Old fishing stories - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

stiff tip · 08-03-2006, 07:12 PM

i was bart......in the 60 70 n80 was the hay days of bass fishin for me ,the 90 good bass fishin droped off in a flash .. when bass fishin for bucks ..... in the late 70s n early 80s i got 2.75 lb for mid size bass 8 to 17 lbs.schoolies were 16in to 71/2lbs i got always 2 bucks +.n large bass was 125 to 225 per lb.. at race pt jumbos bass 40lbs+ were a few cents less ... if the fishing was good i took them to chatham or elsewhere ... most fair nights i would do 3 to 8 bass , n a good night is 10+ ...plugs or eels @ 5.00 a doz ,at drews b+t or at bass run for 50$each....20 to high 30 lbs was the norm , and 30s to 40s in the fall.. much bigger fish in the fall . the best part of the fall run lasted3to 6 wks .in that time 2wks were unreal ... 2or 3 guys could do a 1000 lbs or more.. i loved those days .no nights. me n the boys would fish our brains n body out ,all for the love of the buck or bass didnt matter.. but if the truth be known ,,,,i,m blessed w/the memorys n the beatings those big fish gave me weather the boat or the beach .... that was what bass fishin was about..one more thing tell nobody nothing... believe it or else capt cupcake???????

Slinger · 08-04-2006, 03:29 AM

Spent many, many nights in the company of the old guard back then. I fished with the Woonsocket crew and a few of the New Yorkers. Some of the stuff I saw and did went on to become legend, mostly I was just a witness, but I still remember nights when I had to put bass in the front seat cause there was no more room in the back of the truck.DAys spent trying to sleep in the truck behind Matt the Rats, a shade tree was the most valuable thing at them times. You could pull into Old Harbor at 3 in the morning and ice down and weigh your fish and come back at 9 and get paid cash. Would take a weeks worth of stinking , slime covered clothes into the wash and fold and get them cleaned for a couple of bucks, they wern`t to fond of us! But that was then......
Who says the old days are gone, Tony C dragged a 53 and a 62 up onto those fabeled sands last year!
Slinger

Flaptail · 08-04-2006, 09:47 AM

Skitterpop · 08-04-2006, 01:06 PM

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Longhair

fishonnelsons · 08-05-2006, 10:39 AM

Karl - Canadian geese were sighted at the Circle of Love, the Senior Angler was sighted trolling in the area

piemma · 08-05-2006, 11:24 AM

...and I'm just sitting around in my old pajamas....

Skitterpop · 08-05-2006, 11:31 AM

Love old stories

even Franks or other fabrications

Karl F · 08-05-2006, 12:44 PM

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Karl - Canadian geese were sighted at the Circle of Love, the Senior Angler was sighted trolling in the area

.. hope them geese can't talk

Karl F · 08-05-2006, 12:50 PM

kennebeck.. that's why a lot of folks are

There was a real darn good recovery after all that stuff from the old days tho.. I remember a few years of No Fish... actually didn't fish for a few.. took to FW bassin for a while.. some real good fishin for them on the cape....
Now, i believe, it's the bait we need to fix, as was done for the stripers.
Can't really blame the old ways.. it's what was done at that time, and accepted as the way to go, by 99.9%, hopefull we can turn that around and get as large a percentage conservation minded, it's well under way.

capesams · 08-04-2006, 09:55 AM

Krispy · 08-04-2006, 10:10 AM

Back Beach · 08-04-2006, 11:27 AM

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Old stories do that to me too for the most part. Except for one or two guys who tell stories well and don't exaggerate too much.Otherwise, I have to be there or it never happened.

kennebecstriper · 08-05-2006, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by stiff tip

i was bart......in the 60 70 n80 was the hay days of bass fishin for me ,the 90 good bass fishin droped off in a flash .. when bass fishin for bucks ..... in the late 70s n early 80s i got 2.75 lb for mid size bass 8 to 17 lbs.schoolies were 16in to 71/2lbs i got always 2 bucks +.n large bass was 125 to 225 per lb.. at race pt jumbos bass 40lbs+ were a few cents less ... if the fishing was good i took them to chatham or elsewhere ... most fair nights i would do 3 to 8 bass , n a good night is 10+ ...plugs or eels @ 5.00 a doz ,at drews b+t or at bass run for 50$each....20 to high 30 lbs was the norm , and 30s to 40s in the fall.. much bigger fish in the fall . the best part of the fall run lasted3to 6 wks .in that time 2wks were unreal ... 2or 3 guys could do a 1000 lbs or more.. i loved those days .no nights. me n the boys would fish our brains n body out ,all for the love of the buck or bass didnt matter.. but if the truth be known ,,,,i,m blessed w/the memorys n the beatings those big fish gave me weather the boat or the beach .... that was what bass fishin was about..one more thing tell nobody nothing... believe it or else capt cupcake???????

AND WE WONDER WHY FISHING ISN'T AS GOOD ANYMORE!!
Not slamming but 10+ fish a night, then people get mad at asians who are eating 100% of their catch and not selling breeders.
Sorry but when I started fishing it was the good old days then slow and crazy 36"+ size limits, then they came back just to get hammered again!
How about taking a couple of fish(any species) once in a while when you will eat them, otherwize enjoy the expereience and leave some for everyone else.

Flaptail · 08-05-2006, 01:29 PM

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AND WE WONDER WHY FISHING ISN'T AS GOOD ANYMORE!!
Not slamming but 10+ fish a night, then people get mad at asians who are eating 100% of their catch and not selling breeders.
Sorry but when I started fishing it was the good old days then slow and crazy 36"+ size limits, then they came back just to get hammered again!
How about taking a couple of fish(any species) once in a while when you will eat them, otherwize enjoy the expereience and leave some for everyone else.

You have no right to pass judgement if you were not there and had experienced the times and places. 36" is relatively recent history which automactically brands you as a newcomer to this sport. Times have changed and we all, (all those who were there and part of it) are different people now with new attitudes. So in other words shut up and listen and learn. Being that your monicker implies the state of Mine and the fanatiscism of "conservation" of your relatively small part of the big picture. Maine's striped bass fishery is marginal and of little consequence when seen on the grand scale, a mostly river fishery indulged in by those new to the sport or corrupted by bad information and junk science and blinded to the real struggles that stripers really face, menaing predation by marine mammals and lack of significant large forage species upon which an adult stripers success depends if she is to reach the potenetial for growth, health and fecundity.

Go back to class my dear first grader, you have a lot to learn.

capesams · 08-05-2006, 05:28 PM

Interesting! when someone say's old fishing stories...it always starts off with the comm. guy's on a beach somewhere landing hundred's of pounds...etc.. etc...///// now to my way of thinking it should be about an old uncle bob who just happen to go flouder fishing and latched onto a 60lber. which towed him 3 miles up some river an after a 2.1/2 hour fight brought it to the boat.....or like when you were catching small blues from a beach on a fall sunday afternoon and something came along and ate the blue, but never surfaced once while you were being spooled and running out of beach to run it down......those are fish stories.....just like the time two budd's were fishing for stripers and one got a hit on his eel..hooked it and brought it in only to find the eel had passed through the gill's of the first fish and another fish came along an got hooked too...two fish at the same time on one eel....thats a fish story an true.

Karl F · 08-05-2006, 09:06 PM

kennebecstriper · 08-06-2006, 11:15 AM

Sorry if I hit a real nerve there Flap but I grew up on the Ct. shore and have a 50 in Ct. Narragansette, Cape beach, and Maine river.
Yeah our Maine fishery is relatively new in the publics eyes but the fish have been there for millenium.
Your agument about lack of forage fish is well founded AND CAUSED BY A COMMERCIAL FISHERY FOR THEM!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry not a newby or a first grader but have put in over 100+ days(nights) for each of the past 28 years. 2004-2.814 stripers in Maine with a 50, 2-40's and 16-30's.
I really am an o.k. guy and not a conservation freak by the way.