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.

Good detailed report there Linesider.
I made my last shore fishing trip of the season last saturday night ....plugged the inlet for a little while with no hits.....switched over to a dead eel, lit a small fire and waited ....my fishing partner pulled in a baby dogfish....he wasnt pleased at all. Little while later I had a fish on.....decent size bluefish. Cue the fat lady.

Great story Linesider! Kids are great!!

Matt u have yourself a lifetime fishing partner. Great job Dad.
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Cleaning out my files preparing for 2022... he's a few taken when I had an ice fishing buddy down from the mountains of new Hampshire... first ever striper... he WAS a small mouth fisherman...

I'll post more once I down load, resize and flip.. heres a few from 2021 ice fishing... I actually have many..

here ae a few of the better mornings lobster fishing... something about those early flat mornings that make the day special.. cooler full of bugs is nice too!

If I was younger .. & had money ..

catching your own lobsters & eels is awesome ><>

All great pics, even upside down…. :-)
Those bugs look great,,, my yr sucked

Your not alone, bug fishing was the worst I've seen in 30 years..I only gotta total of 27 keepers..
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Nice Joe.
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Was hoping for a picture of a bft,,,
Instead
This is me headed back to monomoy with my tail between my legs,,, cold, raw, sloppy…… launched too early I guess…. :-(

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I'm taking offers (time, not money ; ) ) if any of y'all want part management of the site .

Everyone always has solutions, but the solution is people need to post and people need to get together. I can't ignore my mortgage & kid's college paying job to do this one ; )

Thanks Paul, you Bruce and Ibshould try and get out next year..
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Western LI Sound Albie and shore caught 31# from last night.

Hey Paul your head is missing!
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I'm in disguise

Nice fish!
There were Albies between Weekapaug Point and Quonnie this morning for a couple hours. Never came in close enough to get a shot, but cool all the same. Dead to the east... (sorry, not meant to be a spot burn).

Nice!
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Well played sir.
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Yes let’s do it. I’ll remind you
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