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More political cut and paste from Harry..
HK wrote:
CalifBill wrote:
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:46:36 -0800 (PST), wrote:
On Jan 18, 5:21 pm, HK wrote:
wrote:
On Jan 18, 1:02 pm, HK wrote:
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:56:13 -0400, "Don White"
wrote:
I don't know if WayneD still takes out paying fishing
customers, but if so I
imagine he'd just pass any additional costs on to them.
Why not - I do. :)
Now, I can see paying to watch you fish...just for the entertainment
value... :}
No, if it's entertainment you want, come watch me fish. It's like, I
know there is something down there in the water, but I still have not
really figured out what it is.. After all, once in a while when I do
catch one it's not in the water anymore, it's all very confusing.. 
Well, if you ever get your butt down here, let me know, and we'll
go out
and find some flounder or other good eating fish. It's only the
plonkers
who chase after stripers, or, as they usually spell it, "strippers."
Another example of *if Harry doesn't do it, own it, or like it, no one
else should*. Millions of striper fisherman in the U.S., but they are
all idiots because Harry doesn't striper fish.......
I'm not much of a striper fan myself. They are a good eating fish and
when they have some heft, can be a ton of fun on light tackle, but
your average striper, from a boat, isn't a real challenge.
Now from the surf - that's a whole different story. It's a challenge
to work a striper from the surf or from rocks - that can be a real
blast and challenging.
I have three 50 lbers to my credit - 51, 54 and 58. All were from the
surf at Watch Hill and Napatree Beach in Westerly, RI on an eleven
foot Ugly Stick rod, Van Staal reel and 20 lb test using a dodger lure
of my own design. Can't beat that experience.
Anything above 20 lbs is a good fish and will give you a decent turn
of the reel. Below that - eh.
We get a lot of the 20-28" stripers here. They put on a good fight,
but most of us use light tackle. Tossing HairRaisers on 7-12# test
line. Or 8 weight fly rods and Clousers.
It seems like a majority of the striper fishermen in Chesapeake Bay use
heavy tackle to try to catch these fish. In trolling season, they slow
troll huge and heavy umbrella rigs, or single but monster sized hard
baits, or they'll further pollute the Bay by "chumming." It isn't
unusual to see 20 to 40 boats trolling the same small area, in hopes I
guess, of snagging a fish.
All this for fish that, relative to their size, don't fight that hard,
at least not around here. But typically they are the biggest fish in
most of the Bay, so lots of guys target them. The sad thing is that the
larger fish just don't taste very good.
Sometimes you'll see a pod of small, breaking fish, and if you have some
light tackle handle, you can toss a bait into the pod and catch a
bluefish or a striper.
If you want to catch a variety of decent-sized "fighting" fish around
here, you should fish the mouth of the Bay, near the Chesapeake Bay
Bridge-Tunner around Norfolk-Virginia Beach, or the nearshore or
offshore wrecks down there.
Since don't you move to Virginia? Virginia appears to have everything
you need. You could be closer to your favorite fishing grounds, no more
towing your boat 6 hours to go fishing. You could get a concealed carry
permit to protect yourself from all of the reich-wing rectal fissures.
The tidewater area of Virgina has a cost of living near the same as your
beloved Calvert County and you won't be living next door to a nuke plant.
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