After the canal bite

[numbskull]

My hope is that people are spoiled by so many easy quality fish and lose interest in working for 'em.

[piemma]

Originally Posted by numbskull

My hope is that people are spoiled by so many easy quality fish and lose interest in working for 'em.

I am certain that is what will happen.

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by piemma

I am certain that is what will happen.

So am I. In the mid 1980s you could float a live herring under a balloon, and walk it all the way down past the cribbin on a west tide, without ever seeing another fisherman. Get back to the run and your herring basket would be undisturbed. You could throw jigs and skins all night in some of the most popular spots, and the only thing that would annoy you were the bluefish who ripped up your skins. On the rare occasions when there was a morning plug bite, you might get 20 guys spread from the Sag to pole 160. All locals.

It's coming again. No doubt in my mind.

[scottw]

Originally Posted by numbskull

My hope is that people are spoiled by so many easy quality fish and lose interest in working for 'em.

had a guy a couple of Sundays ago stop in when he was in town with his daughters and his friend asking where to go fishing on the island etc....conversation went like this.."we got big fish at the canal, I catch a lotta big fish, where are the big fish around here?"...me- well, I can suggest a few nice spots where you can take the girls....."you don't got big fish around here?...tell me where the big fish are and what do I gotta use to catch them?" me-thinking- is this a joke?...is there a hidden camera somewhere? "the girls wanna catch scup, what do you use for that and I wanna catch a big bass so tell me where we can go???"

he was irritated that I couldn't/wouldn't tell him exactly where he could go and exactly what to use, I was a little dumbfounded

it went like that....it was 1pm on a sunny Sunday afternoon....about the time that most big bass are usually caught locally by day trippers with little girls in tow from the shore

[puppet]

Originally Posted by scottw

"the girls wanna catch scup, what do you use for that and I wanna catch a big bass so tell me where we can go???"

he was irritated that I couldn't/wouldn't tell him exactly where he could go and exactly what to use, I was a little dumbfounded

Hahaha....Scott, you need to change with the times of entitlement. Don't be surprised if after you hook him up with the spots, he comes back to the shop expecting you to clean his fish for him.

What an amazing fisherman he is....you can tell him.

[fish raptor]

Originally Posted by numbskull

My hope is that people are spoiled by so many easy quality fish and lose interest in working for 'em.

I had the same thought....


I personally would rather fish 3 or 4 hours and catch one or two beauties than pull in a fish every 10 minutes. Kinda takes the sport out of it.