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California fish beware of Brando

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Mark Laboccetta

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Some great shots my friend Brandon Wahlers from California sent me. Really beautiful. Notice the seal in the background.
 

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All the more impressive since he's chosen to hobble himself with such a tacky looking speargun :)

The shot with the seal is awesome!
 
Awesome photos Mark. The one with the seal looks too good to be true (it crossed my mind that computer jiggery pokery might be involved but I can see the head of the seal just in frame in the other shot); like Island_Sand's flying mantas image, reality is often more weird & wonderful. Fantastic fish too. What is that huge flat fish (excuse my ignorance but a brill looks much the same as a plaice/sole/... to me at the moment)?

Fondueset, you'll be wanting to get rid of that awful Omer American Master of yours cheap then? ;)
 
I have the cobra - I feel compelled to punish myself by protecting others from owning it.

Heres a picture of the ghastly looking thing from the first time I fouled the waters of grand traverse bay with it. Interestingly, though I was not rigged for aquisition that day, and the water was still cold enough that fish were a rarity - a gizzard shad swam right across the line of fire during target practice - and I saw the first, and biggest so far, walleye of the season.

FYI- It does not smell of vanilla
 
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Awesome photos Mark. The one with the seal looks too good to be true (it crossed my mind that computer jiggery pokery might be involved but I can see the head of the seal just in frame in the other shot); like Island_Sand's flying mantas image, reality is often more weird & wonderful. Fantastic fish too. What is that huge flat fish (excuse my ignorance but a brill looks much the same as a plaice/sole/... to me at the moment)?

Fondueset, you'll be wanting to get rid of that awful Omer American Master of yours cheap then? ;)


The flatfish is a a halibut.
 
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It reminds me of those Michael Jordan shoes and how every kid I knew in Junior high had them except me.

I couldn't jump or play basketball for that matter but I still wanted those stupid shoes 'cause they just looked so cool. Who cared about basketball.
The truth of the matter is that the machine work in the teak of our guns I shamelessly dare say, and foremost reknown gun builders and experts have told me the same, is just beautiful and few guns posess similar workmanship.

Chris you are lucky, we haven't had Cobra 100's in three months demand is such and the Master America's which now are $200 less are also all out in sizes. This however strange it may seem from a business stand point has made me happy though, because while we don't get them in big numbers, I know at least their owners really apreciate their guns:)

Clear waters,

Mark
 
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