cut it out Flap...I can't take any more

Hey Flap, just out of curiosity, your Uncle with the 62+ from S&P? Do you know who he fished with, as a guide? He looks familiar, can you PM me his name.
Thanks

my 1st 40 on a jig in the canal
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Slip, a forty on a jig in the Canal is no small feat. You are in a class apart with that one. Nice Fish.

I have two fish over forty from the canal. One 45 pounder on a yellow Gibbs 3-1/2 oz. Polaris at pole 195 Cape side in July. The other was a anniversary present on the evening of my anniversary of being married, September 16th. The fish was caught at the mud flats on a skinny little eel that I was goofing with while waiting for the west tide to slow down. I was fishing with Dave Kosewski, Stan Koslowski ( aka Staash) and that fish also weighed forty five pounds.

Two years later within two weeks Dave "Stifftip" LaPorte landed the 55 pounder at 155 in early September 89 first and two weeks to the day fishing with me on a west tide at 10:00PM at the Mud Flats landed a 45 pounder on an eel. Thank God on my first cast after he landed that one I got a 30 lb. fish or I would never have heard the end of it.

Somewhere I have an old clipping from the Falmouth Enterprise with a picture and story of a guy and the largest bass caught in the canal on a plug in ther late fifties. It was 63 pounds. Taken at pole 155 on a Gibbs Blue/white 4 0z. Castalure popper.

The largest bass that I know of from the canal was 68 pounds and the angler wants to remane nameless. I t was caught on an eel in front of the control building at the Army Corps HQ. It was weighed and then I believe he sold it. I watched him and another guy night after night bailing bass from the corner of that lot because they alone had permission to fish there. While across the way on the Mudflats we went fishless. He is a friend of Dave LaPortes.

If I'm not mistaken, back in the 60s another 60+ was taken in the Canal by a guy named Harold Peterson. The mount used to hang over the front door at Maco's. Don't know if it's still there. I seem to remember my dad saying that it was taken on a skin jig :confused:

Gibbs usually has a picture of that 63 at their booth at the shows.

The "68" guy may be nameless but he's not "unknown" ;)

Way back when Huff and I befriended a tough looking ex military guy. I nicked named him "Sarge". He would fish inside the Corp's right off the piers. He would show us a tide chart with all his fish that he took to market :eek: I met a few other guys that would bail fish on the point, they never said much especially if you beat them out there. The fishing there and the mudflats doesn't seem to be as good as back then, alot smaller fish but I still like to fish there once in a while for old times sake. The holes have changed alot and the fish show at differant parts of the tides than they used too. Awesome fluke and flounder in there at times.

The last time I fishede there, ( two seasons back) I fished for three night in a row on the August new moon tides, a time when we always did well. Well for three nights it sucked. Not a tap. I convinced myself to go back on the fourth night. Tide went east at around 11 or so and it was the same as the first three nights. Well, for old times sake I did a little "bug hunting" and was doing quite well when I noticed the tide had gone east and was moving pretty good. The grass from around the point was comin back into the hole and I was going to leave but I noticed that my eel, hanging from the hook for an hour or so, still had a little wiggle and the grass was not that heavy so I made a cast and wham, I had a hit. I was shocked and it felt like a good fish. I landed a fat 36 inch fish and decided to make another cast with a new eel. I ended up with seven fish up to 43 inches long all released and the bugs to take home for next evenings bug salad. Haven't been back since. I did stop one night on the way home from a meeting as conditions were right, last September and Dave LaPorte was just coming off the flats and all he got was one rat and a run that dropped it.

John,, is there a way I see the the pics of this thread?

I dont see them either? The only ones I see are Slips pics? :huh:

:hidin: yikes, I thought that picture was gone with the rest.

Jenn, the reason you still see mine is because I had it loaded on my woodworking site and it was hosted thru that. All pics on this site that were from before about 2004 or so disappeared when John changed servers and new uploaded pics erased the old pics or something like that. They can't ever be found on S-B again :( unless the original poster re-posts them which we have done a couple times with informative how to threads that were favorites in the plug forum.

Goose, I think you'd have to ask Flap

I saw this tonight and thought it was a new thread until I saw the dates

That really got us worked up! Real fish story for sure.:humpty:

how come i can't see the pics ? :(

nothing like a blast from the past

Yeh, I can get the pictures, I just can't match the right pictures to the right post. What used to happen was we'd have a post from say Mac or Tagger with a classic plug recreation and get a picture from, oh I dunno, say a hottie thread or something. Pics were not matching the post properly :wall:

I can see how that could have been a problem if some of the hottie pictures were from The Gutter :rotf3:

Put the Hotties up!!:devil2:

Well, there ya go - you even had me going for a while.

:point: Remember, always check the date on the post first.

We need to start a "long hair and bass" thread.

DZ

Nice pic, Slip. :btu:

Ya look 4 years younger than the last time i saw ya. :hihi:

no pics
 

where's the pic? for some reason it's not showing up on my computer.

ok...I didnt notice this was from 4 years ago either. That would explain a lot!

Sorry-not too observant here....

too bad i cant see the pictures

Hey D. - I remember seeing a photo of you and Uncle Zeke on a nearby island holding up a pair of fifties - sorta remember Ezidro had this Starsky and Hutch thing happening with the hair :hihi: