"HK" wrote in message
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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.


Correction:

If "the fight" is that important to you, you're a very strange person. "The
fight" is a reaction to a strange stimulus and it's a struggle to survive.
It's impressive, but do you really fish just so you can have repeated demos
of a basic animal instinct? WTF???

JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
...


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.


Correction:

If "the fight" is that important to you, you're a very strange person. "The
fight" is a reaction to a strange stimulus and it's a struggle to survive.
It's impressive, but do you really fish just so you can have repeated demos
of a basic animal instinct? WTF???



No sense being a recreational fisherman, then.

wrote:


As for the slow trolling with heavy tackle, well, there are plenty of
guys down here who do it.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

That's got to be almost as boring as flounder fishing...

Yes, but they sure do taste good.

HK wrote:
wrote:
On Jan 20, 9:59 am, HK wrote:
Don White wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
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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.
Good Lord...sounds like a light commercial operation.
I'm not that interested in fishing, but did enjoy taking the boys
out with a
rod & reel when they were young. Oddly enough, my #2 son seems to
enjoy
fishing with his buddies on occasion. He's already eying my Yukon but I
insisted he take the course & get his 'Operator' card first.
Plus...some first hand familiarization on operating the boat.
Might be easier just to send him down to Capt Tom SW for a bootcamp
first.
Yeah, that'll do it...bootcamp with SW Tom. The mounties will arrest him
at the border upon his return.

As for the slow trolling with heavy tackle, well, there are plenty of
guys down here who do it.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

That's got to be almost as boring as flounder fishing...


Especially flounder fishing in Lake Lanier.

Harry,
Actually we don't have flounder in Lake Lanier, but we do have some very
hard fighting stripers.

"HK" wrote in message
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JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
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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.


Correction:

If "the fight" is that important to you, you're a very strange person.
"The fight" is a reaction to a strange stimulus and it's a struggle to
survive. It's impressive, but do you really fish just so you can have
repeated demos of a basic animal instinct? WTF???

No sense being a recreational fisherman, then.


"Wow! Look at that fish doing exactly what it's expected to do!" Now,
that's a surprise. :-)

JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
...
JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
...


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.

Correction:

If "the fight" is that important to you, you're a very strange person.
"The fight" is a reaction to a strange stimulus and it's a struggle to
survive. It's impressive, but do you really fish just so you can have
repeated demos of a basic animal instinct? WTF???
No sense being a recreational fisherman, then.


"Wow! Look at that fish doing exactly what it's expected to do!" Now,
that's a surprise. :-)




Well, whatever floats your boat. I like to fish some, but, on the other
hand, I wouldn't hunt. Gotta love the hunting shows - "Look, there's a
deer (moose, buffalo, elk, sheep, pig) - let's shoot it!" BANG! "Look,
it fell over and died!"

JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
...
JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
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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.

Correction:

If "the fight" is that important to you, you're a very strange person.
"The fight" is a reaction to a strange stimulus and it's a struggle to
survive. It's impressive, but do you really fish just so you can have
repeated demos of a basic animal instinct? WTF???
No sense being a recreational fisherman, then.


"Wow! Look at that fish doing exactly what it's expected to do!" Now,
that's a surprise. :-)



One of the advantages of not using light weight tackle is you do not
overexert the fish where they build up an excess of lactic acid, giving
the fish a much higher survival rate when C&R.

"Reginald P. Smithers III" "Reggie is Here wrote in message
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JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
...
JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
...


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.

Correction:

If "the fight" is that important to you, you're a very strange person.
"The fight" is a reaction to a strange stimulus and it's a struggle to
survive. It's impressive, but do you really fish just so you can have
repeated demos of a basic animal instinct? WTF???
No sense being a recreational fisherman, then.


"Wow! Look at that fish doing exactly what it's expected to do!" Now,
that's a surprise. :-)

One of the advantages of not using light weight tackle is you do not
overexert the fish where they build up an excess of lactic acid, giving
the fish a much higher survival rate when C&R.


You actually said something that makes sense. WTF?

On Jan 20, 10:09*am, HK wrote:
wrote:
On Jan 20, 9:59 am, HK wrote:
Don White wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
...
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.
Good Lord...sounds like a light commercial operation.
I'm not that interested in fishing, but did enjoy taking the boys out with a
rod & reel when they were young. *Oddly enough, my #2 son seems to enjoy
fishing with his buddies on occasion. He's already eying my Yukon but I
insisted he take the course & get his 'Operator' card first.
Plus...some first hand familiarization on operating the boat.
Might be easier just to send him down to Capt Tom SW for a bootcamp first.
Yeah, that'll do it...bootcamp with SW Tom. The mounties will arrest him
at the border upon his return.

As for the slow trolling with heavy tackle, well, there are plenty of
guys down here who do it.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

That's got to be almost as boring as flounder fishing...

Especially flounder fishing in Lake Lanier.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Your childish nature is something to behold.....

On Jan 20, 10:31*am, "Reginald P. Smithers III" "Reggie is Here
wrote:
HK wrote:
wrote:
On Jan 20, 9:59 am, HK wrote:
Don White wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
...
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.
Good Lord...sounds like a light commercial operation.
I'm not that interested in fishing, but did enjoy taking the boys
out with a
rod & reel when they were young. *Oddly enough, my #2 son seems to
enjoy
fishing with his buddies on occasion. He's already eying my Yukon but I
insisted he take the course & get his 'Operator' card first.
Plus...some first hand familiarization on operating the boat.
Might be easier just to send him down to Capt Tom SW for a bootcamp
first.
Yeah, that'll do it...bootcamp with SW Tom. The mounties will arrest him
at the border upon his return.

As for the slow trolling with heavy tackle, well, there are plenty of
guys down here who do it.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

That's got to be almost as boring as flounder fishing...

Especially flounder fishing in Lake Lanier.

Harry,
Actually we don't have flounder in Lake Lanier, but we do have some very
hard fighting stripers.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

And smallmouth, largemouth, spotted, white and hybrid bass. Along with
trout, bluegill, crappie, huge catfish, drum, etc.