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wicane07

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    I fish CT/RI Shore and 5 or 6 ACK trips per year

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  1. I promise i wont spot burn, but that's only because i never catch any fish anyway...
  2. Anyone find a pod of squid yet? Up until last year I didn't believe they were around until I was soaking bait at a spot and just happened on to them, lots of them. the few times I've been there this year, nothing.
  3. I got a chance in june to head out on a parker saw the same thing. a carpet of fins from the airport to miacomet. i actually got tired of catching blues. took the hooks off, my record was 14 hits on a cast. I'm going to be doing the dawn patrol because of the tide this week I think( when im not hungover haha) but Pops only fishes sunset, and wont even bring a rod any where but the east end and the point. although if I get him talking about smith point in the old days I might get him out there. not like it used to be though. Thanks for all the tips. I'll post pics hopefully with fish in em. Tight lines.
  4. I too learned this lesson the hard way. No clinch knots with braid. fish with mono for 20 years you dont want to use a new knot until you toss 4 or 5 lures and lose a fish or 2. coated braid like suffix 832 or super slick or spider stealth is more prone to slippage than standard braid. also braids in the lower pound test have less ability to compress, so no matter how tight your knot is in 30lb, if its a clinch it will slip. just nothing for those turns to grab on to. If you havent had a problem, you're getting lucky. palomar knot for braid. and if your doing a line leader connection with a uni to uni, you need 2x the wraps in braid as you do in mono.
  5. This sounds like my pier hopping kit. I have an 8ft set-up that I bought just for moving quickly around docks chasing schools. I keep a flambeau box with all my 1oz or less stuff in it. To be honest almost the entire box is nothing but Hopkins shortys 1/2oz 5/8oz 3/4oz and 1 oz and kastmasters 1/4 1/2 3/4 oz. I also keep 2 smaller blue atom poppers, one cigar shape and one tapered both sinking. theres a 1 oz ballistic missile in there as well. It was all my grandfather ever used. Ya'll can keep the flashy swimmers.
  6. Oh and I do have access to a yak but its a short sit on top, would only feel comfortable in it in the harbors or maybe dionis. other than that seems like suicide
  7. My father in law is a resident and he has been going pretty well from sakaty to pebble on blues. firing hopkins and roberts over the horizon. guy can bomb it with his 14ft fiberglass custom, I took a swing with it, felt like the guy in the bugs bunny baseball cartoon swinging the tree trunk haha. I'm interested big time in the ground fish there. i've read reports that fluke and seabass are thicker than ever there this year and I'm really hoping i can find a dinners worth somewhere. as far as the blues go, last time i was there the whole east end was monkey fur and seal heads, so hopefully I'll have a fighting chance. plus The old man has a beach sticker, so that helps. as far as flukin'/ seabass goes I was thinking squid at the short light house? ( not to be spot specific) is that an option or am i just going to be throwing back scup for 6 hours? I really don't want to resort to pondfishing just to stretch a line this time.
  8. Well i just got off the phone with the wife and the steamship reservation wait list came through. I'm headed back for some pay back next monday morning. whats the latest word? anybody doing anything ? maybe i'll go back to my roots and start throwing chunks...
  9. damn thats a good idea. I will be doing that when I get home tonight.
  10. to all of you I say this. “You must be the change you want to see in the world.” mind your own buisness about what others are doing. the regulations are imposed by people who have the best interests of the fishery at heart( or at least are supposed to) Interesting thing I must note. I am a hard core C&R angler. I believe that every fish you release is a fish you can catch again. I C&R purely for the love of catching fish. I'm not a bleeding heart liberal that thinks all fish are beautiful and mysterious things we should worship, at the end of it the guy who said it above me is sorta right, we pierce these guys with hooks we know to be painful from personal expierence (some more than others) and then drag them up from their habitat. And I love every minute of it. I C&R fish just for the chance to catch them again. Now the thing that is interesting to me, I keep stripers any chance I get. Now I only catch about a half dozen keepers a year, but I still think its interesting that I feel differently about it. I will continue to "harrass fish for my own personal enjoyment" until the day I die. there is no pursuit I enjoy more.
  11. my money would be on a big ole snaggle tooth pickerel. the bigger they get they just hunker down and you can feel each tail pulse just like that. every so often they shake and run a short distance and then its back to hugging the bottom.
  12. "more than likely the bass will be right in the wash" One night I was there on the north shore the bass were coming right up on to the beach, at sunset I could see seagulls picking off tiny bait fish easily and I knew something was going to happen. the fish were right at my feet but wouldn't take anything I had at all. I tried everything I was carrying all the way down to 1/4oz metals and the smallest minnow plugs I brought for fishing in the ponds. very frustrating to see 2 or 3 bass at a time come up into less than 6 inches of water and with a flip of the tail dissapear.
  13. I spent 10 days there had a schoolie roll over on a sluggo in the harbor but missed him and one little bluefish on the north shore on a Hopkins. Got a limit of big white perch in a pond. Just to stretch the line. I even went squidding... Rough week. Weed on the south shore and seal city on the east. One day I went out to GP. Nothing for me the whole tide but the boats were so close in the rip I could see the lines on the big boys coming over the rail. Need to start buying people drinks that have boats I guess.
  14. I just spent 10 days there. Returned yesterday. This was about my 6th or 7th trip to the island in the last four years. My wife's family lives there so I get odd trips here and there. My trip was an absolute bust. I fished about 30 to 40 hours of my ten days there. I went to multiple spots on every side of the island and in both harbors. I saw folks with boats cleaning up in the tips, fish after fish, but alas nothing but 1 3ish lb bluefish for my efforts. I actually resorted to pond fishing and got a nice limit of white perch in a pond on my last day. If there's one truth to Nantucket beach fishing it's that nobody is going to tell you anything useful that is specific to Nantucket. You will get sweeping generalizations of spots that have potential to be productive. Let's face it, what stretch of that beautiful island doesn't have potential? So there's no help. You will also get beautiful stories about how great a spot was before the myriad of things that have changed there in the last 20-50 years. " that spot was the best before the seals took over" or " when you could drive from Tom Nevers to Madaket, those were the days you could find the fish" Youll also get the best excuses as to why your particular tide/spot was unproductive too. " everyone knows that that spot is only good on an east tide with a southwest wind of no more than 7.5 mph but no less that 4.5 mph So this much I can tell you. Be as mobile as possible. Pack a light bag with just the essentials. Move if you don't find the fish. The best thing you can do is have a vehicle with a beach sticker and cover as much water as you can. If you don't have that, stick to your best confidence fishing and find that where ever you can. Good luck.
  15. I'm right there with ya, 245 wednesday. will post pics if I nail em.
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