Striper fever

[Nebe]

I've got the burn bad today.. all day long all I thougt about was bass fishing. One thing in particular kept going through my head.. the feeling i call "the needlefish trance" that feeling where you and the needlefish are one.... your just slowly cranking away on your reel, twitching the rod tip every few seconds, and your mind is totally blank... Then all of a sudden a moose bass comes along and hammers your plug, only to leave you standing there and all you hear is ziiiiiiiiip of the line peeling off your reel, and you look down and the spool is turning so fast its a blur.. The fish runs for about 20 seconds(but feels like minutes) then you turn it. The fish banks to the right and tries to cut you off on a rockpile, but you flip the line off the roller to fakeout the fish. It changes direction and then you have him...you flip the line back on the roller and start winchng... By the time you get it to the beach your heart is pumping and your forearms are burning from winching the bass in quickly so you can release it safely. You pause a bit because the wash of the waves is going out and you know that you could loose the fish in water roaring down the sand.. Then it turns and does another epic run, only to be turned agian and beached this time. You run down between waves and thrust your hands into its gills and haul it up to the dry sand...then you collapse on top of it like its the summit of mount everist and you've just reached the top.


I've fondled some plugs, i held my reels and even cranked the handles a bit to work out the demons.. nothing quenched the fever.

i got it bad this winter

Who else is pacing back in forth thinking of bass and how do you quench the fever??-

[Slingah]

I went out to garage today and stared at my fishing stuff
I gotta get a lathe or do something....I'm gonna go crazy

[basswipe]

Its even worse when you got new gear to "play" with and there's nowhere to play.

Only Springtime'll quench it.

[Bill L]

Go catch a coupleof 10 pounders on the schoolie rod?

[cheferson]

They werent there tonight toonoc

[spence]

Originally posted by Eben
I've fondled some plugs, i held my reels and even cranked the handles a bit to work out the demons.. nothing quenched the fever.

You don't need to tell us about your plugs, but cranking the handle will keep that VS from siezing up

[StripinLine]

cleaned reels three times this week...
one a day. compleat strip and cleaned with a brush and everclear. then lubed and reasembled.

striped line and reloaded all three. but did that today...

going to boat show in RI. tomorrow, in the afternoon late...

bad for me as I start a new job monday , so i got nothing to do. worse for my wife.
I am making her nuts...

/ al

[Joe]

Not good.....its understandable to "get it bad" - but to have it happen this early is worrisome...


Sheet boy - we ain't but six weeks past da migration!
Wha chew gon be like come St. Paddy's Day?

[5/0]

I dunno maybe IM just a junky but......

Eben,it's story's like that is what brings us to think about our own adventures on the beach's in total darkness.While standing in waist high water reeling ever so slowly..waiting...thinking,Im I in the right spot?Do I have the right presentation?Then theres a bump then a twitch,Then............Nothing.....Then....A slam..then slack...then hoping for that one in a life time fish.But nothing comes so were back doing the same thing gazing off to the seamless Black star gazed horizion reeling hoping and wiating for that slaming strike of a life time!

Then the Phone rings...& were back in reality.Our stupid chairs typing & thinking about stripers & the up comming year.Here we sit thinking and demanding to ourselfs how we can do better than the last year.So we march out to our garage's/basements/spare bed rooms rip our reel's out of thier winter slumber and pre maturly force them back on there reel seats & then gaze onto the pole,grab the reels handle & start to turn it ever so slowly feeling the smoothness thinking how effortlessly this reel/combo Will proform in the fight's ahead,and then we melt away & daze off once again thinking when,how big the bass will be in the season of 2005.
Nice thread Eben.

You Know now,IAM not gonna get squat for sleep!



5/0

[tattoobob]

i was playing with my blue fish

Wild Eye Blue Fish

we really need some winter hobbys

Bob

[tattoobob]

and this one

Crazy Eye

[tynan19]

You guys should!! get a winter hobby. I just got back from 8 inches of powder.

I have done some Ice fishing but it is no way comparable to the surf. I have been speculating as to buy a RI shore map and find your secret holdover spots.

[Clammer]

T-19 ya got em in Mass..

[goosefish]

I like the winter but there are days when I get the itch to fish. Go birding Eben, or you can head out with us and we'll drop you off on an island with a gun and, maybe with a little luck, you'll pull down a duck.

[rwilhelm]

I am getting the itch right about now also but I have been busy working on the house I don't have time anyway. Hopefully I will be done soon and I will hit a holdover spot.

[Flaptail]

Drugs and Alcohol, that's how I get thru it.

[Nebe]

flaptail

goosefish- i might just do the birding thing. AS for shooting them, well i dont think that's my style.. maybe i'll take a picture

[Slipknot]

get a fishtank so you can get some zebra fish and really torture yourself

[bart]

man i hear ya eben. i've been freaking out lately as well. been playing with my new toys almost every half hr or so. also been using the search feature on this site for hrs at a time trying to absorb every morsel of information possible regarding places i fish. gonna be a long winter

anyone do any snowshoeing here? if i can find a cheap pair i'd like to get out and do some hiking. next year my goal is to get back into snowboarding. so god-damn expensive tho. seeing how i grew about 3 inches and put on 50+ lbs. since the lastt time i rode i'm gonna have to start from scratch.....

[The Dad Fisherman]

Originally posted by Eben
Who else is pacing back in forth thinking of bass and how do you quench the fever??-

I Wasn't.........But I am Now.....Thanx a lot!

[reelecstasy]

After spending too much time just staring at my fishing gear I went out and got a lathe just to keep busy..That will suck up some time this winter but it feels more like I am getting ready for spring. I can't stand to think it is still like 4 months away, ugh But it is better than just hiding in the cave doing nothing but

[tynan19]

Bart, I have a pair of snowshoes and when we get the snow I usually head out into the woods behind my house and pack down my trails.
Mt. Wachusett is only 20 minutes away and offers some good hiking trails.

Clammer I know we have them in Mass but I had a hard time catching them there in season. and now that there a little sluggish.

[parker23]

3 nights in a row, set the hook and miss. Or set the hook and fish is caught in a wirlpool and ends up in my tackle bag. I wake up feeling guilty for keeping a short fish.

Heading to 10,000 islands in S. Florida next Thursday. Snook suck, redfish aint bad, maybe a few linesiders took a wrong turn on 95 south.

I need big stripes on my fish.

Did I say snook suck, sorry they really SUCK!

[Nebe]

I went for a hike today and did some seaduck watching.. saw a teal, some bufflehads, a kingfisher and...................... an EAGLE!!!!! i couldnt beleive it. Also saw lots of winterflounder carcasses at one sandy beach along with some striper bones from last leason.... Seeing th eagle made my week though.

[goosefish]

That's a good sighting Eben. Last year we had an eagle hang around the pond for a week. Haven't seen one this year. If your're in the market for a good field guide I highly recommend the Sibley Guide to Birds.

[Nebe]

Brain has sibley and swears by it ..beautiful illistrations. I have a stokes that fits nicely in my jacket pocket, but it is made up of photographs. I dont like it very much.

[NIB]

Went out to the truck yesterday to get a tool an i saw this yellowtail hawk? put the breaks on midflight.sat a watched him for a minute.then grabbed the tool an closed the door i looked up to see him swoopin down on something was out of my sightline.Just then I hear this blood curdling screamm was pretty cool.I see em fly around alot but i rarely see em make a kill.Not much on bird watchin my friend knows all there names.Whats the name of the groucho marks lokkin bird hangs around the inlet mostly by the bridge pileings.kinda looks like a egret mixed with a seagull.Only see em at night.Nocturnal like me.

[goosefish]

Black-crowned night heron, or the other kind of night heron. Same thing up here, sometimes, when jetty fishing at night, one will fly out right next to me, giving my heart a jump.

[piemma]

Fished this am in Providence. It sucks with all the junk in the river but at least I wet a line. Suppose to be mid 50s Thursday. I am off the road this week so I will fish somewhere. Meanwhile, just keep spinning AYC when I have the time. Work has been my salvation this winter. Just really busy.