To the 300,000 fishermen....
 

...who will be at the Canal this morning....good luck. I will not be joining the madhouse that it will be. :smash:

What a nightmare that must be ... Were are so blessed to live in RI
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I stay away weekends....not worth the aggravation! I don't go fishing to be aggravated!:uhuh:

Perfect tide, over cast clouds,bait present = good feeeshing!

Obviously I didn't get my ass up.
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The important question is where do these fish go once they leave said canal and the mayhem. I have a theory that I have heard more than once, but have unfortunately yet to confirm. Maybe this week.....maybe.

Yup. Just like Alice in Chains for me. I stay away.

x2.....last place i'd be on a weekend.

X 3. Painting plugs, watching the Pats, shoveling mulch
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I can only hear so much 30 pound mono slapping through guides, clumsy oafs sliding down rock embankments, bikes falling over smashing the rods on the pavement and watching people do battle with 28 inch fish for more than 15 minutes!:smash:

So I take it the bites on at the canal? haha
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I heard it was slow this am?? Sloooooowwwwww!

Stop it.........you'll hurt Paul's feelings.

Paul uses 25# mono?:rotf2:

Fished last night and finding a spot was difficult. Caught one fish 13 lbs. slow
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Hope everyone fishing this morning got discouraged and will thin out the crowd... tell me again why I talk myself into going on weekends..grrr
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very slow and not many where I was but not many fish either and to make it worse I fell asleep last nite and missed something good, non canal related. Stupid me. Snooze you loose.

Was there this AM the the white truck 2 Kayaks Thrown in the back ..

one small push of fish many were caught just standing on the bank and missed their only chance . had a good fish on SP shook off and luckily another picked it up no monsters 36ins

Drove by H run side on the way to launch at Taylor point 4:30 ish,,,, not a parking space to be had by the looks. Any fish caught were foul hooked! :devil2:
Launched the other end late morning,,, both ends wasteland for me :wall:

I drove by the cap side sat. I counted 93 vehicles parked on the side of the road from bridge to bridge!! and thats what i could see as i drove by not counting the side roads!! no thanks!!

Not crowded where I was. Too many guys were chaseing yesterdays reports instead of fishing where the tides should put yah. Got three couple 20 lbers and dropped two. Very small window and not on top at all.

Wasn,t your PB on a big weekend??

Yup! But I generally stay away on weekends.:uhuh: Oh and I had a full time job at the time so......now I don't so I can hit it during the week!

Thanks guys. From you 2 old surf rats I take this stuff.

Don't listen to them Paul. I think they mean me and besides George thinks the canal is in Panama and Lawrence fishes jigs and rubber on dacron and luvs fishing in intimate all male groupings.

25 lb test? Rookies...

I shouldn't mention this but Paul's canal secret is the Sicilian Reverse Tippet.

3 feet of 60 then 3 feet of 50 then 6 feet of 40 then 2 feet of 30 then 4.7564 feet of 20 then a hen's spread of 10 then a Jack Palance of 5 followed by 20 yards of 1 lb test and as much Fireline as his custom 704 will hold.

One night on Block Island he was tying blood knots in his sleep talking about snails crawling on straight razors.

-spence

sounds like my kind of fisherman, everything as difficult as possible.

LOL!!!:rotf2::rotf2::rotf2:

It is what it is down there. Cliche I know. If you don't like the gatherings don't fish first light.

Spence part of the reverse Sicilian is also a pinch of semolina rolled onto cat gut in a pasta machine and adhered with your last victims tears and mucus. It so I have heard. I personally use a full bolognese leader. The recipe for which is a family secret. Those that know know for a reason.
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Fished canal once. Not my style.

Sorry, Paul.........I was referring to Paul the Lesser.