Had a nice teaching gig over the summer that was good for $$ but bad for fishing time. I went out when I could and almost always found fish around the Elizabeth Islands including my new PB.

I guess I regret not buying some good tuna gear to give myself a better chance at actually landing the two I hooked up with.

Just seeing that from Nebe might make the season's highlight list!:rotf2:

the fall......

Not catching my 50 again this year.

How much my waders shrunk over the winter.

Like many others... Not going fishing as much as I hoped to. When I had some time during the summer, it was slooow. In the fall, with kids activities and all, only made it out a handful of times.

good one!:smash:

Ran the boat up on a jetty rock fishin for fluke drove home takin on a little water
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

1. Being out of work..
2. Going back to work ...(same week good fish in the canal) 7 ) 10's
3. Cancelling Cutty trip
4. Not fishing with old buds

my biggest disappointment is not getting this in the mail before yesterday

My biggest 2 disappointments happened an hour apart on block, 2 straightened hooks.

btw
Larry...check out what your buddy Tommy has done to me at www.surfcastersjounal.com
i will never be able to look at a goat that same way again...lol

ouch

Why? What was yesterday???

You having goat dreams Z?:rotf2:

Definitely fishing with RIJIMMY and Fishbones.

-spence

losin the last bit of cartilage in my right knee, and having to wait till Thanksgiving to fix it.
Took out much of the summer, when there wasn't weatha to deal with anyway

Yeah, eddie - the mind starts writing checks the body can't cash

Hey, don't get too concerned - it's all a part of growing up...:alright:

I just hope I can still get around as good as you do when I'm your age...:laughs:

Just kiddin', amigo - it still beats the crap out of the alternative...:shocked:

TONIGHT!!!!!!!!!!! Everything was in line and not even a bump. Also the weather has been s#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&g for way too long. I just hope the winter brings tons of snow and not rain and slush. Yup I said it I WANT TONS OF SNOW!!!!!!!!!! :bshake:

And one more thing that disappointed me is that 5/0 never gave me the recipe for his wife's pasta salad and I'm still looking in my email everyday for the fish chowdah recipe:smash:

Me desculpe, senhor - mas não entendo Inglês completamente

Como se chama fish chowda recipe...:huh:

:laughs:

Bro, that is a lamb, as in baby sheep, not a goat......:smash: Great pics though. He got you good. Lemme in on the payback.....

I didn't have any disappointments
I set the bar low

I did tie my personal best
too hard making a living this year and not enough time to fish, maybe next year will be better

I had no disappointments, it is all good when you can go fishing.

:buds:Well said Paul.

I had set a goal to catch a striper over 30# from the kayak this season.
I have been haunted for the last 2 years by the loss of a very large striper that towed me around for what seemed like an hour.
Got to see it up close and even got my hands on it but slipped away from me.
This year I only got out to fish from the kayak a few times, caught a dogfish and a couple of blues.

I know..its kind of a personal joke :smash:

I had 3.

This year I gambled, changing things up, trying to key in on areas and conditions that would have a chance of giving up a true giant. Here's what ending up happening.

Was fishing a rocky point on an island with a real bad swell. Hooked a real heavy fish on a giant dead eel. Def. a bass as it did multiple head shakes, did the whole bull dog thing, would not get off the bottom. After 12 minutes (which is rediculously long to have a bass on, but I always look at my watch when I hook a good fish) I had the fish beat, up on its side, saw the thing, then a massive swell washed the fish from left to right about 20 feet cutting the mainline on a large boulder. Nothing I could do. It felt like someone ripped my heart out. Absolute mean and ugly pig that was lost. I would have been able to hand up all my gear and move on to another sport after landing that fish. This same thing happened again a few weeks after.

Weeks later, fished the same spot, opposite tide and opposite wind. My father hooked a fish that weighed 38# on my boga, which he landed in minutes. The same time he hooked that fish I hooked another behemoth, completely owned me, hugging the bottom. Tried picking its head up, no success, backed off the drag to let it run higher in the water column, no success. Fish ended up getting tied up in rocks and breaking the swivel as it must have gotten jammed between 2 rocks. After landing other numerous nice fish my father hooked another tank that once it figured out it was hooked never turned back and broke his line.

Given that I hardly ever break large fish off, this has been continually haunting me. Hopefully I can get keyed in on that same window again next year, and get those fish to run a different direction when hooked. Nights like those keep you heading back!

No regrets this season, but Nahant SUUUUUCKED! Time to find another spot north of Boston. I do work 3 minutes from Winthrop, though...
Plenty of good fish for me, got a 2# brookie, which tasted freaking AWESOME!!! I think the only thing that I missed was not getting a wolffish.

last night.......

I second the last night motion... One phrase decribes it all GAYER THAN AIDS......:fury:

OUCH,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, That might have been a good night,,,,:huh:

My Spring spots in some of the rivers around MA and CT were not close to as productive as they usually are.