What were some of your best moments? Best fish? Basically just what was your finest hour this season? Also any regrets? Who from the site were you fortunate enough to wet a line with? :buds:

Winding down????
The best has yet to come.
Ask again in January... :rude:

My finest moment was fishing Cuttyhunk both times with Afterhours....what a great, fishy place.....can't wait till next year! :kewl:

I also caught 98% of my fish this season on my own wood which was great....caught my biggest on my joined eel.....everytime I put them in the water the fish would not leave them alone! I caught on small howdy plugs, dannies, big mouth poppers in different sizes, jointed surfsters and jointed eels, jointed poppers, needlefish....and absolutely murdered them on my pencil popper....got lots more work to do this winter! :drool:

I had the pleasure of fishing with many from this site.....spent most of my time with Afterhours, Slingah and Joey G......got to fish with MAC, Backbeach Jake, L.I.Fish.Vt, Tagger, Riverrat2, Squid Kids Dad a couple times, Van, BEETLE, Topwater, Lab1..... I know I must be forgetting a few! :blush:

I regret not getting to fish the fall during the Red Sox Playoffs with Backbeach Jake....their stay in he post season was all too brief! I also did not get the chance to hook up with Piemma and RIRockhound.....that would have been great, maybe next season. :(

I went 4 times this year, lost 2 big ones, caught a little one, and a blue.

I hadn't gone for 3 years prior to that (disabled)

I was happy just to get out.

I met Striprman on the Canal one morning...remember Steve? :cool:

Everytime I went fishing with my brother.

I met Striprman on the Canal one morning...remember Steve? :cool:

Yes Bigfish. You looked like you were having fun testing your plugs.

I had to check out the herring run to see exactly how bad it was this past year. It was really sad to see so few herring in the run. Looks like that river is headed for extinction. I wonder if there will be a complete ban on taking herring there (well, all the runs are kinda getting sparse). Makes sense to me.
Larry, a good alewife or blueback immitation in the works ?
We (me and 3 friends) had the 3rd week in July at the Scenic Park. Fishing was fair (my friends caught some blues and bass too). My back is too far gone to be throwing plugs but I wheelchair myself down to a rip, start chumming and set up a rod. I've caught some nice fish in the canal up to the second week in November. Still not too late (but with the snow comming down outside my window right now, I just want to put my down blanket over me and hibernate until spring)

Winding down????
The best has yet to come.
Ask again in January... :rude:

:sled:

I'm sure you guys are sick of hearing about it, but I still have dreams about it at least once a week. That 2 hr blitz I was into. I probably had about 30 fish or so up to 30lbs on top water (salty buggers, guppy's, and gibbs) and Hab's needles. Not a short in the school either. I also know of at least 1 fish @ 50 that was taken out of there that morning as well.
Didn't get to fish with as many people from the site as I wanted to, but got to wet a few lines with some great people.

Mtn Striper
Bassmaster
LIFishVt
Slipknot, and some of his family
BackBeach Jake
Karl F (briefly)
Rizzo
Sea Dangles
Rick Bomba
Dad Bomba
Jenn and Bruce??? (I know I saw um alot at least)


People I hoed plugs from (many many thanks)

Bassmaster
Salty Bugger
My brother
Salty Bugger
LIfishVT
Big Fish Larry
Mtn Striper

Season is far from over for me. So hopefully I'll get to fish with more of you, and steal more of your plugs soon.

Today-


I will tell the story in a week or two :devil: :hidin:

had some great times fishing with bigfish and some others from the site. met some quality people this year! love that 'hunk! i think that my biggest is yet to come- 2 or 3 weeks away, wool cap and a/s glove time. caught some real nice fish on some of my unreleased protos' :hihi:

My most exciting moment of the season was definitely my first keeper.

I wish I had simply gotten out more, or perhaps lived closer to the shore.

Fished with a couple real nice guys from the site. One (I'm not naming names) is really a skilled, dedicated, and intuitive fisherman, and I wouldn't be surprised if he becomes the next Frank Daignault (except WAY nicer) in ten or so years. Lots of talent around these parts, I must say.

Front page of the site says it all for me. The Derby was unbelievable. Best year yet and far from over. :ss: :walk:

Other than september and october my season kinda sucked. October we had some good fish locally which was nice for a change. Got to fish with bigfish, slingah, joeyg, afterhours, torlando and redlite. I gotta thank bigfish for doing surgery on me that one night :claps: . Would have been a tough ride home if it wasn't for him and slingah.

Last week of June on the annual family camping(fishing) trip to Truro.One week in heaven with gentleman fishing at its best.The local sharpies had been complaining about the lack of action and the imminant beach closure due to the PLOVERS.At first I was just happy to be there,but I wanted fish.Night fishing was nonexistent but pencils were working sporadically at daybreak at race point.Then all hell broke loose at the mission bell one morning for a lucky few.I had driven to the end of the beach and started working my way back when I noticed a two acre cloud in the first curl coming my way.Not only the sight but the sound of what went on for the next three hours was hard to do justice with words.It was impossible to cast and NOT hook up.Like Rappin' Mikey said all the fish put a good tug on the line and the bait was hitting the sand just to die with a tan.I actually went to wake up my sons at the campground and brought them back to catch fish in their underwear.The rest of the week brought reliable fishing as soon as it was light enough out to see the plug hit the water the fish would move in and it was as much topwater action as you could hope for.No korkers,no waders,not even a headlamp.Just shorts on and the toes in the sand at the most beautiful beach (longnook?) on the cape.

fish with biteme 99% of the time...learned a lot about sandy neck this year as I bought a 4 wheel drive( makes it easy to carry a 100 plus plugs...although I catch most of my fish with a yozuri darter), biggest was 42"(yellow darter+ an afterhours spook), bumped into some guys from the site- and fished with hunan...had a lot of fun that night(effin hunan)...biggest"blitz" from a tourist spot(dowses)=about ten legals up to 38", didn't fish outer as much as usual secondary to the mung...blew up about three or four reels( where is the best place to get reels fixed, penn liveliner, penn slammer, acouple of shimano baitrunners, a nautil or two etc.), strange but only caught maybe three fish all year with the redgill, and got three fluke with a darter from the surf...only hoed biteme, which is great because first cast with his black swimmer produced a 38",of which he said what are you using(as the drag ws screaming out) and I said one of your plugs,and he says $^&*...I don't remember giving you that plug, also hope that I get to fish a few more weeks, but it was an okay year.

Lemme see Tagger, MAC, Indanite, Bigfish, Afterhours, Jigman,Throwing Timber, KarlF, Rappin'Mikey. More that won't come to my feeble old mind this late on a Saturday Night. These fine Fishermen are all guys I never met until I started haunting the Board. I consider myself lucky to have gained so many friends and grateful for these forums for making it possible. Thanks all! Yep Larry, Sox in playoffs is the ticket! But lets fish again next year anyway. It's you who bring in the big fish, BigFish!

one of highlights of this season for me was mother natures fierce lightning show on race point one night- awesome! was with bbjake, mac, slingah, bigfish, fishboy, and ....crs just took over. also fished with redneck24, finn-addict,skd, riverratt2 and.....

got to fish with Bigfish, afterhours and squids dad early in the season. fished with Rappin Mikey quite a bit.meet Karl and Slipnot for a few hours. fished several morning with Slipnot.chased bluefish with MT striper and Mikey one morning.meet Bassmaster and his family, Backbeach jake several times, Jenn and Bruce camped across from me.ran into Mr striper and biteme late one night, several others that i can't remeber. the best part of this season was watching my 16 year old son get fishing fever after he saw TC's picture of his 60lber. itwasn't the best year in terms of fishing for me as far as bass go many small fish nothing over 22lbs more bluefish than i can ever remember.the last week of august, between me and my son we lost close to 40 pencil poppers to blues.hopefully i will get one more trip to LI mid november tobreak the 30lb mark

...and i.l.fish.vt- damned crs, sorry john- pleasure to meet you!

Ok.. yesterday i got a phone call from a member here asking me if i knew of anything going on in my area. I said no i didnt and he told me he was going to go to a certian spot. I told him he was nutz to go there durring the day but he had a hunch. Sooo... about 2 hours later i get another phone call from him tellling me i had better get down there quick. I blast down on my lunch break and find him with a school of adult bunker being pushed up onto the beach by big bass. I tied on my trusty snagging hook which i have been carrying in my plugbag all season in anticipation and instantly snagged one. After hooking it, she sped off away from the school into the mouth of a giant bass. She swallowed it and i gave it about 5 or 6 seconds as she swam off, then i set the hook, or at least tried to set the hook. I couldnt seem to set it so i eneded up dropping the fish. I snagged another and gave it a 2nd whirl.... same thing i couldnt set up on the fish. 3rd time a bloofish bit off my snagging hook so i tied on a NIB yellow swimmer and on the first cast a 20 lber slammed it and did a full flip in the air. I beached it, said good bye and went home with a nice keeper for dinner.

It wasnt the best fishing of the year for me, but it was the most fun by far. When you do so much night fishing, you dont see see that kind of action. It might be happening in front of you, but you never see it like you would at high noon.

thanks for the phone call Chris :wiggle:

Every Time I Went Was the Best :drool:



But For Fun & Something Different //School Tuna On Spinning RoDs On Poppers WAs The Balls :wiggle:

But For Fun & Something Different //School Tuna On Spinning RoDs On Poppers WAs The Balls :wiggle:


ohhhhhh man oh man, yes it was :humpty: A day i will neer forget. great company too :lasso:

Last night was reeeel good.

Well I did no fishing to speak of this year :( I did go after some Macks in the spring and then 1 Fluke trip.
But my season was cut short cause of my wifes health.
I only had the boat in the water 5 times all year and the last time was the first of June.
I am hoping for a better year next year, and I think I am going to try a little more beach fishing?

The only person I have fished with on this site this year is Bigbo.

Best night I had for quantity was with my partner RI Rockhound in early Sept. We caught and released well over 50 Bass with more than half being legal keepers.

Best night for quality in the surf was with the #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^& back in July when we "tonged 'em" with about 20 fish in the 20 lb range in 3 hours.

Best night I had for quantity was with my partner RI Rockhound in early Sept. We caught and released well over 50 Bass with more than half being legal keepers.

Best night for quality in the surf was with the #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^& back in July when we "tonged 'em" with about 20 fish in the 20 lb range in 3 hours.

Thanks Paul, it was a blast fishin with you that night!! :humpty:

Got a few good ones with my "soon to be legend" buddy last night.

no fish in the bay............ :hs: :hs: :huh:

Thanks Paul, it was a blast fishin with you that night!! :humpty:
Same here Bill

Overall, a slower season for me;
My usually reliable spring fishing in the bay was limited due to SW and fog most nights (not good for a 13ft whaler) but the nights I did get out I limited almost everytime unless my co-capt from Iowa got spooked by lightnin' :D
Mid summer S-U-C-K-E-D
Sept.. was OK; best fish came on the nastiest of nights when it was SW30+ and HUGE, a quick run of numbers and decent size early in the month
Oct; so far so-so; some guys have been tongin em I've been picken; a few decent fish;
Looking forward to a good Nov; starting at the 'chop and then back in SoCo till at least Turkey day...
it aint over by a long shot, the bait is JUST showing up in force.... right Chef :D

:huh:

:D
Hows the pooch doing? havent seen him in your truck....

Good, hell be happier when theres no fish around, has had limited rides sence he shat on the passenger seat and puddled the driver side, and then jumped all over me the ride home spreading it all over :hf1: . Hell be out on sunset patrol w/me today though

I'll be in the same neighborhood..

So will I. Does this mean I finally will get to meet the elusive Chef?

no fish in the bay............ :hs: :hs: :huh:


Rats...................... :wiggle: :wiggle: :wiggle:

Clean your box out bill////

So will I. Does this mean I finally will get to meet the elusive Chef?
I see, it's not really about the line is it?

-spence

My best morning was the 2 hrs I spent in Newport bangin them with my creamsicle... Think about it all the time :cool:
Catching Albies with about 20 guys from the club and this site at Wasque, watching the rods bend and the reels scream. After spending the morning before catching 22 bonito..What a place...
The Maine Tri-State fishing under the Northern Lights one morning..
The Mass Tri-State slamming blues with about 15 guys from the club..
It would be pretty hard to name all the guys I have met and fished with this year.
Basic PP
BobBike
Surf Pirate
JohnR
Fishaholic18
Canalman
Topwater
RockyRhody
Ah forget it, way to many to name and I wouldn't want to leave anyone off.
The last guy I met was RockHound, good talkin with ya.. Between the people I have met thru MSBA and S-B I feel pretty lucky to move in a circle of such great fishermen.
For me it is not over, still fishing time..Got a few people I want to fish with. The past two weekends have me thirsty to take some more rides South. I could fish that place area every night and never get sick of it, so many choices...That and I hear the Block calling my name...
I think the best is yet to come...........

Not much of a year for me as my health and family(boys 1 and 4) keep me busy/grounded, tomorrow I am sneeking out and I have high hopes.

Best moments: Getting Out!
Seeing soon to be brother-in-law hook his first striper on the
Cape
Meeting Reelecstacy with nice bass in hand
Every moment spent w/ fishing partner in SoCo - my Dad

Regrets: None

Paul...
"Best night I had for quantity was with my partner RI Rockhound in early Sept. We caught and released well over 50 Bass with more than half being legal keepers"


what night was that.. the problem with 100+ nights a season, I dont remember the where when of most of them....

This was my first season as a regular browser and contributer on SB and I found a lot of insightfull tips and topics discussed. I Had my best year ever!! I didn't catch my biggest ever but caught more decent sized fish, fairly consistantly. My favorite moment this year was actually off shore. I got lucky and grabbed a spot on my friends boat and caught this beautiful Blue fin Tuna, see picture. I had some interaction with Big Fish and Sandman, Lurch and a few others but never did get to wet a line with anyone?

So Seeing that the fish are not quite gone yet and I'm not ready to throw in the towel either. Any one want to meet up in Rhody this weekend? I'm probably going to make the trip regardless but if you want some company I would be happy to make one last push for a cow. Drop me a PM

what night was that.. the problem with 100+ nights a season, I dont remember the where when of most of them....
Yet you have no problem recounting the specific details of events if it's about giving me a load of crap :liquify:

:behead:
:gorez:
:bsod:
:whackin:

:skulz:

:hee:

-spence

:D

It must be because they're so memorable :claps:

I feel special :rude:

-spence

was Friday night. By myself, I trip and fell backwards down a rocky slope in which I was luckily saved as my back slammed into the one rock that stuck up as opposed to the others which slope steeply toward the 10' rocky drop into a river. Near flood current running like a moon canal tide. I kinda felt like someone was watching out for me. Turns my stomach when I look at the spot and the serious danger I would have been if I had been a foot or so to the left or right.
A few minutes later after getting my legs back, I hooked my second fish in three casts that I fought for at least 50 minutes before I did something stupid and my 50lb pp snapped. I don't know if I could have got that fish as even if it died I would have had a hard time dragging it back against the current and I couldn't get any closer due to obstructions.

Only silver liing is that it was a place I fish regularly, where i never really expected to hook something that big and will be better prepared in the future.

Just joined this site this year. Grateful for some tackle/boat tips from some of the guys here. Haven't fished with anyone from here yet but I'm sure I will. Got some nice wood from a couple of guys to "initate me" to wood.

Few times come quick to mind...


100 + fish day in Boston Harbor

18# tuna on my 9 wt.

going many times with my 12 yr son-him on hooked on fishing-"priceless"

It must be because they're so memorable :claps:

I feel special :rude:

-spence
Jeff:
The only reason Bryan and I fish with you is for the memories. :rotf3: :rotf3: :rotf3: :rotf3:

I remember the night now; where you fished last night, it was a pre-dawn trip near the full moon right......

Spence isn't nothing if he isn't memorable...
Now go get my gatorade from the truck :D

[QUOTE=RIROCKHOUND]I remember the night now; where you fished last night, it was a pre-dawn trip near the full moon right......

YEP!!! Bingo!

Now go get my gatorade from the truck :D
I've got a honey lami like Bryan.

Today I bought a little cooler bag for my eels like Bryan.

I've got some SS screws for my korkers like Bryan.

And I'm reading The Magnificent History of Ocean Silt :hihi:

I'm going to be just like Bryan.

-spence

Spence;
you wish...
:D