Rethinking my passion

[piemma]

You guys who know me well, know I fish and have fished for 50 years for the experience not for the fish. hell, I caught over 200, 34" and up stripers last year and killed 2.
I love my boat, being out for sunrise or in the middle of the night. I love the surf and being one with the waves.
What has me totally frustrated is the BS politics that are going on. I thought at least the State of Rhode Island would realize the importance of conservation of the species. But no, they go and vote for 2 fish per angle, captain and mate on the charters.
What these so called fisheries management people are thinking escapes me.

[Mr. Sandman]

I understand your view. I am a little younger (58) and it is very easy to get upset at the current inshore fishing situation having seen what it was like when you were a kid. And Golf is a great game. There is a lot of satisfaction and fun with golf but it also has its share of frustration. My advice is to mix it up. Do a little of each. Cherry pick the your inshore fishing and get hooked up with others that can take you offshore a couple times a season, and play golf on the other days. You just need to do something slightly new. Doing the same thing year in and year out gets old after while. Whatever you do do not become a charter capt. Making a job out of something you enjoy turns what you love in to something you have to do on days when you would prefer not to do that...just for a few bucks. It generally makes for a big headache. I think the worst charter capt's are the guys who retired and do it part time..it is a loose - loose situation for all.

Don't get so hung up on SB. It's a grand fish but there is a lot more out there than SB.

My inlaw(s) live(d) in a FL golf course senior thing and I tell you they should re-name that place, "Purgatory" it is like Heavens waiting room. I enjoyed the golf when I visited over the years and it is a well manicured beautiful place but I could not live there watching everyone die every day. He just died a few weeks ago and I had to go down for a few days, no golf but I was glad to be home.

So do a little of everything and keep it looow stress, stop reading the newspaper and watching the friggin (bad) news all day. Don't push the hard core days on the water...cherry pick the weekdays when the bite is hot and the weather is great. Anything over 5-10 you should be playing golf and dining out with your wife.

This reminds me of a plumber I saw in Florida... he is a big fisherman and then name of his plumbing company is "Windy day plumbing" , when I saw that I said...that guy has the right idea about work.

[Guppy]

Originally Posted by piemma

I could belong to a pretty nice golf course for quite a few years and not be as aggravated as I have been lately with the numb nuts running the fisheries.

Hmmmmmm....

Are you still talking golf LOL. 😡

It's this freaken winter, hang in there Paul , you'll forget all that crap the first second you leave the slip for the first time this season.

It ain't easy! LOL

[MakoMike]

I'd rather be fishing in a desert than playing golf! Gold is for old people who don't know how to fish!

[Redsoxticket]

I would build a miniature golf course with a fishing theme of the popular fishing locations which are no longer have bass. The last hole would be a replica of a charter boat where customers can take their best shot at a bull's eye to sink it. ☺
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[l.i.fish.in.vt]

one less person on the water is just what the fisheries need.the more people who give up fishing the better it is.As far as Grace Potter goes i have known her since she was a baby.i worked for her dad Sparky as a subcontractor for many years and still do on occasion,a vert talented family

[JohnnySaxatilis]

Golf is stressfull, on the cape in the summer at a public track I equate it to sitting in a traffic jam... Unless I'm at the harbors, and then its its an absolute pleasure

[Slipknot]

Originally Posted by l.i.fish.in.vt

one less person on the water is just what the fisheries need.the more people who give up fishing the better it is.As far as Grace Potter goes i have known her since she was a baby.i worked for her dad Sparky as a subcontractor for many years and still do on occasion,a vert talented family

So what you are saying John, is that you can introduce them

[Nebe]

You could always take up roller blading, buy some short shorts and move to Province town.
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[ProfessorM]

Do both. Variety is the spice of life.
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[PaulS]

Originally Posted by ProfessorM

Do both. Variety is the spice of life.
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Exactly. Don't let fishing rule your life. Do something else and don't force yourself to go.

Become a lobbyiest - God knows the recs. need one.

[sks]

Hey guys, Nice pics by the way. Don't post here so much but like checking in. Fishing, guys at work think I'm 24/7 and I tell them you don't know some of the guys that I know. I hate to admit it but I guess I'm a fair weather fisherman. I like to enjoy myself. Like is said the "catching" is kind of secondary, Most of the time. I'm not one for fishing all night even though that is the best time. It just messes up my internal clock but I will get up at 0200 or earlier to drive to the Canal for the sunrise.

The best thing I have going is my work hours, Sun - Tue/Wed 12 hr shifts I'm up at 0345 and get home at 1915. So I have weekdays to fish, Sat. is the day to do chores and get ready for the work week. Great to fish weekdays, lot less "activity" on the water, oh and less traffic.

Well just my thoughts. Thanks for listening, Scott

[Justfishin']

I'm with MakoMike on the golf thing- can't get next to a game where I get to hit the ball but then have to chase after it....

and if you're the kind of guy that wants to sell everything because you can no longer catch 30-50 bass a day-maiming at least a third of them- and fishing just sucks because of it; well, see ya around, have fun trickin' out the cart....(I know this ain't you piemma)......

The photos say it all for a reason to fish, there is nothing like the outdoors to experience and we need to protect it

Me, I'll spend more time in the sweetwater, there is a real thrill to tricking a 3 lb brown with a size 18 blue wing olive; to pulling a largemouth from under a lilly pad with a deer hair popper; getting smallies to hit a stripped leach; taking a kid out for bluegills and perch.

And I'll still spend days and nights out on a rock, getting the s**t knocked out of me by the surf, because it's fishing.


Fix the bait, Sink the Factory Ships.

[bassballer]

Paul you fish. its what we do. Just buy a bigger boat and start offshore fishing. Re-spark the flame.

your just buried in snow. It will melt sooner or later and youll be back in your happy place. Crusing the bay.

[Nebe]

Paul's all about that bass. Paul needs to learn about the other species that he can chase in that boat... Fluke, seabass and the mighty blackfish
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[Sea Dangles]

Originally Posted by Nebe

Paul's all about that bass. Paul needs to learn about the other species that he can chase in that boat... Fluke, seabass and the mighty blackfish
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Ding ding
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[piemma]

Originally Posted by Nebe

Paul's all about that bass. Paul needs to learn about the other species that he can chase in that boat... Fluke, seabass and the mighty blackfish
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Then you need to come on my boat and show me how.

[Nebe]

Originally Posted by piemma

Then you need to come on my boat and show me how.

I would only be parroting techniques learned from Bryan and Goosefish!
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[Got Stripers]

Originally Posted by piemma

Then you need to come on my boat and show me how.

Paul I meant to run you down at the diner, but got too wrapped up in chatting with Greg and Ross. You bring Clammer with you some day and I'll give you the light tackle tog fishing basic's, I can hear Mike swearing already.

[bassballer]

Golf gives you something to do when its Blowing 40

[Clammer]

yep , your the only one BOB . that,s kicked my ass every single trip .w/ your plastics/


I,ve offered Paulie many times ... but he has the think Italian personality .......... Stripers or nothing ........................

[Got Stripers]

I think there is nothing prettier than a big hump head sea bass coming out of the water and while the tog won't win any beauty contest unless it's being held at an orthodontist convention, I love the way they fight. You and are are fishing together this coming year and I'd love to fish with someone new; just oil those reels before coming please.

[piemma]

Originally Posted by Got Stripers

Paul I meant to run you down at the diner, but got too wrapped up in chatting with Greg and Ross. You bring Clammer with you some day and I'll give you the light tackle tog fishing basic's, I can hear Mike swearing already.

You're on. It'll be a blast

[RIROCKHOUND]

Originally Posted by piemma

Then you need to come on my boat and show me how.

Second hand expert learning at it's finest right there!
Hell, I taught RIJimmy*** to fluke, I can teach you...





*** just make sure you have a net, I have visions of the solid 10 I lost @ the side of Jim's boat with no net...

[piemma]

Originally Posted by RIROCKHOUND

Second hand expert learning at it's finest right there!
Hell, I taught RIJimmy*** to fluke, I can teach you...





*** just make sure you have a net, I have visions of the solid 10 I lost @ the side of Jim's boat with no net...

Bry, I have a boat net I have never used. We'll plan something and I'll pick you up in Wickford so you don't have to drive all the way from Westerly to Warwick.

[Got Stripers]

Originally Posted by Nebe

Paul's all about that bass. Paul needs to learn about the other species that he can chase in that boat... Fluke, seabass and the mighty blackfish
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I spend the first hour chasing bass, then it's black sea bass, tog or fluke; that way I'm at least bringing home something tasty to eat. Last year not one keeper, because of so few bass around my usual milk run in that first hour, but I'm still eating lots of tasty treats.

[bassballer]

i golf quite a bit. Just got a membership at TPC Boston. i still fish 4 days a week. But im in sales... its my job.

[JohnnySaxatilis]

Originally Posted by bassballer

i golf quite a bit. Just got a membership at TPC Boston. i still fish 4 days a week. But im in sales... its my job.

Thats one of the main reasons I still want to play and be decent at it. Golf and business go hand in hand. And when my future boss asks me to play in the Member Guest I don't wanna chisel it... Waiting for that invite to the TPC when it gets warm out!

[bassballer]

Originally Posted by JohnnySaxatilis

Thats one of the main reasons I still want to play and be decent at it. Golf and business go hand in hand. And when my future boss asks me to play in the Member Guest I don't wanna chisel it... Waiting for that invite to the TPC when it gets warm out!

Im starting to question if its ever going to get warm

[Got Stripers]

Originally Posted by bassballer

i golf quite a bit. Just got a membership at TPC Boston. i still fish 4 days a week. But im in sales... its my job.

Well if that 4th cancels on you last minute and you need a fill-in, I can hold my own at a 10.4......wink......wink. Last year there was talk about a striped-bass golf outing, we really need to pull that together, maybe a spring outing in our mudders when Falmouth or Cape Cod CC open; to celebrate end of this sh*t winter. Snow blower moved 8" again last night, big red is as tired as me.