LOL Some of you guys are making me feel just a little bit on the older side. LOL Top of the Dock used to be a meeting place.NESGA,RISurfcasres Association,Pinetree Surfcaters, MSBA,RIMS were just a few of the old clubs.

LOL!!! Classic stories
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How about "Plugman"?
Fishing under the lights at the Andrea Hotel in the Fall.
Epic blitzes in front of the Watch Hill Light in Oct.
Pinetree Surfcasters use to always be on the beach at Fresh Pond Rock for the Fall run.....which just doesn't happen anymore..

haven't seen a "fall run" in soco in over 5yrs...not striper related but remember the epic blue fishing on barrington beach every year...'till about 5-6 years ago.

Yeh - that died too - as did across the bay on my side. Could walk down to the beach and look north and south and see one massive school of blues with some bass mixed in

Yup. As Dylan said "The times they are a-changin'"

My dad and I used to cruise the upper bay all day long catching blitzing bluefish till my 12 yr old arms would fall off. Middle of the day, 85 deg, didn't matter.
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Yup.
In the early-mid 2000's, once the big bass moved out of the shallows of the lower bay in mid-June, the bluefish would invade. Targeting the blitzes with ultra light tackle or jigging bluefish next to the bridge was a standard august pastime in my 13ft whaler.

Didn't get going up here till near the end, around '89 and '90. Used
to catch nothing in Naragansett bay, moved to Westport in '90
and caught all the blues and togs we could handle. We were so happy with that we didn't notice that there were no stripers. May have caught one the whole summer of 1990 on a T & W; never bothered to even really try for them. Wasn't till around '97 or '98 that I started looking for stripers (was gone most of the 90s).

Actually, I kind of miss the great bluefishing we had back then; where are they now?
Like Afterhours, I used to hit those Barrington blitzes in September every year, until
they disappeared in '08. Sure miss 'em.

Ghost children...man that was freaky.

-spence

yeah didn't we have a thread going about fishing ghost stories? many were from the canal..

Ahhh the memories of fall runs that began in August with huge schools of peanuts getting smashed as they were corralled up to the shore....Guys in shorts, guys in suits, kids, it might last for hours. I could be in water only up to my knees and fish would be busting behind me! Never heard nor saw anyone bit by a bluefish either, at least just standing in the water as they swam around out bare legs...Early cellphone networks got developed and you figured out who your friends were. But it was relatively widespread and you could almost plan your day around when to be there. Really good, fun times. Then it didn't happen, and hasn't since.

It was 90 or 91 and I was working for IBM in Boston. The uniform of the day for Big Blue was white shirt, rep striped tie and blue suit. There were some cellphones but not many but we all had pagers (remember pagers?).
Well my pager goes off and it says blues at Deep Hole. I immediately left Boston for "The Hole". I always had a rod, plug bag and waders in my truck. I got to Deep Hole in record time and there are 3 guys on the bar. Everyone is hooked up and the Blues are just smashing peanuts.
I threw the waders on and headed out to the bar. On the way out there's a guy coming in and he looks at me and says. "Hey you gotta loose the suit jacket and tie." In my haste to get in on the blitz I had forgotten to even take off the suit jacket never mind the tie.:rotf2:
Must have looked bizarre with old fashioned rubber waders and a white shirt, suit jacket and tie.

Great stories. Jacket and tie. Lol
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