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03-10-2013, 07:46 AM
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My brother is bald
Join Date: May 2003
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Let the fun begin!
Spots not stripes were the highlight of the day.
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03-10-2013, 08:23 AM
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Spot Preserver
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Mansfield
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Very nice Mike!!
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Make America Great Again.
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03-10-2013, 08:56 AM
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Not Jack
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Other Cape
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well done!
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03-10-2013, 09:02 AM
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My brother is bald
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Could I have kept that for the table?? No cooler anyways, and I was a few hours from home.
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03-10-2013, 10:26 AM
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Soggy Bottom Boy
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Billerica, Ma.
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Nice catch Mikey
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03-10-2013, 11:03 AM
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Annisquam Assassin
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Peabody, MA
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what is it? Can't tell, salmon?
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Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job. ~Paul Schullery
There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process. ~Paul O'Neil, 1965
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03-10-2013, 11:07 AM
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My brother is bald
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Either that or a giant white perch. Not sure if it was a an Atlantic or a stock?
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03-10-2013, 12:44 PM
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My brother is bald
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Any body with more salmon experience?? Noonan
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03-10-2013, 02:19 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: B-TOWN
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Fun mission little early 4 swimming nice catch mikey
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03-10-2013, 03:23 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: halfway to Canada
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rappin Mikey
Could I have kept that for the table?? No cooler anyways, and I was a few hours from home.
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Were you still in MA? It would be legal to keep except from the Ct River or a tributary, or the Merrimack below the Essex dam. Above the Essex you can only keep salmon that have a yellow tag near the dorsal. |
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03-10-2013, 05:05 PM
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My brother is bald
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Parts Unknown
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In CT
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03-10-2013, 05:09 PM
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Not Jack
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Other Cape
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If you're going to release stripers it only makes sense to release salmon... if it actually was a wild fish it's rare then hen's teeth!
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03-10-2013, 05:31 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Quote:
Originally Posted by STRIPERTED
Fun mission little early 4 swimming nice catch mikey
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Just like the old episodes of Crank Yankers..."I think they saw your brother floatin down the river." |
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03-10-2013, 05:49 PM
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My brother is bald
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JackK
If you're going to release stripers it only makes sense to release salmon... if it actually was a wild fish it's rare then hen's teeth!
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Never really thought of keeping the fish. I released as soon as I could snap a pic. A bit harder to handle than a striper or blue though. Can't lip it, don't want to man handle it like a blue behind the eyes either. Slippery basstards. Just curious if it is a legal beagle? |
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03-10-2013, 06:37 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2002
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Is it fair to point out that Mikeys pictures are consistently terrible? It seems like he intentionally keeps a foggy lens for subterfuge. No offense of course.
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PRO CHOICE REPUBLICAN
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03-10-2013, 06:45 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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i'd say that was a very astute observation....
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03-10-2013, 07:11 PM
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My brother is bald
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Parts Unknown
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JackK
If you're going to release stripers it only makes sense to release salmon... if it actually was a wild fish it's rare then hen's teeth!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sea Dangles
Is it fair to point out that Mikeys pictures are consistently terrible? It seems like he intentionally keeps a foggy lens for subterfuge. No offense of course.
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Your lucky you are bigger and less handsome but with more hair than me. Other wise I would take offense. The blurry is because I am always pulling my phone out of my pocket to take pics of fish. SORRY Christoph!! |
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03-11-2013, 10:55 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Originally Posted by Rappin Mikey
Your lucky you are bigger and less handsome but with more hair than me. Other wise I would take offense. The blurry is because I am always pulling my phone out of my pocket to take pics of fish. SORRY Christoph!!
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I take offense to not only the poor picture resolution, but also the poor grammar used to fire this barb back at Chris.
I am also confused at the Christoph name here...is this some weird kind of special nickname that you guys have? |
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03-11-2013, 11:02 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: massachusetts
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If you were where I think you might be, it could be an atlantic salmon. I've got them there before and have seen some monsters over 40". I've got them on 7" redfins as bycatch and have taken them on 1" flys sight fishing to them. They hold in certain areas along current breaks. CT and Merrimack and some others have them along with other tribs, some are wild fish. You'll randomly see them jump clear out of the water at times when they are staging. They are around all summer and hold in the same pools and brook mouths year after year. You can get them on waked flys when the water warms up a bit. Mike give me a call if you want more details - done a TON of research on these and put a lot of effort into figuring them out. They are protected, so release them all unless you're in a designated brookstock area where you can take them.
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03-11-2013, 11:16 AM
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now you done it-lol
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03-11-2013, 11:50 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2002
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My season will not be complete until the Bombas join me for some fishing on the Rosabella.
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03-11-2013, 12:14 PM
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My brother is bald
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I'll be out in Welfleet the last week of June when things start to get going good. We just picked up a boat ourselves, a 21 foot Seacraft center console. I'd love to take you up on thast offer.
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03-11-2013, 12:42 PM
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Surfcaster
Join Date: Jan 2007
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Very hard to tell by the photo, but I would assume it was a salmon of the broodstock variety that was released in the Naugatuck or Shetucket Rivers late last fall and eventually made its way downstream to where you caught it. If it was indeed wild, that's a very rare catch and should be reported to CT DEEP. Nicely done either way.
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03-11-2013, 12:44 PM
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All up in the Interweb!
Join Date: Mar 2002
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sea Dangles
Is it fair to point out that Mikeys pictures are consistently terrible? It seems like he intentionally keeps a foggy lens for subterfuge. No offense of course.
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Perhaps his camera just had its beer goggles on?  |
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03-11-2013, 12:45 PM
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Not Jack
Join Date: Feb 2009
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Does CT clip the adipose fins on their hatchery fish?
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03-11-2013, 01:37 PM
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My brother is bald
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To me it seemed the fins were in good condition and not all banged up from the tanks. It definitely could have come from the Naugatuck though. The stock ones I have seen always look a bit fatter in the pics I see. I have very little experience with these fish however, so I guess we will never know.
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03-11-2013, 03:27 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: massachusetts
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They definitely lose the excess weight and look more like a bullet once theyre held over for a while. Its like they get in better shape. Fish that have been in the river for a while turn a brownish molted color, searuns just like steelhead are super chrome body with black top when they first arrive, then darken up. There are fish dropping back now too that have wintered over that are called dark/black salmon and are extremely weak from not feeding. That fish looked wicked chrome, so probably just arrived - I've got ones like that in early april that came from the ocean. I know the CT broodstocks in the river make it over the dams with heavy rains and go back to the ocean then return later.
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03-11-2013, 06:39 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rappin Mikey
I'll be out in Welfleet the last week of June when things start to get going good. We just picked up a boat ourselves, a 21 foot Seacraft center console. I'd love to take you up on thast offer.
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20 feet, Mikey. I'd much rather spend the day with Chris on his boat, though. |
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