Another "how many, how big" thread.

[eelman]

161 trips. Had lots of fun this year.

[The Dad Fisherman]

Originally Posted by #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&

161 trips. Had lots of fun this year.

WOW...I hope after you stowed the gear away you took the wife out for a nice night on the town. She deserves it

I managed about 30-35 nights out including two weekends at Cutty. Didn't get out as much as i would have liked.....busy summer this year. Had 2 different 3 week stretches where I didn't get out at all.

All in all was my best season so far fish wise though Not as much quantity but the Quality was far better

[Mike P]

I honestly have no clue how many times I fished. I figure I averaged 20 trips a month in June-October, maybe 15 in May, 5 or so in April and another 5 or so in November. That's based on the fact that a "trip" involves throwing a rod on the roof rack and driving 5 minutes to the Canal. So for a ballpark guess, 125 trips. Maybe a little more than 20 times in October.

Results equal to effort? Hard to say, since 90% of my fishing was heavy jigging. I had a nice pick of quality fish--meaning high teens/low 20s---going in July and early August when everyone was saying the Canal was dead. Better results quantity wise in June, September and October. I know I had some 50 fish nights in mid-October, but 9 shorts for every keeper and 20 shorts for every fish in the 20s. And when the big fish were around the last week of May, I couldn't break 25 lbs

[Canalman]

Originally Posted by #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&

161 trips. Had lots of fun this year.

Bill do you realize there are 154 days bewteen may 1 and October 31? That's some serious fishing

[thewaterfordstriper]

i am at 110 trips this year all from shore. my numbers are down both on the number of fish caught and size of fish.
been a bad year.

[NIB]

I have no friggin idea.I did fish a few times.
More than 10 less than 330.
I wish I could keep a log.
I tried it once but i could not read my own writing.
If my fishing starts to be like work then it's just too much.I work offa memory.Even then again i don't remember what I had for dinner last night..

Dave, Bill could have done that easily I was doing 2 a days for 3 weeks in june.I'm sure he was doing the same..I had to have 60 trips by july 1st easily.If u count fishing for bait (herring) i could have another 10 on top of that.

[Diggin Jiggin]

I fished way more than I ever have. I usually beat myself up fishing long nights the first 2 months of the season and then take a break when midsummer rolls around but this year I just shortened the duration of the trips and just kept going all season. The canals a short trip for me, so I was down there 5 or 6 nights a week from mid may thru october, I guess thats somewhere around 120+ nights.

This year I tried to fish smarter, rather than just long hours. I'd find maybe 3 hours or so on a tide where I'd find fish and I'd just work that part of the tide each night till the pattern changed.

Numbers wise, its hard to compare this year to others for me as I've never fished that many nights before. Spring was pretty good and I did well jigging, and I got a few decent fish on the few plugging trips I made in June. My best night for both size and numbers was in mid july, and I got my only 2 30's in august.

The fall run for me was a huge dissapointment. I had 2 or 3 nights with multiple 20's in late september but no 30's and nowhere near the numbers of good fish as I had the year before.

I went down to nantucket for the first week of october and that was a complete bust. And when I got back from there I had one last good night with a few 20's and from that point on there were so many schoolies you really had to work thru them to get a decent fish.

[Tagger]

I too don't keep a log ... I went alot.. I use to keep a log and started getting that" have to do my homework" feeling ... sux the fun out of it .

[Canalman]

Originally Posted by NIB

Dave, Bill could have done that easily I was doing 2 a days for 3 weeks in june.I'm sure he was doing the same..I had to have 60 trips by july 1st easily.If u count fishing for bait (herring) i could have another 10 on top of that.

Tony, I know that I'm just playing around If I knew how many times I actually went I might seek therapy, I'll be adding another day to the ticker Thur.

-Dave

[Back Beach]

I would say my efforts were increased in frequency, but less in time. I fished 2-3 times a week for 4-5 hours, instead of 1-2 times per week for 7-8 hours. Seems to work for me, and the skunks don't feel as bad when its a short trip. Only did one all nighter and froze my pills off. Also, the shorter trips don't deprive you of as much sleep, thus I have the energy to go several times per week. I experienced about the same as canalman with a good spring, decent summer, slow early fall, and real good late sept/early oct. Quit in late october, lost interest. Any more than the 60 nights and I'm in divorce court.

[piemma]

Originally Posted by Canalman

Bill do you realize there are 154 days bewteen may 1 and October 31? That's some serious fishing

...and the way he came up with 161 was because, I know for a fact, he went twice a day on several days during the Summer. Morning run and an early/late night run. I did several with him. 2 a days burn you out real quick but it's easier in the boat to do twice a day...
I have no idea how many trips I made. between the boat and surf well over 100