Congrats you two

Yes we did ! cooked it up tonight on the Grill. It was good. But my taste buds prefer Fluke and my budget lol
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Awesome trip to Chappaquid#^&#^&#^&#^&.
9 days of no internet or cell phone access, pure bliss !
Relax and keeping it simple with a band of extraordinary urban anglers.

A few more

Sometimes it’s not the fish we’re after.

I hope I can recreate some of those great memories had on those beaches.... Nice pics. One of the nicer places I have had the pleasure to cast from....

Nice looked fun
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That sounds and looks like heaven…..

good for u’s

Nice work Wayne and Guppy.

Makai: thanks for the pics. Beautiful. Glad you had a nice trip. Caught my first ever striper 25 years ago on the Vineyard with my father passing one rod with an atom popper back and forth…. and haven’t fished it since. I gotta get back out there… and score a rich broad who’ll keep me
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Beautiful pics! I fished Squibnocket today, no luck. Leaving tomorrow afternoon... Been very quiet fishing. On to RI next. Cheers.

Looks like you christened that rod too. Good going.
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The rod is amazing. It’s like casting air. With all kinds of backbone.
Everyone who tried it wants one for Christmas 🎅

OK... what rod is it?

7’10” weapon jr by Century.
Ridiculously light and strong.
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Btw…
Fished with East End Lou and the Hess clan.
Lou sends his regards.
Great group, lots of fun.
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That’s awesome, any stripers?

Some little ones to slot fish at night.
We mostly went for shore albies and blues by day.

Some serious erosion going on---is that Wasque?

That’s great. Thanks.
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Yes the rod is such a pleasure. I beat the hell out of it this Albie season and it performed flawlessly. Your right like air.
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Yes it is.
Or was…
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You had to be mindful of the tide if you were walking from one side of the rip to the other to get to your vehicle. Wave would be right up to the "cliff" at times. Couple of multi-day runs of blues there. Some were beastly big.

Best I could do at 3 AM this morning ...

Must of been nice out there with this moon,, nice snag :-)

Bummer. Saw your boat on the mooring this morning so I take it you weren’t at the usual spot.
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No fish bashing

Well, that's fake. Unless there are 3 ' people in the band an d 8' people

The picture could be fake the the message is definitely real !
Let’s go Brandon 👍
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:laugha:

Trophy squid right there.......any jerk can catch a bass.

Way to douche up a good thread Ronnie….
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😜 LMAO

YES

I didn’t know this was the new political forum
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Never should be, that crap belongs elsewhere.

FWIW, I saw a comment on another site stating that "this" place was getting toxic.... Sad state of affairs from what it used to be. I have to say I agree and lay the blame 99% on the Political Forum. Sorry to derail. I will start a different thread.

I would have deleted or hidden it, but I take my lead from John, and he seemed to be OK with it. Sometimes the best thing to do is just ignore it, unless it turns into an outright brawl.

[QUOTE=ProfessorM;1216257]Bummer. Saw your boat on the mooring this morning so I take it you weren’t at the usual spot.


10 PM Monday eve down here in Falmouth... Which beach should I fish tonight? I checked the tide tables; the current tables; the wind direction; the sea wave heights. Then Boom... thunder, lightning, pouring rain. And then I was totally skunked last night. I think I will just go to bed.

But but but. In German: aber aber. What if I can't sleep? What if I'm missing something somewhere? What if I'm dead next week? Etc. Oh God! I'm so totally addicted.
Amen.

[QUOTE=SAUERKRAUT;1216393]Alan you are by far the hardest fishing fisherman there is and I know a lot of hard fisherman. Even at your age you would put the hardest fishing 30 year old to shame and probably have been that way for 50 years. It’s an honor to fish with you no matter what George says and even when your grumpy😊
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I had a friend and his son (15 or 16 y/o) out with my son (6 almost 7 y/o) over the weekend.

I woke my son up at 4:15am and managed to move him to where his fishing attire was located away from where his little brother was sleeping. I made him a cream cheese and jelly english muffin with a peeled clementine ready to go at his seat in the truck, which he ate and took a little nap before getting to the ramp. My other party was there ahead of me, which was great, and we launched in the dark after moving some rods around at adding lunch to the cooler.

Made a short run and started working a shoreline for bass with the doc and my son had a grey lady tackle 200 which could be a needle or a pencil depending on how it was worked. on the second drift my son's plug was knocked into the air, then followed in boat side without any luck. two more similar drifts happened with attempted strikes and no hook ups, I wish I had put a needle or loaded redfin on one of their rods if I had a second shot. I called it, and said time to tog.

So we shot over and anchored in one of my favorite places for tog, as an incoming tide has been best for me in this particular area. My son got to work immediately, he started cutting crabs and sending the legs and claws over the side. He devised a rating system for the crabs, which should be sent down first, the yellow kind, orange inside, stinky, juicy, and stinky and juicy. We managed a bunch of short fish and only added 3 to the box at 20", 18" & 16.5", & decided to have lunch early before moving. During our snack, a big flock of geese flew over head and I asked my son if he knew why one side of the "V" in the geese flocks was always longer? I told him, because there are more geese on that side. wahhhnt waaa waaaah. Anyways, we decided to get the flock out of there, and while doing so, I noticed a pile of fish on a 45'-50' breakline and decided to switch all the tog gear to vertical jigs. I asked my son to get the squid pack from the cooler, and he got to work. By the time I had the gear swapped out on 4 rods, he had the squid cut into strips and 4 drifts produced a bunch of BSB and decent scup. My son managed about 10 fish including two keeper scup and 1 keeper BSB which was the perfect pick-me-up we needed leading into my move to a spot I had picked out and never tried for the turn.

I sent the anchor down and kept it short on the rocky hump and we started all over again, chumming legs and dropping tog jigs down. After about 15-20 minutes the fish found the food trail and it was ON! we quickly went from our 3 to 9 and let a bunch others go over size, my son had one off the bottom a few turns and then it just smoked the drag and cut off on the reef below. We left them biting, but I had to call it a day.

I asked my son if he wanted to ride in the beanbag back, but he insisted on sitting next to me. That lasted for a 1/3 of the ride in before the tug on my arm, "Daddy, I think I'm going to fall asleep" he slept until about 15 mins before getting home, woke up and started laughing to himself, saying "I thought we were still fishing". I told him how proud I was of him for all the work he did on the boat, making the trip the best possible for everyone on the trip. No doubt he was the MVP.