Suggested trips for me and my 12 year-old for 2019!
 

Love putting a list together of potential trips for my 12 year-old and I. I often wish that free time and disposable income weren't limiting factors.

I've discovered some great trips from those here, things I would not have discovered otherwise. Looking for any and all suggestions for 2019. My 12 year-old does well on a boat, never been even a little bit seasick, he can get a little pouty if the action is really slow. Not interested in going offshore for tuna/sharks yet, maybe another year or two.

In the last 2 years, we have done:

May sea bass in Buzzards Bay (did it twice, limited out twice, was freezing cold and windy both times)

May striper/winter flounder combo in Boston (Fishbucket is really, really good with kids)

6-pack charters out of Pt Judith out to Block for stripers/bottom fish. Always done scup/sea bass, he hasn't targeted fluke yet, would like to try that.

Nighttime trip to Block with Cohen, that was probably his all time favorite trip, even though Cohen would say it was a slow night by his standards. Not by ours!

he did one dedicated tautog trip that absolutely stunk, miserable weather and lousy fishing. Wouldn't mind trying it again.

What are we missing? I keep hearing good things about the springtime haddock fishing in shallow water (is that Stellwagon Bank?). Would like to give that a shot.

What else?

If you're willing to do some sweetwater - a float trip for salmon up in the Salmon River in Pulaski or traditional trolling out on Lake Ontario.

do the haddock trip. take him sharking, u can do some groundfishing while u wait for sharks. fluking off Nantucket is pretty amazing. smelting up in maine is pretty cheap. and like DZ said take him to NY

Take him to the canal on a breaking tide and witness the spectacle

Thanks guys.

Also, we did a lobster trip with a lobsterman out of P-town this summer, we hauled about 120 traps in 3-4 hours, dock-to-dock. It was hard work, but it would be a huge understatement to say that my son loved it. I asked this last year and didn't get any real leads, but if anyone knows of a lobsterman who might be willing to take us out for a day (maybe between 4-8 hours), my son and I would work hard and work for free.

A tin boat you can throw in the back of the truck
No motor no issues rowing is easy and if you hunt for a while you can find one cheap and it will be worth just as much if you want to get rid of it
A couple fish poles
Dig some worms or pick some night crawlers
Get up really early and be home by noon
Or do it on a rainy day
Or in the evening
Sometimes simple is long remembered
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Just make sure his shots are up to date.
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Fluke trips are fun out of Newport area. Nice and close targets. The Nantucket trips are fire but a longer day.

Cod trips to Cox’ can be fun sometimes too.
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I'm a big, big believer in simple. most of our vacations are camping. Thanks!

albie albies up here or long island :btu:

Springtime haddock to the bank and late summer fluke to SE Nantucket with Niko... both trips under an hr to fish...

The bank in the spring is alive with life, whale city!

I’m up for adoption, just saying :laugha:

my three are all we
can handle.

have to look into a fluke trip to nantucket with niko...
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Jim - contact my friend Pat Heaney in Newport. He's a lobsterman and also runs City by the Sea Charters for sport fishing. You might be able to combine both. Drop my name if you contact him.
http://citybytheseacharters.weebly.com/index.html

Will do, thanks. My son told me last summer, while sweating like a pig and having sore muscles from pulling 100 pots, that it was the most fun day he'd ever had on the water. He really, really liked lobstering, he just liked the rhythm of hauling, banding the keepers, re-baiting the traps, and pitching the trap back into the water. I liked it too. Hard work, but more fun than painting or raking leaves.

THANK YOU.

It's funny you say that. My father in law is now 99. About 10 years ago he wanted to experience lobstering. A local lobster fishermen from Jamestown said he would take him out but my FIL had to work for it. He spent the day lobstering. When we picked him up at the end of the day we asked him how it went. He said something to the effect of; "Once I stopped puking from setting up the bait rings everything was great!"

I can't begin to explain why it was so much fun, because it was such hard work, although for me much of it was seeing the huge smile on my son's face, but I would have happily done it by myself. Fortunately for me, I have a terribly deviated septum, and therefore about a 20% sense of smell, so the stench doesn't bother me at all.

If I retire with a few marbles still rolling around, and still with some physical abilities, I'd love to get a little downeaster, and retire either to the Pt Judith area or the Cape, and fish and have maybe 10 lobster pots.

Do it as soon as you can, it’s better than it’s cracked up to be! LOL
:cool:

Just don't ruin a perfectly good hobby by making it a job!

i have three college tuitions to somehow pay for, first. 4 if i count my wife’s online masters degree.
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Columbus Day weekend albie trip off of Montauk or Fishers Island.

Just made our last tuition payment in December...it was glorious :hee:

Before we had kids, I had a 20 foot Mako I kept in eastern CT. I like light tackle fishing in shallow water. My favorite days were ALWAYS in the fall, I'd be in tight to the rocks on the back of Fishers Island, casting eels with light spinning outfits, into the rocks. We always had a couple of albie rods rigged and ready, for when they popped up. It was a lot of fun.

Haven't thrown eels on light tackle spinning rods in a few years.

I don't have $1 put away yet. Not a dollar. Need to get my wife back to work first, getting her masters in data analytics, a field with a ton of demand and very little supply. Hoping that when she goes back to work, just about every cent she makes will go towards college.

CONGRATULATIONS on getting it done TDF, that's a hell of an achievement. Like having a kid who's an Eagle Scout, it's the culmination of many years of doing the right thing.

You lucky bastage. I have 2 and 3 years of payments left. Yeah not much in the bank funds for the next few years.
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State schools Jim, state schools...
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Probably our only option!

I've always kind of assumed that I' be fulfilling my responsibility, if I can fund maybe 75%-80% of tuition at a state university. They can borrow anything above and beyond that.

When the dust settled, it cost my daughter less to go to a private out-of-state school than it did for her to go to UMASS.

One of the keys is to build a college resume that makes a school want you. A lot of Private schools have huge endowments and if they see you as a positive addition to their school, they will help you financially.

That happened to me, it cost my parents and I more to send me to UCONN, than it would have cost for me to go to Tufts, which is way more expensive. But Tufts didn't have accounting which I thought I wanted (ended up with Math), so I went to UCONN. We were fairly poor, so Tufts threw all kinds of money at me. Probably not the smartest decision I ever made, although UCONN has this amazing ice cream parlor with the best milk shakes on the planet...

Does what you describe happen a lot? There are SO MANY talented students out there with good resumes...my oldest will probably be a 3rd degree black belt and a straight A student when he graduates, we will see what that's worth, I'm not banking on much...

Not gonna say it happens a lot, but it does happen. My understanding is that with the ivy leagues, if you get accepted, they will make sure you can afford to go there.

There are also a lot of schools that offer free tuition and other scholarships based on GPA/Test Scores.

https://talk.collegeconfidential.com...ps.html#latest

all i can say is just do the research, their is all kind of ways to cut costs and help out with tuition.

Thoughtful of you to post, I appreciate it.

Not sure any are Ivy League material, and if they are, I'll be steering them elsewhere.