Plan of Attack!

[BigFish]

Going forward how will you prepare to get ready for your assault on the 2010 season? Any big plans, strategies?? Lets hear them!

I will start in March scoping out some new spots to launch my kayak from! March and April I will start out hitting the sweet water with the yak and be ready when the stripers show! I have the kayak and a new canal bike and I will mobile and looking to make 2010 my best season ever!!

[Raider Ronnie]

Got a few projects to get done to the boat along with usual prepping it for the season.
Launch around 1st week of April for the cod season.
Thats my attack !

[PRBuzz]

I hope to start testing by newly rebuilt Suzuki by early April!

[luds]

Finish renovating the first floor in my house by 3/1 so I can allow myself to think about fishing and then tie leaders all month in March. After that just alot of long scouting walks with dog #1 scouting spots and parking.

[Hooligans]

I need to get my next-door neighbor out there to catch fish this year!
Last year was real slow for him.
Although I do plan to try to show him up this year!
ROTHFL….. Love you man!

[BigFish]

Yeah I know what you mean "Hooligan"! I got a neighbor with a nice Parker he could catch fish from but he chooses to scuba dive and let me catch all his fish for him! Talk about slow! He is a good neighbor though!

Welcome to S-B Paul!

[spence]

My plan is simple, actually fish.

-spence

[Backbeach Jake]

Attack the chores early. Gonna hold off fishing until mid-late May. If it's drier than last year try to get the house painted and repaired. Then start pounding sand again.

[The Dad Fisherman]

Just to get my line in the water......6 times last season isn't going to cut it

[quick decision]

Originally Posted by luds

Finish renovating the first floor in my house by 3/1 so I can allow myself to think about fishing and then tie leaders all month in March. After that just alot of long scouting walks with dog #1 scouting spots and parking.

You need any help let me know. It a long winter.

[niko]

i want to try some new stuff. a trip to the canyons, some sharking, east of chatham. other than that, just stay on the fish

[MikeToole]

Well, after reading the MSBA action alert postings. I'm now convinced that I've been an idiot releasing all the bass I catch. So next year I am going to kill every bass I legally can. I may even get a Mass commercial license to make extra money so that I can buy a couple of Zeebas reels. Don't want to take a chance on any of them getting away. Heck, I'm 60-years old why should I be concerned any more.

OK, rant is over.

Actually, Wednesday I get my shoulder operated on so my main focus will be getting it back in shape by the start of the season.

[animal]

I'm going to drink a lot of beer between now,and then.

[Got Stripers]

Bringing back the Ledge Runner Baits will be my early focus, now that my friend John has finally completed the shop and the high production pot is on order. I don't think I'd have lasted all season on my remaining stock and my favorite colors have been gone for at least a year. Need to get around to the local shops and John pm me on sponsorship money, want to get that set up right away.

[RoyL]

Im going to try and fish more this year lol...Im excited about this coming season. I have been fishing the canal hard for two years now and have learned a lot about it. Still have a few more spots to try.....so I guess i'll just fish

[Back Beach]

I plan on spending the winter(as well as huge sums of time and money) preparing to fish with my own plugs next year. Got the most of the checklist already done so catching fish should be a snap...

1. Patience

2. Perserverance

3. Eel bucket

[quick decision]

I am on my third season of learning the canal. I am going to work on catching with jigs there some more. I also plan on focusing more on a plan, than just flying by the seat of my pants.

[Foul Hooker]

Originally Posted by niko

i want to try some new stuff. a trip to the canyons, some sharking, east of chatham. other than that, just stay on the fish

Sounds like my plan of attack!! awesome!

[SAUERKRAUT]

Originally Posted by Back Beach

I plan on spending the winter(as well as huge sums of time and money) preparing to fish with my own plugs next year. Got the most of the checklist already done so catching fish should be a snap...

1. Patience

2. Perserverance

3. Eel bucket

Why did you mention No. 3? Just to torment Numbskull?

[Rockfish9]

it begins with the hard water... i've been committed to at least once a week, and made as many as 3 trips... still working a 45 hour week...

when i wind down the ice, it will be time to do a little salmon fishing on Winni, as well as fishing for the stockies in the local ponds...

by May, it will be time to fill the freezer with cod and haddock( bless the man that invented vacume sealing), taking advatage of the inshore spawn....

June brings in the( big) bass, live lining mac's and trolling goo-goo's in the mouth will kick off the season... day break may find schools of mixed sizes on top when moon wind and tide collide..I'll be ready with a fresh batch of spooks..

The last week in June, first week of July brings the end of the herring run and some mighty fine night time fishing, the water is warming so plugs come into their own.... by The end of July, I'm out on the beach front, prowling the sand bars and rock piles, it's strickly a night time game now and most of the "tourists" have fallen on hard times..August is ususly a good month, IF I can get outside... plovers still rule the beach so acess is limited unless I use the boat...or go rock hopping to the north..

by early September the blitzes are on... for me, it's still a night time game... for the most part, i have the shore line to myself.. by early October the big pods of fish from a few weeks ago are already getting hard to come by, but when you find them it's non stop fishing... it's all plugs all the time now... the boat comes of fthe dock the 15th of october.. I'm tired now and glad for the break....now, I've caught up on my sleep, cleaned my reels, repaired my rods and with the boat hauled and put away i count the days until the water freezes...

[Goose]

Gonna make the boat new again in the off-season, add some goodies to it too, nothin big. Pick up a warmer wetsuit for the surf.

[fishbones]

Originally Posted by spence

My plan is simple, actually fish.

-spence

Keep either 5/22 or 5/23 open. I'm taking you fishing.
And bring all those nice plugs you have that are collecting dust. It's a shame that they don't get used.

[Back Beach]

Originally Posted by SAUERKRAUT

Why did you mention No. 3? Just to torment Numbskull?

Of course...additionally I might post a few pictures of my vintage musso plugs(cut in half with a rusty, dull hand saw for examination purposes) just to fuel the fire.

[CaptMike]

Start fishing the chesapeake in late february and start fishing the cape in late May

[maddmatt]

Originally Posted by CaptMike

Start fishing the chesapeake in late february and start fishing the cape in late May

when your down in the chessie

make sure to use lots of live bait and hook those breeders deep.

we wouldn't want them to survive the run to their spawning grounds

make sure u release them all the bloody ones too, we wouldn't want to waste a spawner.

[saltydog]

Im retired an if any of you fishaholics need company e-mail PM or call this no. 978-495-1113 one day ahead of an Ill be at your door befor you get up an ready w/ coffee an donut in hand
GOOD LUCK GOOD PLUGGIN

[JackK]

Learn the canal better. Started my scouting today... Nice three mile walk, looking for and noting rips and structure. If I keep this up I might actually be in shape for fishing season