I was digging yesterday afternoon///the day was ok & great to be out ==============I was up in the bow to cover some product,,,,,& the fish alarm goes off,, then again , & again ================================================== ================================================== ==@#$%^&* ICe under the hull===============================Gonna be a long @#$%^&* winter/////////////////:af:

Yeah I hear you talking clammer. I work on the water too, and I'm not looking forward to ice breaking. I keep reminding myself of last winter--which, as you well know, was horrible. If this winter is slightly better than last, then I'm happy. Looking through some notes from last year, we didn't get that real real cold snap until mid-Jan. During that cold snap we didn't get any wind to push the ice around, so it froze and froze and froze. The wind sucks in the winter but it does help the ice from building up. Working the transplant? I hear the price on necks blows?
Happy holidays and keep those feet rocking on the deck.

G/F ,,the price has been steadly dropping the last 4 years //its about what it was 15 years ago ///////////
Its rained so much the transplant has been only open 2 days =
they don,t need diggers anymore =they have the farms now================
like anything else ,the worker gets screwed//
the price never goes down at the end of the line/////
ya last year was a bitch for ice & yhe price still sucked ==========
Its a youngs guys occupation but it will soon be a lost art ////////////////////////////
I had 45 great years of it ,but my grandkids will only hear stories ////

Clammer.. do you love it though? I mean, do you enjoy going out there everyday? breathing in fresh sea air and taking in the beauty of the bay?? if so than that's priceless.

Clammer...
similar story.. was out Fri on Chatham Harbor/Pleasant Bay... work our way around Ministers point, and what do I see? Fish blowing up bait... white water everywhere.... I rush to my sea bag, grab my binocs.... head the boat at em (no rod, but still.. instinct is instinct) and realize its effing seals playing around.... d'oh... made for a good laugh though...

Eben =your so right =you can,t put a price on the enjoyment &fortune of being out there //the feeling is at times unreal =both good & bad =========
I,ve had sites I never would have seen /if it wasn,t for the water///
the water has been good to me & i thank [someone //something ] for putting it in my life//

Its my escape from the everydays problems
when G/S posted about his Mom being real sick last week ==I told him to go fishin==little did I know //that was were he was////
when my Mom died a few years ago ==I had a short time in my life were I didn,t have a boat///====I made aphone call borrowed a wooden skiff & when digging //
everyone understood////
I don,t have to catch fish when I go ========I have a great time anyway & if its with someone else all the better =====laugh while you can ////
Eben =I ain,t bitchin ,I KNOW how lucky a person I am=============================== :happy:

Clammer I know you weren't bitchin':D

I wish I had a little boat though:smash: something I could tow behind the truck and chase bloos and togs...
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BLOOOOOS =oh no +==========:smash:

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Those schoolies never showed up at the place you asked me about this year by the way:smash: :smash: :smash:
I think they were there earlier than everyone suspected and split early:smash:

Clammer, forty-five years working the water. It's a livelihood. I'm living that livelihood, but everyday, at least once, the thought comes to mind--Is this what I want to do? And then I look around, see something that gets me thinking the other direction-- yeah, this isn't so bad. I've been on this seesaw since 1989. Most of the time I spent offshore, but the past five years I've been working up inside, a lee shore everywhere I look. Forty-five years........I fished with a lot guys who have been at it as long as you, and every one of them, just about, said the same thing. Get out of this while your still young. I listened to them and got off the trip boats, now I'm home every night and when the bass show up, I go after them with the good old rod and reel. I can only imagine how well you know the bay. Time on the water is great. But still those questions pop up, esp. in the wintertime.

G/F =I know where the rocks are real well =the guys on this site will vouch for that /I bounch off them pretty regularly when plugging ==========
But its great to sit and watch the yahoos with their 100K boats &all the electronics ==drive up on the sandbars or ????????// because they can,t figure out the channel markers////////////////
It was great before the GPS =they would take off Friday nigh /or Saturday===& wake up Sunday morning to thick fog=had to love it //listening to them on the radio//It was @#$%^& great
now I know guys that hAVE THE gps /SOO NO COMPASS :smash: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE GPS GOES DOWN ,LIKE IT DOES////

eBEN =i KNOW ,,IT DIDN,T HAPPEN THIS FALL IN WAY TO MANY PLACES///////////
TONIGHT i WAS JUST GIVEN ACCESS TO A DOCK IN pOTTERS POND =sooooooooyu might see me around for the worm hatch









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Originally posted by Clammer


TONIGHT i WAS JUST GIVEN ACCESS TO A DOCK IN pOTTERS POND =sooooooooyu might see me around for the worm hatch
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Lucky you! Ahh.. warm early summer nights, full moon casting a shadow across the pond and gently rolling bass slurping on cinder worms.. I can't hardly wait..

Toonoc keeps his boat on potters pond, there might be a turf-war:eek:

Eben =you the glass blower in-town???????????//:confused:

yep.