Plastic Shopping Bags - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

cow tamer · 02-18-2008, 12:52 PM

I must catch a few, each season. Some put up a pretty good fight in moving water.
What's your hook-up ratio?

JFigliuolo · 02-18-2008, 01:27 PM

Ask Nebe about his doormat...

BigFish · 02-18-2008, 01:32 PM

Funny you mention this......my wife and I just bought a bunch of those canvas shopping bags to use from now on as we saw a news piece about the amount of plastic bags we use each year and how long it takes for them to break down! Folks gotta stop using those...they are bad! Trying to be a little green I guess....a foot in the right direction!

snake slinger · 02-18-2008, 01:41 PM

brown paper bags

Raven · 02-18-2008, 02:10 PM

which shoe should i spraygreenpaint on Larry

the right

or the left

do i need a compass

gone fishin · 02-18-2008, 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Raven

which shoe should i spraygreenpaint on Larry

the right

or the left

do i need a compass

Now that's funny - I can just imagine Larry with one green foot.

afterhours · 02-18-2008, 04:43 PM

should be a return deposit on those damned things....larry a little green on you goes a long way...

piemma · 02-18-2008, 05:04 PM

I had one wrap around the intake on my Yami the FIRST time I took my wife out. High temp horn blowing!! All hell breaking loose.

Willy G. · 02-18-2008, 05:27 PM

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Ask Nebe about his doormat...

Had a welcome mat myself last year. Was fishing in the Charles River and was filled with dread as I brought up was I thought was going to be a body...

5/0 · 02-18-2008, 07:15 PM

Years ago I got lucky & caught one freshwater fishing for trout it was a laim fight,no drag it just came in.

I still think nothing beats a bag in the tree,It's such a pleasure to see a bag stuck in the tree top's during the winter months,sometimes you can get lucky and find a buch of different colored bags stuck in a tree it's kinda like artificial winter foliage

5/0

tattoobob · 02-18-2008, 07:27 PM

I have never had the chance to land one, but I have seen guys fight muscle beds like they were fifty pounders.

I am pretty sure that 85% of the bags are from bait shops and they get blown out of boats and from the shore by the wind and end up in the water.

UserRemoved1 · 02-18-2008, 07:49 PM

I thought I read once that it takes a quart of oil to make one of these bags?

baldwin · 02-18-2008, 08:50 PM

Caught a 3' sock one time on the fly rod. Only time I ever saw one that size.

whiplash · 02-19-2008, 03:10 PM

Can't stand the damn things - some towns have outlawed them- whats wrong with paper bag? They hold a lot more than the plastic bags do. I like the bags from the supermarkets, come sort of cloth, I must have 30 of them. I wish the tackle shops would go back to paper- if they happen to blow away they fall apart in a couple of hours. What do you think Mike (M&D) paper this year please!!!
Jim

Bishop169 · 02-19-2008, 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by BigFish

Funny you mention this......my wife and I just bought a bunch of those canvas shopping bags to use from now on as we saw a news piece about the amount of plastic bags we use each year and how long it takes for them to break down! Folks gotta stop using those...they are bad! Trying to be a little green I guess....a foot in the right direction!

I bought green garbage bags by mistake once the

worst bags I ever seen tossed out the full box after only using 2. tiolet paper thin and if they sit in the can for a week with something wet the fall apart.

Kind of makes me sick when your out on the water all you see is these jelly fish looking plastic bags in the water and all over the rocks......

chris L · 02-19-2008, 03:31 PM

people need to learn how to dispose of all garbage . its not the bags fault that people suck and dont care or learn that we are just stewards of this planet which will cease soon enough . we have destroyed this planet and scientists are looking to do the same to other worlds . I reuse the palstic bags we get ( we seldom get or ask for them) . paper works for me !

Condoms are another plastic product always left by he side of the parking lot . come on guys toss em on the floor of the car not the parking lot .

this one most woman are not guilty of !!!

Bishop169 · 02-19-2008, 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by chris L

Condoms are another plastic product always left by he side of the parking lot . come on guys toss em on the floor of the car not the parking lot .

this one most woman are not guilty of !!!

I agree so going forward no more condoms for me

NIGHT STRIKES · 02-19-2008, 03:51 PM

Not plastic bags for me , but all those Balloons and Strings,, You know the specialty one's with the silver back and graphics on the front. I cruise down the beach in the morning and I can spend half my time picking them up off the beach after the previous night high tide...

Slingah · 02-19-2008, 04:42 PM

we reuse whatever plastic bags we get...I ask for paper at the market most of the time......I could not believe all the red mylar baloons I saw in the water the day after Valentines Day when I was in FLA...

Nebe · 02-19-2008, 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by JFigliuolo

Ask Nebe about his doormat...

hey now! nothing takes drag like a feisty sheet of shag bathmat. I considered taking it to a taxidermist

riverrat2 · 02-19-2008, 07:13 PM

I hear they love over priced beachmasters

ridler72 · 02-19-2008, 08:33 PM

It's hard to beat a Mystic Prophylactic in moving water using 4lb test.

Rick Ackley · 02-20-2008, 08:01 AM

Hooked into a Stop & Shop beauty last year in the Connecticut-Chicopee River connector, darn thing just about spooled me. Laughed like heck when I finally saw what it was.

Finaddict · 02-20-2008, 01:52 PM

A fishing friend of mine down in Florida has a philosophy that I try to follow when I am out fishing. He tries to pick up at least one piece of trash or more when fishing, and should he accidentally drop something off his boat or whatever so that he cannot get it back, he goes out of his way to find two to replace the one piece he lost.

It's kind of like the philosophy of planting two trees for everyone that you take down on your property, etc.

It's a good plan as hopefully you we all can overcome what impact we make upon the planet.

Adamfishes · 02-20-2008, 03:10 PM

i broke a tidemaster on one st. croix sent me a new one within days

american spirit · 02-20-2008, 05:22 PM

i was clearing out my backyard to put down a lawn last year and stumbled across a doritos bags dated 1982 or 1984. good shape too, just dirty.

gone fishin · 02-20-2008, 08:09 PM

I hooked into a beach towel while fly fishing the Merrimack at PI. I thought I had a trophy after playing the towel in the curent. Same day while wading, I had a bump on the leg. I looked down and was pleasantly surprised to land a magum of champange. Someone must have lost it overboard.