Mr. Sandman
03-07-2011, 02:41 PM
this past weekend. (was the same day as TFCTFN and I had paid for this well in advance so I went there this year).
Anyway, was very good I thought. Don't see the need for a repeat but if you have not gone it is a great way to spend a winter day. Blood pumping fishing porn videos....and got to meet a lot of good charter Capts and and got the skinny on a lot of specific rigging they do and a lot of questions answered.
One thing I noticed from fishing in different places with different people is fishermen from every location have "their" way of doing it and that's it. (even if it is for the same species) They realize that other people are successful doing it other ways and if you ask them about it...the response is something like...I have never tried that, I know it works but I do it this way. That's fine, they are telling you what works for them...but I think as a group, Fishermen tend to be a little narrow minded and take the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" approach instead of "there is always a better way" approach.
They had Jeff Corwin (the outdoors/animal guy) as a speaker and spoke about the gulf spill. He was walking a fine line saying what a terrible disaster of epic proportions and how much damage it would/could do but then said there wasn't much visible damage anymore and come on down and go fishing and eat the seafood. :confused: Frankly I thought the media cause more damage (by sensationalizing the event) to the region than the spill actually did.
The hands on sessions were very good. I liked being able to stand right next to the guy as he did something and ask questions. This was huge for me and the best part of the seminar.
I won a bunch of stuff at the raffle ( most people win a bunch of stuff).
Met and chatted with Ken Fraser from PEI and holds the all tackle record for bluefin. I really enjoyed his talk, it was old school and very entertaining. He had a stretch of 6 days where they had 9 fish from about 800 to 1496, 4 or 5 were over 1000.
One thing about Canada is...there is NO rec fishing. You can not go down and cast a line or fish from a boat for anything in the sea. It is comm or nothing. If you want to go Tuna fishing up there you can hire a comm boat he will take you out for about 1K/day and it is strictly C&R. The comm period lasted 36 hours last year and you can take 1 fish every 24 hours.
All in all it was a great show and I learned a bunch about the way the stellwagon guys like to fish.
Anyway, was very good I thought. Don't see the need for a repeat but if you have not gone it is a great way to spend a winter day. Blood pumping fishing porn videos....and got to meet a lot of good charter Capts and and got the skinny on a lot of specific rigging they do and a lot of questions answered.
One thing I noticed from fishing in different places with different people is fishermen from every location have "their" way of doing it and that's it. (even if it is for the same species) They realize that other people are successful doing it other ways and if you ask them about it...the response is something like...I have never tried that, I know it works but I do it this way. That's fine, they are telling you what works for them...but I think as a group, Fishermen tend to be a little narrow minded and take the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" approach instead of "there is always a better way" approach.
They had Jeff Corwin (the outdoors/animal guy) as a speaker and spoke about the gulf spill. He was walking a fine line saying what a terrible disaster of epic proportions and how much damage it would/could do but then said there wasn't much visible damage anymore and come on down and go fishing and eat the seafood. :confused: Frankly I thought the media cause more damage (by sensationalizing the event) to the region than the spill actually did.
The hands on sessions were very good. I liked being able to stand right next to the guy as he did something and ask questions. This was huge for me and the best part of the seminar.
I won a bunch of stuff at the raffle ( most people win a bunch of stuff).
Met and chatted with Ken Fraser from PEI and holds the all tackle record for bluefin. I really enjoyed his talk, it was old school and very entertaining. He had a stretch of 6 days where they had 9 fish from about 800 to 1496, 4 or 5 were over 1000.
One thing about Canada is...there is NO rec fishing. You can not go down and cast a line or fish from a boat for anything in the sea. It is comm or nothing. If you want to go Tuna fishing up there you can hire a comm boat he will take you out for about 1K/day and it is strictly C&R. The comm period lasted 36 hours last year and you can take 1 fish every 24 hours.
All in all it was a great show and I learned a bunch about the way the stellwagon guys like to fish.