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12-05-2006, 11:31 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Here and There Seasonally
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The Canal with MAC, Slipknot, and MikeP. I learned a LOT about the Ditch and patience that night.
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
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12-05-2006, 12:31 PM
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You rang?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Lowell
Posts: 946
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fishing Wasque in June during the new moon from midnight till 6:00am. We were the last ferry onto Chappy and fished the hell out of the beach and was rewarded for out efforts....lost count after 40 fish, 90% were keepers.
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12-05-2006, 12:49 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Hyde Park, MA
Posts: 4,152
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There were a couple of nights this past Sept and Oct down in the canal. Fishing pretty much by myself and getting some pretty hefty fish, and there wasn't another soul around. I would laugh out loud, stop, and then laugh again since there wasn't anyone there to hear the ruckus.
Or the night I caught what had to be my biggest "official" fish from shore, moments after seeing a bass break the water 15-20 feet in front of me that I thought was a seal. It's the kind of thing that you never really get used to. (Nor do I want to get used to!)
(Note - "official" means I measured and weighed it. 41 inches and 21.5 lbs)
My biggest unofficial fish was in Sept. I was still in the canal about 1/2 way between low and high, and the water was waist deep. I couldn't measure the fish without dragging it to the shore, and while holding the digital scale over my head, I couldn't get the entire fish out of the water. The scale topped at 23.8 lbs
I only kept one fish this season, and released all others, but the memories will last a LONG TIME......
Let's hope that the bait situation (herring, menhaden and eel) improves so that the fishing will continue to improve.
Now.... I'm waiting for the ice to form so that I can do a little hardwater fishing. I am itching to try the Lower Mystic Lake in the Medford/Somerville/Arlington area. I had heard that someone had actually gotten some holdover stripers through the ice. Now that would be the best of both worlds.
On a side note, I had also read that a Fish & Game Dept. survey done on the Mystic River found striper fry, meaning that the fish are spawning in that waterway. I found that quite interesting.
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12-05-2006, 12:54 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2000
Posts: 3,036
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October 4th...
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12-05-2006, 01:03 PM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,903
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No boat, back in the suds.  
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12-05-2006, 01:11 PM
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My brother is bald
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Parts Unknown
Posts: 4,516
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Bass blitzin squid onto the shore one morning in late June.
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seals + plovers = 
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12-05-2006, 01:17 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Uh, in a spot....
Posts: 5,451
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Why even try......... 
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12-05-2006, 01:32 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: North Shore
Posts: 1,701
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Flaptail
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Hey, I gotta agree with Flaptail ... while I was not there ... that's the kind of fishing night I'd never forget.  |
"It was the blackest night! There was no moon in sight! (You know the stars ain't shinnin cause the sky's too tight) "
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12-05-2006, 06:15 PM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E
Posts: 8,164
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Backbeach Jake
The Canal with MAC, Slipknot, and MikeP. I learned a LOT about the Ditch and patience that night.
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I learned a lot too--don't trust a Nautil drag on a decent fish  |
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.
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12-05-2006, 06:20 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: RI
Posts: 21,503
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My year was simply pathetic...
But one night this fall under a full moon was spectacular. Didn't catch anything mind you, but the scenery that night on the Little Compton shore was beyond words.
If I could, I would have canned some and sent it back to my Mom in Iowa so she could understand what I was talking about.
-spence
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12-05-2006, 07:05 PM
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Lubina Estriada!
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Boston, MA
Posts: 307
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August, Boston Harbor. 3rd night of the new moon. T-Storms moved in
around 2am. I had the yak on the beach and waited in the truck for about an hour for Mother Nature to do her thing. I said, "How crazy am I?".  I wasn't crazy. I am a believer in the new moon period for bass in groups up close in skinny water. The rain stopped and I was paddling away. Trolled my favorite boulder field with eel out and wham.....the reel was singing. Another banner night in the yak with the largest being in the 40lb class.
Man that seems to be a long time ago now.  |
Kayak Fishing Baby! Fish Reel Hard!
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12-05-2006, 10:08 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2001
Posts: 1,990
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The results of a couple fun nights:
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Sooner or later you're going to realize just as I did that there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path. - Morpheus
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12-05-2006, 10:11 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Posts: 1,990
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a few more:
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Sooner or later you're going to realize just as I did that there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path. - Morpheus
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12-05-2006, 10:15 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2001
Posts: 1,990
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Sooner or later you're going to realize just as I did that there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path. - Morpheus
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