Do you miss fishing herring?

[Crest Daddy]

I live lined sea herring in the end of dec and beginning of last january in the housatonic. Got a couple keepers but my buddy outfished me on plastics 5-1. I never used the other herring b4. I guess i dont miss it.

[cableguy]

I miss it...still have all my stuff in the shed...wishfull thinking I guess

[t.orlando]

Don't miss it at all, too much work.

[bigbuck28]

Yes and no. I do miss watching them come to the top in a panic and then getting smashed.

[fishaholic18]

Originally Posted by t.orlando

Don't miss it at all, too much work.

Ditto

[Rockfish9]

I always fished mac's instead... they were/are eaiser to catch and keep, we don't have as many herring runs as the cape and catching herring just wasted too much time, even when i fish way up river, they get devoured before the fresh water turns them white and they croak..

[robc22]

Loved it...and you did not have to fish herring alive to catch big fish......much easier than some might think......

[ridler72]

It was fun in the late 80's and 90's for me. No more fighting on the Charles River veranda for a spot or wading Watertown Dam. Fighting with the State Police up at the lower Mystic falls on whether wading and scooping herring was allowed. I don't miss all of that.

The benefit was I learned other techniques and end up finding the kayak as use for a fishing tool.