[striprman]

I "grew up" fishing with my younger brother . He had a 14 foot tin boat (a Lone Star I think) with a 30 horse Johnson motor. In our free time, weekends, after work, we would hitch up the the trailer to the old Chevy Biscayne and head for Wareham, Plymouth, Barnstable or Sandwitch. The pogy schools were everywhere with bass, blues and squet in Buzzards Bay and no squet north of the canal. Also, many nice 'tog and fluke trips (as well as cod, mackerel, flounder, scup and black sea bass). We would each catch our "100 pounds plus 1 fish" (didn't need a commercial licence) and then take our catch , whatever it was, to the market at the Sandwitch basin, or Capt. Harris, or the fish market in Onset, or the Wareham fish market. Thats when M&D's was "down the street" from where it is now. With me and my 'bro, and 200+ pounds of fish, that little boat was close to swamping. Ever take a 14 foot boat across Cape Cod Bay ? I won't talk about spring fishing at the herring run at this time. Tube and worm at scuset ledge ? Every fish over 30 pounds. Quicks and Robinsons ? Good fishing there too.
We'd start fishing in late February in Onset harbor for winter flounder and would stop our "routine" trips around the middle of November (then we would go bird/rabbit hunting)

We also like to go ice fishing at Lake Pearl when the brood salmon are stocked, caught a few.

Remember you could rent a boat and launch at the Weweantic river on Route 6 ? The guy had a little trailer set up and if he had gone out that morning, he'd hang the big ones up on the side of the trailer, saw my first small Maco shark there. And , if my brother couldn't go, my friend had a 4WD truck and we would go to P'town to fish (his wife and my wife worked weekends), so we would head there on windy weekends when my 'bro didn't want to go, I think it was $10 to get on the beach (after the inspection) we would drive down to "the bowl" at low tide, rake up some eels and wait for the tide to come up. Then my other friend, whose dad was the shellfish warden in Chatham would take me out in his 4WD Winnebego Brave to Nauset and we would fish sand eels (same at P'town). I think my 'bro still has my sand eel rake. Lots of nice fish there.

Remember trying to launch your boat in Plymouth , at the old boat ramp ?
Oh well, we both got married and continued to fish with our familys. He eventually got some bigger boats(now he has 21 foot cutty cabin) and I bought a bunch of different rods and went striper fishing at the canal. We still fish 2-3 times a year. He lives in South Attleboro and likes to fish Rhode Island waters (mostly around Prudence Island), he's a "clammer" (sure do love the littlenecks and the steamers) but he does take me on occasional trips to Block Island and the old places we fished 30+ years ago..
I really do love fishing.

And all the "inane" questions I used to ask, that would get everyone "rilled up", were only questions that came from my own experiences.