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More political cut and paste from Harry..
HK wrote:
CalifBill wrote: "Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message ... 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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