How to piss off the family...
 

On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:30:15 -0400, HK wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 20:51:59 -0000,
wrote:

I troll a lot, that's why I bring a guitar and other distractions. My
boat is also set up as well for just playing around, floating and
swimming, as fishing. I dunno, it has never really bothered me that I
don't catch a lot of fish, I just love fishing. But I do want to get
better so I am working on it. Took the family to Mashapaug (400 acre,
fresh water, NE CT) the other day. Fished for a while, found a great
calico bass spot for fall, and spent the rest of the day on a little
Island with Mrs, JW, my youngest adn my dog, just floating and
sunning... ;)

You want calico bass, we'll go to Black Pond.

I'm bringing the Princecraft back home now that I have a boat down
here so we've got the right boat for the pond.

Not that the Brockaway isn't a nice...er...um...craft. :)

What? You found some marginal dealer who sells etec-rigged boats? :}

Why yes - yes I did. :)

And wonder of wonders, it's not a Parker!!!!

By the way, just FYI, I sent that add to a friend of mine who is
looking for a boat like yours. He's even a four joke...er stroke guy.

You might hear from him although he seemed a little put off by the
price, but the engine hours were attractive.

I basically told him you were a pansy and babied the boat.

Don't know if that will help any. :)

How to piss off the family...
 

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:30:15 -0400, HK wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 20:51:59 -0000,
wrote:

I troll a lot, that's why I bring a guitar and other distractions. My
boat is also set up as well for just playing around, floating and
swimming, as fishing. I dunno, it has never really bothered me that I
don't catch a lot of fish, I just love fishing. But I do want to get
better so I am working on it. Took the family to Mashapaug (400 acre,
fresh water, NE CT) the other day. Fished for a while, found a great
calico bass spot for fall, and spent the rest of the day on a little
Island with Mrs, JW, my youngest adn my dog, just floating and
sunning... ;)
You want calico bass, we'll go to Black Pond.

I'm bringing the Princecraft back home now that I have a boat down
here so we've got the right boat for the pond.

Not that the Brockaway isn't a nice...er...um...craft. :)
What? You found some marginal dealer who sells etec-rigged boats? :}

Why yes - yes I did. :)

And wonder of wonders, it's not a Parker!!!!

By the way, just FYI, I sent that add to a friend of mine who is
looking for a boat like yours. He's even a four joke...er stroke guy.

You might hear from him although he seemed a little put off by the
price, but the engine hours were attractive.

I basically told him you were a pansy and babied the boat.

Don't know if that will help any. :)


Do your friend a favor. Email me his first name, and tell him if he
contacts me, I'll be glad to offer him a "deal" on the price. I stated
previously I would sell the boat to someone friendly here at a good
discount. A friend of a "friendly" qualifies.


I have a guy coming up from Virginia this coming week who seems
interested. He says he has been shopping "in Florida" and "up North" for
Parkers because the prices are lower there. Lower, he says, because in
Florida, the boats age badly as a result of the never-ending UV and long
seasons, and are "overused in the rough oceans" up North.

How to piss off the family...
 

On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 18:44:35 -0400, HK wrote:

Do your friend a favor. Email me his first name, and tell him if he
contacts me, I'll be glad to offer him a "deal" on the price. I stated
previously I would sell the boat to someone friendly here at a good
discount. A friend of a "friendly" qualifies.

I've passed this along - I gave him your email addy also. He's a
decent guy, just particular. He's got a "thing" about Parker boats -
he's always wanted one.

We'll see how that goes.

How to piss off the family...
 

On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 21:41:28 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:


What? You found some marginal dealer who sells etec-rigged boats? :}

Why yes - yes I did. :)


So fess up... what did you get? Did CC Marine treat you right?

How to piss off the family...
 

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 06:31:07 -0400, Jack Goff wrote:

On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 21:41:28 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:


What? You found some marginal dealer who sells etec-rigged boats? :}

Why yes - yes I did. :)

So fess up... what did you get? Did CC Marine treat you right?

Yes they did, but I ended up with a deck boat. I'll be returning in
another two weeks as they are getting the model I wanted from another
dealer on a dealer transfer.

Nice people. We're going back out there today to finalize everything.

Thanks for the tip.

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"HK" wrote in message
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D.Duck wrote:
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:42:58 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:

wrote in message
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On Jul 20, 4:41 pm, "NOYB" wrote:
Use circle hooks, and you can continue to "set with the reel".

Humm. I used them last season for blackfishing and did well. I may try
it, but I am still going to work on my techniques. Went out yesterday
and actually angled for fish, instead of trolling or dropping live
bait on the bottom. Did not point one tip at any fish, still can't
stop setting with reel though.
I find that with circle hooks you are much less apt to gut hook the
fish.
Usually catch them in the corner of their mouth. Easier to remove the
hook
and much easier on the fish.
That's true in general, but...

I've seen circle hooks get caught in odd angles - they don't work all
the time exactly the way they are intended to work.

Depends on the bait used and how much.

I agree, but I'm still convinced they're better than other designs.


I went out fishing for a few hours this afternoon after the north wind
here today died down. Used circle hooks. Brought no bait. Was asked how I
expected to catch fish without any bait. Said I didn't expect to. Catching
fish is not necessarily the most important aspect of "going fishing."

Spent a bit of the time practicing casting with light egg sinkers and no
hooks at all.


Get some Berkeley Gulps (small shrimp work well) to keep on board for the
times you don't have bait. You can fish it just like live shrimp or
cut-bait right off the bottom, and they sometimes work better than live
bait...especially in preventing the bait stealers from stripping off your
bait.

How to piss off the family...
 

"HK" wrote in message
...
I went out fishing for a few hours this afternoon after the north wind
here today died down. Used circle hooks. Brought no bait. Was asked how I
expected to catch fish without any bait. Said I didn't expect to. Catching
fish is not necessarily the most important aspect of "going fishing."

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish
they are after." --Henry David Thoreau

How to piss off the family...
 

NOYB wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
...
D.Duck wrote:
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:42:58 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:

wrote in message
ups.com...
On Jul 20, 4:41 pm, "NOYB" wrote:
Use circle hooks, and you can continue to "set with the reel".

Humm. I used them last season for blackfishing and did well. I may try
it, but I am still going to work on my techniques. Went out yesterday
and actually angled for fish, instead of trolling or dropping live
bait on the bottom. Did not point one tip at any fish, still can't
stop setting with reel though.
I find that with circle hooks you are much less apt to gut hook the
fish.
Usually catch them in the corner of their mouth. Easier to remove the
hook
and much easier on the fish.
That's true in general, but...

I've seen circle hooks get caught in odd angles - they don't work all
the time exactly the way they are intended to work.

Depends on the bait used and how much.
I agree, but I'm still convinced they're better than other designs.

I went out fishing for a few hours this afternoon after the north wind
here today died down. Used circle hooks. Brought no bait. Was asked how I
expected to catch fish without any bait. Said I didn't expect to. Catching
fish is not necessarily the most important aspect of "going fishing."

Spent a bit of the time practicing casting with light egg sinkers and no
hooks at all.


Get some Berkeley Gulps (small shrimp work well) to keep on board for the
times you don't have bait. You can fish it just like live shrimp or
cut-bait right off the bottom, and they sometimes work better than live
bait...especially in preventing the bait stealers from stripping off your
bait.





Yup. I use those already. Also use FishBites, artificial bloodworms that
work well on baitfish, croakers, et cetera.

How to piss off the family...
 

On Jul 23, 10:59 am, "NOYB" wrote:

Get some Berkeley Gulps (small shrimp work well) to keep on board for the
times you don't have bait. You can fish it just like live shrimp or
cut-bait right off the bottom, and they sometimes work better than live
bait...especially in preventing the bait stealers from stripping off your
bait.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Another problem for me is that all of my life, what I needed to fish,
I carried in my pocket, cept' the pole. Started boating and started
buying tackel boxes and filling them with artificial baits. Went
fishing last night with my middle and her husband. Went back to live
bait, worms in this case, came home with a nice rainbow in the bucket.
Lots of very fat panfish at Crystal lake this year, in fact in lots of
lakes. Should be a good year for Calico Bass (east coast, fresh water
version, state record about 2 lbs iirc) which don't have a lot of
meat, but the fillets are better than sole. Don't really like to keep
them in summer, wormy. Anyway, the kids were swimming, and fishing at
the same time. Knew the panfish would not mind, but I did not expect
to hook a big trout just 20 feet or so under the swimmers. Rainy
today, probably won't go out.

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I don't like fishbites. I've bought the strips before, and the mesh is a
pain in the ass. It's hard to get it off your hook when changing the bait.



"HK" wrote in message
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NOYB wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
...
D.Duck wrote:
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:42:58 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:

wrote in message
ups.com...
On Jul 20, 4:41 pm, "NOYB" wrote:
Use circle hooks, and you can continue to "set with the reel".

Humm. I used them last season for blackfishing and did well. I may
try
it, but I am still going to work on my techniques. Went out
yesterday
and actually angled for fish, instead of trolling or dropping live
bait on the bottom. Did not point one tip at any fish, still can't
stop setting with reel though.
I find that with circle hooks you are much less apt to gut hook the
fish.
Usually catch them in the corner of their mouth. Easier to remove
the hook
and much easier on the fish.
That's true in general, but...

I've seen circle hooks get caught in odd angles - they don't work all
the time exactly the way they are intended to work.

Depends on the bait used and how much.
I agree, but I'm still convinced they're better than other designs.

I went out fishing for a few hours this afternoon after the north wind
here today died down. Used circle hooks. Brought no bait. Was asked how
I expected to catch fish without any bait. Said I didn't expect to.
Catching fish is not necessarily the most important aspect of "going
fishing."

Spent a bit of the time practicing casting with light egg sinkers and no
hooks at all.


Get some Berkeley Gulps (small shrimp work well) to keep on board for the
times you don't have bait. You can fish it just like live shrimp or
cut-bait right off the bottom, and they sometimes work better than live
bait...especially in preventing the bait stealers from stripping off your
bait.





Yup. I use those already. Also use FishBites, artificial bloodworms that
work well on baitfish, croakers, et cetera.