long winter
 

as I get a bit older I don't mind the winters off as much as I used too but every once in a while you have to fish. we took a trip on the island current yesterday for some winter codfishing. we had a pretty light load of anglers, prob 18 guys, and our group of 4 had the whole port rail to ourselves and it was nice and spread out. we roll up to the first spot and the fleet is all converging on a pile of fish. a half dozen party boats from RI, Montauk, Niantic and a half dozen downeasts were out there and the Viking 5star. the francis fleet was there and racked and stacked with guys. the bite is decent for a few hours and then shuts down. the fleet disperses and we bounce around the rest of the day and grind out a few fish here and there. the weather was pretty good and I ended up with 8 fish and missed the pool by 1 fish. my bigger fish were full of partially digested herring. good day, lots of laughs and a bunch of fillets. now if we can just get some ice

Nice get away
Was up your way yesterday , I see das boat is wrapped :-(

Thinking white perch tomorrow

ICE! This crap keeps up I'll probably have to mow the lawn next week

if it gets any warmer I'm gonna stop "winterizing" the boat....

in the afternoon when it laid down all the way there was a very small center console out there

This winter has not ben so bad - not sure how much is getting older (as you said ;) and we are roughly same age) and how much is busy and mild / lack of snow.

It's been decades since I "used" to hibernate and complain about the winter, now I look forward to it because it gets me out of the house and out onto the ice (when possible) for some fun and exercise while ice fishing.

Last winter I picked up a pair of snow shoes that I would love to "have" to use again this season, but that's not a priority.

I just love getting out and getting some fresh air and fish!

Before I picked up golf again and had winter hold overs to target, I'd be loving a winter like this. Now I'd rather play golf and get some exercise and wait until March to hit some freshwater fishing. Teeing it up in Hyannis tomorrow.
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I'll honk when I go by

Too: Something went off in my brain. I do some work in Addiction Medicine. I just had to catch a fish; so I relapsed for the first time this New Year. We still have open water on the Cape.

Phew! That's a beauty, congrats

Remembering the massive caterpillar invasion last year and them saying it was caused in part by a dry winter not allowing some moss or something that helps control the damn caterpillars from growing, I hope we have a nice long winter with plenty of snow.....

In a way i look forward to the winters. Im in Vermont most weekends and I look forward to the winter surfing. Between surfing and snowboarding the winter flies by. Then before you know it your spring commisioning the boat and getting the gear ready. I love NE and the seasons.

Building plugs and rerigging plugs so far this year has kept me busy

Plus some small house projects like painting a few rooms and what not have filled in the rest
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Always plenty to keep me busy at BigFish central! Plug building, work on shop, work on house.......need more hours in the day!!:laughs:

You got that right!

Along with everything else today I got a few hour in looking for hold overs, the only thing missing other than fish was the sun, still one sweet feeling wetting a line and one sweet day for January

This weather keeps up I'll never finish my punch list

can,t catch what ain,t there ><>,:fishin:

Amen brother :-)

60 days to boating season.....how's that for positive thinking.....
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I miss the glory days, when a 50 fish winter outing was a slow day and a few keepers in the mix were almost as certain. No such thing as winterizing the boat back then, after a Sat/Sun outing, just back it into the coverit and plug in the charger to keep the batteries warm and charged. Early on it was a 1-1/2 hour drive to the Thames River, then a friend showed me a really good mass spot that cut that drive in half and saved me a lot of work busting ice to launch the boat. The Thames was hot in the day, but at 9 miles inland, it tended to freeze over easily.