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  1. Soco out front Thurs aft..top half of the outgoing...North breeze, calm surf...When I arrived some birds working and fish breaking well out of range. Second cast got a just under slot with a swimmer in the rocks and a bit later a micro on a pencil. Gulls and cormorants were excited and diving close in but nothing breaking that I could see. Still seems to be a lot of bait, not sure what. No gannets.
  2. Fri am Soco beach/rocks--pre-dawn's not usually my jam (long drive) but decided to try it Fri. The deer that ran into my car..then a massive tangle before my first cast made a great start to to the day. No birds or sign of any bait. I tried everything in the bag: tin, XRap, Mirrolure, littleneck, pencils, darters, swimshads,. Got one sub-slot fish on a pink pencil. Beautiful morning, however.
  3. if you're referring to my post, I'm not certain it was rain bait..but they were the smallest fish I've ever seen and were coming out in bursts (chased). The fish chasing them looked 6-7" long (didn't get a clear look). This was 3-4' of water, so I'd think that would rule out albies
  4. Yesterday (Tues) Soco out front..mid-aft, lots of micro bait (1"..rainbait?) being chased, and birds everywhere, but schools out of casting range. Bait (anchovies) moved in when light got lower with 15" stripers hitting them in 6" of water. Was really fun seeing so many over such a large area, and so much bait, so close in. Don't know how I only caught 3 (1 1/2" Kastmaster) and would feel it bumping into fish. I did catch a big blue, guessing around 10 lb. First blue I've caught (released) in about 7 years. After sunset (bright half moon) I got a good hit on a yellow darter, but he shook it.
  5. Soco popular beach and inlet Sun aft--tons of birds and breaking fish (only on East side), no one hooking up, from shore anyway (some boats chasing). I decided to head south to a beach/rocks area. No birds working or bait that I could see. Midtide outgoing, I found a few takers on my pencil in the boulders. Two micros and one just under slot. The bigger one hit the plug 5-6 times before hooking. Beauty October day...!
  6. ...and at the other end of the douchiness spectrum: I was soaked and chilled (and skunked) in wind-blown rain at the Canal yesterday, when a guy who'd been a couple hundred yards down yells from behind me 'do you want a coffee?' I was blown away. I cannot tell you how good that hot coffee tasted when the guy returned from Dunk's! I will pay that forward.
  7. @EliasA those bottles are amazing .. did you dig those or find them in a house? Those green ones look free blown, super old.
  8. @TimS great finds.. and display. Did you find the point in the sand where it was exposed to surf..or in a dry environment?
  9. Same dump, 38 years later, I dig for a couple of hours, thinking we had young backs but probably dug stupidly back then. Finding nothing, I took a few last scrapes and turned up the bronze piece below, and was bummed it had no head. Using a piece of screen as a sieve I said "i'll give this low-odds exercise about 1 min', and to my amazement, found the head. It's a 12'' tall Roman soldier ('SPQR' and a jackal on the shield), sword is missing, as is the base. Mystery: how did this piece of fine art (probably made in Europe, turn of the century) end up in a Mass farmhouse? There was no industry, and all the farms were subsistence level. One of my coolest finds..!
  10. Central Mass, early 70's playing pond hockey--a non-skater stumbled onto a dump, brought a few bottles onto the ice. I'd never heard of bottle digging, or seen anything like them, and thought they were cool. Following spring, I remembered, asked a buddy and we grabbed a paper bag, some gloves and a cultivator. This was I think the very first bottle I found that day. (I think it's the SOL equivalent of catching a 50 from shore your first time fishing.) Westford Glass Co made bottles betw 1857-1863. Half-pint, hinge mold, perfect condition, now sleeps in my sock drawer. That day, my buddy found an olive 12-sided umbrella ink with a pontil. (I have never found a pontil.)
  11. Clambellies-thx for the info..Assumed it was an arrowhead but it looks a lot bigger than those I see posted. Agree it does look more like a Kirk Stemmed than anything else. I imagined a Nipmuc using it in the early 1600s… but it might be …much… older. Trying to find a curator to show it to.. maybe Fruitlands or Harvard.
  12. This is what I found in my neighbor's garden. Bob--was not in Auburn, but not far from there. Also was not near water.. ..and what a beautiful display Will reply separately on bottles, including some pics ..
  13. Just stumbled on this thread .. i still have the point I spotted in my neighbor’s garden in the 70’s in central MA. I’ve wondered if it’s likely others are nearby vs me finding a random one. Interestingly there’s a street a few hundred yards away called Arrowhead Drive ( developed in the 70s). I wondered if the developers found artifacts.. or the name choice was simply random!
  14. Beauty Sat aft fished lower tide stage at SoCo beack/rocks..tons of birds everywhere, many just out of casting range..with all the bird action, did not see one surface break..not one hit, and none of the many fisherman I saw hooked up..,was just about to leave and saw birds 1/4 mi down beach that looked close in.. dragged ass (getting old for this sh*t) all the way down..got off one cast, a hit then nothing..and the school moved south..walked back, defeated. Was about to leave and figured what the hell..and finally found a bunch of 15" stripers until dark. Then tried some dark swimmers.. and nothing. Finally the thought of warmth and a bourbon was more appealing than numb fingers. Nothing impressive, but at least fished hard and avoided the skunk.
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