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drmevo

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  1. I agree, Ram for the fish finder to quickly get it adjusted if needed (changing glare, etc.) and Scotty for rod holders.
  2. Fair enough, whatever works! The Forester is more of an upright, SUV-style seat. For me, it works better than the car-like Crosstrek seat.
  3. That’s interesting…I’ve driven two different Crosstreks for work for years. They are/were both more cramped than my Foresters. Way less head room, less leg room, etc. Also, calling it a truck? Are we talking about the same vehicle?
  4. That’s my take as well. Plus you will get much better financing rates on new, at least that was the case when I was shopping back in the spring. Used prices were also ridiculous at that time. Some used models were the same price as new! It made sense to just buy the exact car I wanted, Subaru Forester Wilderness, which I will hopefully drive just as long as the last one which I also bought new in 2010.
  5. There's still a lot of people speaking, including many from Maine. I think the Florida guy was from Maine originally, and I completely disagree with your impression - I thought he was blaming poor management, not fishermen.
  6. I really don’t understand this logic. No reasonable person is denying recs account for the majority of striper mortality - there are simply way more rec fishermen than commercial. That said, we don’t even have comm fishing in our two states, and there are others that don’t allow it, yet comms account for, what, ~10% of mortality? That’s not insignificant. These struggling fish have a price on their heads, and the comm striper industry isn’t solving world hunger when the going rate is $25+/lb. Banning commercial fishing for stripers isn’t the entire solution, but it makes no sense to continue to allow it. Just because it isn’t the biggest contributor to mortality doesn’t mean it gets a pass. I agree recs need to sacrifice as well, and I’m all for C&R-only if that’s what it takes.
  7. I think if you hunt long enough you'll have some sort of safety scare along the way, usually due to someone's idiocy (whether your own or someone else's), but that's true of a lot of activities. I shot my first buck with a 35 Rem Marlin but I've been mostly archery hunting ever since. It's nice to not have to worry about all of the precautions that go along with transporting/storing/handling a firearm, among other reasons. That said, I don't feel unsafe once the muzzleloader and then firearm seasons start here in NH - I just put on my blaze orange and when I see other hunters approach, I try to make my presence known without blowing up either of our hunts. I did have a hard time getting one guy's attention this past weekend - I had just shot a buck and I wanted to make sure he didn't go in it's direction and jump it if it hadn't expired just yet. He wasn't seeing me up in the tree waving my orange hat, so I whistled a few times but he still didn't look over. Turned out, my buddy had run into the same guy the day before - he was deaf. In terms of the general public wearing blaze orange when out in the woods during hunting season, of course I agree people should and it's the smart move, but at the same time, I hate affecting other peoples' routines and actions. Despite it being low-cost and relatively minimal inconvenience, ideally, no one else should have to do anything different from what they do the rest of the year just because of an activity I and some others choose to pursue. I guess in the end, it's not much different from putting an orange flag on my kayak - boaters SHOULD be paying attention, know what's in front of them, etc., but unfortunately you just can't count on that.
  8. Obviously a personal choice but after learning the basic depth contours of my local freshwater spots, I no longer bring my fish finder. Saltwater is a different story - I rely on it pretty heavily. What species are you generally targeting?
  9. Well, I’m not sure about tog, but it does seem that BSB are on the smaller side compared to areas south of us. Maybe that will change with rising ocean temperatures.
  10. I’m not convinced it matters much if you’re not dealing with the dressing on a fly like this guy is talking about. I don’t think I’ve ever had a palomar fail when I didn’t want (breaking off line) or expect it to, no matter how quickly or sloppily I tied it.
  11. Yeah, I can’t understand it - it’s not like many people are going out if their way to target them, and it seems the average size here is much smaller than the states south of us. I couldn’t find anything on the reason for the change in NH. It wasn’t that long ago there was no limit!
  12. I was thinking I might try to target some NH black sea bass this weekend - never caught one before - but when I check the regs, the minimum length is now 16.5"?? Is that correct? Hell, the state record looks to be 18.25" so I'm wondering if it's even worth trying.
  13. I’ve stopped at a few places this week after work or during my lunch break, and I’ve seen/experienced the same, including 1a, the river around Portsmouth and up near the bay. I’m sure there are still fish around, but my guess is it’s more of an early morning bite right now.
  14. Thanks! It was a half oz Daddy Mac epoxy jig with the treble swapped out for a single.
  15. Last night I wasn’t sure what to make of the wind forecasts by the coast for this morning, so I decided today would be the day to go target lakers. It’s also the last day of the season for them on managed lakes in NH. I was expecting I might find a few around 18-22” but was pleasantly surprised to get a ~24” and a ~27” (give or take, measuring on my paddle).
  16. I ended up fishing the salt and it was absolutely the right call! It was easily my best day of the season in terms of numbers. In terms of size, while they weren’t my biggest of the season, there were a handful of hard-fighting low/mid-30” fish. There also were many 20-26” fish, which was nice to see. As soon as I launched at dawn, fish were popping everywhere within a few hundred yards of the ramp, and even after the surface feeds died down, the bass were hitting topwater all the way until late morning. I brought my livewell and macks were abundant all morning as well in slightly deeper water. They seemed to be feeding on rain bait so they were in close and very easy to find. All in all, it was pretty much just what you hope for in a fall run day. Glad to hear it. Broke the new fly rod in nicely? Were you in the river or out front?
  17. Nice! It’s Always fun to try out new gear. Where, generally are you going to fish? Back water, out front? I have a fly rod but never got very good with it. I was thinking the same - this weekend might be the prime fall weekend of the season for stripers. That’s true, although I never did get into ice fishing. Maybe this year is the year, but I say that every year!
  18. Just killing time on a slow Friday afternoon at work and weighing what kind of fishing to do tomorrow. I usually get one chance at a half-day trip per week and tomorrow is looking like my day. Either way I'll be out in my pedal kayak. Conditions look pretty decent for either species/location - light wind and rain holding off until afternoon. I haven't done much solo lake trout fishing, and I'd be going out on the "big lake" in NH, which I've done once before. At least the times I've gone, the fish seem to average around 20". Fun, somewhat consistent fishing early in the morning, but the bite dies quickly by mid-morning and size-wise it's typically nothing that will really get your heart pounding. The very light winds tomorrow are one thing in favor of vertical jigging, as I should be able to hold my spots decently and not get blown around too much. The season ends at the end of the month in NH, at least on managed lakes. For stripers, I'd be fishing from the top of the outgoing tide. Might be a good time to hit one of the river mouths. I haven't ever fished the well-known North Shore flats and this might be a good opportunity, or stick around ME/NH. Obviously there's no hard end date to the season but it won't be long before things slow down. Thoughts?
  19. I will throw a small 3-4" soft plastic on a jig head, let it fall and give it a few light jigs on the way down. Something like the Z-Man 4" Diezel minnow with a 1/4 or 3/8oz Mustad Darter jig head. That said, this year I have come across at least a few schools of bait with no stripers on them, so that's always a possibility.
  20. Cool! Being from northern New England, I'm very jealous of the diversity of species you guys have down south. If you want to fish inshore and catch dinner around here, it's pretty much striper or flounder, and neither are very abundant.
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