I'm curious as to what keeps us crazed fisherman busy during the winter months? I know a bunch of guys here work on their plugs. Does anyone Ice fish? Save for winter fishing trips to Belize? Snow Mobile, Ski? Basket Weaving?

I mentioned before I'm almost as crazy about skiing as I am fishing. I dropped my ski's off last night to get tuned up. I find there are lots of similarities. When the fish are in and I know the bite is on i'll drive long distances and drop other stuff in my life. If I know snow is coming I'll drive 4 hours to Jay Peak to hit the pow pow. Carving turns in 2 ft of powder is just as fun to me as a screaming drag from a large bass. You can do it alone or with a group of friends. You get to go to beautiful places and experience nature just like fishing. I'm going to Montana and Wyoming this winter to ski Jackson Hole and Big Sky Montana almost like a ski pilgrimage like a fisherman would do to Cuttyhunk, Block or Montauk :boots: I can't wait!

Seminars, shows, enjoy football and Play the drums as much as I can..

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Making Plugs
Smelt Fishing
Picked up all the necessities for Ice Fishing
Fishing Shows in February-April
Scouts takes up a lot of time between October and May

Squibby....you should come check out our meetings (Plum Island Surfcasters). Great place to just go and talk fishing in the off-season....and pick up some tips.

Now, that I get a "normal" nights sleep, meaning more than 4-5 hours, I go back to the gym before work to get in shape for the summer... I build plugs and rods a few hours each night during the week and ice fish on weekends, somewhere inbetween I try to reaquiant myself as to what my wife looks like, that way, when full blown senility and alzhimers sets in, I have half a chance of remembering some body....

i build rods and try to stock up on plugs and the things i need for the nest season.

also like everyone else i go to the shows ;) i read alot of books to, and try to catch up on some reading.

I shellfish on weekends in the winter. Schoolies in the rivers--it can happen as early as mid-February.

Saturday morning coffee klatches at M&Ds also help pass the time. ;)

catch up on sleep :sleeps:

holdover fishing ;;

as good as it gets //

Bill if there woman there ..call me . I gotta work .but S/B done by 4;45

I shop around local sporting good stores and stock up on hardware and supplies. There is a store dead smack in Medford Center that that reduces prices up to $40 on fishing equipment. I have purchased all of my rods and reels during this time of year and I have saved several hundred dollars.

Also, someone else mentioned fishing for schoolies in rivers during the winter, that is indeed very true. I have caught schoolies out of the Mystic in December. When the hankering to cast those line too much of a burden, I make a few trips. Usually come up empty and I get cold quickly, but I have caught some schoolies and some nice sized cod and pollack from the shore here in the Boston area during dead winter, especially in Feb. & March. I have also noticed that the skates I catch from the shore during the winter time, on average, are bigger than the those landed during the warmer months.

I meant 40% off*

I plan on building spreader bars and daisy chains for tuna season. Probably willl take a boating safety course this winter as well.

I snowboard and build different mobile audio setups during the winter. I'll even watch fishing on tv during that time. Also traveling is great to get away from the cold.

On the weekends I ice fish here around western MA and occasionally make a few holdover trips. Other than that, it's working and :gu:

deliver boats to the carribean
telemark
sleep

my participation in high-velocity copper-jacketed lead flings/legs tends to go up in the winter months.

go absolutely crazy. i cant have anything to do with fishing during the winter. i would ice fish.. but the whole drop it down method doesnt appeal to me in the least. not knockin it.. just dont enjoy it. so ice fishing is out. that said i have on occasion thrown lines out as late and early in the year as i can. i was alot worse a few years back. when i would fish in a lil pocket of moving water on a certain lake. it kept it from freezing so i had about 30ft area to work with. never caught anything since it was to shallow and freezing.. but id still give it a shot.
anyway.. once i finally give up for the winter.. i hid from all fishing related things. i cant watch shows or read mags. cant even o to teh fishing sections at stores.
out of sight, out of mind.
or else the winter drags on for ever. i am highly impatient when not fishing. where as i could sit next to a rod with a chunk on it and do nothing or work a plug for hours. everything else needs to be either instant. or i have to be working on it non stop and finish it all in one sitting. <- makes for many sleepless nights. so waiting for the fishing to pick up at the end of winter, killllls me.
how ever being young and stupid..theres a sweet video game comin out (the 11 day from now wait is killin me lol) that i will probably spend most of the winter playing with.
hopefully see my girl more..
errrr.. maybe work on my camaro if i manage to get it.
come feb/march
i'll make a few plugs and in between
might work on a new rod.
if i make anything earlier than that i will go nutts waiting to try em out in actual fishing conditions.
yeeeeeeup gonna be a long winter now that i have some people to obsess over it with... :smokin:

Work more. In my spare time do some plugs. But if I really get restless, there's the spot with winter holdovers. :grins:

watch naked ladies polish brass poles.

Ice fish, hunt, hockey, work on the honey-do list.

Not necessarily in that order.

Put out squabbles on the Internet

I compost

Sneak over to Numbskulls and watch him frustrate himself because only two out of ten bottle plugs swim right! hahahahahaha!!!!!!!:spin:

Also drink heavily on other people's tabs in warm places. :D

Put out squabbles on the Internet

Official Shack Nasty Negotiator

honey do list ,,build plugs,,Dream about fish chasing the plug . Fantasize about maybe being a great plug builder when I'm dead . Think about how great that will be .. Get re aquainted with the wife . Try and get her in love with me so I can ignore her come spring .. I downhill ski .. Proud to be a founding father of the greatest ski club on earth .. the "Mongolions" 200 strong ... only one rule .. 1. No Rules

snowboarding takes over my obsession, hopefully attending some shows also. But the habit of spending my money on plugs will never end.

After Christmas tree season is over...hibernate. :sleeps:

skiing, but not too much cause it gets damn expensive, other than that, dream about fishing, go to shows and seminars, and I'm in a cover band now, so hopefully get enough material together to play some shows! I'll post when we have one!

Rig up some eel hooks, redo all my tuna bars and restring all the rods. Rest, enjoy the family and work on house projects. Hunt.hunt, hunt. Catch up with all my non fishing friends.

Living about 6 miles from Sugarbush i have no off season. as soon as the fishing gear gets put away the ski gear gear comes out.the snow guns are blasting as i type.

I got lots of plugs to work on, lots of work to do in my shop to get the inside done! I got lots of work going on inside the house too! My wife will be on me to do more of the latter....and I will!;)

Piss and moan about winter

"Watch naked ladies polish brass poles."

:humpty::scream::hihi::cheers:


ps: 1000th post, took me long enough

Ice

We'll I guess now it's my 1003rd, must of missed it - there was one?

:hidin:

Piss and moan about winter

I'm gonna do the same....and keep the woodstove going and watch a zillion movies from netflix

I'm gonna do the same....and keep the woodstove going and watch a zillion movies from netflix

Movies with brass poles??? And the women who polish them???:eyes:

snowmobile.....and dream of all the things I cant do again till spring!

I will do some ice fishing, chores around the house, and plenty of overtime. this is when I spend alot of time with my family.

I really hate the cold weather, I need a wood stove

I usually go to the gym every day too

Tie a few trout flies.
Fiddle with some plug making
Right now my gear is shot from a few long season, so I'll spend some time repairing, cleaning, etc. Also looking into a new set up for fighting large in the real "bone-yards". I pretty much know what I want, but I just need to get it ready for the spring run ;)

go to shows and read!

Work on plugs with my 6 year old son.

Catch up on sleep

Read, read, read

watch naked ladies polish brass poles.

Can I tag along if my wife will let me go. I have an extra couple of singles in my pocket.:bl2::angel:

piss and moan.if weather is like last year may get out for a few holdovers.read alot.

Work on plugs with my 6 year old son.

Catch up on sleep

Read, read, read

Is this you? Could it really be? Your son ties flies?

lol no its not him. Be he refuses to join because of being on dial up.

skeet shooting and rock climbing. probably spend more time with house projects this year.

i do a lot of drinking and women-chasing. occasionally i work out. sometimes i just cry. but mostly i do a lot of drinking.....

Start hanging out with Bart...

I plan to do some skiing this winter, looking forward to spending some time up north.

I bother Goose about building me another rod but I never get him the supplies...:rotflmao:

He teases me with hunting stories......but tells me I can't PEE if I go with him ???.....what if I gotta :bshake:.....he says....:liquify: what fun is that???

APA League on Tuesdays/:gu:

Is this you? Could it really be? Your son ties flies?

No it's not "me" (whoever that is)

But give my son time. :soon: Little $hit is already carving plugs with a rasp and sandpaper better than I am. :shocked:

I will usually build a rod or two and tie some classic full dress atlantic salmon flies

Enjoy my family and my son's first Christmas. Play as much hockey as I can.

Catch up on household chores, try to go snowboarding as much as possible.

;)What's an off season? ;)Clammer never stops. I'll give it up in Jan and most of Feb but will start looking for new arrivals around the Ides of March

Mista Mom. collect/split wood. scout deer. wrap for freinds. Poker tour:hee:

Sqyibby - I've skied both Jackson Hole and Big Sky and they're both great mountains. Not far from Jackson Hole and not to be overlooked is Grand Targee, a great powder mountain, which is near Jackson Hole. Head south through the gap to Driggs, Idaho, and into the Tetons. Slightly off the beaten path, but if you have the time a pleasant diversion averageing 500 inches of powder. Enjoy the skiing!

Hope for gas prices to go down so I can fish more next season.

try to keep the fire going, watch hockey. Going to try spinning some rods this winter. Gotta keep the stove nice and hot. Rake leaves sometime in march then go fishing.

I got lots of work going on inside the house too! My wife will be on me to do more of the latter....and I will!;)

...what a good guy :uhuh:

What "off-season"?
I fish all year long.
Spring = trout , holdover stripers and cod
summer = bass (fresh and salt) and blues, and fluke etc...
fall = bass (fresh and salt) and trout
winter = ice fish for bass, trout, salmon, pickerel, pike, perch, crappie and maybe even stripers where the have been found.

Lots of trips to the tackle shops hopping to find something I don't already have and a little fresh water or ice fishing.

I fish less than the other 6 months of the year and catch up around the house on improvements and maintenence. There are plenty of nice days in the winter to go out and get fish and I don't ice fish.

Family time.Work out.Build a few rods. Fried turkey feast at 5/0's.Go to a couple Pats games. Florida for a week.
Build up six months of good will w/wife, so when May 15 rolls around there will be no roadblocks in the way of the 2008 season.:faga:

try to do enough at home that the wife decides that its worth sticking around for another fishing season, this year I think that includes redoing the kitchen :doh:

hang out with family, hit the gym, sleep - basically try to live like a normal person for a couple of months

i go to school... unfortunalty far away from the ocean.

Sqyibby - I've skied both Jackson Hole and Big Sky and they're both great mountains. Not far from Jackson Hole and not to be overlooked is Grand Targee, a great powder mountain, which is near Jackson Hole. Head south through the gap to Driggs, Idaho, and into the Tetons. Slightly off the beaten path, but if you have the time a pleasant diversion averageing 500 inches of powder. Enjoy the skiing!

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I'm actually doing a day at Grand Targhee too. It does have a great reputation and I'm going in late February which should be about as safe of a bet snow wise as you could ask for.

I used to work like crazy, but after what happened in the last two weeks, looks like I'll be travelling a lot, now.
Miami, California, Australia, Mexico, and Hong Kong as possible new work sites...sucks to be me in the winter.
Oh yeah, when I'm around, I hit the ice with Mikey.
Later,
Rick

Besides Hunting,
Each year I try to rebuild 1 side of the house.
This year it is the front of the house.
I have replaced the Door all the windows, Vinyl Sided , Aztek trim & Shutters.
This is the last part of the house to be done.

I will open the shop on weekends starting in December. On weekdays I’ll be attending dealer shows, running for supplies ,Building Rods & Lures.

School everyday. I play basketball though. Tie flies, build plugs, buy gear, and go to shows is the rest. Nothing exciting.

Practice the dark arts.

This winter ought to be different,I was recently hired @ a new Commercial HVAC Co.it has some real prestigious accounts,there's a lot more challenges,schooling:read:studying and responsibility to go along with it,not to mention more $$$$ & a co:ss:Im really pshcyed about it.This move couldn't have come @ a better time.my co-workers are really laid back & knowledgeable so the transistion is almost seamless.

I look forward to hanging out with my Wife & kids I hope it gets cold enough to go pond skating & of course sledding. make a couple of trips to N.H. see my Mom for a long weekend do some boarding,bowling and eat some good cooking.
Start the annual winter work out,the wife will have some new projects in cue,watch the Pats kick ass for the rest of the season.

Fried turkey feast at 5/0's.
I can't wait to see a bunch of S-B drunks come to my house & stuff there faces booze :buds:it up tell lies :chatteraround the Bon fire and watch the Pats win :cheers:there first play-off game of the 2007 season.:devil:


Take a weekend or too down the Cape with the wifey:love:getaway.
IM sure there will be other stuff but I can't see that far into the future.

5/0

Take a lot of different drugs
Drink wayyy tooo Much
Have a lot of unprotected sex
Shower infrequently ( Hey, it worked for Rasputin!)
Gain 60 pounds devouring boxes of Twinkies and Yodels
Don't shave
And never use toilet paper
:doh:

Take a lot of different drugs
Drink wayyy tooo Much
Have a lot of unprotected sex with animals
Shower infrequently ( Hey, it worked for Rasputin!)
Gain 60 pounds devouring boxes of Twinkies and Yodels
Don't shave
And never use toilet paper
:doh:

Fixed your post

Fixed your post

Thanks

MAKE LOVE,,,,,,,

This winter ought to be different,I was recently hired @ a new Commercial HVAC Co.it has some real prestigious accounts,there's a lot more challenges,schooling:read:studying and responsibility to go along with it,not to mention more $$$$ & a co:ss:Im really pshcyed about it.This move couldn't have come @ a better time.my co-workers are really laid back & knowledgeable so the transistion is almost seamless.

congrats on the new job Bob! :cheers:

congrats on the new job Bob! :cheers:

I look forward to seeing yur Ugly face:rotf3:

What day for the shannanigans. Last year I was :yak:.
Started up my 4 sleds today can't wait.

Ahh Jackman.

Cut rope

Get L--- more often :D

I hit the gym harder w/o worrying about being sore the next day.
Work a lot harder, try to finish my degree,
and look forward to heading south in March for a week!

Ahh Jackman.

Yes,Jack will be present:gu:IM not sure on the time table,Saturday/Sunday/early,late or night game.....I just hope the Pats can pull it off & make it to the play offs:rotflmao:

I just can't wait:kewl:

mmmmm Jack :cheers: