Thanks Mac. You never know what to believe in a bar but he sounded like he knew what he was talking about. Anyway, Larry and I "crushed" the bass that week. I think is was late Oct.

The ASMFC technical committee has no idea what is responsible for the decline, and they admit it. The fish are successfully spawning but something is going wrong between the time they hatch and the time they mature, the young ones are just disappearing. They were a commercially valuable species, but now the ASMFC has effectively shut down the commercial fishery. The stock has always been cyclical as far back as records go. If I recall correctly its a 20-year cycle.

lets blame the dogfish and seals. :hihi:

Squet=beverage
 

Clammer(correction "white perch=beverage")........not sure of name for Steve's brother(had to be as wacked as Steve to work there)......the "white perch connection. circa 1970's".........:fishin: for white perch(one time bonus of eye candy Meridith Viera)....RI Fish for green(beverage money)....compose oneself a bit....hit Senate Cafe for extended stay :buds::smash: maybe if we don't croak..another boom of squets in our lifetime:uhuh: ...as for seals & commie birds(those ugly prehistoric remnants-destroyer of small fish with an oversize population) are part of the squets demise(winter flouder too)..........

Booze

Portuguese Club / Manny Almedia,s / Corner Cafe, & Babe,s on wickenden street /all true fox point [bars]:gh:

as a kid I would vist family @ the outer banks,NC. one thing i remember seeing was guys setup w/ a small boat they would launch from the beach, and set out a reallllly long gillnet. later the pulled it in w/ trucks, and there were thousands of speckled trout in it, usually 18-24".......
the fish were sold commercially(not knocking com. fishing here !)
and i was just amazed at how many fish would fill the backs of pickups.......i don't know if they were the same exact fish, but i thought they were squet's.....this was a pretty common tradition,
and not unusual to see on a calm day in november.
that might have hurt a little bit over the decades.

I-24

not the same fish ><><:fishin:

two falls ago i was fishing a few spots on the south shore of LI,if you saw all the little weakfish that the blues and bass were eating you might have an idea were they went before maturing.i also grew up on the south shore of LI.in the early 60's you had to fish the peconics if you wanted to catch weakfish.by the early 70's the bay was fully of small 18 to 24 inch weakfish.by the late 70's there were no small weakfish for the most part but 8 to 15lbers were pretty common.sure the gillnetters caught alot but that doesn't explain why they didn't come back for years.the old timers always said when there were blowfish there weren't any weakfish,what ever happened to our beloved blowfish?

ILIVT

I,ve only seen 1 in RI in the last 25 years & that was in a dealers lobster tank .some lobsterman caught it in his traps .but that could have been anywhere

Days of yor blowfish...........
 

as a kid......in the late 50's handlining for fluke and chogies off George's Short Wall.........blowfish where a common catch...our fishing gear & bait came from old lady Ms Fish bait & tackle....with the perfume of the pogie processing plant adding to the charm of the adventure......hey that was a half a century ago.........and my brother and I -age 10 & 12..would cod fish coxes on Lou O'Donald's head boat NAUTICAN-the mate would keep an eye on us............we'd catch 20-40+ pounders .......got B+W photos of cod as big as us..............."Granny" would bake a whole fish with bacon strips on top of the cod,,yum..................Dan Head would be barking tuna tourney winning weights......giants a nickel a pound for cat food......Ashaway line was the benchmark on squidders......Pt. Jude Tins and Atom reverse 40's...........brought a Mitchel 304 reel/rod to fish off the short wall...people would ask what was it I was fishing with...........................Days of yor............................:uhuh:

Mike the last one that i caught was in 97 fishing in Topsail island NC.when i was a kid i had a 50ft seine that i used to catch spearing for bait.quite often a pull of the seine would have hundreds of tiny blowfish in it,maybetwo inches long. from the dock you could catch bigger blowfish all day long with just about anything on the hook. a piece of bologna was all you needed.

trapper,when i was 11 years old,mid 60's i had a 56lb cod on the Viking out of montauk,the day after thanksgiving.did quite a few trips out to coxes with my father on either the Victory or peconic queen in the 60's and 70's,boy did i eat a lot of fish

common catches of yor.....
 

VTer.......corker cod was a commonplace catch back then....not just one 40-50+ cod being pool winner........and..........bro & I would take one large one for oven bake(with head & tail removed would literally fill the oven) and a good size metal sided cooler brimming with filets......I can't remember ever get'n skunked.........I would violate IGFA fishing practice by resting the solid glass loooonng harwood handle rod on the rail.........to inch/crank these monsters up:rotf2:......and..............It would be nice if the squets would cooperate and give another cycle run of big numbers:soon:

:uhuh:YOU TWO OUR LIKE INSTANT REPLAYS ;;;:uhuh:

...memories & hope
 

..........memories and hope for the future in one breath........don't hold ya breath though...:wall:

damn I quit trying to hold my d ick :fishin:

Hey Trapper..remember dropoff at Buttonwoods? Yellow upperman..a fish every third cast..usually started April 10 or so...even before the schoolies; in the little whaler.....by the way, none of that Senate Cafe talk around here...

WTF are you ;

3/8 yellow upperman drop off @ Bakers creek on the drop ><><:hidin:

O.K. on the wagon...stealth
 

......JMAC.........O.K. on the wagon......and stealth...hehehehe:grins:

Dick, Bob & George
 

........can still see the "Trickster" group using yellow half ounce "Touts" off Nausauket and catch'n squets by the dozen.....#^&#^&#^&#^& S Bob S. &George S...............I even see a E.G. Oil truck......:grins:

Did he get back in time ?

GS ..use to be out there when he was on call .................... you would see him go in & then back out ;

I guess helen must have passed by now /she was arching all over last time I saw her .

G.S.
 

......last time I saw George & Helen was at the crows nest many years ago.....George had on his funny fish hat.....the whole trout coming out of his @#$%&*head.................:jester:

he had a fight with Nick [helens] son on who was going to drive him to the hospital ;;
he drove ,he died that day ;

they had a G S day at the apartment complex where he fed all the ducks & trapped the snapping turtles .. there is a plaque there ...where they actually changed the name on the pond to george,s Pond ;;

They had his service right in the funeral palor ......... the place looked like retired fishmens day ....... most were dressed up but you wouldn,t know it cuz ya couldn,t tell the difference in their clothes .
He was laid out in his plaid shirt. red serpenders [sp] / the fish hat you mention ed ;
& Helen had the talking largemouthbass on the coffin ... & everyone had to squeeze it when we paid respects ;;

He was one in 10 Million & everyone has a dozen different George S, stories ;

without trying he was really a character & I consider myselk lucky to have known & fished with him ;;:fishin:

Clammer/Trapper...

Remember GS in his little green boat with live pogies/50lb mono in tight at the corner of Norton's...amongst the sailboats.....many good times in there...we would be laffing our a$$ off at all the commotion with volkswagon sized boils everywhere....

...

Jmac ;

when I see you / I,m going to run that Alcar [fisherman] over ;

you don,t return PM,s ;wtf we are the last of that group ......... ya got a couple of youngins in your crew Rays kid & Billy B. & they ain,t kids RJ bought a new truck . so that may keep him working a little longer / & a lot of wanna be, s in your wake ;;

thrifty crew / was george & his bunch . we would be jin erickson,s & they would buy 6 -10 hooks at a time .
One day George saw my truck at a yard sale .. the next time he saw me on the water / he stopped & told me to quit buying [his] sinkers .... I don,t think I ever got a sinker @ a y/s :wall:

Check your PM's..didn't realize U sent me 1

...I dont' run with nobody....I "associate";
...i liked the old days better.....if you get my drift.

George was one of of kind....if you think about it, they were all one of a kind....Goda, Roland, Tom D. (who recently passed), Ding and Dong brothers, your buddy Earl,,,we could go on and on....

Last blowfish I caught was from the rocky shores of "Sequest Point" or at least that's how my father pronounced it way back when. That's when you could drive your car off the point if you had too much shine in ya.....and if memory serves me right, they'd make quite the racket after being kicked around the rocks too....:fury:...that's the price they'd pay for wasting $$$sandworms....they'd bounce pretty good too, not that I ever tried it.


btw....you guys are OLD. :blush:

Hey, Gilly - if you remember driving around "Sequest Point" it's definitely a sign that you're on the road to Geezer City...:hihi:

Fun to read and fun to remember but it's sorta sad sometimes to think of what once was and is no more - and not so very long ago, either...:hs:

I'm glad I grew up around here when I did in the '50's and '60's - in a lot of ways we had the best of it, I think...:)

Chuck, it TRULY is sad. Especially up your way...Just to think of the amount of shore-access that's been taken away in your area :smash:

It's very depressing that my own son will NEVER stand on many of the rocks that I was first taught to fish from. :( this is a depressing thread.

Gotta leave it be.:wall:

manny almedias ringside lounge :) - used to serve us when we we're 17 yo :)- they liked our $$$ and we liked their beer! we were known as the white kids from barrington...

Don .

that,s after the original Manny Almedia,s // you would have never got served in the original / matter of fact / you would have never gone into the original ...


Jmac ...... JD Teddy saif it was a H/A

whatever happened to Bennie P.:confused:

Bennie P? he would be 100 by now.....

Manny Almeida's Fireside Lounge ...also his other one in Warwick-would watch Bruins/Espostito/Orr/Sanderson back then
Another Ulphostered Sewer-McGoverns(?) on the old Canal St...you wiped your feet when U left....

Where did the Squeteague thread go ?????????????:confused::fishin:

simpler times
 

.....days of yor...............only a compass & ranges(ask the nube-thinks range is old time name for kitchen stove)..........Earl B adding lead in bow of Lema 19(with fall manuvers ON Patience Island)...Manny's old tyme....go with 2 thugs from Senate Cafe(worst dive in Prov then)for protection(Met, Armondo's, Pirate Den, Oscars)..Roland asking "has the fog lifted yet" then goes back to sleep in his vehicle.........ole man Howie C(catch'n too) tied in bow of Whaler Bunkie Dunkie, by son Barry C......the underwear raking clams off of Rumstick....decoy runs to fool followers.......:rotf2:......the memory list is endless,,,,,,and we lived thru its a......miracle:buds:

hope squets return to high in cycle
 

,,,,,,here's hope'n that the squets invade RI waters........:smash:soon

Barry old man was screwed if barry didn,t get something for him ........ he couldn,t see for s $%^&* but the fish didn,t know it /

yeah earl had some serious lead up front .. otherwise it probably would have flipped ..... that was a wet ass boat ;

#^&#^&#^&#^& s still slips the fish into the side of the boat / when he tought no one knew ......... oh he doesn,t have a boat .. it must be his oxagen tank ;;

Jackie B / cold cocking the warden with a one punch knockout ............ then dropping depth chargers on divers ;;

riding alon black face @ top end / shooting deer into the water & WTF was the name of the gribby guy that would buy them all / he was the same guy that bought over 3000# of chowders from . earl, me & WTf,s name / & said .. see you guys tomorrow ....... he shucked them by hand in his basement ;;

I,d almost drink to those days again :buds:

Had an 8 lber while fluking off "M" 6 or 7 years ago, that is the last one I've seen, that same season did hear of a school of then along the south shore anda few other were caught.

Clammer and Trapper who burnt Dave from LI boat to the ground during the clamming fiasco of the early 80's,i think he still has a 10,000 dollar reward for the answer.

what? no brain food?



Clammer i can tell you need ZINC
it helps you think

SEE veggie thread in scuppers

FISH IVT
trapper don,t know .he wasn,t a digger ;;

who burnt the harbor masters boat boat to the water level last summer ><><:confused::devil2: