squeteague......

[Clammer]

Booze

Portuguese Club / Manny Almedia,s / Corner Cafe, & Babe,s on wickenden street /all true fox point [bars]

[intrepid24]

as a kid I would vist family @ the outer banks,NC. one thing i remember seeing was guys setup w/ a small boat they would launch from the beach, and set out a reallllly long gillnet. later the pulled it in w/ trucks, and there were thousands of speckled trout in it, usually 18-24".......
the fish were sold commercially(not knocking com. fishing here !)
and i was just amazed at how many fish would fill the backs of pickups.......i don't know if they were the same exact fish, but i thought they were squet's.....this was a pretty common tradition,
and not unusual to see on a calm day in november.
that might have hurt a little bit over the decades.

[Clammer]

I-24

not the same fish ><><

[l.i.fish.in.vt]

two falls ago i was fishing a few spots on the south shore of LI,if you saw all the little weakfish that the blues and bass were eating you might have an idea were they went before maturing.i also grew up on the south shore of LI.in the early 60's you had to fish the peconics if you wanted to catch weakfish.by the early 70's the bay was fully of small 18 to 24 inch weakfish.by the late 70's there were no small weakfish for the most part but 8 to 15lbers were pretty common.sure the gillnetters caught alot but that doesn't explain why they didn't come back for years.the old timers always said when there were blowfish there weren't any weakfish,what ever happened to our beloved blowfish?

[Clammer]

ILIVT

I,ve only seen 1 in RI in the last 25 years & that was in a dealers lobster tank .some lobsterman caught it in his traps .but that could have been anywhere

[trapperpierre]

as a kid......in the late 50's handlining for fluke and chogies off George's Short Wall.........blowfish where a common catch...our fishing gear & bait came from old lady Ms Fish bait & tackle....with the perfume of the pogie processing plant adding to the charm of the adventure......hey that was a half a century ago.........and my brother and I -age 10 & 12..would cod fish coxes on Lou O'Donald's head boat NAUTICAN-the mate would keep an eye on us............we'd catch 20-40+ pounders .......got B+W photos of cod as big as us..............."Granny" would bake a whole fish with bacon strips on top of the cod,,yum..................Dan Head would be barking tuna tourney winning weights......giants a nickel a pound for cat food......Ashaway line was the benchmark on squidders......Pt. Jude Tins and Atom reverse 40's...........brought a Mitchel 304 reel/rod to fish off the short wall...people would ask what was it I was fishing with...........................Days of yor............................

[l.i.fish.in.vt]

Mike the last one that i caught was in 97 fishing in Topsail island NC.when i was a kid i had a 50ft seine that i used to catch spearing for bait.quite often a pull of the seine would have hundreds of tiny blowfish in it,maybetwo inches long. from the dock you could catch bigger blowfish all day long with just about anything on the hook. a piece of bologna was all you needed.

[l.i.fish.in.vt]

trapper,when i was 11 years old,mid 60's i had a 56lb cod on the Viking out of montauk,the day after thanksgiving.did quite a few trips out to coxes with my father on either the Victory or peconic queen in the 60's and 70's,boy did i eat a lot of fish

[trapperpierre]

VTer.......corker cod was a commonplace catch back then....not just one 40-50+ cod being pool winner........and..........bro & I would take one large one for oven bake(with head & tail removed would literally fill the oven) and a good size metal sided cooler brimming with filets......I can't remember ever get'n skunked.........I would violate IGFA fishing practice by resting the solid glass loooonng harwood handle rod on the rail.........to inch/crank these monsters up......and..............It would be nice if the squets would cooperate and give another cycle run of big numbers

[Clammer]

YOU TWO OUR LIKE INSTANT REPLAYS ;;;

[afterhours]

Originally Posted by Clammer

Booze

Portuguese Club / Manny Almedia,s / Corner Cafe, & Babe,s on wickenden street /all true fox point [bars]

manny almedias ringside lounge - used to serve us when we we're 17 yo - they liked our $$$ and we liked their beer! we were known as the white kids from barrington...

[Clammer]

Don .

that,s after the original Manny Almedia,s // you would have never got served in the original / matter of fact / you would have never gone into the original ...


Jmac ...... JD Teddy saif it was a H/A

whatever happened to Bennie P.

[trapperpierre]

.....days of yor...............only a compass & ranges(ask the nube-thinks range is old time name for kitchen stove)..........Earl B adding lead in bow of Lema 19(with fall manuvers ON Patience Island)...Manny's old tyme....go with 2 thugs from Senate Cafe(worst dive in Prov then)for protection(Met, Armondo's, Pirate Den, Oscars)..Roland asking "has the fog lifted yet" then goes back to sleep in his vehicle.........ole man Howie C(catch'n too) tied in bow of Whaler Bunkie Dunkie, by son Barry C......the underwear raking clams off of Rumstick....decoy runs to fool followers.............the memory list is endless,,,,,,and we lived thru its a......miracle

[trapperpierre]

,,,,,,here's hope'n that the squets invade RI waters........soon

[Clammer]

Barry old man was screwed if barry didn,t get something for him ........ he couldn,t see for s $%^&* but the fish didn,t know it /

yeah earl had some serious lead up front .. otherwise it probably would have flipped ..... that was a wet ass boat ;

#^&#^&#^&#^& s still slips the fish into the side of the boat / when he tought no one knew ......... oh he doesn,t have a boat .. it must be his oxagen tank ;;

Jackie B / cold cocking the warden with a one punch knockout ............ then dropping depth chargers on divers ;;

riding alon black face @ top end / shooting deer into the water & WTF was the name of the gribby guy that would buy them all / he was the same guy that bought over 3000# of chowders from . earl, me & WTf,s name / & said .. see you guys tomorrow ....... he shucked them by hand in his basement ;;

I,d almost drink to those days again

[Finlander]

Had an 8 lber while fluking off "M" 6 or 7 years ago, that is the last one I've seen, that same season did hear of a school of then along the south shore anda few other were caught.

[l.i.fish.in.vt]

Clammer and Trapper who burnt Dave from LI boat to the ground during the clamming fiasco of the early 80's,i think he still has a 10,000 dollar reward for the answer.