hey, did you guys ever make it to the lobster raffle at the lincoln, in riverside ? man they had some Huuuuugee lobsters !
my dad would bring me there in the morn. to see them, many over 10lbs.

.....dug some----tonger
 

.........when 'haugs were thick,,,,.tonged B Beach etc...........bought tongs from the guy in East Providence...near Crecent Park....Emile Coreavasue(some kind of Frenchman),,,,can still hear the clatter-in the fog off Bullocks,,,,,,,,oh yea, Jack B was on submarine patrol........fall bass'n naval activity near T-wharf hhehehe....and..uh oh.............here comes Al Judge......+ Green,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,sure hope the squets return(this is a squet thread....)I think:confused:....now--name dropper.......Joe Hathaway from E G cove...............:rotf2:

Peconics=squets??
 

.......maybe make a run over to LI for squets...........this spring:biglaugh:.....with all this squet talk

Holllly Molllly !!!!!!! i knew Emile aka Tex, he was a really crazy guy !!
B beach was our main spot for flatfish, and everything else in the 70's !

I just saw the commercial for centerville bank .

thats Rick Rego / back then he ran from allen,s harbor as a digger :confused:.................... I think he had the re cord for RI boat division for squeteague / I remember he caught two by mistake off the north end of Jamestown .. I believe he held the record cuz no one else bothered to make the effort to fill out the form ......... I,m not sure but I think it around 13 -15# / too long ago


Damn Smitty is a fu ckin icon out of bullocks cove ... little gray skiff & 20' tongs .always off the hill S/E of Rocky point dock . I,m not sure but it was last year or the year before I saw him still doing the same thing ;;;

since this thread is about weakfish and now a little clamming added in,the best weakfishing i expierenced was around 78/79 while tonging off my 34ft otto tong boat.with all the tongers turning up the bottom in the shellbeds the weakfish were feasting on worms and whatever else was stirred out of the bottom. lots of 10 to 15lb fish. always keep the spinner with a salty dog on board.

Believe it or not South Shore LI does get a short glimpse of weakfish/squeteague each year but it's never pronounced. I have caught them the past few years off of bucktails , shiners, and of course squid. But they only have been in the 15-20" range that I have seen. If anything, Florida's "Sea Trout" population probably is higher than the weakfish here now. I do see blowfish each year but they are tiny yet people have the nerve to keep them which i want to beat them for. But the only run-ins I have gotten in with weakfish are incidental except once, its usually when I am after snappers (yes, I snapper fish. they are good eating and are great bait as well which people use for livelining for fluke and weakfish do eat them like candy)! When ever there is a slight rumor of them around here I go and try to track them down, its like trying to catch bigfoot sadly. If I manage one I'll be sure to get a photo of it before I release it!

Oh and for cooking them my mother would grill them. Dear Lord they are delicious.

Oh and the reason why they aren't really reported is because the one's caught are rarely keepers! Usually they barely miss the keeper mark for me but again, as long as there is a wiggle at the end of my line I am happy as a pig in poop! Summer usually is their cycle here, used to be Fall for the "Tide Runners". All of my weaks have been always caught in the summer (june-august typically because they are chasing down dredgers and the sand worms) off of docks, Surfcasting never. It's either by boat or by dock early morning or dusk as they have a short window of being active around those times if you run into them.

Glad I am not the only one who misses those gorgeous fish, people around here tease me about going for weakfish even though I usually am the one who does walk away with the experience of "yes, they are around!" Be honored that you guys are the only ones I have actually told this all to!

Btw, the bucktails that worked were white and red with squid for the tail instead of rind, pink bucktails with squid tipped also were really hot a few seasons ago, by boat live-lining snappers got some big ones but those were far and few, and sandworms. Funny though, a bobber with a stinking shiner at dusk or dawn always landed me one for a long time. Drove everyone nuts who couldnt do what I did and fascinated those who never knew what they were.

And yes, blues on top teague on bottom. But also teague behind! Bluefish panick eat and run hehe. But the only way I know they are still around is that with a bobber and hook setup for snapper, the bobber gets yanked underwater so hard it makes bubbles! From experience, the only fish that do that when snappers are around are in fact weakfish, just pray the hook on their is trusty enough to hook it! HINT: USE FLOUNDER OR SMALL BLACKFISH HOOKS FOR ANY CHANCE OF GETTING ONE WHILE GOING FOR ANYTHING ELSE.

If you guys ever get one surfcasting please tell me. I'll be sure to get a photo before releasing a weakfish to ease some of the nostalgia here :)

Oh and Sea Trout in Florida are literally half weakfish and half trout. They have the signature fangs to prove it!

Seen a few taken out of the Hudson a couple years back around 125th St. in NY. Never have I seen or heard of taken around the harbor.