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11-13-2004, 07:29 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Saratoga Springs NY
Posts: 639
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The elusive snow bass
Anyone get one today? Anyone fish for that matter?
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11-13-2004, 07:30 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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11-13-2004, 07:41 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: MA
Posts: 3,630
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Nope, i tried a couple different spots, for nada. Bunch of people out though. Did see a massive amount of birds workin, but they never came in very close, didnt see anyone else get anything either.
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11-13-2004, 07:42 PM
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sick of bluefish
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: TEXAS
Posts: 8,672
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Tons of bass around, all small. I soaked my gloves early in the morning so by mid morning my hands were beyond numb. I didnt feel the sore bass thumb until they thawed.
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11-13-2004, 10:46 PM
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Where'd he go?
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Rhody
Posts: 849
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Had to drive a good stretch of shoreline and check many spots but it was worth it, massive amount of birds, bait and fish. Basically was hooking up on every cast for about an hour and twenty minutes. Then the sun set and the action turned off. No keepers but the non stop action was better than no fish at all.
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11-14-2004, 08:54 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Little Naragansett Bay
Posts: 6
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Done (kinda)
Pulled the boat with a tear in my eye and winterized on Wednesday. Gonna go to some of my shore spots on Tuesday. I can't give up yet. I don't hunt and there is still about 6 weeks 'til ski season
Tried on Monday and Tuesday. All the usual spots. Caught one 20 and a load of shad. Saw loads of birds working and chased 'em down. Couldn't believe what I brought in. The Blues are back!!! I thought they were long gone. I was so sure, I almost got bit. I was sure it wasn't a blue, for one, they were very finicky. Had to have just the right color.
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You get a line, I'll get a pole, we'll go down to that crawdad hole... uh huh!
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11-14-2004, 09:01 AM
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Got Necco's?
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Franklin
Posts: 1,339
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I didnt get out this morning..probably going to hang it up for the year..
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HAMMER TIME! 
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11-14-2004, 11:43 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,823
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A million fish on the South Shore of RI. All 16 to 18 ". You could have caught 1000 fish this morning. I quit after 20 rats. Just no fun when I'm throwing an 9' Pac Bay Graphite with a Calcutta 400 loaded with 50# Spectron
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No boat, back in the suds.  
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11-14-2004, 11:55 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Sturbridge MA
Posts: 3,127
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Got into quite a few saturday afternoon in SOCO. Biggest was bout 24 inches, they were hitting on anything. Storm shads, kastmasters, polaris, pencils and finally got a fish on a needlefish, bout time. Like In The Surf said, when the sun set the fish quit biting.
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Everything is better on the rocks.
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11-14-2004, 12:17 PM
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Got Necco's?
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Franklin
Posts: 1,339
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Well if the schoolies are pushing through the big fish cant be far behind...
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HAMMER TIME!
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11-14-2004, 02:35 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: CT but only fish in RI
Posts: 155
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yup   schoolies to 24", but hey, they're fish. long wnad and spin at napatree. |
fishing is not a love, but an obsession
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11-14-2004, 02:39 PM
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sick of bluefish
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: TEXAS
Posts: 8,672
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In the surf, I wonder if we were in the same spot? There were thousands of bass around
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11-14-2004, 02:43 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: MA
Posts: 3,630
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They were still there today RIjimmy, also some too the east too.Lots of fish but no size, did hear some others had got some fish in the 20's , but i didnt see it myself. Didnt see any reeled in either. Still monster blues around too. Saw a couple schoolie heads reeled in.
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11-14-2004, 04:55 PM
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Also known as OAK
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Westlery, RI
Posts: 10,408
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Generally the schoolies are the last gasp...
BUT...
The big bluefish around is a good sign...
as the H2O temp at Newport is 47 and change I have a bad feeling this rush of small fish (as PIEMMA and I discussed) one big school from Matunuck to Westerly, may be a sign of a mass exedus from other parts and may blow through quickly....
Weekend observations;
All the fish we caught were pale... cape fish? regardless they werent local "rock" fish
Lots of varied bait was seen, big pogies down to tiny "rain bait"
Water temp is a bad sign, but 3 years ago I saw a guy chunking on C-Town beach... a quick conversation revealed he had caught 3... I said "schoolies" he said no; Blues... if they werent sitting in the sand under his Buggy I never would have belived it.... and the last 2 years I've had bass into Dec (small ones)...
tight lines,
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Bryan
Originally Posted by #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&
"For once I agree with Spence. UGH. I just hope I don't get the urge to go start buying armani suits to wear in my shop"
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11-14-2004, 06:25 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: MA
Posts: 3,630
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Yeah hound, i was wondering about all the lighter colored schoolies? Definetly from further north, i noticed quite a few that had see lice, which i think means theyve been travelling at sea, right?
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11-14-2004, 06:45 PM
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sick of bluefish
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: TEXAS
Posts: 8,672
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Yup., noticed the pale schoolies too. A few had some battle scars and others were kinda sickly looking too.
It was pretty cool to catch bass in the sleet and hail, first time for me. Also saw a big seal swimming around, never saw that in RI, only on the cape.
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11-14-2004, 06:46 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: MA
Posts: 3,630
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Been a bunch of seels in gansett this week. Saw one last year up in providence, having a striper snack
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11-14-2004, 09:35 PM
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Think of the fish
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: South County
Posts: 165
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plenty of 18 to 20 "
1 20 #
great "moonset"
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11-15-2004, 02:25 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Sturbridge MA
Posts: 3,127
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A couple of the ones i got were a bit beat up too. One i think i may have helped with the roughing up, a wave slammed it into the rocks pretty hard, felt bad for the little guy, but if that wave woulda hit me i woulda felt a lot worse.
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Everything is better on the rocks.
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11-15-2004, 07:44 AM
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Got Necco's?
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Franklin
Posts: 1,339
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I saw some seals in charlestown last week too...they are everywhere..  |
HAMMER TIME!
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11-15-2004, 09:45 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2004
Location: South of Boston
Posts: 2,605
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Rhody Roast Beef
Finally fished Rhody So-Co this weekend. All day non-stop action. They were hitting anything, but after I saw a pod of 2-3 inch peanuts spray right in front of me, I threw on a 2 oz crippled herring and had a fish on every cast. The size started to increase as the sun began to set....but I had a long ride back to Boston.
Watching those gannets offshore is amazing. One of the coolest ariel shows I have seen.
ps. I'd like to thank the two gentleman in the renken type boat who was charging into the beach everytime the birds were crashing the shore. They must have put down 5 schools all day. Heavy tackle trolling virtually ripping stripers out of the water and giving them the football throw back in. Jokers. I was furious. One of the guys doesn't know how close he came to taking a crippled herring off his squash. I am not lying, it was about six inches.  |
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11-15-2004, 10:05 AM
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It's about respect baby!
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: ri
Posts: 6,358
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picked small fish as well, both in soco and where everyone was thursday... Was wondering about the real pale fish myself, got a fair sized fish that looked like he'd been doing battle with a seal or some monster blues, stripes were very faint...
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Domination takes full concentration..
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11-15-2004, 10:55 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: MA
Posts: 3,630
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Fish were out this am , but not like yesterday. Still no size either. Do schoolies leave first, followed by larger fish later? Or both at the same time? |
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11-15-2004, 11:20 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Libtardia
Posts: 21,690
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schoolies leave last... the fat lady is about to sing |
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11-15-2004, 11:24 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: MA
Posts: 3,630
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11-15-2004, 11:38 AM
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Geezer Gone Wild
Join Date: Nov 2001
Posts: 3,397
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Say, fellas - why so glum?  
You know, let's not forget the much-maligned tautog - certainly not a glamour girl like the striped bass....
But damned fine fillets.....  |
"There is no royal road to this heavy surf-fishing. With all the appliances for comfort experience can suggest, there is a certain amount of hard work to be done and exposure to be bourne as a part of the price of success." From "Striped Bass," Scribner's Magazine, 1881.
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11-15-2004, 05:53 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: MA
Posts: 3,630
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Jammed a bone in her throat this afternoon, not a huge one, but good enough. Gonna go back out and try to lock her back in her dressing room.
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11-15-2004, 06:05 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 451
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MY 6 YEAR OLD SUN GOT HIS FIRST STRIPERS THIS WEEKEND IN SOCO 16 - 18 INCHERS WERE PERFECT FOR HIM....... I DID A LITTLE BETTER IN THE DARK BOTH MORNINGS......
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11-15-2004, 06:07 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: MA
Posts: 3,630
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Was there a guy in the late 20's to your right, and too guys over 70 with their sons in the mid-30's a lil more to the right, street fight?
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11-15-2004, 06:10 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 451
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SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT..... WE WERE NOT ALONE...... IF IT HELPS HIS GRANDPARENTS WERE THERE TAKING PUICTURES OF HIM.....
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