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.

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.

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.

Ding ding
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Lol!

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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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.

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.

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...

You're on. It'll be a blast

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.

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.