With The Season Winding Down.....

[tynan19]

Front page of the site says it all for me. The Derby was unbelievable. Best year yet and far from over.

[riverrat2]

Other than september and october my season kinda sucked. October we had some good fish locally which was nice for a change. Got to fish with bigfish, slingah, joeyg, afterhours, torlando and redlite. I gotta thank bigfish for doing surgery on me that one night . Would have been a tough ride home if it wasn't for him and slingah.

[Sea Dangles]

Last week of June on the annual family camping(fishing) trip to Truro.One week in heaven with gentleman fishing at its best.The local sharpies had been complaining about the lack of action and the imminant beach closure due to the PLOVERS.At first I was just happy to be there,but I wanted fish.Night fishing was nonexistent but pencils were working sporadically at daybreak at race point.Then all hell broke loose at the mission bell one morning for a lucky few.I had driven to the end of the beach and started working my way back when I noticed a two acre cloud in the first curl coming my way.Not only the sight but the sound of what went on for the next three hours was hard to do justice with words.It was impossible to cast and NOT hook up.Like Rappin' Mikey said all the fish put a good tug on the line and the bait was hitting the sand just to die with a tan.I actually went to wake up my sons at the campground and brought them back to catch fish in their underwear.The rest of the week brought reliable fishing as soon as it was light enough out to see the plug hit the water the fish would move in and it was as much topwater action as you could hope for.No korkers,no waders,not even a headlamp.Just shorts on and the toes in the sand at the most beautiful beach (longnook?) on the cape.

[mrstriper]

fish with biteme 99% of the time...learned a lot about sandy neck this year as I bought a 4 wheel drive( makes it easy to carry a 100 plus plugs...although I catch most of my fish with a yozuri darter), biggest was 42"(yellow darter+ an afterhours spook), bumped into some guys from the site- and fished with hunan...had a lot of fun that night(effin hunan)...biggest"blitz" from a tourist spot(dowses)=about ten legals up to 38", didn't fish outer as much as usual secondary to the mung...blew up about three or four reels( where is the best place to get reels fixed, penn liveliner, penn slammer, acouple of shimano baitrunners, a nautil or two etc.), strange but only caught maybe three fish all year with the redgill, and got three fluke with a darter from the surf...only hoed biteme, which is great because first cast with his black swimmer produced a 38",of which he said what are you using(as the drag ws screaming out) and I said one of your plugs,and he says $^&*...I don't remember giving you that plug, also hope that I get to fish a few more weeks, but it was an okay year.

[Backbeach Jake]

Lemme see Tagger, MAC, Indanite, Bigfish, Afterhours, Jigman,Throwing Timber, KarlF, Rappin'Mikey. More that won't come to my feeble old mind this late on a Saturday Night. These fine Fishermen are all guys I never met until I started haunting the Board. I consider myself lucky to have gained so many friends and grateful for these forums for making it possible. Thanks all! Yep Larry, Sox in playoffs is the ticket! But lets fish again next year anyway. It's you who bring in the big fish, BigFish!

[afterhours]

one of highlights of this season for me was mother natures fierce lightning show on race point one night- awesome! was with bbjake, mac, slingah, bigfish, fishboy, and ....crs just took over. also fished with redneck24, finn-addict,skd, riverratt2 and.....

[l.i.fish.in.vt]

got to fish with Bigfish, afterhours and squids dad early in the season. fished with Rappin Mikey quite a bit.meet Karl and Slipnot for a few hours. fished several morning with Slipnot.chased bluefish with MT striper and Mikey one morning.meet Bassmaster and his family, Backbeach jake several times, Jenn and Bruce camped across from me.ran into Mr striper and biteme late one night, several others that i can't remeber. the best part of this season was watching my 16 year old son get fishing fever after he saw TC's picture of his 60lber. itwasn't the best year in terms of fishing for me as far as bass go many small fish nothing over 22lbs more bluefish than i can ever remember.the last week of august, between me and my son we lost close to 40 pencil poppers to blues.hopefully i will get one more trip to LI mid november tobreak the 30lb mark