Suggested trips for me and my 12 year-old for 2019!

[DZ]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

Will do, thanks. My son told me last summer, while sweating like a pig and having sore muscles from pulling 100 pots, that it was the most fun day he'd ever had on the water. He really, really liked lobstering, he just liked the rhythm of hauling, banding the keepers, re-baiting the traps, and pitching the trap back into the water. I liked it too. Hard work, but more fun than painting or raking leaves.

THANK YOU.

It's funny you say that. My father in law is now 99. About 10 years ago he wanted to experience lobstering. A local lobster fishermen from Jamestown said he would take him out but my FIL had to work for it. He spent the day lobstering. When we picked him up at the end of the day we asked him how it went. He said something to the effect of; "Once I stopped puking from setting up the bait rings everything was great!"

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by DZ

It's funny you say that. My father in law is now 99. About 10 years ago he wanted to experience lobstering. A local lobster fishermen from Jamestown said he would take him out but my FIL had to work for it. He spent the day lobstering. When we picked him up at the end of the day we asked him how it went. He said something to the effect of; "Once I stopped puking from setting up the bait rings everything was great!"

I can't begin to explain why it was so much fun, because it was such hard work, although for me much of it was seeing the huge smile on my son's face, but I would have happily done it by myself. Fortunately for me, I have a terribly deviated septum, and therefore about a 20% sense of smell, so the stench doesn't bother me at all.

If I retire with a few marbles still rolling around, and still with some physical abilities, I'd love to get a little downeaster, and retire either to the Pt Judith area or the Cape, and fish and have maybe 10 lobster pots.

[Guppy]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

I can't begin to explain why it was so much fun, because it was such hard work, although for me much of it was seeing the huge smile on my son's face, but I would have happily done it by myself. Fortunately for me, I have a terribly deviated septum, and therefore about a 20% sense of smell, so the stench doesn't bother me at all.

If I retire with a few marbles still rolling around, and still with some physical abilities, I'd love to get a little downeaster, and retire either to the Pt Judith area or the Cape, and fish and have maybe 10 lobster pots.

Do it as soon as you can, it’s better than it’s cracked up to be! LOL

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by Guppy

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Do it as soon as you can, it’s better than it’s cracked up to be! LOL

i have three college tuitions to somehow pay for, first. 4 if i count my wife’s online masters degree.
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[Rappin Mikey]

Columbus Day weekend albie trip off of Montauk or Fishers Island.

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by Rappin Mikey

Columbus Day weekend albie trip off of Montauk or Fishers Island.

Before we had kids, I had a 20 foot Mako I kept in eastern CT. I like light tackle fishing in shallow water. My favorite days were ALWAYS in the fall, I'd be in tight to the rocks on the back of Fishers Island, casting eels with light spinning outfits, into the rocks. We always had a couple of albie rods rigged and ready, for when they popped up. It was a lot of fun.

Haven't thrown eels on light tackle spinning rods in a few years.

[The Dad Fisherman]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

i have three college tuitions to somehow pay for, first. 4 if i count my wife’s online masters degree.
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Just made our last tuition payment in December...it was glorious

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by The Dad Fisherman

Just made our last tuition payment in December...it was glorious

I don't have $1 put away yet. Not a dollar. Need to get my wife back to work first, getting her masters in data analytics, a field with a ton of demand and very little supply. Hoping that when she goes back to work, just about every cent she makes will go towards college.

CONGRATULATIONS on getting it done TDF, that's a hell of an achievement. Like having a kid who's an Eagle Scout, it's the culmination of many years of doing the right thing.

[beamie]

Originally Posted by The Dad Fisherman

Just made our last tuition payment in December...it was glorious

You lucky bastage. I have 2 and 3 years of payments left. Yeah not much in the bank funds for the next few years.
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[RIROCKHOUND]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

i have three college tuitions to somehow pay for, first. 4 if i count my wife’s online masters degree.
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State schools Jim, state schools...
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[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by RIROCKHOUND

State schools Jim, state schools...
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Probably our only option!

I've always kind of assumed that I' be fulfilling my responsibility, if I can fund maybe 75%-80% of tuition at a state university. They can borrow anything above and beyond that.

[The Dad Fisherman]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

Probably our only option!

I've always kind of assumed that I' be fulfilling my responsibility, if I can fund maybe 75%-80% of tuition at a state university. They can borrow anything above and beyond that.

When the dust settled, it cost my daughter less to go to a private out-of-state school than it did for her to go to UMASS.

One of the keys is to build a college resume that makes a school want you. A lot of Private schools have huge endowments and if they see you as a positive addition to their school, they will help you financially.

[RIROCKHOUND]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

Probably our only option!

I've always kind of assumed that I' be fulfilling my responsibility, if I can fund maybe 75%-80% of tuition at a state university. They can borrow anything above and beyond that.

When they get closer, let me know. I know a few things about the state schools in CT...
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