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View Poll Results: second choice target
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bluefish/bonito/albies
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48 |
45.71% |
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tuna/marlin
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11 |
10.48% |
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cod/haddock
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1 |
0.95% |
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sea bass/tautog/fluke/scup
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18 |
17.14% |
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trout/salmon
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6 |
5.71% |
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freshwater bass/pickerel
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13 |
12.38% |
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eels...they're fun to reel in
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2 |
1.90% |
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nothin...I'd quit
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6 |
5.71% |
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03-13-2009, 12:57 PM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
Posts: 3,368
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Personally, I'd invest my retirement savings in plug making tools and AYC. Once proficient in the art of plugmaking, I'd stand flailing away at the water's edge for hours on end with my many creations. I'd bend lips, modify weights and paint schemes, then repeat. At the end of each session I'd lament the lack of fish and blame it on the eel fishermen. Then I'd stare at the sky, fart a few times, then go home and sleep........
....to be continued......  |
It's not the bait
At the end of your line
It's the fishing hole
Where all the fish is blind
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03-13-2009, 01:17 PM
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Finally
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: FL
Posts: 7,181
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tautog....for sure..  |
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03-13-2009, 01:54 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 8,718
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Probably just beachcomb with the dog in search of treasures. In my spare time I would take apart reels for shats and giggles.Maybe befriend other folks with similar interests and tell stories about the old days when fish were so stupid they would try to eat wood and plastic.
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PRO CHOICE REPUBLICAN
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03-13-2009, 02:00 PM
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President - S-B Chapter - Kelly Clarkson Fan Club
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Rowley
Posts: 3,781
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I would be freakin' devastaed, then I've prob move to RI because you guys got a lot more bluefish than we do up around our parts
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03-13-2009, 02:17 PM
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Geezer Gone Wild
Join Date: Nov 2001
Posts: 3,397
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Blackfish - or tautog to you mainlanders - also known as tittog to the Sand People to our east... 
Light tackle sight-fishing for blackfish is my favorite pursuit of the year - a 10#+ white chinner on light tackle is pretty sporty and will change your attitude about them forever.
To me they're the prime rib of the sea - only fresh grouper comes close and that's still in second place to Tautoga onitis in my opinion... 
Besides, you really have to admire a fish tough enough to eat mussels and then s**t the shells...  |
"There is no royal road to this heavy surf-fishing. With all the appliances for comfort experience can suggest, there is a certain amount of hard work to be done and exposure to be bourne as a part of the price of success." From "Striped Bass," Scribner's Magazine, 1881.
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03-13-2009, 02:28 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Back Beach
At the end of each session I'd lament the lack of fish and blame it on the eel fishermen. Then I'd stare at the sky, fart a few times, then go home and sleep........
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".......... a few.........." ?????????????
Can we hear from your wife, kids, co-workers, and the guy behind you in church on that one, please? |
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03-13-2009, 02:36 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: south shore , ma
Posts: 669
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answers for why there are no more stripers
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03-13-2009, 02:50 PM
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Geezer Gone Wild
Join Date: Nov 2001
Posts: 3,397
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Quote:
Originally Posted by blue oyster
answers for why there are no more stripers
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That's an easy one -
Photos of large dead fish - lots of 'em... |
"There is no royal road to this heavy surf-fishing. With all the appliances for comfort experience can suggest, there is a certain amount of hard work to be done and exposure to be bourne as a part of the price of success." From "Striped Bass," Scribner's Magazine, 1881.
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03-13-2009, 03:07 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Middletown, RI
Posts: 304
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I picked bluefish. In the 1980's there were long stretches of time where not a decent size bass was to be found. People caught bluefish while pretending to be fishing for stripers, but they didn't give up fishing as the methods for each can be very similar whether from boat or beach. You still have the same hobby, it's more a matter of landing more of one type fish than the other. The abundance of bluefish also gives you something to complain about which is an important part of most people's fishing.
When I worked as a fish packer for one summer, some of the regular afternoon customers were four charter boats that would offload the catch of the day from Nantucket shoals. Early June was the bass month but during July and August it was all bluefish.
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03-13-2009, 03:47 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: North Fork
Posts: 2,260
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It was not on the list but i would go to Argentina and fish golden dorado.
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Originally Posted by Flaptail
"Throw plugs like we do that will cause them to suffer humility. Pogies make any fisherman look good when bass are around. Bait is easy."
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03-13-2009, 04:12 PM
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Trophy Hunter Apprentice
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: THE Other Cape
Posts: 2,508
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where's the sharkin' option??
although i heard that toggin' is
good clean funn and better eatin'
than our beloved stripers,,,,,,,,,,,
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"The first condition of happiness is that the connection
between man and nature shall not be broken."~~ Leo Tolstoy
Tight Lines, and
Happy Hunting to ALL!
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03-13-2009, 04:19 PM
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Night Stalker
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: ............
Posts: 3,605
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I'd be fishing for someone to sell all my plugs to.  |
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