Fall run already ran part No. 2/ What makes you keep doing this?

[eelman]

I think we all have the compulsion, its just when you get older or you have been at this a long time you just mature to a point where being the last guy on the water isnt nessasary...it isnt for me anymore. I love to fish maybe more than anyone but, I also fish almost 7 days a week from mid April until the end of October..I fish about 171 days a year or so ! I would say thats alot.

I also see no need anymore to subject myself to teen temps in mid november at night for yet one more fish..I used to do that...stem to stern until December 1st...I now just dont want to do that anymore.I certainly understand some doing it and do not knock it but...I want to fish somewhat comfortable now ....I have paid my dues...and I no longer consider 5 hours freezing my arse off and only one 25lb fish to show for it a good night by any means. But like I said, When I was in my 20s and early 30s I did it so its all perspective I Guess...I had a fantastic September and a steller October...For me its a matter of being more than satisfied.I have maybe 4 to 5 more night trips left in me and the conditions have to be absolutely fantastic for me to even think about going and at that I am not looking for teen or 20lb class fish..its cows or bust.After that its a couple trips to the Breachways for "old home week" and then I have to start thinking about family and holidays etc...

This discussion gets very old after awhile...the truth is the season ends when you want it to end..when you have had enough.I hate the "is it over" or "has it started " talk...just fish and start or quit when you want to...dont listen to the crap that there still are acres of fish up North and some anomoly is going to make those fish hug the coast and come to the cape and then rhode island etc....etc....etc.... thats the biggest line of bull I have ever heard...Like I said before those fish migrate under different conditions and different patterns...they are different strains cape fish and north shore fish are Chesapeke fish! There different in there patterns....Rhode Islands population along with CT Are hudson river fish and to some extent even Ct river fish...that place is becoming quite a breeding ground that people dont realaize...Right now those fish up north are for the most part school bass anyway...They head out past the nantucket rips and there gone...So this start and end stuff is crazy...its all talking head stuff and means nothing...Its over when its over...and thats when you have had enough!

I guesss you could say the season never ends...and fish for dinks all year long.

[ChiefLinesider]

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This discussion gets very old after awhile...the truth is the season ends when you want it to end..when you have had enough.I hate the "is it over" or "has it started " talk...just fish and start or quit when you want to...dont listen to the crap that there still are acres of fish up North and some anomoly is going to make those fish hug the coast and come to the cape and then rhode island etc....etc....etc.... thats the biggest line of bull I have ever heard...

Well said

[riverrat2]

In my opinion the fall run is simply overrated in terms of size. All my bigger fish have been cought from June-September. I do love the feeling of catching fish when the temp is dropping although.

[piemma]

I fish because I love to fish. It doesn't have to do with catching...it's the fishing. I keep going because fishing is part of who I am. If I stopped fishing I would die. I really believe that. Charlie Murat said he'd rather be dead than not fish and he died with a 25 on his line as the sun set on Nauset. Tha's the way to go when the time comes.
You keep going because there is always the challenge of the unknown.
Sure, there's always the shot at the biggest fish of your life and I am always prepared for the 50. NO, I don't have a 50! This is my 41st year of Striper fishing and no 50. 2, 49s...no 50. So that challenge is still on the board and, quite frankly, I don't care if I ever catch it.

I have had a great year. Got out of the surf in July due to health reasons and caught a ton of 20 and 30# bass in my boat for the first year. Had a lot of mid 20# fish in the surf up until then. So Sat night I was in Narragansett in a 40 mph wind with my surf partner... in the surf. I wasn't there because I needed 1 more fish. I wasn't there because I was looking for my 50. I was there because it's part of my very being to go out in late Oct, get on the "edge", be with friends and ....FISH