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05-18-2008, 04:38 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: RI
Posts: 677
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So You Get to Your Spot and There's Surfers
Do you bother to fish or go to another spot?
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05-18-2008, 05:03 PM
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Soggy Bottom Boy
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Billerica, Ma.
Posts: 7,260
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I would try to fish but if it was unsafe for the surfer I would go and try a back up spot. Surfers don't surf at night
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Surfcasting Full Throttle
Don't judge me Monkey 
Recreational Surfcaster 99.9% C&R
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05-18-2008, 05:35 PM
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sick of bluefish
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: TEXAS
Posts: 8,672
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That would mean you're fishing in the daylight and should just go home anyway
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making s-b.com a kinder, gentler place for all 
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05-18-2008, 05:36 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Libtardia
Posts: 21,690
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you leave them alone. They were there first.
Hopefully, they will do the same when they find you there..
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05-18-2008, 05:47 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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Eben nailed it....they got there first! If I was there first and they showed up and started surfing (and this has happened to me before).....you tell them to move the hell on......no listen......I take out the 3 oz. Orange pencil repleat with 3/0 trebles and I make it known that I intend to continue fishing......what I catch is entirely up to the surfers!  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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05-19-2008, 02:17 PM
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woody
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Port St Lucie Fla.
Posts: 1,062
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BigFish
Eben nailed it....they got there first! If I was there first and they showed up and started surfing (and this has happened to me before).....you tell them to move the hell on......no listen......I take out the 3 oz. Orange pencil repleat with 3/0 trebles and I make it known that I intend to continue fishing......what I catch is entirely up to the surfers! |
this happen to me and they called the police on me the cop told me they have more rights that you go figure. |
You can go anywhere you want if you look serious and carry a
Clipboard.
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05-19-2008, 02:22 PM
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lobster = striper bait
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Popes Island Performing Arts Center
Posts: 5,871
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Throwing a plug at em = assault.
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Ski Quicks Hole
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05-18-2008, 05:56 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Sturbridge MA
Posts: 3,127
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It happened to me a couple weeks ago. I drove there, bout 20 miles from where i was and it was chock full of surfers. I just watched em for a little bit and moved on. No prob last night, got there at 8 oclock, just as they were packing it up for the day.
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Everything is better on the rocks.
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05-18-2008, 06:02 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: N.K.
Posts: 1,330
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I move on while doing my best great white call.
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05-18-2008, 06:26 PM
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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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I fish and surf. I see both sides of this. Surfing is impossible at night unless youre near a pier where its lighted. For those of you who are not night owls, theres plenty of great spots where waves break that are unsurfable. In any situation where there are fishers and surfers just remember respect gets respect, and it works both ways.
PS Bigfish- Please cast one my way when I'm surfing, ill snag it. those things are expensive  |
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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05-18-2008, 06:38 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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I will keep my hooks sharp Hulky! |
Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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05-18-2008, 06:39 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: On my boat
Posts: 9,703
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If you hook into a surfer, I wounder if they will give a good fight !  |
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05-18-2008, 07:23 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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I can guarantee they will! |
Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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05-18-2008, 07:23 PM
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Curmudgeon
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Patchogue & NYC
Posts: 203
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Several people have it right; I never run into to surfers at 1AM  |
I'd rather be fishing! 
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05-18-2008, 07:29 PM
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Fish Hound
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Shrewsbury, MA & Mashpee, MA
Posts: 1,159
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Quote:
Originally Posted by emgred
Several people have it right; I never run into to surfers at 1AM |
no joke...i have ran seen some surfers out there in those hours on the outer cape. some of them are just as crazy as we are  |
"There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart.....pursue those."
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05-18-2008, 07:44 PM
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ditch boy
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: the sea
Posts: 664
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Gunpowder
no joke...i have ran seen some surfers out there in those hours on the outer cape. some of them are just as crazy as we are |
.....you sure about that mike?  |
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05-18-2008, 07:34 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: 14000 / 44031.5
Posts: 932
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Raider Ronnie
If you hook into a surfer, I wounder if they will give a good fight ! |
Sure - once they paddle in and punch the guy that threw a plug at them 
Last edited by big jay; 05-18-2008 at 07:40 PM..
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05-18-2008, 07:40 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 3,650
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Surfers show up and start surfing then give you the big f-u - I've never seen them leave because someone was fishing there first. The little brown signs designate the areas as fishing spots, not surfing spots.
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05-18-2008, 09:13 PM
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lobster = striper bait
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Popes Island Performing Arts Center
Posts: 5,871
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe
Surfers show up and start surfing then give you the big f-u - I've never seen them leave because someone was fishing there first.
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Well given the attitude of some of the RI surf fishermen, this doesn't seem very surprising. Birds of a feather I guess.  |
Ski Quicks Hole
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05-19-2008, 10:24 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 47
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe
Surfers show up and start surfing then give you the big f-u - I've never seen them leave because someone was fishing there first. The little brown signs designate the areas as fishing spots, not surfing spots.
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I was just talking about this the other day!! It really pisses me off. I would have the common curtousy if I showed up to a spot and surfers where there ... to MOVE... BUT if Im fishing a spot and THEY show up after me.. I would think they would move... NOT THE CASE... F'ers. no love from them... no love from me... they better be carrying a knife to cut my braid. |
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05-18-2008, 07:43 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: RI
Posts: 677
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Well, I guess what I was getting at, when I started this thread is I'd like to know if decent size fish still hang around with surfers in the water. No need to fish, if the fish are not there. Has anyone done well with surfers in the water?
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05-19-2008, 01:26 AM
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a man of few words
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 59
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I have a good relationship with the surfers where I fish, sometimes they know if there are fish in the area, which is priceless. I just fish around them.
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05-19-2008, 09:29 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 492
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Last year in Maine I almost came to blows with a surfer. I moved twice down the beach and each time he eventually surfed right where I was fishing. I yelled out to him to have some courtesy. This caused him to charge up onto the beach. Words were exchanged. I did cast a plug pretty close to him a couple of times after that.
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05-19-2008, 06:50 PM
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M.S.B.A.
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: I live in the Villiage of Hyannis in the Town of Barnstable in the Commonwealth of MA
Posts: 2,795
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Seriously...In the world of gov't regulations this is called user conflict and can only end up leading to beaches designated for specific use (ie: Montauk) which in the end means less access. First on the spot got the spot and be polite when that behavior is broken.
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"It is impossible to complain and to achieve at the same time"--Basic Patrick (on a good day)
 
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05-19-2008, 06:53 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: SOCO
Posts: 1,995
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Throwing a plug at em = assault.
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And going in to surf where I'm ripping a three ounce popper is stupidity |
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05-19-2008, 06:54 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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Alright....dull hooks then.  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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05-19-2008, 07:44 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Southern Maine
Posts: 178
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I'd prob. just grab my board and join them....
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05-20-2008, 01:34 PM
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lobster = striper bait
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Popes Island Performing Arts Center
Posts: 5,871
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BasicPatrick
Seriously...In the world of gov't regulations this is called user conflict and can only end up leading to beaches designated for specific use (ie: Montauk) which in the end means less access. First on the spot got the spot and be polite when that behavior is broken.
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Bingo.
And the organizations that surfers belong to certainly have ALOT more clout than most surfcasting organizations. |
Ski Quicks Hole
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05-20-2008, 02:09 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 3,650
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Really, you can put Surfrider alongside Audubon, the U.S. Park Service, shoreline towns, and waterfront property owners - they'd like it all for themselves.
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05-20-2008, 04:47 PM
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Retired Surfer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Sunset Grill
Posts: 9,511
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Surfers v.s. Surfcasters
Never happened when I was a kid surfing everyday like I did. Never ever was there a conflict of any sort. And I use to surf at night sometimes on the full moon and it wasn't overcast. You could see a wave far enough away to prepare for it. No one ever bothered me that was a fisherman. A lifeguard maybe, once or twice, but never someone fishing.
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Swimmer a.k.a. YO YO MA
Serial Mailbox Killer/Seal Fisherman
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