Hey, Bryan - What's Da Latest on The MDA Tourney?
 

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Just checkin'.....

Nothing formal; Maybe a pre fishing meeting at the willows? I have a feeling most will be fishing when they can; I'm fishing most of the night Fri, maybe a few hours of sack time but not many, same on sat.. where and when I'll be I have no idea yet... how much are you planning on fishing?
Breakfast is 730a in coventry.... I think 7 clams, all ya can eat buffet....
And this is the MS tourny, MDA is in the fall....

Bryan

Bry - PM me your # - I lost the printout with your phone # on it - I'll talk to ya re the tourney -

Oops - I mean MS not MDA - hey , nobody ever said I was the brightest bulb on the tree :smash:

is the light even on ? or is there a sign " no one home " ?

Hey Chris - if ya look closely it says:



:laughs:DO NOT DISTURB :laughs:

would it be legal to canoe to a rockpile, get out of the canoe and fish off the rockpile??? IF the fish was caught off the rocks it should be counted as a shore fish.

If thats legal I got a plan for us chuck...:hihi:

got room for one more in dere?

Team MSBA for this weekend got smashed when Bobbike blew his clutch, flywheel, and more this morning...

It looks like I am fishin alone and hopin some of the other MSBA guys do ok on their trips down

i do not beleive this is legal, as the idea was brought up last year regarding kayaking to spots in the MDA. i am not totally sure though. you might want to check out the RISAA website as they have a page dedicated to the tourney.

E...
I think that this is against RISAA's normal shore rules, so would likely be against the MS tourney rules.... :af:

BP there is always room for you on this darkside :D
if not I'll be seeing ya in a few weeks.... :happy:

Nooooo......stay away from the Dark Side, Eben......

Hey, Eb, I gotta try to pack my 704 chromer with that axle grease you mentioned - what do ya use to pack it with? The clicker on the 704 makes me nuts, I always thought it traveled into the line too :smokin: -

Maybe not, but it might - just want to eliminate the racket.

Crafty, just paint it in there with your fingers, or a popsicle stick if you want to stay clean. that is what i did on mine boefore i switched to VS's.

I used a greasegun.. just pumped it in there till it looked over full and squeezed the plate on.. it oozed out the edges of the plate and I wiped it off with paper towels... You really want to use the blue marine grease. It will resist corosion better than the axle grease. If you want I'll bring my gun with me for the tourney-

so how'd everyone do??

I picked up 2 bass that were in the low teens so I released them...

also released one 5 lb blue then remembered brian asked me to save them:smash: sorry bry-


oh... and I snapped my XRA-1084:af: These rods are junk:mad:

I could not leave until this morning due to a family problem...

I am leaving MA South shore at 2pm...I cancelled the Motel and am just doing the Dusk til Breakfast Marathon...

I borowed a Subaru Wagon since my Buggy is in the Shop. If anyone sees me make sure to say Hello. Out on the water I will have a MSBA Hat, blue Evo 2, A-skinz bag...plus I am a Big guy (read round and tall)

Bryan...I will pm youm my cell #...I am fishin there at some point...

It looks like I might just have a partner to ride with...f it turns out we will be in a dark Blue small blazer with red plastidipped rod rack on the roof

weighed one at 15 (ok, 14.7, was a long lean fish, 36.5" only thing in it';s gut was a green crab... no bait... bad sign...)

Over all, I think fishing sucked, I hit most of my favorite narragansett area spots for limited results..lotta hours.. fished sunset to sunrise friday night and 9p-11p & 130a-545a on sat/sunday my fish per hour ratio blew....
went to another spot on the so. shore this am 330-545 and found rats in good numbers but nothing of an eatable/weighable size...
hope everyone else faired better.... see ya at the breakfast...

Pulled an all nighter last night.... its 7:00 am and I'm getting home just now. Got skunked.. it was horrible. Ran into lots of guys who where fishing the tourney all were doin horrible. :smash:
BUT.... and I hope Goosefish is reading this...I found a black needlefish I lost 2 weeks ago on the rocks behind where we were fishing:happy: :happy: I think that makes up for being so shamefully skunked.

Hey I lost a black needle 2 nights ago you sure that's yours?

absolutely positive:D

I was wading, switched plugs and dropped it out of my fingers.... found it within 20 feet up on the hightide line.

I feel your pain though

Hit a couple spots from 9pm til 2:30 - nada. Conditions were OK.

Saw Basic Patrick do his imitation of a seal in his Aquaskinz :laughs: but he did manage a barely 3# blue - released - that might have been one of the bigger caught over the weekend :rollem: ....

June is not supposed to be devoid of fish :af:

Blackeye caught a monster blue(for spring) last night with me but because he isnt a member of any club we decided to release it... had to be around 9lbs

who won?

Splish Splash I was Take in a Bath, all around a 3 foot Swell...I love surf fishin

Fishin Stunk last night...Topwater, Me and John R could only scrounge up 1 rat Blue...300 feet of Drift at a breachway on a tattoo darter

Little to our suprise, at Erickson's at 5 am only two small Blues under 4 pounds were weighed in all weekend

Dropped off MSBA raffle donation at Erickson's and headed home

good time with John R & Topwater

Krispy RISA won total poundage, but....... Our very own RI Rockhound bailed top honors with the largest bass!

Way to go Hound:hee:

yeah
 

this weekend sucked, fished all night both nights and only got 2 bass and 3 blues and the three blues were all today at 7 730 so it didnt even matter... congrats rockhound on the victory.

Yeah fishing this weekend was horrible... I havent seen any bait around or in the gut of any bass I've cleaned..... my totals for the weekend....
18 hrs spent pulling almost two all nighters (slept 11-1a sat. night/sun morning) for 1 keeper, a bunch of rats at a bouldery spot on the south shore, not where you may have been BasicP, I was east of there about 6 miles....
and two other hits on eels during sat am pre dawn.... this feels like april fishing... looooong weekend, I think I'm finally caught up on sleep after 11hrs last night.....
Thanks to everyone from NCSWFC who tried, I know a few got the skunk, and remember there is the MDA tourney in Oct, should be much better and hopefully bigger fishing then.....
Bryan

Thanks to all who represented the NCSWFC. Do to some family committments I wasn't able to head over to South County. I was able to hit my home water on Friday night - managed 3 bass with one in the high teens and another in the low twenty pound range. Of course my home water was off limits in this tourney! Hopefully next year they will give us east bay casters a chance to win this thing. Thanks again.

DZ

DZ... sounds like you did pretty much better than us, we were hurting in so.co..

at the breakfast Bob and I talked, we're hoping that next year some extension will be granted (even if it's just one island for now it would be better than nothing...

we finished third in the club division,;
RISAA 1
Hartford (I think it was them) 2
Newport 3

They skipped the bluefish prized and went 1, 2 on bass because the biggest blue was about 4 pounds...

tight lines...
Bryan

Bryan,
Those west bay guys are afraid we'll take the prize (rightly so I might add:) Iron Mikes reputation for taking big bass has them scared - they don't want us to fish our water. I really can't see what difference it makes where you fish as long as it's in Rhode Island and I told that to Bob. I'd still be willing to weigh the fish over on that side - just let me fish where I'm 5 minutes from the water - is that asking too much? It's all for a good cause - why cram everyone into South County? Just my 2 cents.