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05-17-2006, 09:10 PM
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Freight Train Spooolin Me
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Narragansett Rhode Island
Posts: 73
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Why is it?
Why is it when the surf is right and the run is on, the Surfers show up.
Gettin ready for fist to cuffs soon!!!!!!!!!!  |
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05-18-2006, 12:15 PM
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Ruled only by the tide
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Truro
Posts: 801
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One spot that I love to fish is great on the half-tide down. I great rip forms up next to a hole. However the surfers love the same thing. More than once I've been there rod in hand (sometimes with a bait stick in the surf too), and they'll surf right where I'm casting and think nothing of it. My fishing doesn't disrupt their surfing, but regrettably it doesn't work the other way around.  |
Three-fourths of the Earth's surface is water, and one-fourth is land. It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn.
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05-18-2006, 01:12 PM
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Night Stalker
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: ............
Posts: 3,605
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Unfortunately it's a no win situation. We both have the same right to use the water. What I don't get is what is so appealing about surfing in the northeast. Bra, find something better to do with your time.  The waves are so small. |
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05-18-2006, 01:13 PM
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Also known as OAK
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Westlery, RI
Posts: 10,408
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Fish at night 
Havent had a surfer problem in a while.... |
Bryan
Originally Posted by #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&
"For once I agree with Spence. UGH. I just hope I don't get the urge to go start buying armani suits to wear in my shop"
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05-18-2006, 01:15 PM
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sick of bluefish
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: TEXAS
Posts: 8,672
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They never bother me and the RI surfers favor spots I fish frequently . Waves = good surfcasting. I am usually packing it in when they show up at daylight. I respect them for their dedication. People think I am nuts for what I do for a fish but at least I am not swimming in the icy cold water. i see them out there in April all the way through December
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05-18-2006, 08:20 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Newport, RI
Posts: 2,316
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Originally Posted by luds48
Bra, find something better to do with your time. The waves are so small. |
Haha, that's how I always feel. I watch the surfers all the time attempting to ride 2 foot waves at 1st and 2nd beach. It amuses me, as long as I don't want to fish there... |
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05-18-2006, 09:43 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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I hate surfers...they are like the wind.....they blow!  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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05-19-2006, 03:55 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: On my boat
Posts: 9,703
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 surfers are never a problem when you're on a boat!!! |
LETS GO BRANDON
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05-19-2006, 05:53 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,824
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What RIRockhound said. Why are you fishing in the daylight? Stripers are nocturnal creatures....like all good Striper fishermen...  |
No boat, back in the suds.  
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05-19-2006, 07:28 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: RI
Posts: 429
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Originally Posted by piemma
What RIRockhound said. Why are you fishing in the daylight? Stripers are nocturnal creatures....like all good Striper fishermen... |
Except in the spring when fishing can be OK on a cloudy & rainy day but the surfers prevent you from fishing with the wind when there is a 25 knot NE blow in your face with a big surf, like last Sunday evening for me.  |
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05-19-2006, 08:08 AM
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Also known as OAK
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Westlery, RI
Posts: 10,408
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Good point Joe...
Spring can be the exception to this...
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Bryan
Originally Posted by #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&
"For once I agree with Spence. UGH. I just hope I don't get the urge to go start buying armani suits to wear in my shop"
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05-19-2006, 10:10 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2004
Location: cape
Posts: 55
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i wouldnt exactly say the surf in NE is always small and weak... the summer sucks with kooks, but theres no doubt it gets good, and when it does, i drop the rod for a board.
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05-19-2006, 10:17 AM
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Night Stalker
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: ............
Posts: 3,605
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Originally Posted by trigga
i wouldnt exactly say the surf in NE is always small and weak... the summer sucks with kooks, but theres no doubt it gets good, and when it does, i drop the rod for a board.
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I stand corrected. Those are some great pics. Just seams like those days are few and far between. |
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05-19-2006, 10:26 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Greenhill Rhode Island
Posts: 102
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Enjoy lots of things I call "fishing". Watching a group of surfers can be one of them at times.
Along with watching the ships come in.
Interestingly, there are several surfers(?) I see from time to time at one of the local breachways. Bag buckled around the waist, rod in hand with a board. They'll walk up to the rocks on one side, literally jump in with the board and all from 5-10 ft up, paddle across to fish the other side if there's fish. If not, they'll do the surfin safari thing.
Low buck, simple, and productive.
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05-19-2006, 10:59 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Bedford, NH
Posts: 626
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Originally Posted by trigga
i wouldnt exactly say the surf in NE is always small and weak... the summer sucks with kooks, but theres no doubt it gets good, and when it does, i drop the rod for a board.
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Good post. The best days are when you get to do both. |
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05-19-2006, 11:14 AM
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The one that got away
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: K'Port, ME/Westford, MA
Posts: 118
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Lay off us hybrids (surfers and fishemen).
As a fisher and a surfer i see both sides of this. As a surfer we follow the break. As a fisher we follow the fish. Surfers do have the same right of way to the beach as the fishermen. With that being said the surfers have to respect the fishermen and the fishermen have to respect the surfers. I like the rule of whoever was there first, but if the break cahnges to wehre the fishermen are, I usually just head in. Others may not be as respectful. As for when I'm fishing, i think like a surfer. I try and find a spot where there is no good break. I also try and stay in the same spot and hold my ground, then if someone does hit my line I can say I've been there. THe other side of this is you can fish without surf, but you cant surf without surf, so i'd say find another spot if its overrun with surfers.
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Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. 
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05-20-2006, 05:04 PM
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Freight Train Spooolin Me
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Narragansett Rhode Island
Posts: 73
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I have nothing against them. I also enjoy watching them try.
But this time of year when I have already been catching and then they show up and decide to hang in front of me and disperse the fish Pi$%es me off. |
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