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06-22-2014, 02:32 PM
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Always a Rookie
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: South Shore Long Island, NY
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Help/Advice on Tracking spots
Before I got the truck, I walked a ton on the beach. Marked spots I wanted to fish at low tide by keeping track of how many paces from a landmark it took to get there (i.e. starting from Beach Cut 1, I would go 50 steps East to reach an out suck).
Now that I'm going to be able to go down the beach much further, how do you guys keep track of your spots? One person mentioned they went by their Odometer (mine is kinda funky). I don't have GPS or any of that but I really hope not to drive forward with me just looking at the water and accidentally running things over or causing problems with fellow drivers on the beach. There are no real landmarks to go by either (especially at night).
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06-22-2014, 02:56 PM
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BuzzLuck
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Brockton
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Do you have a smartphone? Turn on GPS in phone and take pics, the pics will have GPS coordinates for a record (might be an option you have to turn on)
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06-22-2014, 03:29 PM
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OLDGOAT7205963
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: CAPE
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Zeal Just mark off the tenths from a starting point to a spot. Then how many tenths to the next spot. We would write on the underside of the sun visor and keep it to yer self.
been there ,good luck
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06-22-2014, 04:04 PM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
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Quote:
Originally Posted by OLD GOAT
Zeal Just mark off the tenths from a starting point to a spot. Then how many tenths to the next spot. We would write on the underside of the sun visor and keep it to yer self.
been there ,good luck
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Exactly!! Back before GPS in the truck we measured from one hole to the nexted. We had a hole we called 2th Hole because it was 2ths of a mile south of the mission bell.
No spot burn as this was in 94, 95, 96. Hole is long gone or full of seals. |
No boat, back in the suds.  
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06-23-2014, 04:47 PM
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Too old to give a....
Join Date: Dec 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by piemma
Exactly!! Back before GPS in the truck we measured from one hole to the nexted. We had a hole we called 2th Hole because it was 2ths of a mile south of the mission bell.
No spot burn as this was in 94, 95, 96. Hole is long gone or full of seals.
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Stuck some nice fish in that same spot back in the day.....sad state of affairs now.
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06-24-2014, 03:50 PM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MAKAI
Stuck some nice fish in that same spot back in the day.....sad state of affairs now.
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I fished it one night with NY Eddie, Lanny G, Tony C, and a few others and it was epic. One of those night you remember forever. |
No boat, back in the suds.
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06-22-2014, 08:14 PM
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Always a Rookie
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: South Shore Long Island, NY
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Quote:
Originally Posted by OLD GOAT
Zeal Just mark off the tenths from a starting point to a spot. Then how many tenths to the next spot. We would write on the underside of the sun visor and keep it to yer self.
been there ,good luck
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Forgive my ignorance, but what exactly are the "tenths"? I get the tenths of a mile but where am I supposed to be looking to mark this off? |
"Your first word was "Fishing", not "Mom", not "Dad", "FISHING." - Mom
Black, White, Chartreuse/Parrot = the Holy Trinity
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06-23-2014, 01:26 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeal
Forgive my ignorance, but what exactly are the "tenths"? I get the tenths of a mile but where am I supposed to be looking to mark this off?
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1/10 of a mile on your trip odometer |
No boat, back in the suds.
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06-23-2014, 07:07 AM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
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06-23-2014, 02:07 PM
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Always a Rookie
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: South Shore Long Island, NY
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Thank you all for the help! Much obliged!
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"Your first word was "Fishing", not "Mom", not "Dad", "FISHING." - Mom
Black, White, Chartreuse/Parrot = the Holy Trinity
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06-23-2014, 05:23 PM
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Annisquam Assassin
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Peabody, MA
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have you tried leaving bread crumbs?  lol |
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There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process. ~Paul O'Neil, 1965
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06-23-2014, 08:50 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2010
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Originally Posted by N.ShoreFisher
have you tried leaving bread crumbs? lol |
The plovers would greatly appreciate that. |
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06-24-2014, 03:06 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: in a structure with a roof
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I use my tripometer . 0 it out when I enter the beach and write down what it says for distance . Then you have it untill you paper gets wet or lost . I dont use gps , just another thing to break or get lost .
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