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Post by prairiegoat on Jun 18, 2013 18:51:38 GMT -5
Couple of nice ones caught overnight by a local fisherman hand lining live bait. I'm getting information slowly but surely. Now I just need my container with fishing gear to arrive and go along one night.  One at 5 1/2 kilos, the big one is 7 1/4 kilos. Look like some type of tuna. He sells this fish for 180 pesos per kilo. Conversion is 43.2 peso to the dollar; so the smaller one sells for around $23.00. Pretty good pay when 50% of the population lives on $2.00 per day. Ol' Goat |
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Post by ScoutB on Jun 19, 2013 22:04:11 GMT -5
Hi 'Goat. Good to hear from you again.
OK, we need a little back-story here. It seems unlikely that you travelled to the Philippines just to buy a fish for dinner. Waiting for a container to arrive makes it sound like you're moving there? How long have you been there? How long are you staying? Are you aware that there is no ice fishing to be found there? Or trout? We need details and many more photos.
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Post by wanderinangler on Jun 22, 2013 21:54:07 GMT -5
What he said.  |
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Post by SPLASH on Jun 26, 2013 15:54:12 GMT -5
I'm quitting my job and becoming a professional fisherman RIGHT THERE. GPS cords?
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Post by prairiegoat on Jun 28, 2013 4:55:31 GMT -5
Hey Guys,
Remember all the times we've all said we were going to retire on a tropical island? Well, I did!
Been busy here in Loboc, Bohol, Philippines. Look it up as it's becoming quite a tourist stop. I retired effective April 1 and moved to the Philippines the first part of May to my wife's hometown. We start construction of the new house in July. Any of you get the urge to travel this direction, give me a holler, always room at the house! Plus, I might have the fishing figured out by then.
Still waiting for my fishing equipment to arrive. Plus, I need to take a boat trip to Cebu to buy some rods. Hour and a half both ways on the high speed ferry boats. Did bring an 8wt with me, but no luck during the one outing with it. Never fly fished salt water before so may be a long learning experience trying to figure out what flies. I did buy 50 flies before I left the states. Hope all my lures get here soon so I can chase some of the bigger stuff in deeper water.
Bought a Rav4 Toyota the other day so now have wheels, just need my fishing stuff. Probably buy an outrigger boat later on too. Can pick one up for under a grand and let one of my brother-in-law's paddle me around. The house is about 3 miles from the ocean. I'll try to post more pics but the internet connection here in the province is not real fast at times.
Ol' Goat
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Should've been a 6 point, but only had one skinny antler
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Post by steelie on Jun 28, 2013 14:48:23 GMT -5
Cant beleive you left all of those trout behind!! Did you pack a fish tank full of em so you can make your own freshwater trout pond in the backyard?
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Post by ScoutB on Jun 28, 2013 21:57:21 GMT -5
Wow, that's quite a change of lifestyle. Good for you! What about your woodworking/woodturning stuff? Are you having that that shipped too?
I'm sure you'll get the fishing figured out. Keep us posted from the official South Pacific branch of Team Backbone! I think we need a saltwater board now.
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Post by ScoutB on Nov 13, 2013 22:28:25 GMT -5
As reports of the typhoon in the Philippines pour in I couldn't help but remember this thread from prairiegoat. The reports I can find about the area he moved to make it look like the power is out and will be for a while. The were "tens of thousands" of evacuations so hopefully Ol' Goat and Mrs. Ol' Goat got out and found a safe place to ride it out. There's more at www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/11/11/world/asia/typhoon-haiyan-map.html?_r=0 I don't expect we'll hear from him any time soon. Goat, please report in when you can. You're in my thoughts and prayers, I hope all is well. |
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Post by SPLASH on Nov 16, 2013 15:04:55 GMT -5
Was he supposed to be there when it happened?
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Post by ScoutB on Nov 16, 2013 21:30:58 GMT -5
Not sure, but he retired there. Moved lock, stock, & barrel. Maybe he bailed though when he saw this coming. I'm sure there were lots of flights out in the days before the typhoon hit.
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Post by fabner1 on Nov 20, 2013 18:54:13 GMT -5
Goat, It's your ol' buddy Fred, is you out there!  Old Fred |
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Post by ScoutB on Nov 28, 2013 0:02:12 GMT -5
Goat? It looks like you logged in today. Everything OK?
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Post by SPLASH on Dec 7, 2013 11:21:50 GMT -5
It sure would be nice to hear from him.
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Post by ScoutB on Dec 7, 2013 19:15:55 GMT -5
Yeah. I don't think his internet access was too good before the typhoon.
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Post by prairiegoat on Dec 25, 2013 17:59:12 GMT -5
Hey Guys,
It's been a wild ride since Oct 15 here in Loboc, Bohol. Sorry I missed this thread and haven't replied. Been a little hectic around here. Power was out after the earthquake and then the typhoon really messed things up.
I was upstairs watching the construction at 8:12am Oct 15 when I felt a couple of small tremors. By the time I ran down the stairs and got outside the whole earth was shaking. Never felt anything so violent or heard anything so loud in my whole life and only the second quake I've ever experienced. We had plenty of aftershocks up to 5.3. The house looked like a giant was holding a doll house and shaking it. It shook for 36 seconds and registered 7.2, the biggest quake to hit Bohol is modern times.
We have a small paved one lane road in front of the house and that's where I was lying. As I looked to the north, the pavement buckled and exploded sending concrete 50' into the air. Luckily I was a good 100' away. I also noticed a huge cloud of dust from the maintown area. That was the 400+ year old Loboc Church collapsing. You can find many pictures of the destruction on the internet so I won't post any pictures with the slow internet connection. We had zero casualties in Loboc. Pretty lucky considering the amount of destruction. Not so in other parts of Bohol especially 20 miles to our east.
Alot of resorts and houses especially along the river where the ground liquefied and cracked 2-3' during the shaking totally collapsed or sustained unrepairable damage. Our new house withstood the quake with only a couple minor cracks we later patched. Many roads were too cracked to be passable and bridges collapsed or were impassable. The ground sunk 3-4' on either side of a lot of bridges. All are passable now and the collapsed bridges were replaced with temporary steel ones. I saw places where whole sections, quarter to half mile, of concrete roadway moved 4" to the south.
Along the east coast the upthrust has the high tide mark now 50 meters out to sea. This was a rare type quake in that the ground would rise a fall a few feet several times during the quake. At the epicenter 25-30 miles to our north, there is a new fault line that is up to 15 meters higher on one side than the other. Haven't made a trip yet to see that. Guess it runs for 6-7 kilometers.
Have driven around and saw a lot of damage. There are huge houses totally collapsed as are many older municipal buildings and churches. There are still families living in tents. The government here is very corrupt and unprepared to deal with such calamities and without foreign assistance this would really be a mess.
So, we were just getting back to normal with power restored when the typhoon struck Leyte, and island 100 miles to the northeast. Bohol is unique in that the outer islands protect it from typhoons and this was the case again. We had some wind and rain but nothing more than a good thunderstorm back in the states. Leyte was not so fortunate as you've read and seen on the internet.
Power was the big problem. Bohol is fed power from transmission line across Leyte then underwater cabling to northern Bohol. Over 200 of the big transmission towers were blown down. We were without power for over two weeks until power from Cebu was rerouted to Bohol. At first sporadic but now very seldom do we have a short-term brownout. I did find a generator so we fared a lot better than most.
The good news is we are all fine with one helluva story to tell! Thanks for thinking of us guys and again I apologize for not responding sooner.
Oh ya, Merry Christmas!
Ol' Goat
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