Why haven't you landed a #50 yet ??

[spence]

I plan to only target 50 and up fish this season, and I plan to only fish in my white Armani dinner jacket

It's going to be a great year.

Yes, I do really have one.

-spence

[NIB]

Well said Toby..
Fifty is just a number..
I do what I like, I do alright...Probably better than most.There was this gig a few yrs ago where Sitting on a bunker chunk for nights on end would have brought me one close to 50..I find that boring, sure I target large fish. I like to use lures.Perhaps thats my problem so to say..I really don't care that much about it.There's more to the true measure of a angler than the size of his largest fish..There are the guys who can go out an pull fish night in an night out those are the true anglers.Guys who produce fish larger than the most on a regular basis.Year in an year out.Those are your top anglers IMO...I truley believe my window of oppurtunity for fish 50 or better is very small in the area's available to me here in NJ.Surf caught 50's every year in The whole state only go maybe 1 or 2 per year.If I never land a 50, will my time as a surfcaster be a dissappointment??
No way, Not ever...

[leptar]

Who cares anymore....

How many guys that fished for scup nailed large bass along the Rhody shores...

It's all chit arse luck.... I caught 3 striped bass over 50lbs... and not one of them came from attempting to catch a striper...

One 53lber came off the Frances fleet back in 00 or 01 on a canceled trip for cod the captain decided due to the lack of anglers on ship to make it a scup/seabass trip... LOL... bait clam, gear 4/0 Penn Senator loaded with 80#fusion with a 60# leader, hooks were packacked 7/0 and 8/0 cod hooks with the rubber teaser on the shank, 16oz bank, CMS custom cod rod, 20' of water and i think Ron Arra could have hit us from the Galilee shore line. on clam belly...

Sakonnet tracks in 94 fishing for tog with clam necks I set the hook and thought i was stuck... 30# big game no leader 1/0 j-hook 5oz bank, 10' ugly stick and a Daiwa 7000C, Riverside Marine on the scale 51.5lbs...

Tiverton Bridge... snagging pogies in 92 using my dads boat rod and squidder with 45# squidding line a monster snagger... I hooked a pogie the ball opened and this monster bass inhaled it, pogie and hook deep when i set the hook i killed it because it was just dead weight and when i took it out of the water the tail was going spazzy... Weighted at Manchesters seafood @50lbs 4oz...

all of them Chit arse luck...

[In The Surf]

bAssDawg called me names.

As expected all sizzle and no steak. Seems history has a way of repeating itself. After all you are what you are and I say this from first hand account about his credibility and photographic memory.

No jealoussy here and no interest on dragging this out with him either.

[LeCounts1099]

Who was T. Lap & myself here jealous of exactly?


The topic here never was "is the dogged pursuit of a 50 the right way to fish?"...

Nor was it "do you pursue 50s when you fish, or just action/ fun?"

Nor was it, "Boy, many 50's landed are freaky/ lucky catches!"...

Nor was it, "are you not a great Bass Caster if you've not landed a 50?"... etc.


The topic was, "if you (& people generally) haven't yet landed your 50 yet... presuming you are trying/ would like to... what would the reasons be?


As far as the "inside," petty squabbling which I guess the "jealous" comment was directed at... serious guys like TL & I were ignoring it/ simply staying above the fray?

[NIB]

Originally Posted by LeCounts1099

Who was T. Lap & myself here jealous of exactly?


The topic here never was "is the dogged pursuit of a 50 the right way to fish?"...

Nor was it "do you pursue 50s when you fish, or just action/ fun?"

Nor was it, "Boy, many 50's landed are freaky/ lucky catches!"...

Nor was it, "are you not a great Bass Caster if you've not landed a 50?"... etc.


The topic was, "if you (& people generally) haven't yet landed your 50 yet... presuming you are trying/ would like to... what would the reasons be?


As far as the "inside," petty squabbling which I guess the "jealous" comment was directed at... serious guys like TL & I were ignoring it/ simply staying above the fray?

I have no problem saying I am jealous of one who has the golden horseshoe so far up their ....
U know what I mean...
I am a freak.Like U, I go over all the details.
I put in the time. 50 lbs just has not happened.For me yet....
Look at leptar's post that is Luck off the charts..
Good for him...Am I jealous, sure I am..
Nothin wrong witht that..

[Skitterpop]

Originally Posted by NIB

I have no problem saying I am jealous of one who has the golden horseshoe so far up their ....
U know what I mean...
I am a freak.Like U, I go over all the details.
I put in the time. 50 lbs just has not happened.For me yet....
Look at leptar's post that is Luck off the charts..
Good for him...Am I jealous, sure I am..
Nothin wrong witht that..

For you Tony its only a matter of time the way you fish to bump into a fifty or over

[BassDawg]

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[LeCounts1099]

Leptar that is insane luck! I've heard of Cows caught on bottom with clam before... but usually gobs & gobs, with big baitholder strong hooks! And usually it takes great effort (& a powerful hook- set) to snag a Cow on a live Bunker!-- not always that easy!


nib, you'll get yours! If not in Jersey in June... then at R.I./ Block or the CCC or M. or wherever! Maybe not the "50..." but the dream- Bass I'm seeking on a plug as well!