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03-17-2009, 09:33 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Warwick RI,02889
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35 YEARS AGO TODAY >
We would being doing [ok] with Tommy cod . they have started to move . we had been catching them most of the winter .. way in the brackish water / they have now moved down a little .
they will peak about the middle of April / getting 30>40 a day .
still catch some now in the winter months /but now like it was ;;
We would start to see that movement of winter flounder / just starting to move from the mud . they would peak ar0und the middle of May ; there use to be so many we would dig for a while / stir up the bottom >. fish for a while & then back to the same rountine . @ the end of the day / we usually has a descent pay between / quahogs & flats ;
Now I hav,t caught one on R&R in 15 years . I know they came back descent in the Boston/quincy area & Salt Pond you can pick away at you limit ; but the limited season that is open for them in RI is too early to have a chance of actually catching a few ;;
....... White Perch & frost Fish are another story ;;  |
ENJOY WHAT YOU HAVE !!!
MIKE
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03-17-2009, 09:55 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: newport
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2053 years and 2 days ago Julius Ceaser was killed by his friends.  ....and yes it does suck that there are no more flounder in the spring. Easter vacation would start the fishing year for me using nightcrwlaers at the Goat Island causeway and gettting a bucket of flounder.That's a pleasure kids today,even most of you 20 somethings never had.Damn shame. |
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03-17-2009, 10:17 AM
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Newpawwt, RI
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Pt.JudeJoe
2053 years and 2 days ago Julius Ceaser was killed by his friends. ....and yes it does suck that there are no more flounder in the spring. Easter vacation would start the fishing year for me using nightcrwlaers at the Goat Island causeway and gettting a bucket of flounder.That's a pleasure kids today,even most of you 20 somethings never had.Damn shame. |
I remember hearing stories of my father and his father going down to the Causway and having a field day with flounder.... |
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03-17-2009, 10:30 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: MA
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Couple 3-5 years ago i remember hearing about a load of market sized cod from up the sakkonet
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03-17-2009, 10:31 AM
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Geezer Gone Wild
Join Date: Nov 2001
Posts: 3,397
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Boy, you guys are some really old pharts if you remember that...
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Winter flounder are about as rare as tarpon up here anymore
Ah, the good old days - I remember going to Tolman and Macks waiting for them to throw the monkfish overboard -  - it was trash fish then - and stomping on their backs when they washed up on the boat ramp to see if we could get 'em to spit up some squid...
...which we used to put in a tin bucket and ride our bikes to Jagschitz's bait shop at King's Park and try to swap for fishing stuff ... 
Yeah, try to tell kids that today and they won't believe ya... 
Last edited by Crafty Angler; 03-17-2009 at 10:41 AM..
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"There is no royal road to this heavy surf-fishing. With all the appliances for comfort experience can suggest, there is a certain amount of hard work to be done and exposure to be bourne as a part of the price of success." From "Striped Bass," Scribner's Magazine, 1881.
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03-17-2009, 10:44 AM
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Geezer Gone Wild
Join Date: Nov 2001
Posts: 3,397
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Hey Uncle Joe -
How about fishing off the finger piers at King's Park for mackeral...or frost fish from the beach there...
Or rowing over to Goat Island before there even was a causeway...  |
"There is no royal road to this heavy surf-fishing. With all the appliances for comfort experience can suggest, there is a certain amount of hard work to be done and exposure to be bourne as a part of the price of success." From "Striped Bass," Scribner's Magazine, 1881.
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03-17-2009, 10:48 AM
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Geezer Gone Wild
Join Date: Nov 2001
Posts: 3,397
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Or seeing doormat sized fluke skimming across the sand in the Wellington Ave corner as we rowed our skiff over them...
Dude, I'm gettin' nostalgic here...  |
"There is no royal road to this heavy surf-fishing. With all the appliances for comfort experience can suggest, there is a certain amount of hard work to be done and exposure to be bourne as a part of the price of success." From "Striped Bass," Scribner's Magazine, 1881.
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03-17-2009, 09:09 PM
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Callinectes sapidus
Join Date: Oct 2001
Posts: 6,277
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Crafty Angler
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How about fishing off the finger piers at King's Park for mackeral...
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Good sized Macs too!!!
Jiggin' up butterfish off the floating docks at Fort Adams, catching mackerel ALL along that park and then live-lining em out at the bend near the Old' rusty Bell that I'd ring after catching something decent, had some great choggie catching contests with my grandmother, God rest her Soul...........and Goat Island would always have someone on it doing something ALL summer long......  ...this remeniscing stuff sux |
 ... it finally happened, there are no more secret spots
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03-17-2009, 10:50 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Libtardia
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Crafty Angler
. to put in a tin bucket and ride our bikes to Jagschitz's bait shop at King's Park and try to swap for fishing stuff ...
Yeah, try to tell kids that today and they won't believe ya... |
I bought my first fishing tackle at that shop
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03-18-2009, 02:46 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: North Kingstown, RI
Posts: 1,229
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I would be catching big pollack off the state pier in Jerusalem. The old Mitchell 302's drag would get a work out and we would get some good eating fish.
Crafty,
Jaggy ran a safety boat for me in the 1979 National Spearfishing Competition and wound up fishing several divers out of the drink...the 30 knot winds didn't help.
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03-18-2009, 03:15 PM
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Geezer Gone Wild
Join Date: Nov 2001
Posts: 3,397
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Inshore pollack... |
"There is no royal road to this heavy surf-fishing. With all the appliances for comfort experience can suggest, there is a certain amount of hard work to be done and exposure to be bourne as a part of the price of success." From "Striped Bass," Scribner's Magazine, 1881.
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03-18-2009, 03:31 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Warwick RI,02889
Posts: 11,786
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Whatever happen to Blowfish // Baloonfish .. with their rabbit teeth & green eyes .......use to catch them regulary when bottom fishing ..usually scup ...last one I,ve seen in RI was in a Lobster Dealers holding tank ,, a lobsterman got it in his traps . but WTF did he catch it .. if if was a offshore boat;;;;
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ENJOY WHAT YOU HAVE !!!
MIKE
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03-19-2009, 09:57 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 352
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.....you were "free" to drive from ptown to eastham on the beach without having to run greenshirts over while fishing
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"never met a bluefish i wouldn't sell"
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