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09-14-2017, 12:20 PM
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#121
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GrandBob
Join Date: Apr 2001
Posts: 3,527
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anything close to the beach near the Hill or all boat fish?
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09-14-2017, 01:20 PM
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#122
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 381
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bobber
had them at the Hill yesterday too.... lots to go around. seems they have invaded the entire area- got reports from MTK to Niantic yesterday
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Yup - I'm going out tomorrow.
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09-14-2017, 08:20 PM
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#123
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: guilford CT
Posts: 858
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rphud
anything close to the beach near the Hill or all boat fish?
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at times- the guys on the rocks didn't seem interested in throwing at them.... but if you were properly equipped, they were in range periodically.
NOTE- a friend was there today and had none.......
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09-15-2017, 06:55 AM
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#124
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GrandBob
Join Date: Apr 2001
Posts: 3,527
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situation normal, thanks for the info
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09-15-2017, 08:36 AM
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#125
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Reading Mass/Newburyport/merrimack river
Posts: 3,748
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Two words...
Much better... I left the dock at 6:30 as the incoming tide made it's last push.. water temp was 65 at the top of the tide... storms to the north and south made me decide to stay close to home...I turned out to be a good choice..
I fished a section of the river I call the swirl.. this stretch of river runs tight to the marsh... numerous creeks and back waters feed into the river here... this time of year large ( and small ) bass will gather in the mouth of the creeks as they enter the main river thus creating numerous eddies or "swirls" they pick off passing herring and shad drops as the tumble bye... I notices the dinner plate sized swirls indication there were at least little guy's in attendance. Picking off "rain bait" as it drifted bye.. not wanting to play in the kiddie pool I wrangled on of the largest eels in the bucket... this thing was half as fat and equally as long as my arm...it landed with a loud splash when it hit the water... 2 turns of the handle and it got thumped... I set the hook and finally.. a fish that could pull some drag... the scenario played out 9 times until the tide was half way down... all the fish were in the 18 - 22 lb range not giants but at least respectable... these fish were rust brown with yellow bellies and quite chubby... obviously living up river somewhere where there was plenty of food...
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A good run is better than a bad stand!
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09-15-2017, 01:08 PM
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#126
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: guilford CT
Posts: 858
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nice- I love the "thump" ya get when fishing eels.... and you just know theres a fish on the end of your line!
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09-15-2017, 02:25 PM
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#127
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Reading Mass/Newburyport/merrimack river
Posts: 3,748
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bobber
nice- I love the "thump" ya get when fishing eels.... and you just know theres a fish on the end of your line!
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absolutely...and when the water is only 4' deep...there's no where to go but up!
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A good run is better than a bad stand!
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09-15-2017, 05:17 PM
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#128
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: guilford CT
Posts: 858
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albie reports from the last 2 days are chaotic at best...... here for an hour then gone, only to pop up at some other spot they weren't before. looks like you find 'em where ya find 'em
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09-16-2017, 04:01 PM
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Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 10,505
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Incredible amounts of bait around, both macks and pogies. Bass, not so much.... the few I found were small and took the macks. Pogies were released after swimming unmolested. Fog lifted around the shoreline for a , but was 1/4 mile vis. for most of the morning. Ran the gauntlet around some boulders at lower end of tide to try to find larger fish but it got too skinny and I had to get out of there.... Outside of hrbor there were several boats casting flys and plugs into schools of pogies Trying to appreciate smaller fish but really wonder where the larger fish are....... I knew I should have blown off work and gone south for albies last week....
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“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.” – James Madison.
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09-16-2017, 04:57 PM
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Too old to give a....
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 2,475
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" I knew I should have blown off work and gone south for albies last week...."
Me too, arrgghh !!
Working really cramps my style.
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May fortune favor the foolish....
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09-16-2017, 05:46 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Kingston, Ma
Posts: 2,286
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Well after a 6 yr layover( f'n kids) was convinced to finally make a return to my island aka cutty last nite
And it was no bueno.
Biggest water i ever attempted to fish. Hawaii pipeline giant. Miracle we didnt get seriously hurt. Sounded like a freight train speedin by and a 747 goin over head at the same time. Rattled your soul. Not the triumphant return i was anticipating but still nice to kiss my old magic stone and catch some flip flops and not gettin eatin by a shark
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09-16-2017, 08:33 PM
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#132
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: marshfield
Posts: 3,614
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been beating on albies pretty good for the last 2 weeks. the fog today made it a little challenging and the "hot spot" had 38 kayaks plus the regular weekend boat crowd. its been pretty fun though - I've had a chance to put a bunch of guys on their first albies. one day we ended up with 60+, it was pretty wild
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my 1st wife didn't like me fishing so much
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09-17-2017, 07:24 AM
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Ledge Runner Baits
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: I live in a house, but my soul is at sea.
Posts: 8,456
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Quote:
Originally Posted by niko
been beating on albies pretty good for the last 2 weeks. the fog today made it a little challenging and the "hot spot" had 38 kayaks plus the regular weekend boat crowd. its been pretty fun though - I've had a chance to put a bunch of guys on their first albies. one day we ended up with 60+, it was pretty wild
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I hated crowds when I had a boat, can't imagine sitting in my yak with that many others, can see tangled lines and short tempers.
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09-17-2017, 09:02 AM
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#134
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: marshfield
Posts: 3,614
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Got Stripers
can see tangled lines and short tempers.
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the albie crowd is pretty well mannered compared to the bass crowd, I only saw 1 guy acting like a #^^^^& in the last 2 weeks
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my 1st wife didn't like me fishing so much
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09-17-2017, 09:44 AM
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#135
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Somerset MA
Posts: 9,197
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At PJ. Now haven't seen an albie or marked any bait fog still thick 6 ft rollers hope thing change with the tide
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09-17-2017, 09:49 AM
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#136
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,666
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Quote:
Originally Posted by wdmso
At PJ. Now haven't seen an albie or marked any bait fog still thick 6 ft rollers hope thing change with the tide
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Wayne, you are a wild man. Fog was just too think for these old bones to run.
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No boat, back in the suds.
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09-17-2017, 10:59 AM
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#137
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 1,698
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MAKAI
" I knew I should have blown off work and gone south for albies last week...."
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Me too, arrgghh !!
Working really cramps my style.
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09-17-2017, 11:25 AM
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#138
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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Quote:
Originally Posted by niko
the albie crowd is pretty well mannered compared to the bass crowd, I only saw 1 guy acting like a #^^^^& in the last 2 weeks
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Was it me.
Very well behaved I must say. God were they tough to fool this morning. I got one and felt lucky.
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"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
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09-17-2017, 01:45 PM
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#139
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Reading Mass/Newburyport/merrimack river
Posts: 3,748
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Quote:
Originally Posted by piemma
Wayne, you are a wild man. Fog was just too think for these old bones to run.
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Fog made me turn around Before I went 200 yards last night
..maybe I'll change my screen name to puss in boots. ..try again tonight.
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A good run is better than a bad stand!
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09-17-2017, 02:47 PM
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#140
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Reading Mass/Newburyport/merrimack river
Posts: 3,748
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nightfighter
Incredible amounts of bait around, both macks and pogies. Bass, not so much.... the few I found were small and took the macks. Pogies were released after swimming unmolested. Fog lifted around the shoreline for a , but was 1/4 mile vis. for most of the morning. Ran the gauntlet around some boulders at lower end of tide to try to find larger fish but it got too skinny and I had to get out of there.... Outside of hrbor there were several boats casting flys and plugs into schools of pogies Trying to appreciate smaller fish but really wonder where the larger fish are....... I knew I should have blown off work and gone south for albies last week....
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Been a tough year for big fish up our way. ..I haven't broken 30lb yet this season. ..if I don't. .. it will be the first time since 1976 that I don't get at least 1...
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A good run is better than a bad stand!
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09-17-2017, 03:03 PM
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User
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Cape Cod
Posts: 5,454
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ProfessorM
Was it me.
Very well behaved I must say. God were they tough to fool this morning. I got one and felt lucky.
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Made a quick run out at 11,,,, dead and not much bait,,, I hope it isn't over :-(
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09-17-2017, 03:33 PM
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#142
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Somerset MA
Posts: 9,197
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Quote:
Originally Posted by wdmso
At PJ. Now haven't seen an albie or marked any bait fog still thick 6 ft rollers hope thing change with the tide
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Left PJ at Noon with no change in the fog a bigger incoming Swell (low tide ) back to Newport total skunk.. Was expecting fish to put on a feed bag with the coming Low pressure i was wrong
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09-17-2017, 04:07 PM
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#143
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Mass.
Posts: 82
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Quote:
Originally Posted by wdmso
Left PJ at Noon with no change in the fog a bigger incoming Swell (low tide ) back to Newport total skunk.. Was expecting fish to put on a feed bag with the coming Low pressure i was wrong
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wdmso- I ran down to the Sakonnet river looking for some blues this morning. The fog wasn't good but I made it and found some blues but once it began to clear the albies showed up in the river above Fogland. They were really fussy keying in on the pnutz and there is a lot of bait around for them to chose from.
Ron
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09-17-2017, 05:21 PM
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#144
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: marshfield
Posts: 3,614
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ProfessorM
Was it me.
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you're on the non #^^^^& list. its a short list
Last edited by niko; 09-17-2017 at 05:29 PM..
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my 1st wife didn't like me fishing so much
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09-17-2017, 06:28 PM
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#145
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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Quote:
Originally Posted by niko
you're on the non #^^^^& list. its a short list
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Only Paul's allowed on that list.
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"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
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09-17-2017, 06:43 PM
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#146
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Pembroke
Posts: 3,343
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ProfessorM
Only Paul's allowed on that list.
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Says who?
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Does your incessant whining make you feel better? How about you just shut the hell up and suck it up? It's a fishing forum , so please just stop.
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09-17-2017, 07:09 PM
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#147
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: marshfield
Posts: 3,614
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Says me, the prof and piemma. The rest of you, especially skippy, are on the other list
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09-17-2017, 07:48 PM
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#148
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2000
Posts: 2,573
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Went out for an hour at dusk - big water - scary water. Managed a half dozen on bucktails. Plenty in the white water just tough to find a perch where I wouldn't get killed. Back home watching more football. Stay safe or stay inside the bays.
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DZ
Recreational Surfcaster
"Limit Your Kill - Don't Kill Your Limit"
Bi + Ne = SB 2
If you haven't heard of the Snowstorm Blitz of 1987 - you someday will.
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09-18-2017, 05:58 AM
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#149
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Somerset MA
Posts: 9,197
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ronfish
wdmso- I ran down to the Sakonnet river looking for some blues this morning. The fog wasn't good but I made it and found some blues but once it began to clear the albies showed up in the river above Fogland. They were really fussy keying in on the pnutz and there is a lot of bait around for them to chose from.
Ron
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that was my 1st choice Newport was my 2nd .. all ways go with your 1st choice
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09-18-2017, 08:10 AM
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#150
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Pembroke
Posts: 3,343
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rockfish9
Been a tough year for big fish up our way. ..I haven't broken 30lb yet this season. ..if I don't. .. it will be the first time since 1976 that I don't get at least 1...
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That's pretty interesting Joe. What do you attribute that to? Are water temps in line with previous years? Bait seems to be in many places but not fish. Do you think it's just a lack of fish? Or are conditions different keeping them out?
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Does your incessant whining make you feel better? How about you just shut the hell up and suck it up? It's a fishing forum , so please just stop.
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