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TheSpecialist
10-04-2001, 07:05 PM
Hey buddy what are the plans for this weekend. I think I can go. I have ordered some 9" sluggos and am picking them up tomorrow. What should we be using for hooks or jig heads with them. You gotta teach me this rubber thing ok pal.;)

CSK
10-04-2001, 08:21 PM
Specialist, it's KLE. I know name change. Dumb story. I know a couple a thing about using slugs in the place I think you're going. Can I help ya?

TheSpecialist
10-04-2001, 10:32 PM
Please do, you don't have to ask, any help is always appreaciated. You did slay em on rubba did'nt ya.:D

CSK
10-05-2001, 02:26 AM
Jeez, I dunno about slayin.:eek: :eek: I sent you a pm.

CSK

jettyjockey18
10-05-2001, 07:44 AM
Originally posted by CSK
Jeez, I dunno about slayin.:eek: :eek: I sent you a pm.

CSK

me neither:p :p

csk/kle...who are you this week...:confused: ;) ... by the way, sluggos dont work...:eek:

CSK
10-05-2001, 07:47 AM
See, I knew that one was gonna come back to bite me in the rear.

JJ18, you got your albie lures all sharpened up:D :D , oh did you check you mail jj18

CSK
10-05-2001, 07:48 AM
JJ18, I thought you lived in Taunton:p :p

CSK

jettyjockey18
10-05-2001, 08:31 AM
EAST Taunton...:)

CSK
10-05-2001, 08:33 AM
Same thing right:D

jettyjockey18
10-05-2001, 08:47 AM
listen cse...er kls...whoever you are... :p

i gots me albie gear all set to go...know where i can find me some

:confused:

i got your pm...it will give me a chance to do some recon sat am...i think slip and bm hit the ditch last night...said it was slow...i'm hoping the early am tide will be the ticket...

btw, do you know how to sling the big rubba?? thought you were a skins guy:confused: :p ...now that i think of it, how might have some skills...:cool:

i got some new rubba in earlier this week...watched tony make those fish look silly last week...:eek:

CSK
10-05-2001, 08:56 AM
New rubba huh?

CSK

Canalratt1
10-05-2001, 11:33 AM
Specialist I'll call you tonight. I'm actually having some truoble getting the jig heads I like but found a substitute. I have been using shads and Fin-S-Fish with god results and experimenting with other rubber trailers, they all sem to work good. I'm fishing them a little differant than JJ or Slip but it works and have not got a fish at the funnel since that night but work some other spots.

jettyjockey18
10-05-2001, 11:53 AM
i just got in half dozen 4oz bulletheads and found a place with 5ozers but i'm scared to throw that much lead...:p ;)

CSK
10-05-2001, 12:00 PM
JJ18 Would this be a real store or internet?

jettyjockey18
10-05-2001, 12:22 PM
if it weren't for the taunton remark i'd tell ya...:p

CSK
10-05-2001, 12:24 PM
Richard

jettyjockey18
10-05-2001, 12:28 PM
my father-in-law's name is richard...i just call him #^&#^&#^&#^&...:D

check your pm's...

Canalratt1
10-05-2001, 06:22 PM
JJ those size jig heads is what I'm looking for! The ones I'm using now are only 2 oz. I'm looking for 3 to 5 oz. either unpainted or painted, I don't think the bass care much. Everybody claims the Ditch is dead right now but there are always fish somewhere.

jettyjockey18
10-06-2001, 08:55 AM
c-rat...was that you and specialist next to me this morning down the ditch??

4oz and a slug and i wasn't touching bottom!!...fargin wind...how'd you do??

managed 5 or 6 shorts on slugs and jig/pig...missed a few more since i could hardly feel my jig with the bow in my line... :(

hopefully the wind will lay down tomorrow...

i get the jig heads from that place in nebraska...the place in missouri has the 5's...

TheSpecialist
10-06-2001, 09:53 AM
JJ we were before the bridge right after Slip. Tony got some there, but I did'nt till we went cape side and caught the begining of the slack. I lost a 37-38" maby bigger at my feet due to knot failure. I landed 4 that were around 30" . I fished SLuggs. Some nice fish were taken by chunkers. I may go tomorrow am. Boy did that wind pick up or what.

Canalratt1
10-07-2001, 09:52 AM
JJ I make shorter cast and sling it up-current more. I tend to jig slowly and swim it more, got more fish swimming it than jigging off the bottom. I'm still on the learning curve on this but have used rubber shads for years with good results. I only had one fish there but got five more on the Cape side fighting te wind. Saw some decent fish taken on chunks wich is what I do best. Specialist did you make it back down? I may hit it tomorrow if I don't get out codfishing, depends on the wind.

TheSpecialist
10-07-2001, 02:35 PM
Yes sir, I went this morning with my dad. Saw some breaking fish coming through , I think they were blues. Fished the spot where I got my fish, nothing with sluggs. I got one dogfish with chunks, and my father lost one fish on chunks. There were breaking fish on the mainland side. One guy got fish on cape side at the first place we stopped, using pencil popper. He said he had all 18" fish and a couple of 30" fish. I wish I had tommorow off so I could go with ya. Let me know how you did.

CSK
10-07-2001, 04:30 PM
Hey Specialist, red abu reel? If so I was just to your left when you got the D-fish. I'll be around early tommorrow. Blue jacket using a neptune.

CSK

jettyjockey18
10-07-2001, 06:14 PM
and the current weather report for the cape cod canal, bourne mass...its fargin cold!! :eek:

a schoolie caught today was quoted as saying..."holy s its cold, wtf...frig this, i'm headin to jersey...see you next may"...:D

CSK
10-07-2001, 06:58 PM
JJ18 check your PM

I'm nappin soon then going to the western-most spot of last night around 2:30AM

Chris

TheSpecialist
10-07-2001, 08:00 PM
CSK mo that was not me, I am only a spinning guy now. I am getting a conventional built over the winter. Are you up here on vaca, your location says NY?

JJ you are right it was kinda cold today, but at least there was no wind.

Canalratt1
10-08-2001, 07:12 PM
Specialist got the skunk! No breaking fish and dinks kept hitting my chunks. Threw my last chunk in the water in disgust and saw a bass around 16" pick it up. And it was COLD!

TheSpecialist
10-08-2001, 07:27 PM
I think we will be ok in Rhode Island. We must have sluggs they are yummy. I am making up hooks as we speak. I stopped at Mikes and got the rod for my father. He swapped out the reel for me. I also bought a 100 pack of the hooks for the rubba.;) Now I just gotta get some more of that rubba.:p :p :p :p :p :p :p

I'll give you a call Thursday evening about sat.

Canalratt1
10-08-2001, 07:32 PM
I'll be working but I will get a hold of you. I did find some 10" sluggos bring your sewing kit!

TheSpecialist
10-08-2001, 07:37 PM
Yeah baby! My wife is gonna be mad, she ain't gonna have any thread left by the time I am done.:D

CSK
10-09-2001, 07:27 AM
Specialist, my handle on SOL is KLE. Dopey story behind that name but anyhow, I'm in mass. quite a bit these days doing hatefulu wedding prep. The only good thing is that every hour of wedding prep stuff means extrta fishing time. I'm going up to the ditch for a last hurrah the weekend after this.

CSK

JohnR
10-09-2001, 07:36 AM
CSK - err KLE, The wedding is in Mass and then yer moving up here, right? :D In the meantime you get to fish while she picks out flower arrangements? Not bad....not bad... ;)

CSK
10-09-2001, 08:01 AM
Maybe I will John, maybe I will. My most ingenious plan(to pat my own back:D :D ) was to give her a temporary engagement ring in July then wait till this weekend to get the real ice. Now I get to fish with strippers;) ;) ;)

CSK

CSK
10-09-2001, 08:06 AM
John, this is good too. The reception place is on Beverly/Marblehead habba. We went by the place this weeken and I was immediatley on the beac scoping things out. From behind me I hear. "If you think for one G.D. minute that you're going to fish at the reception you're nuts"

Note to self: Put 2-piece rod and plug bag in limo trunk during
rehearsal dinner.

KLE

JohnR
10-09-2001, 08:27 AM
lmao.... hehehehe - what's the date?

CSK
10-09-2001, 08:50 AM
I still got some time as a free man John. July 27 2002.

CSK

JohnR
10-09-2001, 08:57 AM
Great time for a wedding up there and it will be VERY difficult to keep the rod in the trunk... You may need to have another "batchelor party" up there after the rehersal dinner... My batchelor party was 4 days on the Vineyard a few years ago. Better than any bar type party :p ...

That time of year is when the big girls are up there - and you've seen what the shoreline looks like - amazing...

CSK
10-09-2001, 09:16 AM
Even worse is I'm marrying a girl from the Midwest who thinks that the two weeks we're spending in the Vineyard after the wedding are gonna be spent antiquing and going out to dinner.

Ha! That'll teach her for stealing my freedom.

CSK

TheSpecialist
10-09-2001, 08:44 PM
CSK I was thinking of heading to the Canal that weekend also. After last saturday I don't want to put the rod away. I will let you know for sure maybe C-ratt and I will cya down there. By the way if I am invited to the wedding I don't need dinner , just some eels and I will see you on the beach after the toast.:D , or maybe you might want to wait till after the cake, nevermind.

jettyjockey18
10-10-2001, 07:17 AM
i got married on saturday, sept 28, 1996 at 4pm...at 6am that morning, myself and my best man were livelining pogies off the end of the plymouth jetty till about 9am, then i had to leave there and hit the mall to pick up the gifts for the guys in my wedding party...gotta have priorities...:)

JohnR
10-10-2001, 08:29 AM
I got married June 3, 1999 on the platform of Marconi Station in Wellfleet overlooking the beach and beyond. A handfull of fish were busting close in. My wife told me to stop looking over there ;)

CSK
10-10-2001, 08:35 AM
God what have I done! We sound like the friggin' Lifetime channel with all this wedding talk.;) :p :D

CSK

JohnR
10-10-2001, 09:11 AM
wait 'til you two have a baby, hehehehe....

CSK
10-10-2001, 09:19 AM
John, I spend 30 mins. each day in front of an open microwave to ensure that never happens.:D :D

CSK

Slipknot
10-10-2001, 09:25 AM
LMAO

good one CSK.

don't get married, you have been warned. I hope she is used to your fishing obsession.

redcrbbr
10-10-2001, 09:30 AM
john, it's easy now!!!! just wait. 18 years from now(if your lucky) you'll have peace of mind again.

CSK
10-10-2001, 09:34 AM
Slip, thanks for the advice. The accountant from Hyannis told me the same thing on Mon. morning.

CSK

Slipknot
10-10-2001, 10:06 AM
How is Jim doing? I haven't seen him in a while.

CSK
10-10-2001, 10:30 AM
Same old story, probably five guys on either side of him at Pips doing nothing, and Jim is pulling in fish after fish. It ain't fair I tell you.

CSK

Canalratt1
10-10-2001, 12:54 PM
Hey CSK the guy with the Red Abu was probably me.

JPowers
10-10-2001, 01:40 PM
Yo, SlipK and CSK aka KLE - I'm still kicking. Had a bad bout with Broncitis/mild pnumonia but I'm back in the saddle.

the fishing: well.... it picked up considerably this weekend but no LARGE. I don't quit till mid Nov anyway - so Nostrapowers predicts there's a pod of 30+ #ers to be had. Current changes don't seem to make a difference anymore or time of day/night. Just gotta be there.

Acres of breaking fish out in front of the herring run Sun am at sunup - all traveling EAST ! Yep, East - so the joint's still jumping. Fish came by in huge schools for well over an hour. We wacked them on jigs while the plug throwers got ziltch. Some guys never learn.

SlipK : heard about your seal trolling adventure. Man you is close - very close - to that forty +.

CSK : Marriage is a fine institution. I've got the best wife a fisherman could ask for. Never complains about the ridiculous amount of time I put in. It only cost me a trip to London last year. She renewed my passport recently so who knows what she's got in mind after November.

chris L
10-10-2001, 02:08 PM
if you train here right from the start fishing wont be a problem as long as you on occasion do something she likes . On your MV trip go looking at antiquesduring the day and fish at night when shes asleep . " But honey youll be asleep anyhow " ! Dont sneak out that will kill any future trips to the suds . " why you sneaking out you have something to hide " .

Jim its a toss up my wife lets me fish anytime anywhere ( I just bought her a new coat ) . We always vaction where I can fish ( just got back from a week in the cape ) . Ive fished just about every weekend since April . And youve fished everyday since May . Not bad for two married guys huh ! Now that my wife is getting laid off from her job , I'll be able to get out during the week again .

JJ my anniverary is Sept 28 , married since 84 also is my oldest daughter's birthday !

jettyjockey18
10-10-2001, 03:08 PM
jpowers...i'v noticed the past two weekends that the fish seem to be hitting more towards slack than during mid tide...

me and kle (csk, whoever :)) saw a 5 second topwater blitz sunday east of you...guess where;) ...don't know what the predator was but the fish clearing the water looked like spike macs...

also ran into the seal again...seeing that thing porpoise out of the water 50 feet from you at 4 am will wake you up...needless to say i cut my drift short and got my jig outta the drink for a few minutes...

as far a training the wives...i was with my wife for 10 years before we got married...she knew i fished, knew i hunted, not a problem...put the damn ring on the finger...whole new ballgame...:confused: :confused: usually hafta resort to bribery...:D

Canalratt1
10-11-2001, 11:39 AM
My wife complains about fishing and hunting but still puts up with me! I just don't know what she is talking about? Just because hunting will start soon, then ice-fishing or cod fishing, then freshwater after ice-out, bass tournies, striper fishing then back to hunting I always make time for at least one weekend a year! BTW that bait in the canal looks to be sea herring! If they come in the large will follow!

CSK
10-11-2001, 11:57 AM
Canalratt, I'm pretty sure I was fishing next to you on Sun. night as well around 3Am at the sag.

CSK

Canalratt1
10-11-2001, 01:03 PM
That was me at 3 am saw that yellow reel and thought you were JJ. I didn't last long there just too cold. RI this weekend have to cut everyones line that gets a fish on over 38" There may be another ditch trip in me but not sure.

jettyjockey18
10-11-2001, 02:31 PM
yeah, that was me next to him sunday am...managed a few twinkies plus one about 30"...a bit brisk fer sure...:rolleyes:

weve basically got the same rod/reel setup...10' lami with a nautil 7500...

CSK
10-11-2001, 02:33 PM
Isn't that cute? Ushaving the same setup:p :p

CSK