing like I did two years ago.

Every year we go to Qualicum for two weeks in august and we go fishing every night doing some jigging. Two summers ago we were fishing on the last night we were driving out to the spot where we jig. My dad asked me to plug the depth sounder in when my dad picked the spot to fish. He stopped the boat I could see there were some fish on the screen so I quickly put my line in the water before my dad and I hooked a spring salmon. It was heavy and hard to reel in it was 28 pounds and my dad did not catch anything that year.

I would like the rod because my dad is teaching me how to troll now and I would like to beat him at that. And that is why I would like the fishing rod

 

[Lipripper]

Beauty ........

And that a wrap.