With all of what's going on and, since I am 67 years old, I am seriously rethinking the whole fishing thing.
So $25K in a boat. Another $10 to $15K in equipment. Couple of grand for a slip, gas eels, etc.

Hell, I could belong to a pretty nice golf course for quite a few years and not be as aggravated as I have been lately with the numb nuts running the fisheries.

Hmmmmmm....

Then you have to deal with the numb nuts members who are elected to run the club, assessments, minimums, new clubhouse, dining room, etc...... Different church, same pew.

could always start a charter business, that's a pretty good gig
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Please, NO golf! Just ratchet down the fishing a little, get back to having FUN :)

You and I can become a Grace Potter groupies. We can sell t-shirts and stare at Grace!

I have been forced out by health, Sold the boat and 99% of gear. I had great years doing it!! But it couldn't have happened at a better time!

You and I can become a Grace Potter groupies. We can sell t-shirts and stare at Grace!

He'd be chewing Nitro pills like Altoids in that job.
Stop being impulsive Paul, you'll end up buying all back in June anyways....

Paul....I fish! <period! Politics do not get involved in the things I love! Politics just ruin everything! I know I am never going to be happy with any politics at all.....so I let the inmates ruin the asylum....thats right....ruin it! I just go fishing! You think your voice does any good? Nope! Not to me! They parade all these "meetings" around to find out "how everyone feels"!! Its a dog and pony show, smoke and mirrors! I just go fishing! You waste your time at meetings they have just so people can feel like the powers that be actually care and actually listen to you....and they don't! I just go fishing! Hey if its not fun don't do it....and if politics is involved ignore the politics! There are hands in everyones pocket and its all about $$$$$$.so screw it I say! We are here for a short time and fishing is what I love to do!!!! So....I go fishing!

Ease your rudder PIemma....not need to reach for the Hemlock quite yet!

With all of what's going on and, since I am 67 years old, I am seriously rethinking the whole fishing thing.
So $25K in a boat. Another $10 to $15K in equipment. Couple of grand for a slip, gas eels, etc.

Hell, I could belong to a pretty nice golf course for quite a few years and not be as aggravated as I have been lately with the numb nuts running the fisheries.

Hmmmmmm....



FORE !!!!
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You and I can become a Grace Potter groupies. We can sell t-shirts and stare at Grace!

DZ you're killin' me:rotf2::rotf2::rotf2::rotf2::rotf2:

He'd be chewing Nitro pills like Altoids in that job.
Stop being impulsive Paul, you'll end up buying all back in June anyways....

You're right of course. maybe too much moving snow and I'm delirious.

I fish less and golf more, I too have a little less desire to haul out of bed at 3am to get to the ramp so I'm taking my first cast as the sun rises, my priorities are definitely changing. I can certainly see me selling the boat in a couple years to work on getting into a single handicap and putting that fishing money towards some rounds south or out west in the middle of this crap called winter.

yeah once you get out there in the spring, sun is coming up over the water you catch that first fish of the season.. you'll be back!

Unless of course there are no fish, then you will be on the road with Grace and DZ...

With all of what's going on and, since I am 67 years old, I am seriously rethinking the whole fishing thing.
So $25K in a boat. Another $10 to $15K in equipment. Couple of grand for a slip, gas eels, etc.

The above can get U into the Villages in Florida...a half dozen golf courses every day....ride a golf cart from your garage....do a little fishing.....and with a little viagra U will be in the viagra capital of the U. S. ....10 to 15 grand will get ya 3-4 months in the sunshine state.......:):)

Bigfish nailed it - Politics SUCK the life out of you
it's complete madness and idiots behind the desk

but don't let your frustrations (emotions) get the better of you
Best not to make any decisions during this time period.

That's funny I was thinking the same thing. Even played some golf this winter. But you know you really cant beat the bay or BI fishing with friends, having laughs. Plus the feeling that your are in tune with nature. That the forecast matters, that the tide and current matter, that cloud formations matter. You know things that not everyone knows, done things that few do, seen things that not many have seen. For those reasons I would rather have a pole in my hand than a club.

But where are you going to catch striped bass on a golf course? :grins::grins:

But where are you going to catch striped bass on a golf course? :grins::grins:

Lake Mead and Lake Las Vegas come to mind.......

This isn't something you just walk away from.
The politics, all the snarky Internet bs, that will all fade away.

Are you really doing this for the "fish"?
you can't get this any other place on earth then on the water.
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I could belong to a pretty nice golf course for quite a few years and not be as aggravated as I have been lately with the numb nuts running the fisheries.

Hmmmmmm....

Are you still talking golf LOL. 😡

It's this freaken winter, hang in there Paul , you'll forget all that crap the first second you leave the slip for the first time this season.

It ain't easy! LOL

I'd rather be fishing in a desert than playing golf! Gold is for old people who don't know how to fish!

I would build a miniature golf course with a fishing theme of the popular fishing locations which are no longer have bass. The last hole would be a replica of a charter boat where customers can take their best shot at a bull's eye to sink it. ☺
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one less person on the water is just what the fisheries need.the more people who give up fishing the better it is.As far as Grace Potter goes i have known her since she was a baby.i worked for her dad Sparky as a subcontractor for many years and still do on occasion,a vert talented family

Golf is stressfull, on the cape in the summer at a public track I equate it to sitting in a traffic jam... Unless I'm at the harbors, and then its its an absolute pleasure :walk:

Mike,s photo just sealed any doubt about fishing ;;;;;;;;;;;;;; as we all know ........we like to catch fish , but we LOVE to go fishing .................... I saw it coming 6 years ago ..........so I had a choice keep fishing for stripers & catch less & less or change habits & species .......... I went for the 2nd ........is it striper fishing [NO} but with the right gear there are challanges in catching all species of fish & in their own way fun .................................. the last time the striper stocked crashed > we switched to straight freshwater & had a ball ........ we came back when the bass came back ...............I doubt I,ll be around for the bass to come back ???? this time :sled:

one less person on the water is just what the fisheries need.the more people who give up fishing the better it is.As far as Grace Potter goes i have known her since she was a baby.i worked for her dad Sparky as a subcontractor for many years and still do on occasion,a vert talented family

So what you are saying John, is that you can introduce them :uhuh:

This isn't something you just walk away from.
The politics, all the snarky Internet bs, that will all fade away.

Are you really doing this for the "fish"?
you can't get this any other place on earth then on the water.
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Well said ... this stuff is hard to beat ... moves the sole ... a nice golf shot does feel good, even when looking over the water ... but I have to believe you will never find scenarios like this while golfing ...

You could always take up roller blading, buy some short shorts and move to Province town.
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Well said ... this stuff is hard to beat ... moves the sole ... a nice golf shot does feel good, even when looking over the water ... but I have to believe you will never find scenarios like this while golfing ...






Those pictures Mike put up are AWESOME and those of us with boats probably take it for granted since thats a regular occurence for us.
For me, being out in the middle of the night, pitch dark, no one around, peace & quiet........ is just as awesome.

Do both. Variety is the spice of life.
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Do both. Variety is the spice of life.
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Exactly. Don't let fishing rule your life. Do something else and don't force yourself to go.

Become a lobbyiest - God knows the recs. need one.

Hey guys, Nice pics by the way. Don't post here so much but like checking in. Fishing, guys at work think I'm 24/7 and I tell them you don't know some of the guys that I know. I hate to admit it but I guess I'm a fair weather fisherman. I like to enjoy myself. Like is said the "catching" is kind of secondary, Most of the time. I'm not one for fishing all night even though that is the best time. It just messes up my internal clock but I will get up at 0200 or earlier to drive to the Canal for the sunrise.

The best thing I have going is my work hours, Sun - Tue/Wed 12 hr shifts I'm up at 0345 and get home at 1915. So I have weekdays to fish, Sat. is the day to do chores and get ready for the work week. Great to fish weekdays, lot less "activity" on the water, oh and less traffic.

Well just my thoughts. Thanks for listening, Scott

Like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d0j_po0DxA

I'm with MakoMike on the golf thing- can't get next to a game where I get to hit the ball but then have to chase after it....

and if you're the kind of guy that wants to sell everything because you can no longer catch 30-50 bass a day-maiming at least a third of them- and fishing just sucks because of it; well, see ya around, have fun trickin' out the cart....(I know this ain't you piemma)......

The photos say it all for a reason to fish, there is nothing like the outdoors to experience and we need to protect it

Me, I'll spend more time in the sweetwater, there is a real thrill to tricking a 3 lb brown with a size 18 blue wing olive; to pulling a largemouth from under a lilly pad with a deer hair popper; getting smallies to hit a stripped leach; taking a kid out for bluegills and perch.

And I'll still spend days and nights out on a rock, getting the s**t knocked out of me by the surf, because it's fishing.


Fix the bait, Sink the Factory Ships.

You guys who know me well, know I fish and have fished for 50 years for the experience not for the fish. hell, I caught over 200, 34" and up stripers last year and killed 2.
I love my boat, being out for sunrise or in the middle of the night. I love the surf and being one with the waves.
What has me totally frustrated is the BS politics that are going on. I thought at least the State of Rhode Island would realize the importance of conservation of the species. But no, they go and vote for 2 fish per angle, captain and mate on the charters.
What these so called fisheries management people are thinking escapes me.:bs:

Paul you fish. its what we do. Just buy a bigger boat and start offshore fishing. Re-spark the flame.

your just buried in snow. It will melt sooner or later and youll be back in your happy place. Crusing the bay.

Then you have to deal with the numb nuts members who are elected to run the club, assessments, minimums, new clubhouse, dining room, etc...... Different church, same pew.

and golf is for people that don't fish ....:bgi:

Paul's all about that bass. Paul needs to learn about the other species that he can chase in that boat... Fluke, seabass and the mighty blackfish
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Back Beach should chime in, he does both pretty well.

Back Beach should chime in, he does both pretty well.

Roller blading in P-town ? Or golf?
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i golf quite a bit. Just got a membership at TPC Boston. i still fish 4 days a week. But im in sales... its my job.

Paul's all about that bass. Paul needs to learn about the other species that he can chase in that boat... Fluke, seabass and the mighty blackfish
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Ding ding
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Roller blading in P-town ? Or golf?
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Lol!

Paul's all about that bass. Paul needs to learn about the other species that he can chase in that boat... Fluke, seabass and the mighty blackfish
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Then you need to come on my boat and show me how.

Then you need to come on my boat and show me how.

I would only be parroting techniques learned from Bryan and Goosefish!
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Start making sinkers now-4 , 5 and 8 ounce bank sinkers !
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Paul's all about that bass. Paul needs to learn about the other species that he can chase in that boat... Fluke, seabass and the mighty blackfish
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I spend the first hour chasing bass, then it's black sea bass, tog or fluke; that way I'm at least bringing home something tasty to eat. Last year not one keeper, because of so few bass around my usual milk run in that first hour, but I'm still eating lots of tasty treats.

Then you need to come on my boat and show me how.

Paul I meant to run you down at the diner, but got too wrapped up in chatting with Greg and Ross. You bring Clammer with you some day and I'll give you the light tackle tog fishing basic's, I can hear Mike swearing already:).

Golf gives you something to do when its Blowing 40

yep , your the only one BOB . that,s kicked my ass every single trip .w/ your plastics/


I,ve offered Paulie many times ... but he has the think Italian personality .......... Stripers or nothing ........................:huh:

I think there is nothing prettier than a big hump head sea bass coming out of the water and while the tog won't win any beauty contest unless it's being held at an orthodontist convention, I love the way they fight. You and are are fishing together this coming year and I'd love to fish with someone new; just oil those reels before coming please.

Then you need to come on my boat and show me how.

Second hand expert learning at it's finest right there!
Hell, I taught RIJimmy*** to fluke, I can teach you...





*** just make sure you have a net, I have visions of the solid 10 I lost @ the side of Jim's boat with no net...

Paul I meant to run you down at the diner, but got too wrapped up in chatting with Greg and Ross. You bring Clammer with you some day and I'll give you the light tackle tog fishing basic's, I can hear Mike swearing already:).

You're on. It'll be a blast

Second hand expert learning at it's finest right there!
Hell, I taught RIJimmy*** to fluke, I can teach you...





*** just make sure you have a net, I have visions of the solid 10 I lost @ the side of Jim's boat with no net...

Bry, I have a boat net I have never used. We'll plan something and I'll pick you up in Wickford so you don't have to drive all the way from Westerly to Warwick.

Paul....I fish! <period! Politics do not get involved in the things I love! Politics just ruin everything! I know I am never going to be happy with any politics at all.....so I let the inmates ruin the asylum....thats right....ruin it! I just go fishing! You think your voice does any good? Nope! Not to me! They parade all these "meetings" around to find out "how everyone feels"!! Its a dog and pony show, smoke and mirrors! I just go fishing! You waste your time at meetings they have just so people can feel like the powers that be actually care and actually listen to you....and they don't! I just go fishing! Hey if its not fun don't do it....and if politics is involved ignore the politics! There are hands in everyones pocket and its all about $$$$$$.so screw it I say! We are here for a short time and fishing is what I love to do!!!! So....I go fishing!

Bingo!!
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I used to play to a 3 hdcp. Trust me golf is infinitely more frustrating. The better you get at it, the more you need to play and unlike fishing it really isn't like riding a bike. Yo start back up in April shoot crap numbers until mid June then get back to form mid July you get a case of shanks and fight to score so you can maintain a hdcp. Then the end of August it comes back you play great for a month or so then Blah blah you get the point
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I feel your pain on the fading passion paul
My world and mind is dominated by striped bass catching, not fishing for, but catching. I have tried every other kind of fishing in the hopes it would make me more open minded, but it has done the opposite. I still only wanna catch striped bass. And big ones at that
As my family has grown, poverty has sunk in, and responsibiliteis changed, i have mentally anguished on being able to fish like i used to where i had the time and money to go and fish where i had to go when i had to go in order to catch big fish. I have been in agony for several years now and have put off the shoulder rebuild for fear of missing not being able to be out there catching big fish when other people are. But as i have seen the fishing in the buzzards bay / se mass plummet over the past 2 seasons my hope is fading.
I have now mentally prepared myself to forego hockey and fishing for a year in order to not live in agony. I will still struggle as my friends call me with reports, but the passion will be on ice
I will never ever change to golf. Did it quite a bit in college and that is all i have to suffer listening about in every hockey locker room but i pationately detest golf more than my passion for striped bass fishing
Probably my biggest influence into being able to tame my passion and mentally prepare myself is to think of back beach and how little he fishes now and doesnt mind it at all. If he can do it so can i. And he doesnt drink
Hopefully there will still be fish left in 2 years when i get to fish again. If not my wife says we r definately moving to a warmer climate preferably hawaii.....
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After BB's 2 millionth fish he probably started singing " Is that all there is "
And walked away like Sanders.
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yeah redlite - or go down south and get after redfish - that seems like a great fishery that has been managed well.

for me, I know it's not going to be what it used to be, but getting out there and catching one here and there will honestly be enough for me into the near future but I can see it reducing my time on the water if the fishing sucks.

i golf quite a bit. Just got a membership at TPC Boston. i still fish 4 days a week. But im in sales... its my job.

Thats one of the main reasons I still want to play and be decent at it. Golf and business go hand in hand. And when my future boss asks me to play in the Member Guest I don't wanna chisel it... Waiting for that invite to the TPC when it gets warm out!:hee:

I am too young to golf. I built a few houses on golf coarses and most of those pepole think their s@&# doesnt stink. I would be the Rodney Dangerfield on the coarse. Not giving a crap whos wtching. Lets go fishing!!!

Johnny we gotta play captains or something some time
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Thats one of the main reasons I still want to play and be decent at it. Golf and business go hand in hand. And when my future boss asks me to play in the Member Guest I don't wanna chisel it... Waiting for that invite to the TPC when it gets warm out!:hee:

Im starting to question if its ever going to get warm

Johnny we gotta play captains or something some time
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I'm down. It'll be more drinking and smoking than golf, which is the way god intended golf to be lol. All are welcome btw :gu::smokin:

Still have to hit you up for a golf lesson John.
I want to be able to tee up on one side of the canal and hit moving googans on bikes on the other.
Could be a new sport !
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i golf quite a bit. Just got a membership at TPC Boston. i still fish 4 days a week. But im in sales... its my job.

Well if that 4th cancels on you last minute and you need a fill-in, I can hold my own at a 10.4......wink......wink:). Last year there was talk about a striped-bass golf outing, we really need to pull that together, maybe a spring outing in our mudders when Falmouth or Cape Cod CC open; to celebrate end of this sh*t winter. Snow blower moved 8" again last night, big red is as tired as me.

I tried to float that balloon.....

http://www.striped-bass.com/Stripertalk/showthread.php?t=82804&highlight=golf

Paul,

1. You dont drink enough to golf, that's just nonsense.

2. Like others suggested there's literally TONS of other species out there that can be targeted in our waters. Talk to Buzzy he's super friendly and knows his chit.

Quitting because of junk science and bs politics makes it seem as if you've had your head in the sand for a REAL long time. The junk science and the BS politics has been around forever!

Nothing is what it used to be. I remember being 6-7 and fishing out by the clam bake club with my uncle john and my father and there would be thick schools of herring and even flying fish around at times. Dont see that now, no sense in pouting over it.

this is my Best golf GAME

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That's funny I was thinking the same thing. Even played some golf this winter. But you know you really cant beat the bay or BI fishing with friends, having laughs. Plus the feeling that your are in tune with nature. That the forecast matters, that the tide and current matter, that cloud formations matter. You know things that not everyone knows, done things that few do, seen things that not many have seen. For those reasons I would rather have a pole in my hand than a club.

Great post. I was a die hard before we had kids, I'm down to a few trips a year. I'm sure I'll get back into it big-time when my kids don't need as much of my time, and I'm sure my retirement will revolve around saltwater, for the reasons you stated very nicely.

thanks

You could always take up fishing on the golf course ... for most courses, there are tons of lakes and ponds with decent largemouth ... have to fish early or late though to avoid getting run over by other golfers ... or you can fish some of the South Florida courses that border saltwater ... when I lived down there we would sneak on to a few courses to target snook and baby tarpon that happened to live in the waters of a few courses ... a few others had various freshwater species above and beyond largemouth that were fun.

OK, I get it. I'll try fishing for scup and sea bass and fluke. I have been too focused on stripers as Clammer, Nebe and Bryan said.
I'm gonna golf a bit more also. My wife is a greens keeper at Crystal Lake Golf CC so I can play for free. I use to play a lot when I was young and still hit the ball fairly well. I'll get my short game in shape and have some fun.

As Vic, said, I don't drink enough to golf so maybe I can start drinking more too. ;)

As Vic, said, I don't drink enough to golf so maybe I can start drinking more too. ;)

Thats the spirit!!!:gu::gu::gu:

ever see that bar that rolls down the road on bicycle power
that would be a blast on a golf course

I picked up golf one season because we had so many days of bad weather. My buddies and I would keep the golf clubs in the truck tow the boat down to the ocean . If it was too rough we would go play golf.
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I'm down. It'll be more drinking and smoking than golf, which is the way god intended golf to be lol. All are welcome btw :gu::smokin:

Nothing wrong with a little swing oil
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After last May and June's stellar striper fishing, I left them alone and targeted skate, scup, searobins and choggies. I had a great season, and got to sleep at night. :)

I feel your pain on the fading passion paul
My world and mind is dominated by striped bass catching, not fishing for, but catching. I have tried every other kind of fishing in the hopes it would make me more open minded, but it has done the opposite. I still only wanna catch striped bass. And big ones at that
As my family has grown, poverty has sunk in, and responsibiliteis changed, i have mentally anguished on being able to fish like i used to where i had the time and money to go and fish where i had to go when i had to go in order to catch big fish. I have been in agony for several years now and have put off the shoulder rebuild for fear of missing not being able to be out there catching big fish when other people are. But as i have seen the fishing in the buzzards bay / se mass plummet over the past 2 seasons my hope is fading.
I have now mentally prepared myself to forego hockey and fishing for a year in order to not live in agony. I will still struggle as my friends call me with reports, but the passion will be on ice
I will never ever change to golf. Did it quite a bit in college and that is all i have to suffer listening about in every hockey locker room but i pationately detest golf more than my passion for striped bass fishing
Probably my biggest influence into being able to tame my passion and mentally prepare myself is to think of back beach and how little he fishes now and doesnt mind it at all. If he can do it so can i. And he doesnt drink
Hopefully there will still be fish left in 2 years when i get to fish again. If not my wife says we r definately moving to a warmer climate preferably hawaii.....
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You had an epic run, Mike. But you'll be back when it's time and you'll start another one in some capacity.

Hawaii doesn't suck !
Been there 7 times. Every time I was due to leave to come home they had to find me and dart me to get me on the plane.
Alo"fn"ha !!
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Hawaii doesn't suck !
Been there 7 times. Every time I was due to leave to come home they had to find me and dart me to get me on the plane.
Alo"fn"ha !!
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I'd live there in a heart beat if it wasn't for family here

Same reason here Paul.
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me three, born there. Heck Alaska is probably better this year.

me three, born there. Heck Alaska is probably better this year.

I just read that this year's Iditarod has to be relocated further north due to a lack of snow over the usual course.

The cruelest miles is a great read about the serum run that is the genesis of the Iditarod.
Real men, real dogs too!
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I,ve woke up next to some REAL dogs ><>>:huh:

In my more fun life as a bartender in Boston got to deal with some too....when I get to meet ( hopefully ) St Peter ad the holy gates of admission I'm gonna be there a while.
Have a bit of explaining to do !
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st Peter got transferred >><:eyes:

Crap I'm screwed then !
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I'll spend time chasing the Grace Potter groupies! Where do I sign?

Food for thought. A long time way back guys like you n me just enjoyed striper fishing. Bob Pond was real and always around. We had fun and did what needed to be done to protect the fish. So what has changed so we now just don't give a damn. The fish need our help.So we need to do what needs to be done. I kept 2 fish last yr. One hooked me the other was gut hooked. I CAUGHT A LOT OF FISH and released them. Lets not forget. . WE ALL HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO. Ron

I understand your view. I am a little younger (58) and it is very easy to get upset at the current inshore fishing situation having seen what it was like when you were a kid. And Golf is a great game. There is a lot of satisfaction and fun with golf but it also has its share of frustration. My advice is to mix it up. Do a little of each. Cherry pick the your inshore fishing and get hooked up with others that can take you offshore a couple times a season, and play golf on the other days. You just need to do something slightly new. Doing the same thing year in and year out gets old after while. Whatever you do do not become a charter capt. Making a job out of something you enjoy turns what you love in to something you have to do on days when you would prefer not to do that...just for a few bucks. It generally makes for a big headache. I think the worst charter capt's are the guys who retired and do it part time..it is a loose - loose situation for all.

Don't get so hung up on SB. It's a grand fish but there is a lot more out there than SB.

My inlaw(s) live(d) in a FL golf course senior thing and I tell you they should re-name that place, "Purgatory" it is like Heavens waiting room. I enjoyed the golf when I visited over the years and it is a well manicured beautiful place but I could not live there watching everyone die every day. He just died a few weeks ago and I had to go down for a few days, no golf but I was glad to be home.

So do a little of everything and keep it looow stress, stop reading the newspaper and watching the friggin (bad) news all day. Don't push the hard core days on the water...cherry pick the weekdays when the bite is hot and the weather is great. Anything over 5-10 you should be playing golf and dining out with your wife.

This reminds me of a plumber I saw in Florida... he is a big fisherman and then name of his plumbing company is "Windy day plumbing" , when I saw that I said...that guy has the right idea about work.

In Hawaii when the surf is up you don't hear much building going on.
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So I decided. I'll keep chasing the 7 striped ladies but will also start playing more golf and seeking other species to vent my wrath upon.

Paul let me know if you ever want to get our for a round. We can fish in the morning and still make a 9 a.m tee time.

Paul let me know if you ever want to get our for a round. We can fish in the morning and still make a 9 a.m tee time.

Thanks Vic. Will do!

P A U L I E ><><><:smokin:

P A U L I E ><><><:smokin:
Mikey, been crazy with ice dam problems, ceiling damage and Reggie dying I haven't had 2 seconds to call you. I'll get to you Friday. Got carpenters replacing 2 damaged windows tomorrow and I'm working with them.

I know Paul , sorry about the loss of your Dog ..............been around 8 years & still can,t handle getting another one

I had ice dams to ...........1st time 37 years .came in thru the top of the bow window ;

But Bo,s home made Ice rake along with the pucks I threw on the roof saved more damage & then the 2nd time ........I smashed them all with a pipe ><><

Like Sandman's advice...63 now, hope to quit work in 2 years....low key, hunt, fish, golf, ski and repeat...your right about reading the paper and watching tv...no help there!!!

All I know is that for the past several years up until last year I have not been able to fish any where near as much as I would like. I started fishing in 1990 from the surf and before I knew it there were years I could count the nights I missed in Sept Oct and Nov on one hand. Had a 24 CC for a few years and did extremely well sold it and went back to the surf but like I said could not fish any where near as much as I wanted. Last season I was able to fish as much as I wanted to and still work, putting in around 100 nights and prob this side of 60 were all nighters. I fell in love with the surf again in so many ways it would take hours to talk about it, fishing alone, with my boys, with friends, every single night when I was about to get started I was enthrawled in the anticipation of what the night would bring, the darkness,he moon, the stars the rain, the wind, the surf, finding a piece of water that looked so promising I would fall getting out to the rock I wanted to get on. Standing on a rock with overhead water in front of you............just a taste of some of it.........how about the planning and getting the up to the minuet conditions to formulate a game plan that made sense and the executing it..............some times with success some times not so much................recharging the batteries and back again to do it one more night...........at 60 not so easy............passionately driven to do it one more night and then again. I am in love with surf fishing once again and I thank God for the gift....................................its always nice to bump into an old or new friend once in a while on the journey too.

I'm kinda right there with ya..... it pisses me off that the #^&#^&#^&#^&!NG guys from ASSMFC can screw this up for someone's(?) benefit for so long and have no accountability. 90% of public opinion took a conservation-oriented position and we still are left wondering what the fate of the fishery will be.... because some non-elected officials feel like they know better the the general population AND THE BEST FISHERY SCIENCE EVE COMPILED


it just pisses me off..............