squeteague......

[Clammer]

Did he get back in time ?

GS ..use to be out there when he was on call .................... you would see him go in & then back out ;

I guess helen must have passed by now /she was arching all over last time I saw her .

[trapperpierre]

......last time I saw George & Helen was at the crows nest many years ago.....George had on his funny fish hat.....the whole trout coming out of his @#$%&*head.................

[Clammer]

he had a fight with Nick [helens] son on who was going to drive him to the hospital ;;
he drove ,he died that day ;

they had a G S day at the apartment complex where he fed all the ducks & trapped the snapping turtles .. there is a plaque there ...where they actually changed the name on the pond to george,s Pond ;;

They had his service right in the funeral palor ......... the place looked like retired fishmens day ....... most were dressed up but you wouldn,t know it cuz ya couldn,t tell the difference in their clothes .
He was laid out in his plaid shirt. red serpenders [sp] / the fish hat you mention ed ;
& Helen had the talking largemouthbass on the coffin ... & everyone had to squeeze it when we paid respects ;;

He was one in 10 Million & everyone has a dozen different George S, stories ;

without trying he was really a character & I consider myselk lucky to have known & fished with him ;;

[jmac]

Clammer/Trapper...

Remember GS in his little green boat with live pogies/50lb mono in tight at the corner of Norton's...amongst the sailboats.....many good times in there...we would be laffing our a$$ off at all the commotion with volkswagon sized boils everywhere....

...

[Clammer]

Jmac ;

when I see you / I,m going to run that Alcar [fisherman] over ;

you don,t return PM,s ;wtf we are the last of that group ......... ya got a couple of youngins in your crew Rays kid & Billy B. & they ain,t kids RJ bought a new truck . so that may keep him working a little longer / & a lot of wanna be, s in your wake ;;

thrifty crew / was george & his bunch . we would be jin erickson,s & they would buy 6 -10 hooks at a time .
One day George saw my truck at a yard sale .. the next time he saw me on the water / he stopped & told me to quit buying [his] sinkers .... I don,t think I ever got a sinker @ a y/s

[jmac]

Check your PM's..didn't realize U sent me 1

...I dont' run with nobody....I "associate";
...i liked the old days better.....if you get my drift.

George was one of of kind....if you think about it, they were all one of a kind....Goda, Roland, Tom D. (who recently passed), Ding and Dong brothers, your buddy Earl,,,we could go on and on....

[bloocrab]

Last blowfish I caught was from the rocky shores of "Sequest Point" or at least that's how my father pronounced it way back when. That's when you could drive your car off the point if you had too much shine in ya.....and if memory serves me right, they'd make quite the racket after being kicked around the rocks too.......that's the price they'd pay for wasting $$$sandworms....they'd bounce pretty good too, not that I ever tried it.


btw....you guys are OLD.

[Crafty Angler]

Originally Posted by bloocrab

btw....you guys are OLD.

Hey, Gilly - if you remember driving around "Sequest Point" it's definitely a sign that you're on the road to Geezer City...

Fun to read and fun to remember but it's sorta sad sometimes to think of what once was and is no more - and not so very long ago, either...

I'm glad I grew up around here when I did in the '50's and '60's - in a lot of ways we had the best of it, I think...

[bloocrab]

Originally Posted by Crafty Angler

..... fun to remember but it's sorta sad sometimes ....

Chuck, it TRULY is sad. Especially up your way...Just to think of the amount of shore-access that's been taken away in your area

It's very depressing that my own son will NEVER stand on many of the rocks that I was first taught to fish from. this is a depressing thread.

Gotta leave it be.

[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.

[jmac]

Bennie P? he would be 100 by now.....

Manny Almeida's Fireside Lounge ...also his other one in Warwick-would watch Bruins/Espostito/Orr/Sanderson back then
Another Ulphostered Sewer-McGoverns(?) on the old Canal St...you wiped your feet when U left....

[Clammer]

Where did the Squeteague thread go ?????????????

[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.

[Raven]

Originally Posted by Clammer

one of the underlying reasons I don,t eat seafood <><><

what? no brain food?



Clammer i can tell you need ZINC
it helps you think

SEE veggie thread in scuppers

[Clammer]

FISH IVT
trapper don,t know .he wasn,t a digger ;;

who burnt the harbor masters boat boat to the water level last summer ><><

[intrepid24]

hey, did you guys ever make it to the lobster raffle at the lincoln, in riverside ? man they had some Huuuuugee lobsters !
my dad would bring me there in the morn. to see them, many over 10lbs.

[trapperpierre]

.........when 'haugs were thick,,,,.tonged B Beach etc...........bought tongs from the guy in East Providence...near Crecent Park....Emile Coreavasue(some kind of Frenchman),,,,can still hear the clatter-in the fog off Bullocks,,,,,,,,oh yea, Jack B was on submarine patrol........fall bass'n naval activity near T-wharf hhehehe....and..uh oh.............here comes Al Judge......+ Green,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,sure hope the squets return(this is a squet thread....)I think....now--name dropper.......Joe Hathaway from E G cove...............

[trapperpierre]

.......maybe make a run over to LI for squets...........this spring.....with all this squet talk

[intrepid24]

Originally Posted by trapperpierre

.........when 'haugs were thick,,,,.tonged B Beach etc...........bought tongs from the guy in East Providence...near Crecent Park....Emile Coreavasue(some kind of Frenchman),,,,can still hear the clatter-in the fog off Bullocks,,,,,,,,oh yea, Jack B was on submarine patrol........fall bass'n naval activity near T-wharf hhehehe....and..uh oh.............here comes Al Judge......+ Green,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,sure hope the squets return(this is a squet thread....)I think....now--name dropper.......Joe Hathaway from E G cove...............

Holllly Molllly !!!!!!! i knew Emile aka Tex, he was a really crazy guy !!
B beach was our main spot for flatfish, and everything else in the 70's !

[Clammer]

I just saw the commercial for centerville bank .

thats Rick Rego / back then he ran from allen,s harbor as a digger .................... I think he had the re cord for RI boat division for squeteague / I remember he caught two by mistake off the north end of Jamestown .. I believe he held the record cuz no one else bothered to make the effort to fill out the form ......... I,m not sure but I think it around 13 -15# / too long ago


Damn Smitty is a fu ckin icon out of bullocks cove ... little gray skiff & 20' tongs .always off the hill S/E of Rocky point dock . I,m not sure but it was last year or the year before I saw him still doing the same thing ;;;

[l.i.fish.in.vt]

since this thread is about weakfish and now a little clamming added in,the best weakfishing i expierenced was around 78/79 while tonging off my 34ft otto tong boat.with all the tongers turning up the bottom in the shellbeds the weakfish were feasting on worms and whatever else was stirred out of the bottom. lots of 10 to 15lb fish. always keep the spinner with a salty dog on board.

[Zeal]

Believe it or not South Shore LI does get a short glimpse of weakfish/squeteague each year but it's never pronounced. I have caught them the past few years off of bucktails , shiners, and of course squid. But they only have been in the 15-20" range that I have seen. If anything, Florida's "Sea Trout" population probably is higher than the weakfish here now. I do see blowfish each year but they are tiny yet people have the nerve to keep them which i want to beat them for. But the only run-ins I have gotten in with weakfish are incidental except once, its usually when I am after snappers (yes, I snapper fish. they are good eating and are great bait as well which people use for livelining for fluke and weakfish do eat them like candy)! When ever there is a slight rumor of them around here I go and try to track them down, its like trying to catch bigfoot sadly. If I manage one I'll be sure to get a photo of it before I release it!

Oh and for cooking them my mother would grill them. Dear Lord they are delicious.

[Zeal]

Oh and the reason why they aren't really reported is because the one's caught are rarely keepers! Usually they barely miss the keeper mark for me but again, as long as there is a wiggle at the end of my line I am happy as a pig in poop! Summer usually is their cycle here, used to be Fall for the "Tide Runners". All of my weaks have been always caught in the summer (june-august typically because they are chasing down dredgers and the sand worms) off of docks, Surfcasting never. It's either by boat or by dock early morning or dusk as they have a short window of being active around those times if you run into them.

Glad I am not the only one who misses those gorgeous fish, people around here tease me about going for weakfish even though I usually am the one who does walk away with the experience of "yes, they are around!" Be honored that you guys are the only ones I have actually told this all to!

Btw, the bucktails that worked were white and red with squid for the tail instead of rind, pink bucktails with squid tipped also were really hot a few seasons ago, by boat live-lining snappers got some big ones but those were far and few, and sandworms. Funny though, a bobber with a stinking shiner at dusk or dawn always landed me one for a long time. Drove everyone nuts who couldnt do what I did and fascinated those who never knew what they were.

And yes, blues on top teague on bottom. But also teague behind! Bluefish panick eat and run hehe. But the only way I know they are still around is that with a bobber and hook setup for snapper, the bobber gets yanked underwater so hard it makes bubbles! From experience, the only fish that do that when snappers are around are in fact weakfish, just pray the hook on their is trusty enough to hook it! HINT: USE FLOUNDER OR SMALL BLACKFISH HOOKS FOR ANY CHANCE OF GETTING ONE WHILE GOING FOR ANYTHING ELSE.

If you guys ever get one surfcasting please tell me. I'll be sure to get a photo before releasing a weakfish to ease some of the nostalgia here

Oh and Sea Trout in Florida are literally half weakfish and half trout. They have the signature fangs to prove it!

[EarnedStripes44]

Seen a few taken out of the Hudson a couple years back around 125th St. in NY. Never have I seen or heard of taken around the harbor.