I'll spend time chasing the Grace Potter groupies! Where do I sign?

Food for thought. A long time way back guys like you n me just enjoyed striper fishing. Bob Pond was real and always around. We had fun and did what needed to be done to protect the fish. So what has changed so we now just don't give a damn. The fish need our help.So we need to do what needs to be done. I kept 2 fish last yr. One hooked me the other was gut hooked. I CAUGHT A LOT OF FISH and released them. Lets not forget. . WE ALL HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO. Ron

I understand your view. I am a little younger (58) and it is very easy to get upset at the current inshore fishing situation having seen what it was like when you were a kid. And Golf is a great game. There is a lot of satisfaction and fun with golf but it also has its share of frustration. My advice is to mix it up. Do a little of each. Cherry pick the your inshore fishing and get hooked up with others that can take you offshore a couple times a season, and play golf on the other days. You just need to do something slightly new. Doing the same thing year in and year out gets old after while. Whatever you do do not become a charter capt. Making a job out of something you enjoy turns what you love in to something you have to do on days when you would prefer not to do that...just for a few bucks. It generally makes for a big headache. I think the worst charter capt's are the guys who retired and do it part time..it is a loose - loose situation for all.

Don't get so hung up on SB. It's a grand fish but there is a lot more out there than SB.

My inlaw(s) live(d) in a FL golf course senior thing and I tell you they should re-name that place, "Purgatory" it is like Heavens waiting room. I enjoyed the golf when I visited over the years and it is a well manicured beautiful place but I could not live there watching everyone die every day. He just died a few weeks ago and I had to go down for a few days, no golf but I was glad to be home.

So do a little of everything and keep it looow stress, stop reading the newspaper and watching the friggin (bad) news all day. Don't push the hard core days on the water...cherry pick the weekdays when the bite is hot and the weather is great. Anything over 5-10 you should be playing golf and dining out with your wife.

This reminds me of a plumber I saw in Florida... he is a big fisherman and then name of his plumbing company is "Windy day plumbing" , when I saw that I said...that guy has the right idea about work.

In Hawaii when the surf is up you don't hear much building going on.
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So I decided. I'll keep chasing the 7 striped ladies but will also start playing more golf and seeking other species to vent my wrath upon.

Paul let me know if you ever want to get our for a round. We can fish in the morning and still make a 9 a.m tee time.

Thanks Vic. Will do!

P A U L I E ><><><:smokin:

Mikey, been crazy with ice dam problems, ceiling damage and Reggie dying I haven't had 2 seconds to call you. I'll get to you Friday. Got carpenters replacing 2 damaged windows tomorrow and I'm working with them.

I know Paul , sorry about the loss of your Dog ..............been around 8 years & still can,t handle getting another one

I had ice dams to ...........1st time 37 years .came in thru the top of the bow window ;

But Bo,s home made Ice rake along with the pucks I threw on the roof saved more damage & then the 2nd time ........I smashed them all with a pipe ><><

Like Sandman's advice...63 now, hope to quit work in 2 years....low key, hunt, fish, golf, ski and repeat...your right about reading the paper and watching tv...no help there!!!

All I know is that for the past several years up until last year I have not been able to fish any where near as much as I would like. I started fishing in 1990 from the surf and before I knew it there were years I could count the nights I missed in Sept Oct and Nov on one hand. Had a 24 CC for a few years and did extremely well sold it and went back to the surf but like I said could not fish any where near as much as I wanted. Last season I was able to fish as much as I wanted to and still work, putting in around 100 nights and prob this side of 60 were all nighters. I fell in love with the surf again in so many ways it would take hours to talk about it, fishing alone, with my boys, with friends, every single night when I was about to get started I was enthrawled in the anticipation of what the night would bring, the darkness,he moon, the stars the rain, the wind, the surf, finding a piece of water that looked so promising I would fall getting out to the rock I wanted to get on. Standing on a rock with overhead water in front of you............just a taste of some of it.........how about the planning and getting the up to the minuet conditions to formulate a game plan that made sense and the executing it..............some times with success some times not so much................recharging the batteries and back again to do it one more night...........at 60 not so easy............passionately driven to do it one more night and then again. I am in love with surf fishing once again and I thank God for the gift....................................its always nice to bump into an old or new friend once in a while on the journey too.

I'm kinda right there with ya..... it pisses me off that the #^&#^&#^&#^&!NG guys from ASSMFC can screw this up for someone's(?) benefit for so long and have no accountability. 90% of public opinion took a conservation-oriented position and we still are left wondering what the fate of the fishery will be.... because some non-elected officials feel like they know better the the general population AND THE BEST FISHERY SCIENCE EVE COMPILED


it just pisses me off..............