People From "The Cape" Who Think They Invented The Place!
 

Yeah, you know who you are! I figured this was the place for me to wage war with you high follutin' folk from over the bridge!:af: Think you own the darn place but you seem to forget that the only thing that seperates the Cape from the mainland is a canal that was dug by men. Maybe you guys don't remember that....also how many of you were actually born on "the Cape" and have lived there your entire life???? The few that I am directing this mortar at meet none of those requirements and those of you that do....simply subscribe to the belief that the people from "the Cape" are better than the people who live in the rest of Mass. or the country for that matter! I would like you to answer this one simple question and I will let this die........give me just one good reason why you feel that you have more of a right to "the Cape" than any one else that does not "hail" from there. Please try to stow away your pompous, "I live down the Cape" attitudes and give me just one concrete reason other than "I pay taxes here" because that don't fly! I pay taxes in Mass also not to mention Federal taxes like everyone else, so....give it your best shot. I am waiting!:af:

Larry,
I think you need to experience what a relaxing day (on a boat!) on the water can do!!!
Being miles offshore, no waiting in lines out there:laughs:
Ron

Please RR....many of the boating public are worse than the shore bound folk! Thats why I enjoy casting 4 oz. Hopkins at the boat guys so much! Now that is relaxing!:btu:

Thanks for the warning!!!:laughs:
I'll be trolling wire line at Race point in early July

U lIKe fIghtin BF ??????

Get in my casting distance, just make sure you got a helmet on my friend, cause I ain't kiddin'! ;)

:af: :af:

:zup:


no boat ride for you :laughs:

Don't step on my toes and I won't have to kill you boat guys!:eek: :D

You should come up with another word other than "Kill." :smash:

Maim works just as well, or frighten, or warn, or scare off, or make a point! :eek:

settle down now...let's not go "overboard" you are not going to kill anyone...................right?

Hi Moose Nuckle:D

I hope not???? I consider myself a pretty accurate caster and "most" times I am only trying to wing the boater in the ear!:laugha: Slingah, you been there with me when I take a few shots at the boaters and surfers....I mean it when I do it and they got it coming!:D

Hey BF I fish a place where the boats come close enough to talk to and we fight all the time, so I know where you are coming from. But what if you really did crack one in the ear and you killed him? Was he threatening your life? I have had a plug bounce off a boat and asked my self that very question and unless your are an idiot its better to find another solution. Besides what if they start casting at you? Aren't you in their casting range?
I hate it when they do it too me but death threats hurt everyone. Most of the boats guys have no idea where your line is and how far you can cast, they are just ignorant not trying to get you. Talk to those same guys and they will usually tell you that they had no idea they were that close.
Yeah I know what it feels like & when they come close to me I'll curse too but I won't try to plunk em one on the head.

If those boat guys can't tell that they are within casting distance of those on the shore then they are dumber than one could imagine! The thing is they just do not care, if the fish are pushed into the beach they should practice good fishing etiquette and give the shore guys a chance to score some fish as we have to work at least twice as hard as the guys in the boats who can easily move with the fish. Not to mention when the friggin trollers drag their lines and loud boats right through a blitz instead of having the decency to back off and cast into the frey! Those are the fools who get my Hopkins bouncing off of their hull. (I would never intentionall try to harm someone, however I have been known to tell them exactly what I think of their fishing etiquette and of them).:scream:

Can't we all just get along?

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I am not the one stepping on toes Van, that is a fact. You "will not", believe it or not, find a more polite and helpful fisherman any where than me. But rub my fur the wrong way and I will go off on you like an a-bomb on steroids!:splat: :exp: :af: :btu:

Tough guy....*shudders*....:p :happy: :D

:eek: :rude: I do not take crap from anyone......that is a fact!:D

Oh go stroke yer fur:laughs: :D

[QUOTE]Originally posted by BigFish
[ Not to mention when the friggin trollers drag their lines and loud boats right through a blitz instead of having the decency to back off and cast into the frey!]

LOUD?

Not me, My boat has a 4stroke;)

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Raider Ron

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Originally posted by BigFish [ Not to mention when the friggin trollers drag their lines and loud boats right through a blitz instead of having the decency to back off and cast into the frey!] LOUD? Not me, My boat has a 4stroke;)

dito--- my i/o is very quiet-- i dont even no its on sometimes when i'm starting it :eek:

k now what was the thread about in the first place?

You guys tellin' me your boat is so quiet it won't spook the fish? Please! Your kidding yourselves.:smash:

couldent be any worse than a 4 oz hopkins hitting the water at 40mph :laughs: :laughs: :laughs: i have a good read about engins sound and fish i'll find it and post it.

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GEEZ...Its Easter guys...Mellow out..seems like someone got out the wrong side of the bed this morning..Happy Easter...:happy: :happy:

Bigfish,

I am going to start referring to you as Poopie Pants.

Bitch and moan all day long.......... :)

It takes me 1 hr 15 min to get to the canal,I have rearranged my life to fish, i've spent countless hours and tides learning spots and i've walked miles on the beach learning bars and drops.Yet when most Cape people hear where I live , that's it , i'm an outsider.I respect the beach and other peoples property and NEVER leave trash.I have the same drive and passion for fishing as you who are lucky enough to live there, the only thing that makes us different is geography (where I live).I think that the effort one puts into fishing SHOULD count for something.NOT looking for any fights, just my .02 cents. johnny "tRB"

if my history stands correct, most of us are nonresidents, unless yuu are native american.

and then you have the guys from Chatham complaining when guys from truro come to their town and vice versa, and so on and so forth what a bunch of crap.

I lived in Hyannis and West Yarmouth for a couple years.
I caught alot of fish when I lived on the cape.
To many persons in the summer. I like it there after labor day.

go lay down
you pain in the ass

Wow, sounds like you got your problems out there on the Cape BF.
Just be thankful you don't fish in Conn, cause if you bounced a 4 oz. Hopkins off my hull, all your troubles would be over.

It would ALL be over for you.

Bill

Larry, I have lived here on Cape going on 21 years now. The changes the Cape has undergone has been unbelievable since 1983. I left a great job, so did my wife where if we had stayed in Central Massachusetts we would be in the multiple six figure range now paywise. I didn't want that and niether did my wife. I moved here to become part of a very special place to live simply and quietly and even with the changes I still think the Cape is one of the nicest places on earth I have ever seen. Our feelings are very strong. So you will excuse me if I express a feeling of ownership.

I made a sacrifice in a lot of ways, I fret over bills and live in a modest 24x32 Cape style house but I wouldn't trade it and my situation for anything. My two daughters were born in a room at the Hospital overlooking Nantucket sound. Cape Codders pay more than the rest of the State for simple grocery items, services, gas, oil etc., simply because we live here and businesses know that they have us by the shortones. For most, if you are not recently retired or filthy rich, living here is a struggle but we all feel it is worth the price.

For two months a year we share this place with visitors and we do this gladly as they are the driving force for most of our economy. But when I see people from off cape here for a vacation or a weekend visit throwing garbage out windows of thier cars and just trashing the place I get pissed off. It's getting to the point though where something has to be done to recognize the people that make this thier year round home and in so doing give priviledge to those of us that made the decision to call this place home over those that come for a short period of time and think that they should enjoy the same priviledges that we do.

The CCNS is different. If it were not for the formation of the CCNS by Pres. Kennedy I shudder to think what the coast from P-Town to Chatham would look like. Still, I do think, and no disrespect to you as you are a good guy, that year round Cape residents should have some privledges that others from off Cape don't. I am looking forward to seeing and fishing with you on the beach this year. Flap.

Flap,its not only the cape, its the same here in Vt, the east end of LI, and many other places, especilly by the water or in the mountains. as far as visitors making the mess i would debate that , the biggest slobs are locals, both here in VT and the cape.i think even know they say the economy is bad, there are an awful lot of people that have a lot of money. the middle class is a thing of the past, either rich or poor.

Like here on the Cape I am sure up there in Vermont you have a place where the rich are concentrated in highere numbers because the place is so nice and money also breeds arrogance towards the locals because of the money these people spend on thier waterfront or mountainside homes.

I remember a funny story told to me by a local shellfishermen that works the Bass River area of Yarmouth. One Sunday morning he was working the edge of the river in front of an enormous new house that was newly built on the river. Now this guy had worked the river for 30 years and no one had ever bothered him as this was his way of making a living.

The new owners had just moved in and as he had his pump going in the skiff out comes this woman with her husband out on the dock and she starts yelling at him because apparently the pump in his boat was annoying them. The woman was screaming at him about how much it cost to build the house and how dare he run the pump in his boat at 7 in the morning in front of thier new house and she was going to call the police. The woman kept demanding that he stop but he kept on working as he knew he was in his rights. Finally she screamed, "don't you hear me? What the hell do you think you are doing here! And with that, friend shut the pump off and lookled up at her from his skiff and simply stated, "Mam, I am trying to make a living", whereupon she spun around on the dock called her husband to follow her ( he never said a word) and stormed up the dock to the house.

Minutes later the Dennis police arrived. They never came to speak to the shellfisherman at all. They talked with the woman and her husband and then left. All my friend could hear was the woman screaming in the house about this can't be and some such like that and with that he went on with his work. Money, ugh!

I think Flaps last post is it, in a nutshell.

The arrogant attitude of those that feel their $ gives them entitelment(sp?), and the guy who bursts in front of everybody in line, "Hey! HEY!, I'm next!"... I just love looking him in the eye, and saying.. "Sorry, but, your LAST."

I have nothing against anybody who visits here, until they prove otherwise.

Fishermen, and fisherwoman, and their families, are for the most part, top shelf!

L.I., I wont deny there are slobs that live here, but,if ya know me at all, I pick up litter, keep trash bags, heavy gloves, rake, shovel and broom on board... but I got to tell you, my busy time of year is coming in about 6 weeks......

Don't take this the wrong way KarlF or anyone else for that matter but it is you and others like you KarlF that harbor the arrogant attitude. Flap you live in Falmouth is it? Karl...Orleans? Does that give you more rights in Provincetown, The Race, Wellfleet or those other places than I who live in Abington??? I think not! I pay taxes, just like you, work hard and sacrifice just like you. I do understand where it is that your bias is coming from, don't get me completely wrong....however bear in mind that the Cape is not an island unto itself! It is part of Massachusetts don't forget and the fact that "The Cape" is separated from "the Mainland", as they say, does not give you special rights above everyone else whether you choose to believe that or not. The National Seashore is Federally Funded and as Flaptail states....thank goodness for that. Also because it is Federally funded by taxes paid by the entire country, some poor slug living in California has just as much right to a permit as I who lives in Abington and you who happens to live "over the bridge". I must agree with Flap in regards to renewing by mail in the future. I think that is the way it will go eventually.

KarlF...re-read the second paragraph in your post and tell me that does not sound a bit arrogant?

I got mine and I assure you all, I will take all of my trash with me when I go, and then some, and put every grain of sand back in place when I am done. Not everyone who comes down there to spend time is a non-caring jackass, but I will give you that most of them are. I see them and I always make a point of addressing the idiots personally when I see them doing something they shouldn't.

Looking forward to hopefully putting this all behind us soon and doing some fishing with each of you as I do think you are a great bunch of people. We all have our own opinions about things and I do respect yours.:btu:

Please explain to little old ignorant me.. 8 or 9 people in line, waiting their turns, I'm busy waiting on them, in order.. guy burts thru the door yelling he is next, I'm in a hurry, yeah right, I wasn't raised that way, his turn is last....
Maybe U can explain it different.