Attention All Members - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

bloocrab · 11-25-2002, 09:15 AM

Have a GREAT Thanksgiving!!!

Whats your normal routine for that day??

Mine has been the same for the last . . . 20 or so years. My father started a tradition of going fishing in the morning while the ladies got things hot in the kitchen. <<Togging and jigging up macks>> We'd usually get back home around 9 or 10 and then I'd head to the park thats behind the Police station and either play HOckey in their tennis court or Tackle Football on the soccer field. (Joining a game already in progress - not everyone likes to fish, CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT???

..then shower - chow - watch football - zzzzzzzzzzz - chow again

We haven't done the Hockey/Football thing for a couple of years now. Its a shame how some traditions die. Our newer generations do not comprehend "Tradition".

I will be out on the rocks Thursday morning...not so much to fish - but to keep the tradition that my father started many years ago.

God Bless

Bloo~

mrmacey · 11-25-2002, 09:30 AM

will not be eating turkey!!! king crab and shrimps are on the menu this year in VEGAS!! everyone have a happy thanksgiving see you when i come homehave a good cod trip!!!!

MountainBreeze · 11-25-2002, 09:39 AM

Unfortunately, no traditions remain in our family.
But… I'll be eatin' some turkey for sure!

Sounds like a good time Bloo! Be safe out on those rocks!

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Best regards,
Rob

Fishpart · 11-25-2002, 09:43 AM

Used to travel to visit Nana in Greenville, Me every Turkey day. Now that all my parent's kids are maiired we switch off holidays depending on who is traveling to visit relatives "from the OTHER side". This year it is Turkey in Pheonix.

Mr. Sandman · 11-25-2002, 09:56 AM

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Originally posted by mrmacey
will not be eating turkey!!! king crab and shrimps are on the menu this year in VEGAS!! everyone have a happy thanksgiving see you when i come homehave a good cod trip!!!!

MRMACY cracks me up! This is from a guy on a budget. I hope you hit the jackpot MRMACY and don't have to scrape the bottom of lives barrel any longer!!!

fresh goose for me this T-day.

mrmacey · 11-25-2002, 10:05 AM

this trip is free!!! only need spending money believe me its being done on a budget nickel machines are in the forcast im going to a convention down there traded time share for this! baby comin in march wont be traveling then so now is the time to get away will be doin alot of studing and conventioning!!! ya right!!! shhhh dont tell wife shes pregnant and sleeps alot ok honey ill let you nap ill go study!!! lol!!

STEVE IN MASS · 11-25-2002, 10:52 AM

Wake up....wake up the wife....have (um, nevermind

)....then start the bread......I got suckered into this about 10 years ago....I made sour dough bread to bring to Mom's.....everyone loved it, so now every year I get "Steve, you ARE gonna bring the bread, aren't you?"

So make three or four loaves, of course Donna and I have to share one hot out of the oven.....head to Middleboro about noon for the feast, bail out Mom with cooking her turkey (though we did make goose one year, and I had to do all of that at her house)....eat, drink, get full....head home and pop in my copy of "It's A Wonderful Life" to start the Xmas season, and try not to let the lipotenes (or whatever they are) from the turkey lull me to sleep too early.....

Of course, since the Pat's have a game this year.........

JohnR · 11-25-2002, 11:43 AM

You too Bloo - and everyone else too...

Used to freeze my butt off at to the Dedham / Norwood HS game on occasion - then back to mom's for Turkey...

No real other traditions and a few that fortunately didn't stick (like raisins in applesauce - Ma, what were you thinking? hehehe)

Soon, I will introduce fishing with my son on Thursday mornings but that will wait a couple years... Also would like to introduce a fresh caught bass with the T-Day meal, just so happens there are some fresh filets in the fridge now

Clammer · 11-25-2002, 12:02 PM

BLoo to you and your family//
AS you get older and time and your personal lives change traditions change, not always to your liking, BUT thats life
as I say all year long //

ENJOY WHAT YOU HAVE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Saltheart · 11-25-2002, 12:21 PM

Used to do the high school football game in the morn then home to eat , watch games , nap and eat. then the football gave way to Eat , travel to Montauk thursday night and fish the whole weekend out there. That then gave way to eat and stay home thursday then fish east beach and Misquamicut Friday thru Sunday. Last few years its been eat at my house thursday around 1 pm then travel to central MA and go to another meal at my girlfriends family that evening. Then Fridays we would stay in Ma and brew beer with Smokey and his girlfriend and have another big dinner!

That's what we will be doing this year.

The really long lived tradition was the football games Thursday morn with my father . We stared that when I was very young going to St Ray's games where he went to high school . Then he would come to my games when I played in high school and for a while when I was in college and just after until he passed away.

The fishing at Montauk was big time for many years ater that. i always did good out there over Thanksgiving and that was where the rigged eels always showed their value. back then it was a 36 inch limit but I would get at least one keeper every day out there and we would barbecue and smoke them right there next to the camper. Always good fishing at montauk that late in the season.

When I started staying in RI to fish Thanksgiving , the big gola was monster blue fish. I guess they came in after the mackeral but we used to catch some monster fish. One year I caught a load of blues that weight out at 23 pounds AFTER GUTTING! Them fish had heads big as a football and could have bitten your whole hand off if you weren't careful.

Anyway , sorry for being so long winded but once got rolling on the memories I got carried away!

Jenn · 11-25-2002, 12:38 PM

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AS you get older and time and your personal lives change traditions change, not always to your liking, BUT thats life

YEP!!! a lot of tradition has been lost and family members passing .....tends to change things a bit.

latest trend is the parents or inlaws house..........though I have to say it was a nice break last year when the hubby and I vowed to stay home and RELAX TOGETHER......and enjoy his first catch of wild turkey!!!!! A special turkey day for two.......very nice...

Canalratt1 · 11-25-2002, 01:19 PM

Our old tradition was rabbit hunting in the morning and Granny's for dinner. I miss those days!

Clammer · 11-25-2002, 01:44 PM

WELL time to try and make someones Thankgiving a little better
I just found a tools box in the middle of the street== opened it full of relativly new tools--- got to get a ad in the lost & found

lAter,

Spare Spool · 11-25-2002, 02:05 PM

Travel, travel and more travel. It's good to see family but the traveling sucks. Since I will be in Joisey, wish I could get down to the shore, but too much to do and too little time while I'm there. Happy Thanksgivng everyone!

STEVE IN MASS · 11-25-2002, 02:22 PM

Great stuff, everyone....especially Saltheart.....and now he's got me thinking about Friday or Saturday somewhere a bit southwset of here....

The Iceman 6 · 11-25-2002, 02:25 PM

Pretty much same here - always the big high-school football game @ 10:30 AM , usually @ the bar for brunch @ 8 AM

then off to Aunt's house for antipasta, lasagna, then turkey, italian thing? I didn't mind, then after dinner some tackle football in the backyard with my brothers and cousins, this lasted about 1/2 hour before somebody would go in crying then the game was over. Lately, just Thanksgiving @ Hesh2's house, sometimes turkey sometimes not, the best was the "surf and turf" thanksgiving. A couple of years just celebrated in NYC with wife and some friends who had relatives who lived too far to travel home. Did Thanksgiving Day Parade one year in NYC, figured I lived there the past 7 years, maybe I attend one?

. Last year, was with my parents and day after Thanksgiving fished RI hard with father and brother, what a day to be on the water, no fish caught however but still an excellent time. This year for the first time going to my wife's mom's house for Turkey Day - her dad passed earlier this year - "have" to be there for her w/o question. Enjoy all. "The more things change the more the stay the same"

Tight lines,

Ice

joeangler · 11-25-2002, 02:51 PM

im going to catch my first striper on thanksgiving happy thanksgiving to everybody

TheSpecialist · 11-25-2002, 03:00 PM

Hunting in the am, then chow, and football.

TIM AUBE · 11-25-2002, 03:03 PM

This year, like most others, it's up early for some yardwork (weather permitting) and a search for those dreaded holiday specials before the noontime feast. After a delicious repast we have a free-for-all battle for "crash-chairs" (You know-what chair will you fall asleep in during the afternoon foorball game.)
I can only state that as my family changes through losses and additions, I believe the most important tradition would be "giving thanks" for all we have. It may sound a little corny but I've found that I have SO MUCH to be thankful for: Great family, great friends, good health, good job and a sense of humor to keep them all together.
As I've stated to my friends and family:"I may have to grow older, but I don't have to BE old!"

I would like to wish everyone a wonderful holiday, and to those that will be venturing out on the water, take care and stay safe.

chris L · 11-25-2002, 03:44 PM

hanging with the family all day .

Scotch Bonnet · 11-25-2002, 05:01 PM

Like Saltheart, The St. Raphael-Tolman football game was a tradition since I was a kid. A few years after graduating(St Rays) the tradition died off. Now its off to the in-laws in Watertown Ct. for the weekend. When my son is a couple years older I think we'll start the fishing tradition in the morning. Things like that make for great memories.

Bill L · 11-25-2002, 06:04 PM

I have my own tradition of striper fishing on Thanksgiving morning, running about 8 years now. I'll be on the rocks before sun-up rain or shine (or freezing cold), and more often than not catch at least a few schoolies. Then home to get ready for dinner with family. Hope everyone has a nice Holiday!

bloocrab · 11-25-2002, 06:36 PM

The best thing about fishing on Thanksgiving, like Scotch said...

- are the Memories -

It's a day when most people don't work. It was easy to coherce people into coming back then. My father would invite his brothers and my mother's brothers, most had rods but for those who didn't...my father would provide. Not that I encourage drinking while fishing, but someone would bring a gallon of home-made wine, someone else would bring a bag of rolls with some St. Georges' cheese and other snacks too...and of course a little bottle of shine. YES, I always got stuck driving home (after 15 yr. that is). Going way back, we'd have a line-up on them rocks - the more the merrier if you don't care if you catch fish or not...but we usually did

I'm pretty sure I'll be flying solo this year, which isn't all bad. Solitude on a day of thanks is always good. One on ONE with the Almighty. We need birthdays to remind us that we're getting older...but we shouldn't need Thanksgiving Day, to remind us to give thanks to the Lord. NO, I'm not a preacher...but a BELIEVER!

Keep em coming~
God Bless

Squid kids Dad · 11-25-2002, 07:38 PM

Happy Thanksgiving to you to Bloo and everyone else,
We used to have the tradition of going to our relatives or them coming to our house..It was just something to look forward to..The Holidays...A time for family and friends...
Now as we get older..(not that i'm that old..lol) Times have changed...I have gone thru a lot of changes the past few years..Personally that is...I still cherish the Holidays...
This is my familys first holiday with out my Dad..It will be hardest for my Mom i'm sure...But family will be with her to start a new tradition...
Happy Thanksgiving to you all....

Bazza · 11-25-2002, 08:52 PM

My wife and I run a 5 k road race in the am (the races motto is "run early eat all day"

. Then off for some family time. We are having her family over for dinner this year.

Have great Turkey Day !!!!!!

Jenn · 11-25-2002, 10:39 PM

its really surprising to see how many go hunting or fishing turkey day morning!!! I cant say we did this in our house (probably because the wives would freak out if my dad draggged the guys through the woods in their "best"......but thinking back(....and never really thought of it as tradition BTW.....) I think they did the next best thing......it always seemed like everyone had brought their new gun or bow over and everyone went outback for target practice!!!!!! ...interesting now that I think about it!

STRIPER77 · 11-25-2002, 10:54 PM

Happy Thanksgiving to Bloo and all !!!!! Alot of the things written here are "Waltonish". I don't mean that in a bad way.I personally loved that show.But, as others have said, times change.If I were to decide to pack heat to go to my high school's football game, the only touchdown I would be looking for is the Cops to pack these punks away to prison. As it is, I'll be trying to convince my son to wake up at 3 A.M. Fri. to join me fishing in Rhody. Last two years--nada.But this year???? My only real Thanksgiving wish (beside All of you Have a Happy and Safe Thanksgiving) is for sandman to let mrmacey live his life. I'm sure I'm not the only one this is starting to rub the wrong way. Hey sandman, I don't have an Escalade either, but I don't judge people that way.Based on what you've shown here Mrmacey would probably be alot better person to fish with than you.

STRIPER77 · 11-25-2002, 11:11 PM

John---Please put my post "Thanksgiving" as a reply to "Attention All Members"-------Thanks

mrmacey · 11-26-2002, 05:12 AM

i didnt take anything sandman said in a bad way but thank you for having my back in here im just a normal guy who loves fishing ive learned this past summer all the fishing gear i bought was probably a waste of money cause i like anyone else didnt ask questions i said this looks good let me try it i tryed to learn on my own thought i knew what i was doin just like this surf fishing i put on a pair of boots with holes in them and i stood in that water trying my ass off to catch a fish i didnt cry about holes in the boots i was grateful i had something to walk in the water on the rocks but i learned should i run out and buy boots not yet dont know if im going to be standing in the water long or an exspensive rod and reel for casting not sure yet what i have works fine so ill trade things for some plugs stuff im not useing for something someone else is not useing or wants to make that way i dont have to buy gear i might not use let me tell you alittle about myself i grew up in hyde park projects fairmount if anyone knows where that is i went through alot over the years i drank and did drugs lived that lifestyle for 23 years finally i did 3 years in prison for a bad drunk driving accident didnt kill nobody but did alot of damage to parked cars 50,000 to be excact and i learned a lesson i got out with nothing 3 years ago!!! i lost everything i walked out of jail with 400.00 and i said im going to accomplish something before i die well ive been clean sober for 6 years in that time im on my second house got married got a boat got a nice car 2 at that but i earned it legally by working hard and building a house that was a shack at one time and selling it for a profit beleive this i have bills and we can struggle at times but today im so grateful to be alive and walking a free man and not from prison im truley happy to be able to stand on that beach and throw my job lot speacials im so grateful for a site like this that i can learn about the sport i love and for the pepole who are willing to share there experience i hope nobody judges me for writing this i just want to set the record straight im just a regular guy loving and being grateful for what i have accomplished i was down and out now im living life the way im supposed too

for that i am grateful HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!

Striper SniperX · 11-26-2002, 06:09 AM

Happy Thanksgiving. You All.
'Be Thankful for what you have'

Good Luck to all who are fishing...Bundle up!

And to the hunters, BE CAREFULL, put that bright .ORANGE hat on-
AND KEEP IT ON!!

way to many accidential Killings already this year, make sure you all know who is who, and who is where. where out hunting deer or turkey,, not each other! keep a sharp eye (and ear) out for each other.

Happy Turkey Day to all, Be Safe.