The Canal

[eelman]

Originally Posted by fishaholic18

Who Cares!!!
It's all fishing no matter how it's done.
I fish because I enjoy it, doesn't matter how I do it, I like it all, boat,shore,rocks,beach,canal,toilet,whatever......
What about when they fished from bass stands in the old days? How do you classify that? Not that it matters..

I care......

[fishaholic18]

Originally Posted by #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&

I care......

Why? What does it matter?
Then if the Canal isn't surf, what is it and what are the guys who fish it???? Please clarify, Bill...

[Mike P]

If wind driven waves don't qualify as surf---Nobska Light isn't "surf" either

Anything on the south shore of the Cape isn't surf

Whole north shore of MV

Hell, all of Cape Cod Bay--Sandy Neck, Town Neck, Plymouth, you name it.

[numbskull]

Canal fishing is like surfcasting, only harder.......... but with better parking and bigger rats.

[PoPin Plug]

you can only call it surf if there a hundreds of boats coming ziping by causing bunch of waves and theres a storm about to happen other wise... NOPE!

[stiff tip]

Originally Posted by numbskull

Canal fishing is like surfcasting, only harder.......... but with better parking and bigger rats.

i wish i would have said that.......its the same only different

[Flaptail]

Skitterpop, I love you! Great line and for this thread it was brilliant!

Canal fishing is a genre all it's own. There are methods there and plugs that were designed and made strictly with canal fishing use in mind ( Stan Gibb's pencil poppers, Cast-a-Lures slant face popper and Polaris were designed for canal fishing before anything else)

There is another place where the smae type of fishing exists on the east coast, the Delaware Canal. Our railroad bridge and thiers are twins built and designed by the same company. The tide extremes are no where near as great but the do have "breaking tides" and guys do fish them as we fish ours. No it's not surfcasting and it does alighn itself with shore fishing but's it's an entrely unique experience in bass fishing to be sure.

True surfcasting is done on sand beaches facing the open Atlantic where the structure changes day to day and the surfcaster has to constantly rethink his/her approach. Fishing the rocky ledges of the Elizabeth Islands and RI is a type of surfcasting but not surfcasting in it's purest form. The terrain once learned is easier to master as there are no major structural changes from day to day or week to week or season to season only the availability of bait and fish dictates success, once learned, affect the outcome. Change there is only significantly realized after a major weather event most likely being a hurricane and that is a rare occurence, yes standing on a slippery ledge in a high surf is very close and at times dangerous but the amount of guess work in figuring out the how and where is much less. Same goes for the canal and add live bait, fresh dead bait and it gets even easier,the hardest part being getting to your spot, which through little or no access and weather conditions, can be a dilemma.

A high surf fisherman, on an open Atlantic sand beach as we have on the outer Cape, Monomoy,Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, the southern shores of eastern Long Island, New Jersey, the eastern shore of Maryland, Virginia and the Outer Banks is surfcasting in it's highest form and I firmly believe taxes the skills and knowledge of a fisherman more than any other type of fishing thereby making it the most rewarding when everything you know, have learned and is put before you and analyzed and a decision made, lays a gleaming bass at your feet in a rush of white foam and sand.

But this was a discussion of the canal and I do love the canal and was once a confirmed rat but it isn't the most challenging place to fish that we have.

[Megabyte]

#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^& sure knows how to draw a crowd !

Is it called

Surf fishing or Surf catching

Canal fishing or Canal catching

Or ENJOYMENT !

[ProfessorM]

[chris L]

I call it canal fishing ! it is canal fishing so I call it as I see it . could be classified as shore fishing but I wouldnt call it surfcasting or boat fishing . river fishing is a close cousin of canal fishing . So If I was fishing in the erie canal would it be erie fishing .

boat fishing = platform fishing
shore fishing = fishing from land into water of any kind
canal fishing = fishing a canal
river fishing = fishing a moving river
landfishing = landshark encouinters

Mrs. Arlsburgerhhh? what ? Mrs. Johannesburrrr? who is it ? Flowers flowers ? from whom ? plumber ma'am . I dont need a plumber . you are that clever shark arnt you ? candygram . candygram my foot Im calling the proper authorities . You're the shark, and you know it. I'm only a dolphin... A dolphin? Well...okay.) landshark !!!!!!!!

I was singing in the rain just singing in the rain what a glorious feeling just singing in the rain . Oh its not raining you say well I say it is ............. somewhere . is it 5 oclock yet yes somewhere it is .

If I fished in a toilet it would be power plant fishing . no ?

hey Bill have fun at that island .

[fishpoopoo]

#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&,

life is a canal.

you were brought into this world thru a canal

dentists torture u with root canals

u hear thru an ear canal

food goes into the alimentary canal

you make love to a canal (correct me if i'm wrong - if yer a back door guy even that could be called a canal)

so it makes perfect sense to hang up some jigs in a canal