This site sucks right now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[luds]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[luds]

Alright, first off. I used enough exclamation points that should replace the need for BigFish to use them for a while. Larry, you're aruably the nicest guy on here and definitely one of my favorites but your teenage girly use of the excamation point has you flirting with my ignore list.

What happened here anyway? Nobody asks fishing questions or offers help anymore? For the most part anyway. The only fishing related posts seem to be success stories and that just get ripped apart. Honestly that doesn't really bother me that much because it's the same way on every site but it's further magnified here because there is virtually no other content worth reading especially right now. The only type of stuff that has me coming back is the fact that I have good friends here and it's a good way to check to stay in touch. It's nice to have an extended support network and I was touched by the response to the response to the passing of RR's boxer but if your not an insider already I don't see why you would come back after your first visit to the site. It's too bad. When I started fishing for striped bass I was literally hanging on every post by people like tattoo, bassmaster, tlapinski and others because it was informative and entertaining.

I think we have turned into a bunch of "strangers" as Bloocrab said. At the moment at least I think I'd be better served to not even log in here. I will out of addiction and habit but I know it will probably be a waste of time.

Probably should have put this in the GOF forum.

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by luds

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What the crying / whining ? The slamming everyone left and right? Or increasingly rude behavior?

It is kinda worse than Winter Cabin Fever.

OK, so where do we go from here? Let's hear it folks?

[luds]

For whatever reason my text didn't wrap and I have to scroll all the way over to read it. I edited my first post which hopefully will help though it carried over to yours John. Sorry to further the aggrevation.

[bart]

I blame it on Krispy's lack of posts

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by luds

For whatever reason my text didn't wrap and I have to scroll all the way over to read it. I edited my first post which hopefully will help though it carried over to yours John. Sorry to further the aggrevation.

Hehe. No aggravation. From you anyway .

This brings up some valid points. This site is about you all. The more WE as a group put in the more WE as a group can take out.

What do WE do to make it better?

[RIJIMMY]

relax, its brutal heat, we have passionate people, I actually think its been way to mellow out here. I miss #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&, I miss long rants from people, I miss fish pics.
I look at this site as a bar room out with friends, we bust balls, we fight, we argue, and in the end sometimes I learn someting. Some bonds are made , some are broken.

[redlite]

Luds you fool.
You got this thing all f'ed up. I gotta scroll all over the place to read and post this to this thread.

As I was sittin on the can last nite, I came to the same exact conclusion, that there has been so little stuff on here worth readin it disappoints me. I have tried to do the same in our Team S-B striper cup forum to get people involved.

It does feel like the middle of the winter with shack nasties goin on. And I have wondered as well why there are so many people registered for this site, yet it is always the same people that post. Startin to seem Clicky. Some new blood is needed. I remember I lurked on here for a while before I became active, and was even "afraid" to post as I didn't want to be considered an "idiot" The only dumb question is one that is not asked. That's fine, most people are fortunate that they have other things and interests in their lives unlike me that they don't become more involved.

There are forum websites out there for everything, from computers, to guns, to video games, to antique collecting and even other fishing web site forums. The difference with this one is that it is more of a local feel so you are actually within meetin distance of folks.

I do look forward to readin peoples' sucesses and failures on here. Love hearin some of the crazy stories, and do miss the true talk about fishin. Too much bitchin. I actually post little on here as I don't come on here to get in bitch fests with strangers. I read people's posts and take em with a grain of salt.

Not sure what I am truly tryin to say without givin away all my secrets [ike soakin the inside of my eel bucket with eel potion[/COLOR] but I enjoy this site a lot and love catchin.

Great post Luds. Hope I didn't hurt anyone's feelings.
Bring Back #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^& and FISH WEEWEE

....now get out and put one on the board.............and bring that slacker Clogston with you............

[Nebe]

Nudie forum.
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[The Dad Fisherman]

Lose the Political Forum.......biggest waste of Bandwith on the internet. Bunch of Catty little Biatches that wouldn't budge either way, even with a stick of TNT rectally inserted.

[Redsoxticket]

What can we do, hmmm.

There is a inverse correlation between the lack of striped bass and nonsense threads.
The solution will be to get involved in preventing the forage from being decimated from coastal waters. This will entice the bass to move further north up the coast.
Attend the regulatory meetings as mentioned in earlier threads and make yours voices heard or if you have nothing to say then go for support.
Bottom line, Save forage will increase bass and thereby create interesting threads
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[BigBo]

Originally Posted by luds

What happened here anyway? Nobody asks fishing questions or offers help anymore? For the most part anyway. The only fishing related posts seem to be success stories and that just get ripped apart. Honestly that doesn't really bother me that much because it's the same way on every site but it's further magnified here because there is virtually no other content worth reading especially right now. The only type of stuff that has me coming back is the fact that I have good friends here and it's a good way to check to stay in touch. It's nice to have an extended support network and I was touched by the response to the response to the passing of RR's boxer but if your not an insider already I don't see why you would come back after your first visit to the site. It's too bad. When I started fishing for striped bass I was literally hanging on every post by people like tattoo, bassmaster, tlapinski and others because it was informative and entertaining.

I think we have turned into a bunch of "queers" as Bloocrab said. At the moment at least I think I'd be better served to not even log in here. I will out of addiction and habit but I know it will probably be a waste of time.

Probably should have put this in the GOF forum.

Unfortunately, I agree with a lot of what Mike says here. I've met some awesome people through this site and folks here have been extremely helpful to me. In the past. Seems to me that the last couple years, if you're not an "insider" as luds puts it (which I am obviously not), it's very difficult to get responses, answers to questions, recommendations, or even taken seriously. This is why I essentially stopped posting as much. I still enjoy coming here and reading to fill my time and keep up and what everyone is doing. It just feels like without being an "insider" and short of being a post whore, some don't want to give you the time of day. It doesn't bother me much though.





For the record...................Larry's okay in my book.

[BigFish]

Originally Posted by luds

Alright, first off. I used enough exclamation points that should replace the need for BigFish to use them for a while. Larry, you're aruably the nicest guy on here and definitely one of my favorites but your teenage girly use of the excamation point has you flirting with my ignore list.

What happened here anyway? Nobody asks fishing questions or offers help anymore? For the most part anyway. The only fishing related posts seem to be success stories and that just get ripped apart. Honestly that doesn't really bother me that much because it's the same way on every site but it's further magnified here because there is virtually no other content worth reading especially right now. The only type of stuff that has me coming back is the fact that I have good friends here and it's a good way to check to stay in touch. It's nice to have an extended support network and I was touched by the response to the response to the passing of RR's boxer but if your not an insider already I don't see why you would come back after your first visit to the site. It's too bad. When I started fishing for striped bass I was literally hanging on every post by people like tattoo, bassmaster, tlapinski and others because it was informative and entertaining.

I think we have turned into a bunch of "strangers" as Bloocrab said. At the moment at least I think I'd be better served to not even log in here. I will out of addiction and habit but I know it will probably be a waste of time.

Probably should have put this in the GOF forum.

Your bothered by my use of punctuation??? Wow!!!! Fishing must be slow!!!! Mike!!! Hit the ignore button if it bothers you!!!! It ain't gonna change!!!!!

[BigFish]

Originally Posted by RIJIMMY

relax, its brutal heat, we have passionate people, I actually think its been way to mellow out here. I miss #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&, I miss long rants from people, I miss fish pics.
I look at this site as a bar room out with friends, we bust balls, we fight, we argue, and in the end sometimes I learn someting. Some bonds are made , some are broken.

RIJimmy uses too many commas!!! I am finding it intrusive so sorry Jimmy.....off to my ignore list you go!!!!!

[ecduzitgood]

That was the reason I donated some pluggage...new members and new perspective.
http://www.striped-bass.com/Stripert...rm-sebile.html

[BigFish]

I think I should be voted "Off The Island"!!!! Start a new thread and if people want me off...then so be it!!!!

[ecduzitgood]

I think Luds set this up just so you would have enough space to post a picture of your future personal best......so you can't go anywhere until you have posted a picture of a supa cow.

[BigFish]

Gotta go back out to the shop now! Enjoy!

(I feel whooozy.....I only used 2 exclamation points in that post.)

[good2hook]

this site is definitely harder to crack than the other.
I joined this one around the sametime as the other one.
This one seems real clicky,
the original poster reached out to me when i went to cutty for the first time with some guys on this site.
Luds was awesome, gave me tons of info on what to bring and what not to bring.
Ask Gilly(my cousin) i was freaking out a few days before the trip, thinking all the guys i was going over there with were gonna think i was a moron,
Gilly assured me to be myself and all would go well.
Nightfighter(Ross) made me feel very welcomed once i got on the ferry, and the Bombas, Ben, Zeno, Eddie, Tburg, dad fisherman were great.
As a matter of fact all the guys on that trip were super, couldn't of been nicer.
Definitely would do it again in a second.
I was/am like Redlite was, i'm timid to post on here, don't want anyone thinking i'm a retard, so i don't post much on here.
i'll check in from time to time, but that's it.
i will say without question, that every single event i've gone too from here has been top notch.
It's tuff to gauge a post on here, it's better in person, face to face.
I don't blame people not responding to certain questions.
It's the internet after all.

I've met a lot of guys on here that i consider friends, some of them really good freinds.
I have yet to meet anyone from here that hasn't been super. And i highly doubt i ever will.

[BigFish]

Go away George! We have enough fishermen here!

[ThrowingTimber]

Quick weekend tourney. Start a thread reply in. Shore or boat, we'll pile up some plugs or something. I'm in and willing to donate to the pile of prize plugs. Southern Maine to napatree. That work?
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[good2hook]

HI Larry
best egg in da bunch

[ThrowingTimber]

Also maybe bringing in a whipping boy. I suggest rock hillbilly mike.. He can regale us of his success and impress us with pictures of others fish.

I'm guilty of not posting much lately but that's just a reflection in my catching in recent weeks. I'm giving up beer from today until I get in the leaderboard.
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[fishsmith]

This site Sucks???? Sucks is a pretty strong word, maybe its perspective. Just the other day I learned a swivel trick in the offshore forum that saves time and $$ on florocarbon.

that monster bass was great to see, those who b*tch about the guy keeping it are par for the course, you just have to hone your skimming skills to weed thru the junk, and ignoring a dumb post is the best way to let it die.

My participation in this site has been just above a troll, but Tuna fishing killed this striper fisherman,and I don't have much to add other than fish with live bait, I think you catch more.

The shack nasties are paired up with the heat, or is it the humidity either way, S-B.com is like the tide it ebbs and flows.

[Steve K]

First thing everyone has to realize is this is the week of July 4th and many people are on vacation away from their computers, as they should be. I don't post here as much as I used to because I don't fish as much, too busy with work and my son. I also think that some people have finally realized that posting about success at the canal and other spots only comes back to haunt you. Spots are over crowded and parking spaces have become non-existent. I always liked this site the best because it is usually free of the highschool antics seen on other boards where someone tries to create controversy just for the sake of stirring the pot. I don't know the best way to increase participation from members but it is not by attacking someone for posting a photo of a trophy fish.

[GattaFish]

Jesus.... Obviously the fishing has been rough for some this year,,,,, Because when the fishing is good threads like this don't exist...

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by GattaFish

Jesus.... Obviously the fishing has been rough for some this year,,,,, Because when the fishing is good threads like this don't exist...

Sure they do - just not as much .

[The Dad Fisherman]

I don't think the fishing sucks.......I'm off to my best season ever

[nightfighter]

It's my fault....
I took Luds out livelining macks on the boat and now he's all screwed up....
This site has had its ups and downs. Clammer and I were talking about the formative years vs. now just the other day.
Can't bring back the old days.
On the other site, posts bashing Noto for keeping that fish were reported and deleted..... ie. not tolerated
Here, all views are allowed.
That's how it rolls here. JohnR is not a dictator. He wants the site to police itself ie. by the members, for the members.
I wouldn't mind losing the political forum.....
Can someone fix this thread's horizontal spacing?
There are a lot of fish up this way..... bait too!
I need some work... People are holding off on writing deposit checks. Sux.
But it does allow me to fish every morning at 0530...
There's an insider list here???

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by JohnR

Hehe. No aggravation. From you anyway .

This brings up some valid points. This site is about you all. The more WE as a group put in the more WE as a group can take out.

What do WE do to make it better?

Maybe people like bloocrab, instead of calling someone a "@$#%$" for discussing the benefits of releasing breeders, could instead explain why removing some number of breeders won't hurt stocks. In other words, instead of immediately insulting those with whom you disagree, how about telling us why you think they're wrong?

Just my $0.02. I love this site...