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08-12-2009, 06:45 AM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
Posts: 3,368
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DUH
I left the house last night about 8 pm to do some shore fishing in RI. I put in a great early 70's Grateful Dead recording for the ride and took off. Life was good until I passed through Providence and noticed in my rear view mirror something was missing....it was my 150 qt cooler with all my gear in it.  Seems in my haste to get down to the water I left the cooler sitting in the driveway right next to my vehicle and simply drove off..  Needless to say I got home about 9pm and I am well rested this AM.. |
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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08-12-2009, 07:06 AM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
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Done it. All packed up, everything in the truck, show up and notice wader boots are 25 miles away.
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~Fix the Bait~ ~Pogies Forever~
Striped Bass Fishing - All Stripers
Kobayashi Maru Election - there is no way to win.
Apocalypse is Coming:
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08-12-2009, 07:10 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Warwick
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yup been there too. It's humbling, laugh it off. That is why we have day jobs.
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08-12-2009, 07:14 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: orange ct
Posts: 2,992
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So in other words after you saw your gear missing- you were "going down the road feeling bad"  |
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08-12-2009, 07:18 AM
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Also known as OAK
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Westlery, RI
Posts: 10,408
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnR
Done it. All packed up, everything in the truck, show up and notice wader boots are 25 miles away.
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Yup.
at the River one Oct at Dawn when I first moved to Narragansett...showed up to birds working on a raw day.
fished in my skivies |
Bryan
Originally Posted by #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&
"For once I agree with Spence. UGH. I just hope I don't get the urge to go start buying armani suits to wear in my shop"
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08-12-2009, 07:38 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2000
Posts: 2,574
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Back Beach
I put in a great early 70's Grateful Dead recording for the ride and took off. .
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Greatful Dead CD then you forget everything? I know what happened... 
Kidding aside - I did the samething last night (forgot my wading boots) but fortunatly I only live a 5 minute drive away from where I fish. I fear it will only get worse as I age.
DZ |
DZ
Recreational Surfcaster
"Limit Your Kill - Don't Kill Your Limit"
Bi + Ne = SB 2
If you haven't heard of the Snowstorm Blitz of 1987 - you someday will.
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08-12-2009, 07:44 AM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
Posts: 3,368
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Quote:
Originally Posted by wader-dad
So in other words after you saw your gear missing- you were "going down the road feeling bad" |
That's funny.. 
I had "Promised Land" kicking as I pulled out of my driveway too. Go figure.
Hopefully one of the Gansett regulars will chime in and tell me the wind was blowing too hard from the NE and I was better off staying home anyways... |
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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08-12-2009, 07:47 AM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DZ
Greatful Dead CD then you forget everything? I know what happened...
DZ |
I swear I haven't touched the stuff since my last days at UMASS...that was 1994. This was just plain, unbridled stupidity.
Actually the biggest travesty of my fishing career happened on the back side of the cape after I drove 2.5 hours to Truro. Got to the beach with my 12' tin boat in the back of my pickup, slid the boat off the back of my p/u without removing any of the heavy gear from the boat first(10 hp motor). When the boat slammed down onto the beach with all the weight in it, the skeg of the motor punched though the floor of the boat, leaving a 4" gash which required a long ride home for repairs.
Last edited by Back Beach; 08-12-2009 at 07:54 AM..
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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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08-12-2009, 07:57 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Chatham, MA
Posts: 424
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my personal favorite is to pack the truck up and remember everything then get to the marina and realize I've forgotten the keys to the boat
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08-12-2009, 10:40 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: MA
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Peter Paul and I were expecting you , but you never showed . You missed an epic night! Heres 1 of the 12 30+lbers i got in the 1.5 hours after the tide turned.
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08-12-2009, 10:59 AM
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Permanently Disconnected
Join Date: Nov 2002
Posts: 12,647
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Chef that's gonna leave a mark  |
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08-12-2009, 11:11 AM
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Red Eye Jedi
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: East Facing
Posts: 4,374
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cheferson
Peter Paul and I were expecting you , but you never showed . You missed an epic night! Heres 1 of the 12 30+lbers i got in the 1.5 hours after the tide turned.
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how did Peter Paul make out with his twirling stick/rod? |
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08-12-2009, 11:20 AM
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Canceled
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: vt
Posts: 13,425
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Try driving from VT to Pulaski, NY and looking for your waders 
I was just glad I left them in my truck and not at home where my wife would be wondering what I was really doing  |
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08-12-2009, 04:55 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 797
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cheferson
Peter Paul and I were expecting you , but you never showed . You missed an epic night! Heres 1 of the 12 30+lbers i got in the 1.5 hours after the tide turned.
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nice fish, real nice  |
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08-12-2009, 07:08 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Back Beach
I left the house last night about 8 pm to do some shore fishing in RI. I put in a great early 70's Grateful Dead recording for the ride and took off. Life was good until I passed through Providence and noticed in my rear view mirror something was missing....it was my 150 qt cooler with all my gear in it. |
Welcome to middle age. Another 10 years and you'll stop to see if you have it, find out you did, then forget where you were going anyways, so you'll turn around and get home, much to your relief, where you'll walk into the house and your wife will ask....."where are your pants?"...while your kids choke on condescending guffaws. |
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08-12-2009, 07:47 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2009
Posts: 1,044
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CaptMike
my personal favorite is to pack the truck up and remember everything then get to the marina and realize I've forgotten the keys to the boat
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That Sucks!! I did that last month... called the wife and asked to check my desk, and sure enough, there they were... Then had wife bring keys to the dock as I had already had the boat in the water and tied up, unloaded all my crap into it, and then realized I didnt have the key..... |
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08-12-2009, 08:05 PM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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Once went all the way to the boat ramp without the 6 gallon gas tank for the tin boat, 50 mile round trip, but didn't go back so only 25. I do lots of stupid, dumb, shi*&*%*t
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"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
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08-12-2009, 08:09 PM
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Soggy Bottom Boy
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Billerica, Ma.
Posts: 7,260
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when we moved 8 years ago, on the way home from work I would drive to the old house without even thinking about it till I got there
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Surfcasting Full Throttle
Don't judge me Monkey
Recreational Surfcaster 99.9% C&R
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08-12-2009, 08:22 PM
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Geezer Gone Wild
Join Date: Nov 2001
Posts: 3,397
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Mike, forgetting your gear is not a problem
Forgetting what the gear is used for is a problem
Like Numby said, welcome to The Wonderful World of...of...dammit, give me a minute here, it'll come back to me....  |
"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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08-12-2009, 09:02 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: North Shore
Posts: 1,701
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Fortunately I have been pretty lucky about not forgetting stuff, although I still do ... what always shocks me is how often I forget where I am driving too ...  |
"It was the blackest night! There was no moon in sight! (You know the stars ain't shinnin cause the sky's too tight) "
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08-13-2009, 03:10 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,824
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I have forgotten almost everything at one time or another but the worst was back when I drank. I have ski racks I use for my rods. Put a custom made Murat 10' S-Glass with a green 706 on the roof and drove away. One problem. Never closed the ski rack. Got to the beach and....no rod and reel. Someone scored big time.
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No boat, back in the suds.  
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08-13-2009, 07:00 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: CONNECTICUT
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drove to my spot 30 minute opened rear tail gate and saw that i left my rod back home.senior moment
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08-13-2009, 07:12 AM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
Posts: 35,270
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Mike - for a while last night I couldn't find my spare light in order to find my boots. Was thinking they were in Vics truck or on the parking lot of a certain vessel. All the while reverse-kharma-smackin my forehead for giggling on your forgotten boots.
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~Fix the Bait~ ~Pogies Forever~
Striped Bass Fishing - All Stripers
Kobayashi Maru Election - there is no way to win.
Apocalypse is Coming:
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08-13-2009, 10:21 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Uh, in a spot....
Posts: 5,451
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Back Beach
I left the house last night about 8 pm to do some shore fishing in RI. I put in a great early 70's Grateful Dead recording for the ride and took off. Life was good until I passed through Providence and noticed in my rear view mirror something was missing....it was my 150 qt cooler with all my gear in it. Seems in my haste to get down to the water I left the cooler sitting in the driveway right next to my vehicle and simply drove off.. Needless to say I got home about 9pm and I am well rested this AM.. |
See, this is proof postive of the negative effect of using eels for bait has on a once promising striper fishing career, you go brain dead.  |
Why even try.........
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08-13-2009, 10:31 AM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
Posts: 3,368
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Flaptail
See, this is proof postive of the negative effect of using eels for bait has on a once promising striper fishing career, you go brain dead. |
Your drinking Numbskull's tea, I see...next thing you know you'll be sporting a shiny gold conventional reel and an extra tall wetsuit. Fear not though, I know just the place to find a good sized potato for you... |
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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08-13-2009, 12:47 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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Ignore Flap. He fishes plastic. He'd need two potatoes.......... to put in his bra.
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08-13-2009, 01:00 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Libtardia
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The only thing I forget lately is how to catch fish.. |
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08-13-2009, 01:26 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Attleboro, MA
Posts: 453
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Made the long trip to the canal one morning to only find that I forgot to put the front tire to my bike in the car......nothing like having to ride a wheelie the length of the canal bike path.....
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08-13-2009, 01:31 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2004
Location: South of Boston
Posts: 2,605
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mugz
Made the long trip to the canal one morning to only find that I forgot to put the front tire to my bike in the car......nothing like having to ride a wheelie the length of the canal bike path.....
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That post made my day. Still laughing out loud while envisioning a fully decked out fisherman and bike riding a wheelie down the service road. |
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. ~John Buchan
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08-13-2009, 01:57 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 492
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Last summer I drove 45 minutes to my buddies house at 5 am for our weekly Sunday fishing trip. House was dark. Realized it was Saturday. Not kidding. Drove home went to bed.
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