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01-28-2008, 10:08 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Chatham, MA
Posts: 424
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Splash Date
Hey all,
I'm probably getting ahead of myself here but I was just wondering when everyone was splashing their boats this year. I'm on the south side of the cape and I'm thinking May 1st, although I'd like to go tomorrow. What are you guys doing?
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01-28-2008, 10:21 AM
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Seal Control
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Caver, Ma.
Posts: 3,875
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I fish the Cape also, I love to say May 1st all the time, But the weather here sucks till June 1st !
You get very few days in May that are worth it IMO
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"All my friends are Flakes!!"
BOATLESS 
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01-28-2008, 10:58 AM
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What was that!?!
Join Date: May 2005
Location: East Kingston, NH
Posts: 3,108
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hoping for 5/15
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01-28-2008, 11:07 AM
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In the Hole II
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Cape Cod
Posts: 188
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Shooting for 4/1 splash date to make Tatoug season this year  |
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01-28-2008, 11:10 AM
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#5
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Gloucester
Posts: 33
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April 15th......bottom fishing can be decent before the dogs arrive
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01-28-2008, 11:14 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Cranston
Posts: 1,029
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My slip is ready the 1st of April, but I never get my boat ready before
the middle of the month!
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"Non temere mai Roma, il serpente rimane attorcigliato a Napoli!"
"Baci Mio Culo"
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01-28-2008, 11:18 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,824
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Quote:
Originally Posted by "uffah!!"
My slip is ready the 1st of April, but I never get my boat ready before
the middle of the month!
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Mine also. I'm figuring April 10 to 15. I'm planning on retiring at the end of March and doing nothing but fishing from April till December....every friggin" day!!!!! |
No boat, back in the suds.  
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01-28-2008, 12:02 PM
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sick of bluefish
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: TEXAS
Posts: 8,672
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Paul - congrats on the retirement!
I am planning on getting my boat in the water mid-april. A few scouting trips and then the serious fishing will begin early May.
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making s-b.com a kinder, gentler place for all
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01-28-2008, 12:30 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: East Prov RI
Posts: 1,501
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cod opens 4/1, first decent weekend
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01-28-2008, 12:34 PM
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#10
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Between a rock and a hard place
Posts: 540
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Planning for the 1st week of may, so I'll probably be in sometime in June!
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day ...
show him where to fish and ... you'll be sorry
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01-28-2008, 01:59 PM
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What was that!?!
Join Date: May 2005
Location: East Kingston, NH
Posts: 3,108
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Quote:
Originally Posted by piemma
Mine also. I'm figuring April 10 to 15. I'm planning on retiring at the end of March and doing nothing but fishing from April till December....every friggin" day!!!!!
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 man does that sound awsome! |
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01-28-2008, 04:38 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Newtown, CT
Posts: 5,659
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Sometime between April 1st and 15th ( If I can get everything done!)
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01-28-2008, 04:49 PM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
Posts: 35,270
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Congrats Paul  - A little surprised though, didn't you take a new job in the last 6 months? |
~Fix the Bait~ ~Pogies Forever~
Striped Bass Fishing - All Stripers
Kobayashi Maru Election - there is no way to win.
Apocalypse is Coming:
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01-28-2008, 04:54 PM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,824
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnR
Congrats Paul - A little surprised though, didn't you take a new job in the last 6 months? |
It'll be a year next month. Flew almost 200,000 miles last year and I am tired. Cancer is still with me although I live with it, it wears me down occasionally. I'm 60 years old and been on the road for almost 40 of them. Time to take some time and smell the roses. I'll end up doing something probably part time but I am going to take some R and R and fish.  |
No boat, back in the suds.
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01-28-2008, 05:00 PM
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#15
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 353
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I'm on the trailer and am ready to go at a moments notice like a Minuteman. I thought we'd have some nice 40-60 degree days but so far there have not been many. As soon as the first 40 degree weekend comes and the seas lay down, I'll be out somewhere, fishing.
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01-28-2008, 08:11 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: New Hampshire
Posts: 1,160
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I'm planning on mid may so I can be at the LLs for that week in June when "they" show.
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boatless................can I have a ride?
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01-28-2008, 08:18 PM
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Southsider
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Bass River, Mass.
Posts: 1,226
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Quote:
Originally Posted by piemma
Mine also. I'm figuring April 10 to 15. I'm planning on retiring at the end of March and doing nothing but fishing from April till December....every friggin" day!!!!!
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Livin' the dream!!!!!  |
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01-29-2008, 09:22 AM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 8,760
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April 30th is normally the first shakedown trip. There were huge bluefish in Buzzards Bay at that time. I didn't manage to get into the seabass bite in the upper bay tho, it was really was short.
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01-29-2008, 07:53 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Bridgewater, MA
Posts: 2,031
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I trailer and usually do a few early season runs in April. Hoping the same timeframe this year or a little earlier.
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--Mike Malone
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01-29-2008, 08:29 PM
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Spot Preserver
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Mansfield
Posts: 2,461
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Hopefully March 1st and then zip out for the cod below the 42 line above the 42 on April 1.
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Make America Great Again.
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01-30-2008, 09:16 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Chatham, MA
Posts: 424
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Man I can't wait to get her in the water. I may have to move the date up.
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01-30-2008, 09:32 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Warwick RI,02889
Posts: 11,786
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Splash date ::???????????
Never pulled her out >> boats were made for the sea / not a garage or under some shrink wrap ;;  |
ENJOY WHAT YOU HAVE !!!
MIKE
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01-30-2008, 09:55 AM
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D'oh
Join Date: May 2004
Location: RI
Posts: 3,296
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Clammer
Splash date ::???????????
Never pulled her out >> boats were made for the sea / not a garage or under some shrink wrap ;; |
i followed the Clammer advice this year, but now I am laid up with a leaky oil pump. Once fixed, I will keep going out when the days are decent...
Z |
i bent my wookie
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01-30-2008, 11:34 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Reading Mass/Newburyport/merrimack river
Posts: 3,748
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May 1st.... just in time for the inshore cod /haddock bite.
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01-30-2008, 12:01 PM
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#25
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Warwick RI,02889
Posts: 11,786
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Zac;
i also have a leakly oil pump >> I wear depends / XXL  |
ENJOY WHAT YOU HAVE !!!
MIKE
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01-30-2008, 12:35 PM
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D'oh
Join Date: May 2004
Location: RI
Posts: 3,296
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i bent my wookie
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01-31-2008, 08:02 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Truro
Posts: 307
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Aiming for mid April, but with the last maintenance tasks to do it will probably be the end of April.
Try to get some personal cod trips in before the tackle shop gets cranked up for the season and the bass and tuna charters start lining up.
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