Too Early to Reflect???

[rwilhelm]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by doyle007
[B]this is from nevis, west indies. taken this february. st. kitts is in front of us. no beach fishing to be had, but we got a lot of skipjacks earlier in the day off of a 31' bertram.

Doyle I went to St. Kitts and visited Nevis on my honeymoon 5 years ago what a beautiful place. Not built up at all like a lot of vacation spots.

[tynan19]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Flaptail


I want to be in the Worcester Connection. Wish I grew up then having lived in Worcester all my life, not to many of my friends are dedicated. I would have loved to have been the boy who just sat and listened to the old timers talk fish.

[S-Journey]

Originally posted by hooked
dawn off cape ann

Excellent picture!

[Roop]

[Flaptail]

The little boy, who has always been most gratefull for the experience to have had the chance to sit and listen to these legends, will be fifty next October 7th. You are young, I envy that beleive me but on the other hand I had the chance to experience the end of an era.
You will never know what it was like to be able to land on Monomoy and walk the wild edge of the surf casting to schools of monster bass taht once rolled in the first wave, now with the regulations and the seals that is gone. To watch your father line up with the other fisherman at the Herring Run on the canal and everyone waited until the guy at the mouth of the pipe got his herring and hooked it on, cast it out and proceeded to walk it with the tide east to the old restroom building, one after the other they followed in an orderly procession. No baskets, no trash, no tempers, when someoine hooked up the others closest would automatically reel in to give the guy fighting space and would watch and admire as he fought it.
To run the beach from Eastham to P-town uninterupted except for washouts and fish every inch possible. I am glad I was born when I was born and where I was born, actually I wish I had been born a little earlier, but with what I and a few others were able to experience comes a hidden sadness that it will never be like that again.
I sometimes feel like a survivor of a shipwreck when I am alone on the beach at night. Everyone that I started with fishing the beach except for my close friend Dave LaPorte, is gone. Most are dead and some just lost interest. I find the drive in me is still very strong and I must continue even if all by myself. It's a demon I cannot fight. It controls my existence. I know though that the spirits of men who went before me, who had the same compulsion, fought the same losing battle with that demon, walk with me each lonely night, measuring me, sizing me up for the time when I will walk with them, watching silently as others come to the edge of the sea.

[Karl F]

Flap, no wonder they pay you to write.

Now, a picture, that's worth a thousand words... at least to me

[doyle007]

Karl, that picture looks just like southern NJ, except for the fact that the beach in your picture has contour, points, and deep water nearby.

[tynan19]

Hey flap all ears. My grandfather died when I was young. He was around long enough to pass on his love of fishing to myself. I have all his old lures and jigs. I remember watching him fillet his catch everytime he would come home. I remember the smells, especially the smell of wet newspaper when he would wrap the heads and tails and throw them in the garden. I did not get to experience these trips with him. I wish I did. My father does not fish, so I have all this passion for the sport and have to learn it myself. Not a bad thing, I enjoy it.

Maybee that is why I enjoy this site so much it brings back good memories and helps steer me in the right directions.

[Flaptail]

Karl. I know exactly where that is. I can see the sea clams in the wash in the night, two there, three there, a bunch there. Chowdah material and bass food.

[TunaCell]

My first sailfish

[chawk20]

great post flaptail!

[Skitterpop]

Flaptail,

(hope this is ok with NIB )

I love your stories man...wish you would write a book or two or three.

Mike

[Karl F]

There....
that oughta get Nib ta

[justplugit]

Flap, a talented descriptive writer like yourself is a blessing to all who read your writings. It allows us to exprience our own younger days with fondness and clarity as well as feel we are right there with you. Thanks for sharing the memories.
BTW,trust me your 50's and 60's will bring their own special times.

[5/0]

Nice pics guy's

no fish in this pic but it kinda looks fishy

[tynan19]

5/0 nice picture, I love the beach sceen I have some from an SLR but I need to scan them.