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.

Thats one of the main reasons I still want to play and be decent at it. Golf and business go hand in hand. And when my future boss asks me to play in the Member Guest I don't wanna chisel it... Waiting for that invite to the TPC when it gets warm out!:hee:

I am too young to golf. I built a few houses on golf coarses and most of those pepole think their s@&# doesnt stink. I would be the Rodney Dangerfield on the coarse. Not giving a crap whos wtching. Lets go fishing!!!

Johnny we gotta play captains or something some time
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Im starting to question if its ever going to get warm

I'm down. It'll be more drinking and smoking than golf, which is the way god intended golf to be lol. All are welcome btw :gu::smokin:

Still have to hit you up for a golf lesson John.
I want to be able to tee up on one side of the canal and hit moving googans on bikes on the other.
Could be a new sport !
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Well if that 4th cancels on you last minute and you need a fill-in, I can hold my own at a 10.4......wink......wink:). Last year there was talk about a striped-bass golf outing, we really need to pull that together, maybe a spring outing in our mudders when Falmouth or Cape Cod CC open; to celebrate end of this sh*t winter. Snow blower moved 8" again last night, big red is as tired as me.

I tried to float that balloon.....

http://www.striped-bass.com/Stripert...highlight=golf

Paul,

1. You dont drink enough to golf, that's just nonsense.

2. Like others suggested there's literally TONS of other species out there that can be targeted in our waters. Talk to Buzzy he's super friendly and knows his chit.

Quitting because of junk science and bs politics makes it seem as if you've had your head in the sand for a REAL long time. The junk science and the BS politics has been around forever!

Nothing is what it used to be. I remember being 6-7 and fishing out by the clam bake club with my uncle john and my father and there would be thick schools of herring and even flying fish around at times. Dont see that now, no sense in pouting over it.

this is my Best golf GAME

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c66/ravenob1/land.png

Great post. I was a die hard before we had kids, I'm down to a few trips a year. I'm sure I'll get back into it big-time when my kids don't need as much of my time, and I'm sure my retirement will revolve around saltwater, for the reasons you stated very nicely.

thanks

You could always take up fishing on the golf course ... for most courses, there are tons of lakes and ponds with decent largemouth ... have to fish early or late though to avoid getting run over by other golfers ... or you can fish some of the South Florida courses that border saltwater ... when I lived down there we would sneak on to a few courses to target snook and baby tarpon that happened to live in the waters of a few courses ... a few others had various freshwater species above and beyond largemouth that were fun.

OK, I get it. I'll try fishing for scup and sea bass and fluke. I have been too focused on stripers as Clammer, Nebe and Bryan said.
I'm gonna golf a bit more also. My wife is a greens keeper at Crystal Lake Golf CC so I can play for free. I use to play a lot when I was young and still hit the ball fairly well. I'll get my short game in shape and have some fun.

As Vic, said, I don't drink enough to golf so maybe I can start drinking more too. ;)

Thats the spirit!!!:gu::gu::gu:

ever see that bar that rolls down the road on bicycle power
that would be a blast on a golf course

I picked up golf one season because we had so many days of bad weather. My buddies and I would keep the golf clubs in the truck tow the boat down to the ocean . If it was too rough we would go play golf.
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Nothing wrong with a little swing oil
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After last May and June's stellar striper fishing, I left them alone and targeted skate, scup, searobins and choggies. I had a great season, and got to sleep at night. :)

You had an epic run, Mike. But you'll be back when it's time and you'll start another one in some capacity.