Just saying...... Not that there isn't enough fodder to support a political site, but this is a fishing site......

Boat is still in front of the house.... Will splash at some point in the weekend, even in the rain. But might hit the rocks for an evening tide tomorrow night depending on how hard it is blowing.

In the past 24 hours it has been almost exclusively participation in the political forum. With SOL down for a day while they do a conversion, I would have to believe some of those guys would be taking a peek over here... But there is not much being posted for them to see. Your participation counts here......

Yes, agreed!

I am at work 10,000 miles away so I am fishing through you guys till late August and need some good fishing stories to read. Yeah and then I get pissed I'm not home, but it's nice to hear guys having fun!

we were into them pretty good today. acres and acres of bass rolling on the surface gorging themselves on tiny bait. beamie - ive been fishing your neck of the woods when its been too windy, its been pretty good. I've been fishing my butt off - no sign of tuna yet

we were into them pretty good today. acres and acres of bass rolling on the surface gorging themselves on tiny bait. beamie - ive been fishing your neck of the woods when its been too windy, its been pretty good. I've been fishing my butt off - no sign of tuna yet

I received some decent intel today on small BFT. Looking up.

yeah looks like they got some tinys way south

Found a new spot last night from the boat close in and did great, one was a wopper

Thought I'd try that spot from the beach tonight, Just got in ,,, zilch... Some nice out though!

Can't post pictures for some reason, don't know what happend but can't get the full site from my iPad ,,, grrrrrrr

Great season so far, three days of family stuff coming up starting tomorrow, thank god, catch up on some sleep... Been up at 2 or 3 for the boat gig then in the suds for sun sets,,,,
Road trip next week, not sure where yet, waiting for someone to tell me it's lights out somewhere LOL jokin...
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yeah looks like they got some tinys way south

U still looking for those snags ?
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A buddy of mine went out 2 weekends ago, and set up a spread for tuna. They see whales breaching and head over, and then see the tuna breaking. Ran the spread through a couple times, but no takes. So a guy throws a tin on a spinning rod, and he's tight. They figured these fish were schoolies, maybe to 100 or so, but this one was bigger and they were way over matched. 200 feet of water, and the boat chased this fish for 19 miles - they fought it for 7.5 hours, got it near, and it straightened the hook!
I'm going flukin.

Middle of June - time is ripe before the Doldrums ; )

I took a trip down south yesterday for the goose egg. Nice shakedown but no love,especially crappy with the east wind ruining the forecast.
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allot colder this Spring
pushing calendar 30 days forward
just a farmer's perspective

Middle of June - time is ripe before the Doldrums ; ) if this is the good part of the season... I might need to be put on suicide watch come july
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if this is the good part of the season... I might need to be put on suicide watch come july
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:jump:

Just saying...... Not that there isn't enough fodder to support a political site, but this is a fishing site......

Boat is still in front of the house.... Will splash at some point in the weekend, even in the rain. But might hit the rocks for an evening tide tomorrow night depending on how hard it is blowing.

In the past 24 hours it has been almost exclusively participation in the political forum. With SOL down for a day while they do a conversion, I would have to believe some of those guys would be taking a peek over here... But there is not much being posted for them to see. Your participation counts here......

I agree Ross... sadly for whatever reason some people have got overly sensitive about fish and fishing.. gone is the "help thy neighbor/newbie" mentality... I started a thread about a 60+ lb fish caught in early May in buzzards bay and the backlash was unbelievable. I was very angry at the responses I got... I love this site and have made some fantastic friends here..I don't like it when it gets ugly..most replies IMHO were very immature and showed an insecurity in their replies...and to be honest a general lack of knowledge on the subject... I've been fishing on my own for over 50 years..I have ( and still do on a small scale) commercially trap eels...I've owned and operated a gill netter...run lobster gear.. run a stick boat and have caught enough tuna on hand lines and rod and reel that my arms and back ache thinking about it...and oh yea I know a little about striped bass too...so like the Farmers commercial. I know a thing or two ... because I've seen a thing or two..
I don't visit the site here as much anymore because fishing related conservation always seems to turn to "spot burn" or some negative spin... I'm protective of my exact locations too. Being farther north we have even less quality fish than my fellow anglers to the south.. so when the big girls are in season...I cringe at some of the reports.. but they have been and always will be part of life.. we all need to act( myself included) like we've been there... but the Mention of a general area just is not worth an all out flame war in my eyes .. if we are visiting the site, it means we are not fishing and the site is/should be a way to keep us in touch with the hobby we all love so much..maybe it's just me.
I only frequent a few other sites. Both are much smaller but are suffering from lack of participation as well..

OK with that of my chest...

I'm at a new marina this year for the first time in 30 years and am loving life.
Merrimack river seems to have adopted every schoolie on the planet( so it seems)... fish from 10" to 26" seem to be everywhere.. tide doesn't matter as long as the water is moving... the inshore ocean is starting to clean up... last weekend the mud line extend out 5 miles.. ... effectively killing the inshore haddock spawning grounds.. mackerel were very hard to come by as well.. I took the 5 baits I had ( keeping them in the murky saltwater in my bait tank) and took them back to one of my favorite spring haunts a few miles up river ...they went belly up in the tea colored river water ( at high tide) in a mater of minutes.. the only customers were fish too small to eat the dead bait.
this week the water has warmed up( in the river.. 60... at high tide) and cleared up.. eels have started to run better. Partially due to the lessening of debris clogging the funnel. Mostly because the water temp has risen... I still haven't used an eel ..I fished Sunday night -Thursday night with a 10lb specimen the largest fish I saw all week... I caught hundreds of 26 - 30" fish all on 9" white or eel colored sluggos , needle fish and an eelie swimmer... I'm expecting some of those fish that were to the south to make it here for the new moon and hopefully displace some of these little guys.. the bloom is off the rose. All these little guy's are great for the future ..but... I want something a little larger.. the period of the 22nd - the 26th of June has for the last 30 years provide me with the biggest fish each season.. 13 of my 18 fish over 50 have come during that time slot. Most from the same "spot". I've planned vacation time accordingly..

Tight lines all
Roc

if this is the good part of the season... I might need to be put on suicide watch come july
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Joe, come to CC, we have straight jackets and some fish, pick your poison.... :-)
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Horrible spring. Not much time to fish but when have Cold water and cold temps have made it more of an iron man event to hang
Fish, even flipflops, have been very scarce in all my haunts. Figured out why the other nite. My worst fears are becoming reality as seals have now spread across the bay in numbers and taken over the hood.
No bueno
And now according to magic seaweed its gonna howl and be big for about the next 2 weeks. F off
Im still not takin up golf
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I took a trip down south yesterday for the goose egg. Nice shakedown but no love,especially crappy with the east wind ruining the forecast.
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Was out as well. Boy did that forecast change!?!?

in CT we've been waiting for the bite to get started..... the "its gonna bust wide open" phrase has been used so many times I'm gonna puke. theres bait everywhere- all kinds- bunker up the whazzoo, squid balls in deep water, and even some round herring here and there. only thing missing is the fish....


I guess they're all up on the Cape.............(?)

Still hitting sea bass up inside BB, yesterday was insane, every cast was a fish and every fish I reeled in had a couple trailing. Had a limit in 15 minutes, fished for fun for a couple hours looking for fluke, but couldn't keep the sea bass from smacking my 4" split tail.
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Hey Ross long time no hear/speak I hope all is well on your end.
yes this is a fishing web site with a ton of good peeps,as for discussion on talk of whats what.my filter blew off years ago and the anti PC $hit is out of the window. WTF yea.....
the election is over can"t the left wingers except that? wtf{again},.
on a lighter note Ive been out only a few times hooked up with Timbah twice and bagged a 35# on a plug,gonna hit the salt tomorrow and enjoy the fun.

Hey Ross long time no hear/speak I hope all is well on your end.
yes this is a fishing web site with a ton of good peeps,as for discussion on talk of whats what.my filter blew off years ago and the anti PC $hit is out of the window. WTF yea.....
the election is over can"t the left wingers except that? wtf{again},.
on a lighter note Ive been out only a few times hooked up with Timbah twice and bagged a 35# on a plug,gonna hit the salt tomorrow and enjoy the fun.

Bobby, I'm fishing on Sunday with your nephew. Come on down and we'll have a Father's Day beer after.
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gonna fish all night Saturday into Sun with Kyle,Higgie,Terry and the crew why don't you join? BTW I've been out of State for a bit and lost my phone,got rocked last night........ yeah that's why my phone is MIA.

I have been slightly off this Spring. I found pogies where there were none 3 days ago. I had already been out for 4 hours so my knee was aching and I left the bait.

Yup, you guessed it. I got the call from Clammer who said "you should have stayed with the bait you found" Couple of 40#+ fish, a few 30#+ and lots of 20s.

So now the weather is crappy but I'm going regardless. Don't love the tide either but even a blind squirrel can find a nut.

This site is a shell of what it once was.
Politics forum rules now over fishing for a couple of years or more now.
Facebook, Twitter and a few others probably had plenty to do with it also.
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I was out with Paul and some other guy yesterday..great day. Tons of bass feeding on small sand eels made a fun/frustrating day. That was my first boat ho excursion this year.
I've fished shore and canal sparcely this year so far. My best highlight was bringing​ one of Ty's friends to canal, he's never caught a bass..we were able to get him on 4 fish in 2 days. No matter how long you've been catching there's nothing like helping a kid catch his first. A lot of times people forget catching fish is secondary..
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Oh and Russia !!!
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gonna fish all night Saturday into Sun with Kyle,Higgie,Terry and the crew why don't you join? BTW I've been out of State for a bit and lost my phone,got rocked last night........ yeah that's why my phone is MIA.

I can't get out tomorrow. Taking my son and Dad to the Revs game for an early Fathers Day get together. That's why I'm going Sunday. Higgie is gonna be at the Dead & Co show but I'm gonna make Kyle go. He doesn't need his arm twisted to go fishing.
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I can't get out tomorrow. Taking my son and Dad to the Revs game for an early Fathers Day get together. That's why I'm going Sunday. Higgie is gonna be at the Dead & Co show but I'm gonna make Kyle go. He doesn't need his arm twisted to go fishing.
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Were playing roll reversal right now, i should be the one out getting banged up and having a social life. I realized that tonight being a 23 y.o. On a friday night staying in doing gear maintenance, re-arranging my plug bag and tying leaders. I dont even get a phone call or text to go out to the bars anymore, my friends know better.

As far as the site, i check it every day. just dont post much, trying to keep myself from saying dumb sh!t on the internet is all. Expecially looking back at all my old posts when i was younger
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Been fishing from shore a couple of nights a week for the last month or so...lots of small fish ...very few over 30".
Been seeing more seals:shocked:

Took the boat out for the first time on monday for a shakedown...right after launch my electronics went dead so had to cut the trip short...got that straightened out and headed back out on thursday, this time with my son to target sea bass.

Got to the spot and instantly hooked up with some really good sized beauties, got our limit within an hour. Very good eating they are!
On the way back to the ramp we stopped at the mouth of the river and caught a few small stripers casting plugs.

One on one time with my 26 year old son was the best part of the day, I enjoy his company so much, but with his work schedule, we dont get a lot of time to spend together.





"Cats in the cradle with a silver spoon
little boy blue and the man in the moon
when ya coming home dad i dont know when
but we'll get together then, dad
you know we'll have a good time then"

Were playing roll reversal right now, i should be the one out getting banged up and having a social life. I realized that tonight being a 23 y.o. On a friday night staying in doing gear maintenance, re-arranging my plug bag and tying leaders. I dont even get a phone call or text to go out to the bars anymore, my friends know better.

As far as the site, i check it every day. just dont post much, trying to keep myself from saying dumb sh!t on the internet is all. Expecially looking back at all my old posts when i was younger
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Hey!
Good to see ya here
I'll be in touch end of the month, rest up... :-)
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Nice Bob (RMarsh)
Going to happen for me next Saturday, can't get here soon enough
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don.t post about fishing on here anymore .......don,t need the B/S ..........................I,m fishing harder than I did in years //7 hours is a short day ................ were catching , but not smoking them .................. But they are all descent fish ..............I,m taking a ton of photos ..but not many of fish ........I,m having fun with sunrise & scenery ........ships & cool stuff that we pass .
I will say the the guys that want to post photos of fish are all on facebook .post them here if you want to share ..............................without even trying , I,m getting more info from just being on facebook &not even going to a particular person to see pictures .
I will say that I reached out to a old time member here & just like the friends we have been , put us on a few fish ////////////////////////// poor Joe Fig .he even calls me ,he finally got the hint .texes don,t work with me .I can,t see them & if I could I ain,t spending fifteen minutes to type back when a phone call to me would be minutes ............Joe ya shudda stayed around today ><> But don,t worry . the Scup bite tirned on this week ><>:eyes::eyes:

Have not gotten into many quality fish up here in my part of the North Shore. I did not think it was possible for the bass to be any smaller than the ones we were getting last spring but I have been seeing fish as small as 5 and 6 inches. Have to go through 20 of them to get a mid 20 inch fish or small keeper. Gonna target Tog this coming week as I have seen some jumbos around the stricter I frequent. Still refusing to consider a boat! Good to see the fish talk! Carry on....

don.t post about fishing on here anymore .......don,t need the B/S ..........................I,m fishing harder than I did in years //7 hours is a short day ................ were catching , but not smoking them .................. But they are all descent fish ..............I,m taking a ton of photos ..but not many of fish ........I,m having fun with sunrise & scenery ........ships & cool stuff that we pass .
I will say the the guys that want to post photos of fish are all on facebook .post them here if you want to share ..............................without even trying , I,m getting more info from just being on facebook &not even going to a particular person to see pictures .
I will say that I reached out to a old time member here & just like the friends we have been , put us on a few fish ////////////////////////// poor Joe Fig .he even calls me ,he finally got the hint .texes don,t work with me .I can,t see them & if I could I ain,t spending fifteen minutes to type back when a phone call to me would be minutes ............Joe ya shudda stayed around today ><> But don,t worry . the Scup bite tirned on this week ><>:eyes::eyes:

What!! Joe was out too? How the hell did I miss you guys. I was sitting a mile N of Bullocks Light on the side of the 47' mark on the channel at 5 AM. Crips!!!

Live action now!!!
Canal is on fiyah.
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I take pictures to send for busting balls of the guys that bail out of my 3 AM launch times.... :-) or my sons that never join me..

Not sure if posting boat fish is well recepted here, still looking for the large surf fish to post, lost several to the rock gods .... :-(
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