Suggested trips for me and my 12 year-old for 2019!

[niko]

do the haddock trip. take him sharking, u can do some groundfishing while u wait for sharks. fluking off Nantucket is pretty amazing. smelting up in maine is pretty cheap. and like DZ said take him to NY

[Slipknot]

Take him to the canal on a breaking tide and witness the spectacle

[Jim in CT]

Thanks guys.

Also, we did a lobster trip with a lobsterman out of P-town this summer, we hauled about 120 traps in 3-4 hours, dock-to-dock. It was hard work, but it would be a huge understatement to say that my son loved it. I asked this last year and didn't get any real leads, but if anyone knows of a lobsterman who might be willing to take us out for a day (maybe between 4-8 hours), my son and I would work hard and work for free.

[DZ]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

Thanks guys.

Also, we did a lobster trip with a lobsterman out of P-town this summer, we hauled about 120 traps in 3-4 hours, dock-to-dock. It was hard work, but it would be a huge understatement to say that my son loved it. I asked this last year and didn't get any real leads, but if anyone knows of a lobsterman who might be willing to take us out for a day (maybe between 4-8 hours), my son and I would work hard and work for free.

Jim - contact my friend Pat Heaney in Newport. He's a lobsterman and also runs City by the Sea Charters for sport fishing. You might be able to combine both. Drop my name if you contact him.
http://citybytheseacharters.weebly.com/index.html

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by DZ

Jim - contact my friend Pat Heaney in Newport. He's a lobsterman and also runs City by the Sea Charters for sport fishing. You might be able to combine both. Drop my name if you contact him.
http://citybytheseacharters.weebly.com/index.html

Will do, thanks. My son told me last summer, while sweating like a pig and having sore muscles from pulling 100 pots, that it was the most fun day he'd ever had on the water. He really, really liked lobstering, he just liked the rhythm of hauling, banding the keepers, re-baiting the traps, and pitching the trap back into the water. I liked it too. Hard work, but more fun than painting or raking leaves.

THANK YOU.

[DZ]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

Will do, thanks. My son told me last summer, while sweating like a pig and having sore muscles from pulling 100 pots, that it was the most fun day he'd ever had on the water. He really, really liked lobstering, he just liked the rhythm of hauling, banding the keepers, re-baiting the traps, and pitching the trap back into the water. I liked it too. Hard work, but more fun than painting or raking leaves.

THANK YOU.

It's funny you say that. My father in law is now 99. About 10 years ago he wanted to experience lobstering. A local lobster fishermen from Jamestown said he would take him out but my FIL had to work for it. He spent the day lobstering. When we picked him up at the end of the day we asked him how it went. He said something to the effect of; "Once I stopped puking from setting up the bait rings everything was great!"

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by DZ

It's funny you say that. My father in law is now 99. About 10 years ago he wanted to experience lobstering. A local lobster fishermen from Jamestown said he would take him out but my FIL had to work for it. He spent the day lobstering. When we picked him up at the end of the day we asked him how it went. He said something to the effect of; "Once I stopped puking from setting up the bait rings everything was great!"

I can't begin to explain why it was so much fun, because it was such hard work, although for me much of it was seeing the huge smile on my son's face, but I would have happily done it by myself. Fortunately for me, I have a terribly deviated septum, and therefore about a 20% sense of smell, so the stench doesn't bother me at all.

If I retire with a few marbles still rolling around, and still with some physical abilities, I'd love to get a little downeaster, and retire either to the Pt Judith area or the Cape, and fish and have maybe 10 lobster pots.

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Originally Posted by Slipknot

Take him to the canal on a breaking tide and witness the spectacle

Just make sure his shots are up to date.
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