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Originally Posted by LINESIDES
Quote: I know what they were doing.. they were running tight trying to push fish out of the wash... watching for the comet trail in the fire...
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That’s a Technique from the old days.
Advice etched in our memories from out trainers and mentors. We knew better!
Ray Moulton called them cardinal sins.
Advice given to us by friends who cared about us because they had been their!
Ray Moulton said you never eat in a boat. It’s a cardinal sin. The fish will always take that moment to hit your bait.
Ray Pike told me this one which I have always guarded with great respect.
NEVER PUT YOUR HEAD DOWN! ALWAYS STAY ALERT!
Angie Scala was NO RADIOS!!!
No lecture from me I have committed all of the sins above and more.
I have been terrified more than once in the Mouth of the Merrimack.
My boat has been in every position imaginable except upside down.
Currier can speak to that one.
Joe I cannot tell you how happy I am you are ok!
The advice was given to us for a reason. Many told me to stay out of the mouth of the river.
It’s still the one I cannot adhere to even till this day!
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save your lecture Leo...I've saved the Bacon( and a dozen others) of every one you mentioned... all were fortunate i was around... Ray Pike would probably be in nova scotia somewhere if i hadn't towed he and Randy to the safty of the North jetty when he wrapped an entire shot of wire and half his dacron around his prop... lucky for him I had my radio on.. that was years before you started fishing with him... I pulled Ray Moulten and Bob Stott off of emerson Rocks on a dropping tide.. that could have been ugly... I pulled them of of Jergals bar when they mis read the wave action and set that 23' North American right on top... to this day i never said a word about either incedent... Angie.. too many bacon saving incedents to recall half of them... besides leading him home when he was lost in the fog ( when all we had was compasses and flasher units) I've pulled him out the soup when he lost his prop to the rocks( half tide rocks).. I've towed him in when he ran out of fuel...he's a fine example of a responsible skipper... There are very few left alive that know the area as well as I do.. save the lecture for those that might need it...I've got more experience than you do...ALOT more.. things will happen when you spend as much time on the water as I have... the one time I ever needed help ( drive shaft sheared off in the power head) no one would answer the radio beause they were PO'd i was taking fish and not talking .. I had to ditch/anchor the boat and swim to shore ( the wind turned east and put the boat upside down on the beach overnight)...I've learned to take care of myself....I'll accept the well wishes but save the lecture for those that have far less experience and maritime knowledge than me..it does not apply in my case... Everything I was doing was by the book..last i knew... it wasn't against the law to fish alone.. something I have done my entire life...or look down at a hooked fish.. ...especialy in a flat sea when every damn light in the boat was on.. that includes a lED white head lamp AND the cockpit lights..almost getting run down once in 42 years aint a half bad record ..not with the hours I put on the water...in another 42 I'll be 100...not likely to be fishing alone... or fishing at all..again.. I only posted his for the benefit of others.. not to tell my lifes history.. it aint anyones buisness... but if I can save one accident or maybe even a life then it was worth the trouble...
Hey Raven...I found the anger!