08-21-2003, 02:09 PM
Sorry, JapanRon, I can't help you with the reel. But after reading your posts, I broke out my old cruise books (from 1967 and '68) and began thinking about some of the fishing I'd done off my old ship while inport at Yokusaka and Sasebo. I only caught a few small ones (whatever they were) but had fun doing it. While the rest of the crew was ashore spending their money and getting drunk, I'd park my butt on the well deck (the closest to the water) and scrounge shrimp off the cooks for bait. I doubt I'd eat anything I caught anyway out of that harbor anyway, these were the days when the raw sewage went directly into the water. Oh, yes, I did take my turn at trying to drink the bars dry (never did succeed) but other times, I'd rather wet a line than kill a million brain cells. Call me crazy, call me anything you want but do call me a fisherman.
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