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03-04-2009, 03:07 PM
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Geezer Gone Wild
Join Date: Nov 2001
Posts: 3,397
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What Are You Doing To Get Ready for This Season?
I was looking at a calendar yesterday and realized that Daylight Savings Time starts this Saturday... 
Cripes, I gotta get going - thank God I reamed and sorted through my tackle room over the winter - wellll...I don't think I actually need much after digging stuff out - but there is stuff I want... 
Think I'll start with my trout stuff tonight - new line, check spinners and spoons etc...put hooks on some of the Pt Jude freshwater stuff Uncle Joe gave me...
Tie up some new bucktail jigs...dig out my slip bobbers for the Spring blackfish run....start tying my leaders and eel hooks....
Oh man...it's almost HERE!!!!  |
"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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03-04-2009, 03:48 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 2,939
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Putting together, Cribs, Strollers, car seats, jumpers and that kind of stuff. I got this COOL baby sling that will attach your kid to you when tossing plugs off the beach. I'm sure people are going to love that.
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03-04-2009, 03:55 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 5,238
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I'm in pretty much the same boat as you. Gonna start getting my trout gear in order, get leaders tied for the sweetwater. Then, finally purchase some jig molds and a small toaster oven and make a ton of jigs for the spring canal run.
Tie as many leaders as possible, spool up my new-used emblem 5500 and sharpen hooks. Tie up some teasers, make some teaser rigs and tie up a bunch of eel hooks.
I have about 20 sluggos that need rigging and a few dead eels that still need to be rigged as well.
Oh and I have a couple plugs that still need painting. Not to mention finding a place for the gear I'm sure to buy at the upcoming fishing shows.
Now that I've typed it all out.... I should have started months ago.
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03-04-2009, 03:56 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: East Taunton
Posts: 658
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I need to go get some eel hooks and barrel swivels this weekend, then to start leader tying. Need to replace a bunch of trebles on some pencils.
Waders are on order from LL BEan, will order a Saltiga next weekend.
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Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. ~Ernest Hemingway
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03-04-2009, 04:04 PM
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Red Eye Jedi
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: East Facing
Posts: 4,374
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i have so much to do it's stressing me out just thinking about it...
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03-04-2009, 04:06 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 5,238
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Originally Posted by bart
i have so much to do it's stressing me out just thinking about it...
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After my above post, I'm right there with you. |
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03-04-2009, 04:08 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Easton, MA
Posts: 5,737
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I just need to do the regular maintenance on my reels to make sure they're working properly. Two years ago, I forgot to check the button on my red Zebco on the Spiderman rod and when the sunfish blitz broke out, I was left standing on shore with my rod in my hand.
I also have to tie some leaders and finish up some plugs I started back in November. Other than that, I should be in good shape for the season. I'll be at MSBA this weekend and will probably buy a bunch more stuff that I don't really need, too.
Last edited by fishbones; 03-04-2009 at 04:18 PM..
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Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them tools at their disposal that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. - Marco Rubio
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03-04-2009, 04:31 PM
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Pete K.
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 2,953
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I need to replace ALL my Korker spikes... anyone know of any good prices? I usually tie leaders and change hooks on a need-basis... I have this weird thing that if I tie a bunch of leaders months in advance, and cant remember when they were tied, or if they sit for a few months, I start to doubt them... If I'm using a leader, I like tying the knots a DAY before... I have more confidence in them that way...
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03-04-2009, 04:39 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Hyde Park, MA
Posts: 4,152
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I'm going ice fishing this weekend.
I'll start prepping for the spring during the next month, and for the summer during April and May.
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03-04-2009, 05:23 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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well
i'd better get some new mono....
too much memory and heat damage to
whats on my spools .....
Glad you brought it up Crafty...
because i've been looking at a collection
of rods calling to me..... for some TLC....  |
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03-04-2009, 06:11 PM
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Canceled
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: vt
Posts: 13,425
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ivanputski
I need to replace ALL my Korker spikes... anyone know of any good prices? I usually tie leaders and change hooks on a need-basis... I have this weird thing that if I tie a bunch of leaders months in advance, and cant remember when they were tied, or if they sit for a few months, I start to doubt them... If I'm using a leader, I like tying the knots a DAY before... I have more confidence in them that way...
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Look at this thread
http://www.striped-bass.com/Stripert...ghlight=korker |
Frasier: Niles, I’ve just had the most marvelous idea for a website! People will post their opinions, cheeky bon mots, and insights, and others will reply in kind!
Niles: You have met “people”, haven’t you?
Lets Go Darwin
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03-04-2009, 06:12 PM
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Soggy Bottom Boy
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Billerica, Ma.
Posts: 7,260
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Nothing
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Surfcasting Full Throttle
Don't judge me Monkey 
Recreational Surfcaster 99.9% C&R
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03-04-2009, 06:34 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: new bedford, Ma.
Posts: 651
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I slowly buy terminal tackle and other odds and ends over the winter so I'm pretty much good to go.
I do have to buy one of those huge spools of PP. I always say I'm going too and end up just buying 300yrds.
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Nobody calls me Lebowski. You got the wrong guy. I'm the Dude, man.
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03-04-2009, 07:26 PM
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It's about respect baby!
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: ri
Posts: 6,358
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Dishes.  |
Domination takes full concentration..
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03-04-2009, 08:36 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Ma/RI
Posts: 307
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Spending money on terminal tackle. respooling the reels. Waiting for my reel from shimano. Picked up a extra pair of korkers. I'm sure theres more.
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03-04-2009, 08:39 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 369
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Need to get a few rods wrapped. Spool my reels. Maybe a VS if i can somehow scare up the money before the season. Pick up bucktails for the canal. And theres always the plugs.
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03-04-2009, 08:51 PM
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Geezer Gone Wild
Join Date: Nov 2001
Posts: 3,397
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ThrowingTimber
Dishes. |
Attaboy, Vic - you can never be too early or too ambitious when it comes to brown-nosing the Boss...
Damned cookie jar takes longer to fill every year - and then vooomp! - dumbest little thing and it's empty again...  |
"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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03-04-2009, 09:06 PM
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Canceled
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: vt
Posts: 13,425
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With my permanent record I'll never fill the cookie jar.
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Frasier: Niles, I’ve just had the most marvelous idea for a website! People will post their opinions, cheeky bon mots, and insights, and others will reply in kind!
Niles: You have met “people”, haven’t you?
Lets Go Darwin
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03-04-2009, 09:15 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Marshfield, MA
Posts: 6,267
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sleeping quite a bit at night....  |
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03-04-2009, 10:24 PM
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Hunting for a 40
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: RI
Posts: 615
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Getting divorced in 9 days. Will be ready for the spring run!!!
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03-05-2009, 12:15 AM
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Too old to give a....
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 2,505
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dad 818
Getting divorced in 9 days. Will be ready for the spring run!!!
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welcome to the club  |
May fortune favor the foolish....
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03-05-2009, 12:52 AM
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Fish Hound
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Shrewsbury, MA & Mashpee, MA
Posts: 1,159
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trying to graduate.... kinda hard when during the middle of tests all i think about is fishing and the spring run 
but then again its COLLEGEEEE  |
"There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart.....pursue those."
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03-05-2009, 01:10 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Burlington
Posts: 2,290
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shoveling the f------g snow!  |
low & slow 37
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03-05-2009, 05:07 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: cape cod when my meds r workin right
Posts: 1,412
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praying 4 spring  |
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03-05-2009, 08:50 AM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
Posts: 3,368
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Hit the gym 3-4X per week.  Getting the body ready for long walks over rocks,sand, etc. Remember, its a marathon.... |
It's not the bait
At the end of your line
It's the fishing hole
Where all the fish is blind
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03-05-2009, 09:00 AM
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Red Eye Jedi
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: East Facing
Posts: 4,374
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doin' the same, need to the hit the gym harder. been putting weight on fast since i quit smoking and it's only been 5 days. last year i was in tip top shape to fish and for the couple months that i did actually fish, I could really feel difference.
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03-05-2009, 09:34 AM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bart
i have so much to do it's stressing me out just thinking about it...
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me too, as usual |
"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
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03-05-2009, 09:34 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2004
Location: South of Boston
Posts: 2,605
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Chasing around a 2 year old and changing diapers on the 2 1/2 month old. Super busy at work. Figure I'll pick up some terminal tackle this weekend.
Hopefully I'll get a chance to change a few hooks on my spring plugs and tie a bunch of leaders for tossing eels.
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The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. ~John Buchan
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03-05-2009, 09:49 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2001
Posts: 7,649
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The daylight savings benchmark you use is a trick! It is early this year...I think it normally happens about a month later. Fishing will not get rocking here for 3 more months.
That said I always need more stuff. Who here DOESN'T?
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03-05-2009, 12:43 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Reading Mass/Newburyport/merrimack river
Posts: 3,748
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Quote:
Originally Posted by gone fishin
shoveling the f------g snow! |
I hear ya on that one.... if it ever stops snowing... I need to put a new deck on my boat, I've been putting it off for a few years now...other than that everything else has been methodicly taken care of through the winter... |
A good run is better than a bad stand!
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