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07-29-2003, 03:16 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Portsmouth RI
Posts: 2,176
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IRON MIKE sturck AGAIN!
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07-29-2003, 03:33 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 3,650
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I wanna be like Mike!
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07-29-2003, 03:57 PM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
Posts: 35,270
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Struck GOLD Again??! I was about to say that lucky bassturd but he exudes skill & luck & tenacity & intuition & ... well you know...
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~Fix the Bait~ ~Pogies Forever~
Striped Bass Fishing - All Stripers
Kobayashi Maru Election - there is no way to win.
Apocalypse is Coming:
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07-29-2003, 04:04 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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07-29-2003, 04:12 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Portsmouth RI
Posts: 2,176
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Pictures are coming......
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07-29-2003, 04:59 PM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
Posts: 35,270
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60 POUNDS
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~Fix the Bait~ ~Pogies Forever~
Striped Bass Fishing - All Stripers
Kobayashi Maru Election - there is no way to win.
Apocalypse is Coming:
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07-29-2003, 06:01 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Maine
Posts: 4,547
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07-29-2003, 06:09 PM
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#8
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 5,945
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If this is the Iron Mike that was in OTW a couple months ago, he deserves that fish, he sure puts his time in.
Nice Going!
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07-29-2003, 06:35 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: .
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07-29-2003, 06:57 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Cranberry Coast Gateway 2 Cape Cod
Posts: 4,143
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HOLY SH*T lets see some PICS !!!
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" Happy as a clam at high tide "
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07-29-2003, 07:33 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: To far from shore
Posts: 54
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The guy is amazing. Snakes? Rubber? or Wood? |
Surfcaster seeking 25 pounder. Someone HELP!
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07-29-2003, 07:38 PM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
Posts: 35,270
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Quote:
Originally posted by Karl F
If this is the Iron Mike that was in OTW a couple months ago, he deserves that fish, he sure puts his time in.
Nice Going!
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That's him & yes he does! He was the club winner last year and it looks like a repeat! If this is 60 pounds (and I believe it is) this will be his SECOND SIXTY pound bass from shore! He might just be the MOST successful surdcaster pounding the sand these days! |
~Fix the Bait~ ~Pogies Forever~
Striped Bass Fishing - All Stripers
Kobayashi Maru Election - there is no way to win.
Apocalypse is Coming:
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07-29-2003, 08:07 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2001
Posts: 842
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i think this is good news. he got his big fish for the year and now he can pack his gear for the season.
when's the party? we are getting him drunk again, right?
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07-29-2003, 08:19 PM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
Posts: 35,270
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Blueberries
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~Fix the Bait~ ~Pogies Forever~
Striped Bass Fishing - All Stripers
Kobayashi Maru Election - there is no way to win.
Apocalypse is Coming:
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07-29-2003, 08:23 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: plymouth soon to be SO. DAYTONA
Posts: 543
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HOLY SH$# BATMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!
WOW, i'm still trying to get over the 80# bluefin tuna last year and the 50+lb striper last year. IRON MAN you's the best!!!!!! SUPER** ****** congrats,what's next? |
my best days are in, on, or at the waters edge...... (We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.) Ernest Hemingway
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07-29-2003, 09:47 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 833
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OK, I might be lost but I think Striper Mike and Iron Mike are two different guys . . . correct me if I"m wrong . . . it's never happened before  |
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07-29-2003, 09:51 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Southern NH
Posts: 3,781
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You are right Glou.........he be wrong.....Mike
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07-29-2003, 10:35 PM
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Needlefish Nazi
Join Date: Mar 2001
Posts: 1,754
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Caught ON a HABS NEEDLE FISH
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Over the Last Several Years HAB'S NEEDLEFISH Have Caught More "Confirmed" 30, 40, 50, and even 60 pound Striped Bass than any other Wooden Needlefish on the Market today. 2 Over 50lbs. and 1 Over 60lbs. in 2005 alone........... "HOOK UP WITH HAB'S" Your Best Bet For BIG BASS.....
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07-30-2003, 12:03 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 3,650
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Hey -
It does not include the latest big fish, but.....
Here is the a link to the Iron Mike article that ran in On The Water.....it has a couple of extra photos and is a little longer than the published version. This is the raw text...Enjoy!
http://surfcasting-rhodeisland.com/I...ikeArticle.htm |
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07-30-2003, 05:50 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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well then
a HABS needle fish must be a great lure !!
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07-30-2003, 06:17 AM
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Ledge Runner Baits
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: I live in a house, but my soul is at sea.
Posts: 8,615
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That's a real cow, quite a year for sure, congrats Mike.
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07-30-2003, 07:02 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Portsmouth RI
Posts: 2,176
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Iron Mike - I've fished with the guy probablly 50 times this year if not more....it's usually a few guys that gang up for the night and hammer the surf.....Mike usually starts off with an ice cold BUD and a story of how he worked for 35 minutes today and then did 6 laps around 10 mile drive, had lunch and went home.....a few more cold BUD's and then he might start fishing. Meanwhile the rest of the gang is fishing, maybe catching......Sometimes I think Mike would rather just hang out and enjoy being with the guys than catch a fish....Mike will eventually muster up the energy to make a few casts......
This time Mike leaves the house at 7:30pm - ALONE ( just like all the other times he stuck a cow).....heads out for a few casts alone to "Destination X".....from his house to "Destination X"....figure 20 minutes......8:30pm He's on.....back home at 9:15pm..... 
He had to leave an 18lb bass he was going to bring home for supper on the rocks.....he said he just couldnt carry it back with the other fish.
Mike weighed the fish the next morning. 60.2lbs caught on a 9inch blue and white HABS Needlefish.
I have picked Mike's pickeled brain hundreds and hundreds of time on how he does it......the only thing he can tell me is "I would rather be lucky than good".
This makes three years in a row Mike has made his mark. Two 50's and a 60.
Congrats to my good friend Iron Mike, the guy who somehow managed to shove a lucky horseshoe where the sun don't shine!
As much as I love the guy, and as close as Mike and I are as friends, there is NO ONE in this world that I would like to strangle to death than him right now!!!!!! I just don't know how he does it. 
I'm off the find some leather gloves and a ski mask.  |
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07-30-2003, 07:16 AM
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#23
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: in a structure with a roof
Posts: 6,049
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LOL Tatoo .
Ive met him once seems like a decent guy and he deserves another couple buds or a 60 or both .
Good for you Iron Mike !!
where do you find them hab needles ?
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07-30-2003, 07:19 AM
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#24
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 7,649
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WOW. That is impressive.
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07-30-2003, 07:26 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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A picture is worth a thousand words! We all want pictures. Anyone got any to post? Congratulations Iron Mike.   |
Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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07-30-2003, 07:27 AM
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Hooked
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Boston
Posts: 362
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This guy rocks. |
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07-30-2003, 07:35 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Andover, CT
Posts: 839
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CONGRATS! |
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07-30-2003, 08:29 AM
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#28
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Portsmouth RI
Posts: 2,176
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where do you find them hab needles ?
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Chris L - I know where there are about 700+ being painted all colors of the rainbow right now....  |
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07-30-2003, 08:30 AM
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Fishing Chauffeur
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: raynham mass
Posts: 2,227
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congrats
Good going!
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07-30-2003, 08:30 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: in a structure with a roof
Posts: 6,049
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Ptown ?
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