Rate Your Season! - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

Slingah · 10-23-2011, 04:47 PM

Great season for me.
I didn't obsess about fishing once! Or get disappointed.
I got lots of stuff done and still had plenty of rest.

Basically I didn't fish at all this year.

Karl F · 10-23-2011, 07:01 PM

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Originally Posted by piemma

Best year since 06. Both boat and Canal. I am very pleased and if next year is as good I will be a happy guy. No 40s. A LOT of 30 to 38 # fish and I cannot count the 20 to 29# fish.
BTW, not that it matters but, personally, I killed 2 fish out of over 200 fish over 34". I don't count anything under 34". To me those are "schoolies".

Paul, you are a machine, and one of the "old school" anglers, I salute you!

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Originally Posted by Slingah

Great season for me.
I didn't obsess about fishing once! Or get disappointed.
I got lots of stuff done and still had plenty of rest.

Basically I didn't fish at all this year.

Matt... we had the same year!

Slipknot · 10-23-2011, 07:16 PM

I haven't fished so little as I did this year as I have in 12-13 years.
Too busy, so the times I did go I appreciated more even though they weren't all that productive. sometimes the fish zig when you zag

JohnR · 10-23-2011, 07:54 PM

What Slip said.

Grade: Incomplete

Grapenuts · 10-23-2011, 08:08 PM

U mean I missed another season again ..when was it

nightfighter · 10-23-2011, 08:38 PM

About to wrap it up.... Knee is junk, as it has been, on and off, since before the Cutty trip in June. Days and nights of walking those boulders may be over. (does a replacement help with the arthritis?)Shoulder is now junk as I have been most every day, dusk and/or dawn, in the surf for the past month and a half. (even on days that I go on the boat in the mornings...)
My take on the stock is one of promise. I have seen decent numbers of all sizes of stripers this year, including a personal best. In past years, I felt we had no shot at 40s and 50s in this area. I now know better and hold out hope for future seasons. Bait has been and still is present, mostly macks, but seeing herring, and small baitfish in good numbers as well. Very few pogies locally however.
Had two weeks of chasing blitzes from beaches within three towns. Outside of that, my success rate in the surf was lower than I would have liked, so can empathize with many who saw off years from the shore. Overall, one of the best and latest falls for me, ever.
With my body no longer able to pound the rocks as I used to, my boat is my great pleasure. Say what you will, but it allows me to fish where I want, how I want, and I make no apologies. I do question the time and expense I have made in making plugs, when all I seem to do is liveline macks from the boat...again, no apologies there either.
No complaints... Other than not seeing and fishing with friends I have seen in past seasons, and missing out on albies... With good health, family, loved ones, and friends, if we can survive this economy, hope will spring again for yet another year.

Finaddict · 10-23-2011, 08:44 PM

Two out of the three times I was able to get out were relatively productive, not huge fish by any means ... but every time I did get out was equally satisfying.

MAKAI · 10-23-2011, 11:24 PM

Ugh! Between a messed up achilles, plantar fasciitis in both feet and now a torn rotator cuff. Ugh!

Tagger · 10-24-2011, 03:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Slipknot

. sometimes the fish zig when you zag

I didn't answer the poll .. Greatest spring ever ,, Worse fall ever .. My best year ever in numbers only because I fished the funnel (canal) mostly and the beaches very little . Hull spring in the yak was good to me ,, rest of the time dead . Don't like the fact my favorite beach the mussel beds are stripped clean .. What's that ? I was lucky a lot ,, what Slip said ..

BigBo · 10-24-2011, 06:03 AM

Spring started out great, but then medical issues half way through the summer pretty much ended it for me.

numbskull · 10-24-2011, 06:09 AM

Loads of teen fish and almost nothing else. But seasons are about how often you go and how much fun you have, and by that measure it was a good one.

scottw · 10-24-2011, 06:41 AM

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Originally Posted by numbskull

But seasons are about how often you go and how much fun you have, and by that measure it was a good one.

Amen to that

JohnnySaxatilis · 10-24-2011, 07:02 AM

Spring was promising, had a great time fishing the beaches around here, and the ditch was really fun in june (highlight of the year), but then as the year rolled on, it got progressively worse for me. all surfcasting, all with plugs, save kicking some macks on the rocks when they swam by.

BTW I hate seals. Seal quota: black powder rifles only, 2 seals per day 50 in minimum. noses go for 20$ per