SirSnookalot

I understand the gist of questions. Some years ago we had a member on here interested in supplementing his income while in school by wanting to acquire lead wheel weights from tire shops. When the markets are high every Tom, Dick and Harry is out there trying to do the same thing. When the markets crash, and they will again as they always do, Tom and Dick are no where to be seen and Harry is lucky to make expenses. I have encountered many electricians over the years, most will not acquire enough material other than adding some pin money to their pocket book. I know to the layman a few thousand pounds sounds like a lot of stuff, it really isn't. I would suggest diverting attention away from copper as people treat it like gold, hard to make a buck at it, radiator shops are the toughest. The very best thing to buy is aluminum and stainless (get a magnet), the more contaminated the better, people treat that as garbage and it can be bought for a song, or get it free. One of the main reasons Tom and Dick disappear is that their vehicle isn't capable of handling quantity and many times it's broken down anyway. They also lack the buy money, I never left the house with less than 5-10K in my pocket, many times it's cash on the spot, ya gotta be ready. Being retired I don't do that anymore........lol. If you want to be a professional at it, be a pro or forget it altogether. Commodites trading, futures or options is an entirely different ballgame, I don't suggest that to anyone.

2x4 with hooks, hang them vertical.

I only fix something if it's broke. I do nothing with my spinning reels unless there is a problem, my SOP is back to the manufacture, they will have the parts if needed. I would take a reel to a local for something simple like a bail spring or cleaning. I've learned my lesson, let the people that made it fix it.

You don't really know what you have until you catch some nice fish. The teramer that I tried felt great except it didn't handle my desired lure weight well. I used to fish offshore with a friend using a teramer, he mainly drifted bait with it, but he did catch many fish over 30# on it, can't recall his exact model. I'm not concerned about overall rod weight, my reel is 14 oz and even with a 1-1.5 oz lure the rod is going to be tip heavy. Casting for distance a tip heavy rod I don't find to be a major liability. Shimano rods have served me well, I've mentioned this before. A good friend uses nothing but Van Staals mostly on custom rods, he has one Van Staal on a $29 Soujourn, I own that same rod and it's great...........I could always use that one, but us little boys got have our new toys.

I met a fellow from Maryland last week, he's a striper fisherman there. Telling me that they run good size then they run north, the smaller ones he says stick around his waters. Most of my striper experience is on Long Island.

You ask a lot of questions, my answer is to forget about it. 1. It would be worth market value, but how are you going to turn it into ingot. Many users do not use ingot anyway, coils for stamping would be an example and most items are not pure copper but alloys, cadmium copper stampings was a big item I dealt with. Who would you sell it to and can you get enough, a small sale is 10,000#. 2. Dirty doesn't mean anything, it's just a way that a mill will downgrade your material so they can buy it cheaper. Having other items attached is a different story like steel attachments, flux from radiators, items are bought cheaper unless they are "cleaned up". Insulated wire that is thin usually gets burnt, the clean copper is worth more than insulated copper. Cable and welding usually gets stripped, it can be done by hand but slow and tedious, a stripping machine is recommended. Reason heavier wire is worth more, when melted at the refiner there is more copper loss up the flue with light wire. 3. For argument sake We'll call the copper spot price $3.00 lb, a contract is 25,000#, that's $75,000. Settlement due by the end of each trading day. I'm not a commodites expert in trading but I do know that not only could you lose the entire 75k, but you could lose additionally money as well, don't do it if you are not a big player. You could buy 25,000# of copper, now you have to store it, have a wharehouse and material handling equipment? I could understanding holding for price speculation, but it costs money to hold it and the copper market was about $3.45 a year ago. It can be real tricky, an example is when selling a load of metal to a refiner or mill (they will buy from anyone) you have to place an order for a certain weight amount. Will call it 20,000#, if you are short weight you get penalized on the price, too much weight penalty as well, and if not on time another penalty. I don't want to discourage you, I made a nice living in the scrap biz for 35 years, but it was a full time business. I would suggest selling what you accumulate as soon as you get it at your local scrap yard and be done with it. Going for the short buck is going to make you more money in the long run. The cost of being in business can be pretty high, even on a small scale an adequate med duty (30,000 gvw) truck isn't cheap, a small shop, insurance, material handling equipment, plus without at least 20 good accounts that are serviced regularly, there just won't be enough money coming in. I may have typed a lot, but I only barely scratched the surface.

You do know what happened to Narcissus?...............hehehe

Other than than gear it would be shoes or some kind of appropriate footwear. On a boat I want a shoe that won't slide on the deck as well giving me side support. We have fire ants down here, barefoot or sandals doesn't always work well. On the beach, there can be broken bottles, sharp sea shells, jellyfish, debris being washed ashore and maybe a hook or lure.

I have a Genesis with a trunk pass thru, 8 foot rods easily fit up the middle between the front seats.

I guess one could find fault with anything. My 2 redbones that are 7' have butts shorter than I would like, the 7'6 ones I have just feel perfect in every way. The reels seats on both my stellar lites need to have a shim to "tighten" up the reels. My 7' mh stellar casts really nice don't feel it handles the fish quite as well as the redbones, but a darn good rod. My heavy 25 lb stellar is just ok, again not the backbone of redbone and has a stiff tip, not so good for casting lower end baits but fine on the higher end. Yes I feel they are much better rods than the stellar lites. I can't tell you how many you see down here, people just love them, however since they are part of South bend now the warranty is not like it once was, which was over the counter. I caught a 27" snook this morning from a 10' high position, normally I can spring them that size, could not do it with my Okuma and have not been able to that with stars either. I don't recommend doing this without a little bit of experience on smaller fish. I had to walk the fish back to where I could lift it up about 5 feet. No didn't try the heavier teremar and it may have worked fine. I told the person waiting on me what I was looking for in a certain price range, 8' mh, either it wasn't in stock or he didn't think about it nor did I. The Avid on paper does sound like it would fit the bill.

As in many endeavors 10% of the people make 90% of the money. I can think of only 2 reasons why someone would be a pro fisherman. One would be for the love of doing it, money aside because most aren't going to make it anyway. If money is the motivation some may just not have the educational background or the where withall to make a good living doing something else. Not being much different than why some young kids go into boxing, it's shot to make money with a skill they have, most of them fail too.

Labeled power and lure ratings don't mean a thing. What means something is when you actually start throwing lures and catching fish, then you know. I bought a lure rated 1.5 oz rod yesterday, it did not handle the weight of the lure very well, and it was a name brand. I am very hesitant to buy a rod I can't try out, then have the option of returning it.

I never thought buying a new rod was tough until the last few days. I want only an 8 footer, mh with some versatility to lure weight. I go up to Tuppens yesterday, only a few 8 footers and I wind buying a Shimano teramar max lure 1.5 oz. take it over to the lagoon and made 3 casts, I then return it as the rod almost doubled in half with 1.5 oz spoon, it may be a good rod but didn't meet my requirement. Later in the day I run up to Dicks, one 8' footer being a redbone 15/30 1-2 oz, just not enough lure latitude. Very disappointing as that is the only 8' model they make (I emailed them) and hands down redbone is the best rod I have ever used, I have 6 of them. Star makes a few models that would work but no one stocks them, I also own a few of them, don't care to order on line sight unseen. St Croix tidemaster is some interest but again I'm not spending $180 with out trying the rod out first, crazy I'm not. My buddy Ray has the same Cabo reel I do, he has a custom 8 footer by Conely, that rod is perfect and I have thrown it. I think I'm going to get the specs and have one made up for me.

Boynton is my area. When you are going to be here should be the determining factoring in what to catch and where to go. Bass should be fairly easy to catch now, there are many canals that hold good fish in the Lyons Rd/Boynton Beach Blvd area, plus the community ponds in Canyon. I did stumble upon a north/south running canal on Lantana Rd, @ Cadillac st. A park on 1 side of the street and nursery school on the other side, I did real well the only time I was there. For a turkey shoot there is a pond @ Target around Forrest hill on the east side of the street, loaded with pads and bass. This time of the year with muck and vegetation I'd be fishing nothing but weedless flukes and senkos. That said, this is spring and saltwater is coming alive. Lots of mullet and glass minnows, fish are tough to catch with all the live bait, we have been catching jacks over 20#, mainly in the ICW at sunrise.

Mirror lure twitch baits are one of my favorites, I like the catch 2000.

My main barracuda rod is Quantum Blue Runner about 60 bucks. 7' mh 1/4- 2 oz lure weight, being a dedicated rod I only cast surgical tubes that are 1.5 oz. Great distance and many 45-50" fish caught with more than enough backbone. Why this model was discontinued I don't know, just hope I never break it.

I know where I'll be, same place I've been the last few weeks. So much bait around catching on artificial is tough, I'll be overjoyed to catch 1.

One of the worst days I ever spent in my life was in St Louis, actually Granite City Illinois. Flew down looking to purchase a slitting line, the temps were sub zero and the warehouse had no heat. I was never happier to get back to Detroit. I lived just outside Paris,Kentucky for 2 years, won't go into detail but not my favorite place, the country side was beautiful. Being in South Florida isn't much different than living up north, except it's warmer. The modus operandi here in Boca is not having a gun rack on your pickup but having your attorney and broker on speed dial............lol.

I'm not saying who it was directed at, but it was NOT stlbob. I don't need to flex my on line muscles.

I can't convince myself to use it.

At last you're using good equipment, I knew you would come around. Have no idea what I caught it on, where I caught it, how big it was, what rod and reel. I do know what I caught my last one on, Thursday afternoon about a 5 pounder on a ml supreme 30 using a crappie jig.

If I could go fishing this weekend, which I will be for sure. The ocean, where else?

I'm sure Redline can relate to this. I started out in the real estate business in the late 60's. First rule I was taught was forget about what you learned in school, just get in on paper and we will straighten out it later. We had a receptionist, Eloise, she rewrote the PA's when needed, prepared closing statements, handled arrangements for inspections, mortgage placement, answered the phones and all kinds of other things. Went home at 3:00, she had kids. The laws and procedures have greatly changed over the years, but there are no more Eloises' around anymore.

Whether it worked or not I wouldn't use it, nor would I use any scent product unless the manufacturer added it to the bait. I may as well use a live nightcrawler or shiner and get the real scent. Not that I haven't used live, dead or cut bait when it's needed for certain species, more often than not I'll be butterfly jigging instead.