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On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:08:08 -0500, "Eisboch"
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Meanwhile, I am spending a few days at my son's beachhouse on Cape Cod
Bay.
It's amazing the number of die-hard fishing nuts out on the cold, cold bay
in open CC's at 5 in the morning, looking for the last of the Striper and
Bluefish stragglers. Fishing is an addictive disease for some, I guess.
Not for me.

My Niece (Buzz's Marina Ridge Md) says it is still very busy down
there in spite of ball chilling cold. I guess as long as the fishing
is good, they will come.


Once dawn broke and I could see, I watched them for a while using
binnoculars from inside the warm house (the temp outside was 36 degrees).
My observations:

1. None of them were catching anything.
2. All of them looked miserable.

Eisboch

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On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:08:08 -0500, "Eisboch"
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Meanwhile, I am spending a few days at my son's beachhouse on Cape Cod
Bay.
It's amazing the number of die-hard fishing nuts out on the cold, cold bay
in open CC's at 5 in the morning, looking for the last of the Striper and
Bluefish stragglers. Fishing is an addictive disease for some, I guess.
Not for me.
My Niece (Buzz's Marina Ridge Md) says it is still very busy down
there in spite of ball chilling cold. I guess as long as the fishing
is good, they will come.


Once dawn broke and I could see, I watched them for a while using
binnoculars from inside the warm house (the temp outside was 36 degrees).
My observations:

1. None of them were catching anything.
2. All of them looked miserable.

Eisboch




It's only been in the 40's and 50's the last couple of days in the
mid-Bay area, and the catch is real slow. Under the best of
circumstances, spring through fall, fishing in the Bay is fairly slow
compared to what I was used to enjoying in north Florida and I know
south Florida on either coast is much better.

The *best* sal****er fishing in this area is down by Virginia Beach,
either out in the ocean or where the ocean meets the Bay and there is
plenty of structure. There's pretty good winter fishing down by the
Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, and I plan to head down there with a
couple of buddies next month. We're just going to hop on a head boat,
though.

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The *best* sal****er fishing in this area is down by Virginia Beach,
either out in the ocean or where the ocean meets the Bay and there is
plenty of structure. There's pretty good winter fishing down by the
Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, and I plan to head down there with a couple
of buddies next month. We're just going to hop on a head boat, though.

I've travelled the Bay Bridge/Tunnel several times over the past couple of
years and observed the small fishing boats at or near the pilings. Never
could understand the fun they saw in it. There usually was heavy chop
resulting in the boats bouncing around and the occupants getting beat up
pretty badly.

No thanks.

Eisboch wrote:
"Boater" wrote in message
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The *best* sal****er fishing in this area is down by Virginia Beach,
either out in the ocean or where the ocean meets the Bay and there is
plenty of structure. There's pretty good winter fishing down by the
Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, and I plan to head down there with a couple
of buddies next month. We're just going to hop on a head boat, though.

I've travelled the Bay Bridge/Tunnel several times over the past couple of
years and observed the small fishing boats at or near the pilings. Never
could understand the fun they saw in it. There usually was heavy chop
resulting in the boats bouncing around and the occupants getting beat up
pretty badly.

No thanks.




It's salt water fishing...no biggie.

On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:49:56 -0500, "Eisboch"
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The *best* sal****er fishing in this area is down by Virginia Beach,
either out in the ocean or where the ocean meets the Bay and there is
plenty of structure. There's pretty good winter fishing down by the
Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, and I plan to head down there with a couple
of buddies next month. We're just going to hop on a head boat, though.

I've travelled the Bay Bridge/Tunnel several times over the past couple of
years and observed the small fishing boats at or near the pilings. Never
could understand the fun they saw in it. There usually was heavy chop
resulting in the boats bouncing around and the occupants getting beat up
pretty badly.

No thanks.

Same over in Narragansett Bay by the bridges. With the right wind,
these dummies get tossed around and sometimes into the bridge pilings.

As you said, no thanks.

Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:49:56 -0500, "Eisboch"
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"Boater" wrote in message
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The *best* sal****er fishing in this area is down by Virginia Beach,
either out in the ocean or where the ocean meets the Bay and there is
plenty of structure. There's pretty good winter fishing down by the
Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, and I plan to head down there with a couple
of buddies next month. We're just going to hop on a head boat, though.
I've travelled the Bay Bridge/Tunnel several times over the past couple of
years and observed the small fishing boats at or near the pilings. Never
could understand the fun they saw in it. There usually was heavy chop
resulting in the boats bouncing around and the occupants getting beat up
pretty badly.

No thanks.

Same over in Narragansett Bay by the bridges. With the right wind,
these dummies get tossed around and sometimes into the bridge pilings.

As you said, no thanks.


Woosies! :)

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Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:

Same over in Narragansett Bay by the bridges. With the right wind,
these dummies get tossed around and sometimes into the bridge pilings.

As you said, no thanks.



Woosies! :)

I admit that I am not much of a fishing nut. When I do go, I'd much rather
troll slowly around the shore or rocks for stripers if in the small boat.
To me, blues are nothing but a pain and a waste of time. I know people
enjoy catching them on light gear because of the fight they put up, but
after a few times it gets old to me. I don't eat them, so there is no point
in catching them.

I just don't get a thrill of sitting amoung half a dozen or more other
boats, bottom fishing while bouncing and rocking for hours near a bunch of
bridge pilings. Much rather be underway and trolling or, if in a bigger
boat, go well offshore and either drift fish for cod or troll for tuna.

32 miles straight out from Scituate in 260 feet of water is a verrry
productive cod fishing day. Two or three trips will supply several families
fresh and frozen fish for the summer and following winter.

Eisboch

Eisboch

Eisboch

Eisboch wrote:
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Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:
Same over in Narragansett Bay by the bridges. With the right wind,
these dummies get tossed around and sometimes into the bridge pilings.

As you said, no thanks.


Woosies! :)

I admit that I am not much of a fishing nut. When I do go, I'd much rather
troll slowly around the shore or rocks for stripers if in the small boat.
To me, blues are nothing but a pain and a waste of time. I know people
enjoy catching them on light gear because of the fight they put up, but
after a few times it gets old to me. I don't eat them, so there is no point
in catching them.

I just don't get a thrill of sitting amoung half a dozen or more other
boats, bottom fishing while bouncing and rocking for hours near a bunch of
bridge pilings. Much rather be underway and trolling or, if in a bigger
boat, go well offshore and either drift fish for cod or troll for tuna.

32 miles straight out from Scituate in 260 feet of water is a verrry
productive cod fishing day. Two or three trips will supply several families
fresh and frozen fish for the summer and following winter.

Eisboch


I enjoyed trolling for fish along the Florida shorelines and along the
Connecticut shorelines, but around here trolling is done far enough off
the shoreline that you can't see much, and there is very little bottom
structure. I also like sight fishing and drift fishing.

Thirty two miles from here is just more of the Bay.

On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:40:39 -0500, "Eisboch"
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"Boater" wrote in message
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Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:

Same over in Narragansett Bay by the bridges. With the right wind,
these dummies get tossed around and sometimes into the bridge pilings.

As you said, no thanks.

Woosies! :)

I admit that I am not much of a fishing nut. When I do go, I'd much rather
troll slowly around the shore or rocks for stripers if in the small boat.
To me, blues are nothing but a pain and a waste of time. I know people
enjoy catching them on light gear because of the fight they put up, but
after a few times it gets old to me. I don't eat them, so there is no point
in catching them.

I just don't get a thrill of sitting amoung half a dozen or more other
boats, bottom fishing while bouncing and rocking for hours near a bunch of
bridge pilings. Much rather be underway and trolling or, if in a bigger
boat, go well offshore and either drift fish for cod or troll for tuna.

32 miles straight out from Scituate in 260 feet of water is a verrry
productive cod fishing day. Two or three trips will supply several families
fresh and frozen fish for the summer and following winter.

Fishing, in general, is a kind of odd sport. There are divisions
within divisions and sub-sets of divisions and sub-sets of sub-sets
and endless techniques for all types and classes of fish.

For example, drifting open water is not my thing. Nor is sitting on a
rock pile or open beach area. I much prefer moving in and around
structure, anticipating school movement and hunting, if that's an
applicable word, for bigger fish rather than schoolies. When I did
some tuna fishing, I was bored silly. I mean catching tuna seemed
like a brute strength sport and frankly boring. Give me a big blue
fish on a light rod - now that's my idea of fun. Or a three pound
smallmouth on an ultra-light rig.

My gear is pretty universal - I range from medium heavy to ultra-light
spinning rigs (both fresh and salt) and have a few bait casters in the
same categories. I believe in big baits for big fish and tend to
stick with that even to the point of using large and very light lures
for the ultra-light gear. Fly fishing, I tend to the medium to heavy
forward weighted sinking lines 7 foot rods with heavy sinking lines
with large flies and streamers on light weight tippets. For trout
fishing, it's small rods 5 1/2 foot, extremely light weight lines and
large imitations. I have a color preference too - I tend to like
green, blue and/or brown lures for all circumstances. I like to use
yellow. blue or the new camouflage color lines.

A typical trip for me is fairly well pre-rigged. I set up what rods I
think I'll use, select a line color or colors and pre-rig all the rods
with a different selection of lures so that I'm set and ready to go
when I get to where I'm going. I will take along a set of
pre-selected lures for change outs, but that's not typical - I
generally go with what I brung and pre-rigged.

Other guides I know do the complete opposite - they will work with one
type of rig, sit for hours on one type of structure and tend to work
with one type or category of lure. It works for them. I know other
guides who come to a trip with a complete tackle shop in their boats
or cars and are constantly mixing and matching rods, reels, lines and
lures.

When you multiply all the different types of fishermen against all the
different techniques against all the different specialties (trout,
fluke, blue, tuna, yada, yada, yada), it's fairly well endless.

On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:40:39 -0500, Eisboch wrote:


32 miles straight out from Scituate in 260 feet of water is a verrry
productive cod fishing day. Two or three trips will supply several
families fresh and frozen fish for the summer and following winter.

Is that still the case? I thought cod stocks were about done in. Are
they coming back?