Rate Your Season! - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

BigFish · 10-23-2011, 04:15 PM

Rate your 2011 season! How did you find it?? Was it a slammer or was it a bummer??

BigFish · 10-23-2011, 04:21 PM

Well I voted! Worst season ever by a landslide! Can't wait until its over and next season begins! 2012 will be alot different for me!!

PRBuzz · 10-23-2011, 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by BigFish

Well I voted! Worst season ever by a landslide! Can't wait until its over and next season begins! 2012 will be alot different for me!!

Ever hear of frying pan into the fire? Don't count them 2012 fish yet!

BigFish · 10-23-2011, 04:42 PM

Could not possibly be worse than my 2011 Phil.....of this I can be sure!!

piemma · 10-23-2011, 04:45 PM

Best year since 06. Both boat and Canal. I am very pleased and if next year is as good I will be a happy guy. No 40s. A LOT of 30 to 38 # fish and I cannot count the 20 to 29# fish.
BTW, not that it matters but, personally, I killed 2 fish out of over 200 fish over 34". I don't count anything under 34". To me those are "schoolies".

Slingah · 10-23-2011, 04:47 PM

Great season for me.
I didn't obsess about fishing once! Or get disappointed.
I got lots of stuff done and still had plenty of rest.

Basically I didn't fish at all this year.

iamskippy · 10-23-2011, 04:48 PM

Best season ever for me all around, just sad i put the final straw in my back and have to end it early.. but great fish new great friends and old great friends. Looking forward to spring!
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Hookedagain · 10-23-2011, 05:13 PM

I didn't have the greatest season. Had a lot of hours out there with nothing to show for it, however the fish I did land were of quality. Nice helthy 30's and a few 40's. Season's not over yet, I'm still giving it hell.

Karl F · 10-23-2011, 07:01 PM

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Originally Posted by piemma

Best year since 06. Both boat and Canal. I am very pleased and if next year is as good I will be a happy guy. No 40s. A LOT of 30 to 38 # fish and I cannot count the 20 to 29# fish.
BTW, not that it matters but, personally, I killed 2 fish out of over 200 fish over 34". I don't count anything under 34". To me those are "schoolies".

Paul, you are a machine, and one of the "old school" anglers, I salute you!

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Originally Posted by Slingah

Great season for me.
I didn't obsess about fishing once! Or get disappointed.
I got lots of stuff done and still had plenty of rest.

Basically I didn't fish at all this year.

Matt... we had the same year!

Slipknot · 10-23-2011, 07:16 PM

I haven't fished so little as I did this year as I have in 12-13 years.
Too busy, so the times I did go I appreciated more even though they weren't all that productive. sometimes the fish zig when you zag

JohnR · 10-23-2011, 07:54 PM

What Slip said.

Grade: Incomplete

Grapenuts · 10-23-2011, 08:08 PM

U mean I missed another season again ..when was it

nightfighter · 10-23-2011, 08:38 PM

About to wrap it up.... Knee is junk, as it has been, on and off, since before the Cutty trip in June. Days and nights of walking those boulders may be over. (does a replacement help with the arthritis?)Shoulder is now junk as I have been most every day, dusk and/or dawn, in the surf for the past month and a half. (even on days that I go on the boat in the mornings...)
My take on the stock is one of promise. I have seen decent numbers of all sizes of stripers this year, including a personal best. In past years, I felt we had no shot at 40s and 50s in this area. I now know better and hold out hope for future seasons. Bait has been and still is present, mostly macks, but seeing herring, and small baitfish in good numbers as well. Very few pogies locally however.
Had two weeks of chasing blitzes from beaches within three towns. Outside of that, my success rate in the surf was lower than I would have liked, so can empathize with many who saw off years from the shore. Overall, one of the best and latest falls for me, ever.
With my body no longer able to pound the rocks as I used to, my boat is my great pleasure. Say what you will, but it allows me to fish where I want, how I want, and I make no apologies. I do question the time and expense I have made in making plugs, when all I seem to do is liveline macks from the boat...again, no apologies there either.
No complaints... Other than not seeing and fishing with friends I have seen in past seasons, and missing out on albies... With good health, family, loved ones, and friends, if we can survive this economy, hope will spring again for yet another year.

Finaddict · 10-23-2011, 08:44 PM

Two out of the three times I was able to get out were relatively productive, not huge fish by any means ... but every time I did get out was equally satisfying.

MAKAI · 10-23-2011, 11:24 PM

Ugh! Between a messed up achilles, plantar fasciitis in both feet and now a torn rotator cuff. Ugh!

Tagger · 10-24-2011, 03:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Slipknot

. sometimes the fish zig when you zag

I didn't answer the poll .. Greatest spring ever ,, Worse fall ever .. My best year ever in numbers only because I fished the funnel (canal) mostly and the beaches very little . Hull spring in the yak was good to me ,, rest of the time dead . Don't like the fact my favorite beach the mussel beds are stripped clean .. What's that ? I was lucky a lot ,, what Slip said ..

BigBo · 10-24-2011, 06:03 AM

Spring started out great, but then medical issues half way through the summer pretty much ended it for me.

numbskull · 10-24-2011, 06:09 AM

Loads of teen fish and almost nothing else. But seasons are about how often you go and how much fun you have, and by that measure it was a good one.

blondterror · 10-24-2011, 06:10 AM

May and June were great... barnstable harbor, race point, and cutty were my highlights and a few good trips to the "funnel" as Eddie calls it... can't wait to get back to cutty early next June with the SB boys

Back Beach · 10-24-2011, 06:18 AM

I predict a bluegill moratorium will be in place for 2012 in MA, then yellow perch for 2013.

scottw · 10-24-2011, 06:41 AM

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Originally Posted by numbskull

But seasons are about how often you go and how much fun you have, and by that measure it was a good one.

Amen to that

Sea Dangles · 10-24-2011, 06:52 AM

I had fun regardless of the catch rate for bass. I got another tuna on the spinner. I fluked out at Nomans,I got a YF south of RI. Prior to the season I had a goal of trolling big wood at sow and pigs and I started to learn how to accomplish this effectively.Canal was fine considering how seldom I fish it. Is bass fishing what it was 5 years ago? Not in my opinion. Buzzards Bay was a ghost town with fish passing through on their way to somewhere.I did get a few weeks of albies a mile from the dock; cast at them and by the time the lure hits the water they are 200 yds behind you.Fun when they are eating though,even my dog liked it.If my season ended yesterday I would be happy, toggin could not have been better. Five weeks til I get a new hip and I will be as good as new for next season. Tight lines...

JohnnySaxatilis · 10-24-2011, 07:02 AM

Spring was promising, had a great time fishing the beaches around here, and the ditch was really fun in june (highlight of the year), but then as the year rolled on, it got progressively worse for me. all surfcasting, all with plugs, save kicking some macks on the rocks when they swam by.

BTW I hate seals. Seal quota: black powder rifles only, 2 seals per day 50 in minimum. noses go for 20$ per

Van · 10-24-2011, 07:39 AM

I voted is was a good season, there were not tons of fish around, and very few schools of fish breaking, but is was consistent.

I caught fish every trip out whether it was charter or fun.

Thats around 30 trips.

numbskull · 10-24-2011, 07:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Back Beach

I predict a bluegill moratorium will be in place for 2012 in MA, then yellow perch for 2013.

Time for Save the Worms!

GregW · 10-24-2011, 07:52 AM

This is my first season so, I refrained from voting as I am not sure how it compares to other years.

I would certainly say it was personally a huge success for a first season.
Well over 300 fish. 99% taken from shore(or wetsuiting) on plugs.
I have three plugs that i feel confident in and feel I always have a shot at fish. No one trick pony stuff for me.
And throughout the season I met some awesome people in the process.

Couldnt ask for much more. Sure beat the last few years I had.

tysdad115 · 10-24-2011, 08:14 AM

May -August great! Nothing over 35# and alot of fish numbers wise ,but a great season. Watched Tyelr progress and catch multiple 20# fish and thats what it's about.
September - present...lousy ,the fall is eluding me again. But I'm not done yet.
So the saga will continue.

HESH2 · 10-24-2011, 08:17 AM

spring started out pretty good then died 2nd week of june.need a great november to save my year.

tysdad115 · 10-24-2011, 08:19 AM

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Originally Posted by GregW

And throughout the season I met some awesome people in the process.

Nice meeting you too Greg

, not sure I'll ever forget the 6 mile ride in the lightning/downpours then getting under the bourne bridge to have the sun come out...and alot of other laughs we all had this year.

PRBuzz · 10-24-2011, 08:36 AM

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Originally Posted by GregW

This is my first season so, I refrained from voting as I am not sure how it compares to other years.

Couldnt ask for much more. Sure beat the last few years I had.

You even got to boat and bobber fish for striper!