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View Poll Results: second choice target
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bluefish/bonito/albies
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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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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, 11:27 AM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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What would you fish for........
......if striped bass disappeared?
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03-13-2009, 11:40 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: cape cod when my meds r workin right
Posts: 1,412
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e-z pickin bow legged woman or trout....
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03-13-2009, 11:40 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Warren Vt
Posts: 668
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fresh air,solitude,exercise and relaxation,about the same as i do now.
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03-13-2009, 11:59 AM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Georgetown MA
Posts: 18,203
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It would be time to hit the freshwater......
you need to add pike/muskie to the mix....
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"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
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03-13-2009, 12:10 PM
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Hydro Orientated Lures
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Brockton,Ma
Posts: 8,484
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I'd go fresh water with very spotty saltwater fishing .
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03-13-2009, 12:46 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Easton, MA
Posts: 5,737
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I voted for seabass/tautog/fluke but I'd also fish for blues/bonito/albies. I just like being out on the water.
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03-13-2009, 12:54 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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i'd raise catfish in my farm pond if need be
fish for trout
large mouth bass
but fresh water striped bass ......ain't going anywhere
so if tomorrow..all saltwater stripers disappeared
i would buy a place next to a freshwater striper lake as fast as possible..
they grow to the same size....
and there are no tides to think about
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03-13-2009, 12:57 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: North Cambridge, MA
Posts: 1,358
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I'd do the Bucketmouth Bass thing, freshwater is good fun.
When I go visit my family in the south, all I do is fish for cats. The grow really big in some of those big rivers.
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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........
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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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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, 04:03 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Maine
Posts: 4,547
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What ever tugs on the other end of the line. Be it freshwater or salt.
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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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03-13-2009, 08:05 PM
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Curmudgeon
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Patchogue & NYC
Posts: 203
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Quote:
Originally Posted by l.i.fish.in.vt
fresh air,solitude,exercise and relaxation,about the same as i do now.
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John - You got that right!!!  |
I'd rather be fishing! 
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03-13-2009, 09:25 PM
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Too old to give a....
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 2,505
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BFT'S
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May fortune favor the foolish....
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03-13-2009, 09:40 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: In the water
Posts: 461
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BFT's and funny fish. Once the funny's show up thats all I fish for until October anyway.
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03-13-2009, 09:50 PM
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Canceled
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: vt
Posts: 13,425
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I probably would'nt fish any less and not drive as far. There are lots of fish around here and usually I can find a place that has no one fishing in it. I'd still fish after dark that's when I catch the biggest browns.
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03-14-2009, 12:59 AM
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Seal Control
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Caver, Ma.
Posts: 3,875
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I don't do all that much bass fishing any way, They are ok but if i eat one a year thats fine for me!
Fluke is to me one of the best eating fish in the water! And nice and relaxing to do, So I voted for the fluke, sea bass, sucp, they all good eating and you can get some nice size at the right time of the year for each.
I eat what I catch, so thats what I target.
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03-14-2009, 04:41 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Westport
Posts: 841
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Get a yak (and maybe a quabbin boat) and chase smallmouth.
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03-14-2009, 09:27 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: N. H. Seacoast
Posts: 368
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I would do what I did last time. Fish more for bottom fish and blues, but over all fish less.
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03-14-2009, 12:22 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Between the thighs
Posts: 559
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"no bass"
sell the big boat
fluke in the tin boat
freshwater as always
go back to jumping out of bushes naked in front of little girls
work on the house even more
more trips to DQ.
go hunt the dune rump rangers in pt. with the paint ball gun.lead free of corse.
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03-14-2009, 02:00 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: RI
Posts: 5,704
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None of the above.
I'd move south and target Redfish and Snook.
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