Well I am a great Fluke man and love to fluke fish the Vinyard!! You can find me there anyday during the week inthe summer months. I do not fish the weekends!! I hate all the boat ramp crap!
I would really like to try to do some more Bass fishing!! I no how to do it and I have caught my share of real nice Bass but that said I am not a real good bass fisherman.
I got into live linning scup this year and it worked Great!! Even got a couple 10+ Fluke on the live scup!!
So I would like to try to perfect this type of fishing and really focus more on bass! The Vinyard is a awsome place to fish you can catch all kinds of fish there and have a ball doing it!!
You can easly fill your qouta for Bass, Fluke, Scup, and Sea Bass and be home in pleanty of ttime for dinner!! They also have Blues Bonita. False Albcore, Tog's they have it all!

Oh yes, it is. I personally rather to fish on the vineyard sounds than nantuckett. I ain't playing ya, MJ. I went on a fluke trip with a friend of mine and it wasn't on the vineyard sounds.
Which reminds me one thing, I forgot to add that I will plan to do fluking in the suds. Based from what I read, I need a bucket and one strong light tackle rod and proper rigs.

MV is a fish motel everywhere you go! I like the South side better than Vineyard Sound.

I will be definitely going to the damn MV this spring or summer with an EPA agent and his family. Maybe we can meet at the MV and hook up for a night fishing.

Me fish with a AGENT around :eek: no Thanks!!

No agents with all the shorts FWW keeps ;)

That is something I want to learn FWW!! I have done live linning at West Chop, and Fluke, Bass, Scup Sea Bass at Middle ground.
Tons of Fluke at Lucas in June. And I go to Gay head (Devils Bridge) for Bass.
But as I said I stink at Bass fishing really. So this will be a foucas of mine.

yo, this agent is really bloody cool and funny. if he has a badge, then u better know not to gluck with him. if he doesn't, then no biggies. besides, his name is peter holmes, are u guys familiar with that name?

:hihi:

One other goal for this year.
Get that tracking device I installed in Iron Mike's waders to work properly...............

my first plan for next spring is to figure out a way to spend the whole summer on the cape or at least a good part of it.a few more days in maine and a few more on Long Island.and turn enough plugs to get me thru the year.

I'd like to get to fish next fall with redlite :D that's my goal.
from what I've heard you don't need any tracking device redlite.

My 2004 plan is as follows: 1. Fish more than I did this past year (which will be a hell of alot of fishing, but it is possible). 2. Catch more and bigger fish on a more consistent basis!:huh: 3. Throw more needlefish and metal lipped swimmers. 4. In keeping with #3 find and purchase more Habs needlefish plugs.:kewl: 5. My goal for 2004 remains unchanged from 2003......go over 40 pounds ( a 50 pounder would be acceptable). Oh...and I have fished with Redlite, the guy knows his stuff and puts in more time than anyone I know. He is a good guy to fish with!:kewl:

Fishing the holes
 

MacoJoe,
Try fishing the holes around Devils bridge, I have had better luck in the holes than I have at the bridge. No STRIPER expert here have yet to bring in a real big fish, am trying like hell though. Plan to fill freezer in garage this summer if it kills me. Also fished Lucas Shoal for fluke a couple days and couldn't seem to break away from the trash fish. What size scup are you live lining for fluke anyway? My dad once brought home a 14 # when I was a kid I still cannot get the sight of that fish out of my head, would love to meet or beat that one day! Anyway whatever anyone does in 04 be safe and have fun. And bring a kid fishing!!

My plan for 2004 is to get a job and buy the Canon GL2 camcorder and hopefully make 3 video's within the next 2 years.. 1 for Bass, 1 for Fluke and 1 for WHAT NOT TO DO...

This year was my best year ever.. i opened up my eye's and looked around instead of going to the same spot over and over. Applying alot of what i've learned but thought it was not possible..

Another plan for 2004 is to further push myself to catch and release instead of fillet and freeze.. i got vaccume packed striper to last untill april at my house and my parents.. learned a little secret to freeze them in water.. doesn't work to well with tautog the flesh is still tasty as the day it was caught but it breaks apart very easily.. Fluke holds well just don't skin your catch freeze with skin on then after its thawed remove skin.. mmmmmmm tasty

use circle hooks more often... :)

got a quick tutorial from Iron Mike at the SWE on how to fish needles one night in september. mmmmm Needles work.. and to think for the last 6 years i thought they were broken.. lol

Vectorfisher

Nothing to catching Fluke out there!! Stay in touch in the spring!! I will meet up with you and show you the way!! I will put you on my spots and give you a rig that accounts for all my fish out there.

In trade Maybe you can show me around devils?? I just started out there this year and caught a few fish but not to many, I need all the help in I can get in that area!!

As for the size of the Scup, well for the Bass i have used up to 12" as forr Scup for Fluke Lets just say 9" for all the EPA agents out here.

Fishin
 

Will do Macojoe

I can show you a little of devils bridge, kind of a tough place to fish, need to watch your depth finder consantly there is so much junk down under that you can lose your rigs real quick, if the current wasn't wild there I would trade my rod and reel for my scuba gear and load the boat up with lures and see just what is down there for structure etc. In any event will give a shout when I am in the area would be neat to meet someone from the list.

Plan for 2004:
-Find more time for fishing
-Try some new areas North shore MA, RI
_Try fly fishing more
-This past year a did a few triathlons, I'd like to try a few more this year.

1. Fish
2. Buy a Boat
3. Fish
4. Did I mention I want to fish?

Bill, you serious,, I,ll sell you mine===I wanna get the new 22footer they came out with for 2004 //////

Yamaha ///1st one to come out with a four stroke 150

n :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Mike I am serious, but will not be sure financially till the spring. I was looking for CC with a head, but that's not etched in concrete..

Yea < Bill I passed on the one with the head,, not because of the small extra cost ,,,but the console setup was different & also I wouldn,t have been able to set mine up like I did=;) ;)

I didnt get head when I bought my boat .

If you did you probably wouldn,t know it :smash: :laughs:

exsqueeze me ? now lets not go there . if it aint oral I dont want to talk about it !

I got one and took it out to use the space!! Now we have the bucket system!!:D

Clammer - why would you want the 22?

WHy not ==========with the 150 4-stroke/////////

I can quietly smash into the rocks:smash:

You can't quietly do anything, boat or no boat, especially when the blues are around...

You have the most economical boat for its size that you've ever owned, you had it custom outfitted as close to what you want as humanly possible, you have an engine that can protect itself even from you (hence my visit out to Conimicut that day :hihi: ), the boat is big enough for you to ENJOYABLY run around south of PJ from your slip but still small enough that you can top it off with gas cans. And you want to trade all of that it for an extra foot, oil changes, and probably 10 grand? Are we going to have another winter of you being confused and flip flopping back & forth and you driving Sheila ^&$**:af:# nuts :laughs: ? In all seriousness, you got a sweet boat, outfitted the way you want, Status Quo manno....

@#$% :smash:

Don't listen to John!! He is just jelouis that his boat is still a planter!! :D

I have a 20 footer and love it. Easy to trailer good on gas and on a good day I can go 20 miles out Cod fishing

Bigger boat less tralierable, more gas and on a bad day, bang all the way home from 20 miles out with a load of Cod.

:smash:

Yea MJ John,s gets real good gas miliage from his yard & the weather doesn,t effect him either//////////////;)

MJ - Couple Points :rolleyes:

I was trying to talk Clammer out of spending another 10K to move up 1 year newer and one foot bigger. And you won't be the one talking to him about it all winter long. He's got a pretty stinkin' nice boat as it is. As for the planter comments, my boat wasn't anywhere near complete when I got laid off and it wasn't a financial benefit to get it done like your boat was, so there :p

Now anytime you want to compare the ride of your boat -v- the ride of mine (once its splashed :) ) from twenty miles anywhere, hehehehe... 'Course I agree yours will get more mileage AND be easier to trailer but mine will handle more snot and more snot comfortably :) . Now if you were smart, you would have let me give you a couple hundred bucks for your bracket :hihi: before you installed it :D

Well John while your boat may be better then mine in the snot and all, And I no it is!! It don't mean crap sitting as a big planter!!:laughs:
As for him buying a new and bigger boat, I think what I was saying is that my 20 footer (which is what he has?) Is all he needs!! 20 feet is a great boat to own!!
As for being stupid for not selling you that bracket for a couple of hundred, I paid $400 so I would have been real stupid!! So I guess I am not :p But I no where you can get a nice new one for $1500 Just like mine :p
I have a Steel Bracket in my basement that is a 18" set back rather then the 28" that I have. It has the platform on it also. Has been coated 3 times with ZRC Galvanitic Compound I can let you have cheap. :laughs:

Got any pics of that bracket? Is there a floatation chamber? How much does it weigh?

As for the whole planter thing, I "could" have gotten the boat done and had it in the water but that would have been at the expense of my savings account. Unfortunately I have not had money going INTO savings, only out for the past 7 months. Had I been working I would have been in the water too

Just got myself a single engine flotation bracket for $50.00 so :p It doesn't have the integrated platform like macojoe's but for the money I paid, I could probably have someone weld one on if I want one and still be ahead of the game.

Yes it has a floation chamber. It is excat copy of the Stainless Marine Bracket I installed on my boat. The only difference is that it is a 18 inch set back, and made of steel.
It is Heavy and made with 1/2 inch stock, except for the swim plat form which is 1/4 inch. It will take anything size motor you would want it to.

here are some pic's. It is Gray from the ZRC and can be top coated with what ever color you want.

Just a thought. If you can't find something else in your price range. This is going to be a cheap deal.

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