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04-26-2010, 07:38 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: North Kingstown, RI
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No striperman36, I never got the head butting, the mussel offering, or the other incredible behavior one only sees in May on video. When the moon is full and the females are ripe with roe, the male togs will often dance around the maypole in an ancient fertility rite and as an offering to Neptune to keep the likes of Crafty Angler away from their rocky domiciles.
Every now and then you can't take me seriously -- this would be one of those times.
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04-26-2010, 07:41 PM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
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Originally Posted by Fish_Eye
No striperman36, I never got the head butting, the mussel offering, or the other incredible behavior one only sees in May on video. When the moon is full and the females are ripe with roe, the male togs will often dance around the maypole in an ancient fertility rite and as an offering to Neptune to keep the likes of Crafty Angler away from their rocky domiciles.
Every now and then you can't take me seriously -- this would be one of those times.
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And I thought Crafty was the odd one. thankfully most humans don't rut either |
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04-26-2010, 07:44 PM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
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Everyone had better take this behavior seriously as I recently read somewhere tautog can breathe air and will be walking on land within 50 years...
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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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04-26-2010, 07:56 PM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
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They drive motorcycles in RI, with the no helmet law they are really easy to pick out.
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04-26-2010, 11:11 PM
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Geezer Gone Wild
Join Date: Nov 2001
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fish_Eye
...The male that wins the battle will usually pry loose a clump of mussels and offer them to the female as a sort of victory gesture.
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A mating ritual not unlike that of my Azorean ancestors, Mike - tried it at the Bon Zoo when I tended bar there but it never worked all that well for me... 
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Originally Posted by striperman36
And I thought Crafty was the odd one...
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Life's waaay too short to be normal |
"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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04-27-2010, 06:44 AM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
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Originally Posted by Crafty Angler
A mating ritual not unlike that of my Azorean ancestors, Mike - tried it at the Bon Zoo when I tended bar there but it never worked all that well for me...
Life's waaay too short to be normal |
Yes, that's why workin in RI helps balance out my normalcy |
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04-27-2010, 05:55 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: lunenburg, ma
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Originally Posted by Back Beach
Everyone had better take this behavior seriously as I recently read somewhere tautog can breathe air and will be walking on land within 50 years...
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As long as the Bluefish don't start walking among us that's okay... |
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