Your Best Fishing Moment In 07'!

[Tagger]

Your lucky that fish didn't bite you in the ookadooka....

[Rob Rockcrawler]

Getting my personal best on a top water in the worst weather i have ever fished 20 minutes after leaving the saltwater edge with a simms top, not getting wet never felt so good.

[lurch]

September 07
Fishing on the canal with my brother. My brother and I are NOT close but when my father passed away in September my brother and I were making funeral plans with my mom and the funeral director brought up fishing. We started talking about fishing with the FD and after we left the funeral home I asked my brother if he wanted to sling some snakes at the canal to reduce the stress level. He accepted the offer..

He met me at my house at 2:00am and we drove down to the canal with another friend of mine, all three of us had our bikes with us we stopped at a few of the known eel slinging locations. We had alot fish attacking the eels but no actual hookups. During that time we had great conversations and had an overall great time.

The cool thing was after we left around noon the next day fish started bustin all over the place...my brother and my friend were too tired to fish but I was glad to see my brother see a mini canal blitz....great time! Hopefully we can do it again but under better circumstances.

[Slingah]

this was the best striped bass fishing moment(s)

[Goose]

Best and worst moment at the same time. Being in acres and acres of porpoising
albies and not being able to put one in the boat.

[Mad Hatter]

Throwin a needle at night on MV....I'm in up to my chest and I hook into what feels like a greyhound bus. At the same time across the sound, a town fireworks display starts so I'm getting that and the reflection of it in the water! Turns out I snagged a 24" striper sideways (you know how that goes) but man, what a rush....brain felt like it was back in '68!

[fishermanjim]

memorial day catching large stripers on manhaden,,, that was a first for me

[fishsmith]

Coming right at the boat, about 20 - 30ft off the beam, seeing a bluefish dive out of the water, then right behind it a giant tuna coming out of the water behind it with mouth wide open.

It was an awesome sight.

[RickBomba]

Watching my brother come out of the head on the Cuttyhunk Ferry after the thing exploded all over him!
I didn't catch too many big fish this year, so that was cool for me.
The other was sticking a whole Bud bottle down the gullet of a good fish that Mikey got in Ct right at the beginning of the season.
Boy was he surprised when he cut open the stomach!
Later,
Rick

[scone]

catching fish on my first two casts during my first ever trip to montauk

[Swimmer]

Originally Posted by RickBomba

Watching my brother come out of the head on the Cuttyhunk Ferry after the thing exploded all over him!
I didn't catch too many big fish this year, so that was cool for me.
The other was sticking a whole Bud bottle down the gullet of a good fish that Mikey got in Ct right at the beginning of the season.
Boy was he surprised when he cut open the stomach!
Later,
Rick

To be a Bomba.

[doc]

fishing in the dead of the night...on a sand bar in 85 degree weather with just a bathing suit and a t-shirt on....and hooking into decent fish fishing a needle real slow....and being totally alone...

[Diggin Jiggin]

I had some great days bass fishing by myself last year, but the days that stand out as my best days were fishing with my son and my dad.

I took my son down the cape in may and there were bluefish everycast but they were out too far for him to reach, so I'd cast the 2 rods and we'd reel em in together and see who could hook up first. Then whichever rod hooked up, he'd reel in the fish. He landed something like 40 fish that night and we left when his shoulder ached. And then he asked if we could go again the next night and it was just as good!

[Diggin Jiggin]

In mid october I took a week off to fish with my dad, and we got lucky and hit the best albie fishing we've ever had in some not so nice weather..

Over the course of 3 afternoons we landed 50 something albies, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz what a blast in the surf on light tackle. It is a lot of fun trying to get them out of the rutt on 12lb test....

[outnumbered]

Watching my daughter reel in what seemed like a really big bass when she hit the free spool lever on the Penn 113H and all the lead core line backlashed making the reel unusable. So she yelled "dad" and threw the rod at me and handlined the 42LB bass in by hand. Smiling the whole time and setting a new boat record.

[BMEUPSCOTTY]

Originally Posted by outnumbered

Watching my daughter reel in what seemed like a really big bass when she hit the free spool lever on the Penn 113H and all the lead core line backlashed making the reel unusable. So she yelled "dad" and threw the rod at me and handlined the 42LB bass in by hand. Smiling the whole time and setting a new boat record.

Good one and good bump.

[freebie]

had a couple great days, best was a 90or so pound blue fin on my friends boat, a 36" bass on my birthday and the most fun was on Niko's boat snagging pogies and slaying big bass and blues, hopefully some better stories for thispost next time around

[big jay]

Hands down best day -- My 4yr old son catching his first Striper.
He got 3 in about 1/2 an hour, biggest 24" right at the dock. Forget the tuna and all the other stuff, Best Day Ever.

[SirWinston]

Seeing my wife and my father (over from the UK) both hook into 5-7lb blues on a bluebird morning at the beach. My 4 year old eldest daughter helped to reel in a couple of blues as well. Great big grin on her face!
We had planned a walk on the beach only, but I always bring a couple of rods just in case!.

Priceless.

(sorry Tynan - I never did get round to putting those photos up!!)

For this year, my eldest is asking for me to teach her to cast so that she can join me on the beach, and my second daughter (2 1/2) is asking to 'fishing with daddy'.

Looks like I am going to be busy!!

[kippy]

My most memorable experience was catching my first bluefin. Even more memorable was that my dad was with me. Hopefully there will be many more this year.

[fish4striper]

Slamming 30 lbers with live pogies with my son , my gal and my brother in the pouring rain for hours. Best day all year!

[The Iceman 6]

One night in early September on a full moon standing on breachway X just catching fish after fish after fish, gator blues and bass up to 25 lbs...

Ice

[STREETFIGHT]

first best-the september morning my 10 year old son got his first surf caught keeper & then 2 or 3 casts later watching him fight 2 10 lb blues on an AH pencil at the same time- he was one spent little dude....

2nd best- was in late november- he hooked what would be his last bass of the season but (without being asked by me) called his younger sister over to fight it- she was so excited (it was her first bass) and he was such the "big brother" awsome stuff ill never forget.

[FishermanTim]

This past fall my older brother, after prompting from me to get out and go fishing, was calling me and telling me how the fishing was up in Winnipesaukee. He has a house not from the lake, and he'd get home in time to get an hour of 2 of evening fishing in.
Now he knows how I feel about fishing, and the fun and relaxation that it brings.
Now that I've got another fishaholic in the wings, we can plan on taking our nieces and nephews (his kids included) fishing more regularly.

One of my most personal treasured fishing moments happened a number of years ago, years before my father passed away.
We were fishing down in Brewster, at Flax Pond in Nickerson State Park. My father preferred to fish with a fly rod with sinking line.
He wasn't really a fly fisherman, since he didn't cast flies or lures, but he liked the fight he got on a fly rod. He would fish his 2 lines, and I mine, seated as comforatbly as possible in a 12" pram.
He had just pulled up another 6" perch, of which there were plenty.
As he set his line, I checked his other, and unhooked another perch.
Well, as I was pulling up his other line, a HUGE smallmouth bass appeared from under the boat and inhaled the perch while it was still hooked. I gave the line a tug, hoping to set the hook through the perch and into the bass, but only succeeded in pulling the perch out of it's mouth.
As I explained this to my father (who was a little hard of hearing), he pulls up on his other line, and tells me "I'm snagged on something. I think I hooked the anchor line."
I laughed and said "It can't be the anchor line, because it's behind me, and it's running away from the boat". I lean forward and grab the rod, just long enough to stop him from jigging back and forth, and when I did, I felt the head shake of a really good fish.
(Unfortunately, the pictures do this story better justice than I could ever convey, but picture the following My father sitting at the stern of the boat with his fly rod doubled over, it's tip is submerged as he proceeds to reel the fish up from the deep. It takes him 10 -15 minutes before we get a glimpse of the fish, and we're both awestruck. He had hooked into a smallmouth in the 4-5 lb. range, that when held at chin level hung down to his lap.
Although we never did hit the saltwater together, our freshwater excursions were quite memorable.

My dad taught me to fish, so I'm just trying to carry on the tradition.
This time I'm getting the kids to the ocean as well as the ponds.

Here's to every kids' father & mother, and every parents' sons & daughters.

[Rappin Mikey]

I'd have to say the day I broke the 35# mark in late April last year on a Mac pencil.

[mackenzie]

Nov.2 20lb+/- bass taking a pencil in the curl in 2 ft. of water off Hull.

[Swimmer]

Driving off the ferry in Vineyard Haven last September.

[Rob Rockcrawler]

Had 2 memorable days.

1. Taking my mom and dad fishing. Dad knows what he is doing but mom needed a few lessons. She can now cast conventional. If only i had an 8' rod for her, the 1208 was a bit too much for her to handle.

2. Getting my PB on topwater during a nasty squall that i watched move up the bay, and when it finally hit the fish went nutty for a half hour. A day i will never forget.

[RIROCKHOUND]

They were all good. From Paul's plastic jetty in the upper bay, to the canyons, to pounding rocks with Joe, to taking Nebe and goosefishy blackfishing. capped with a few good nights in November.
good year.
decent fishing
always fun, always room for improvement.

[keeperreaper]

Watching my daughter catch 8" snapper blues all afternoon. That beats every trophy I have ever caught. It is what fishing is all about.