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foxfire
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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: foxfire]
#75313 - 02/04/07 05:45 AM

The boats back in the water. I took her for a shake down cruise today. All was working fine. The marina has it for one more week and then she's mine for the season again.
I figure the first trip of the season to be a Codfish trip sometime next week. When they're there, it's some of the best fishing around.

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mikeh416Rigby
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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: foxfire]
#75354 - 02/04/07 10:04 AM

I thought it was getting close to that time of the season.

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foxfire
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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: mikeh416Rigby]
#75380 - 02/04/07 09:36 PM

Mike,
Why don't you plan on coming out this year and making a trip on the "Foxfire". I'm sure we could catch a few fish.

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mikeh416Rigby
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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: foxfire]
#75384 - 02/04/07 10:50 PM

That sounds like a good plan. I'll be in touch. Please PM me your email address.

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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: foxfire]
#77247 - 23/04/07 11:23 AM

Well, I know you didn't go out last weekend because of that Noreaster that came up the coast, but, did you get a chance to get out this weekend? It was beautiful here: light breezes and temps in the upper 70's.

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foxfire
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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: mikeh416Rigby]
#77284 - 24/04/07 05:54 AM

Mike,
I had to work Saturday as my manager took a couple of vacation days. We fished Sunday though. It seems Saturday the guys had Codfish by the bushel basket. We had a beautiful ride 28 miles east to the south side of Block Island RI. Beautiful ride, smooth ocean and all you heard was you should have been here yesterday. LOL We caught a dozen Cod in the 10 pound class (dinner for tonight) but nothing fast and furious like Saturday. It was a great day to be on the water but fishing was just so so.
The Flounder haven't started yet, Blackfish and Seabass should be starting any moment, followed by Striped Bass and Summer Flounder.
The season seems like it should be shaping up well but a few weeks behind schedule due to the cold water temperatures.
So, did you decide when you were going to try to make it out here?

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foxfire
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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: foxfire]
#77754 - 01/05/07 05:40 AM

I got to fish this weekend both Saturday and Sunday.

We fished for Fluke (Summer Flounder) on Saturday. New York State made the limit 4 fish per man per day @ 19 1/2" minimum, with no closed season. We fished in 48 degree F water temp. A little cold for these fish and managed 2 small fish for the day.

We fished Sunday for Codfish. We ended up with 6 fish around 12 lbs each and had a beautiful day 25 miles offshore.

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foxfire
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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: foxfire]
#82609 - 18/07/07 05:30 AM

On Sunday's trip my friends caught some Fluke ( summer flounder)
and on Saturday's trip my friends caught some Striped Bass.
Sometimes it sucks to be the Captain. But it was a great weekend to be out on the water.

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foxfire
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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: foxfire]
#87935 - 29/10/07 04:31 AM

Went out to the boat this weekend hoping to do some fishing. The wind is blowing 30 knots with a small craft warning posted for Saturday and Sunday. With only about a month left in the fishing season around here, I spent the weekend unloading all of my big game fishing tackle.
The last few weeks will be Striped Bass and Blackfish. I don't know if it's just me, did this season just fly by.

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foxfire
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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: foxfire]
#88863 - 13/11/07 03:24 AM

Another weekend blown out. The wind blew and nobody left the dock. I unloaded the boat and put it away for the winter. See it again St. Patty's Day. Time to do some serious hunting.

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starwars
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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: foxfire]
#101374 - 03/04/08 12:48 PM

Nice bag.

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foxfire
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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: starwars]
#110386 - 25/07/08 11:36 AM

This is turning into a really crappy season so far. At the beginning of the season we found a slight antifreeze leak on the port motor. It took a few weeks to isolate it and finally prove it was the head gasket thats bad. Now it will take Cummins three weeks before they can get out to the boat to change it. I hope the later part of the season turns out to be better than the beginning.

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bigmaxx
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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: foxfire]
#110389 - 25/07/08 01:05 PM

Here in Kentucky we use flat bottom jon boats. I fish for flathead catfish in the Barren and Green River. We use live bluegill on 10/0 hooks. I fish some trotlines, but my favorite is jugs at night watched with a big Q-Beam. We use "jugs" made from the big foam swim noodles. They dont blow around. A good flathead will run 30 to 50 pounds, maybe a bit bigger. Of course its all catch and release- "release in the grease" that is.

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foxfire
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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: foxfire]
#111105 - 05/08/08 06:59 AM

Still no mechanic to fix the boat. I should have been a diesel mechanic.

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EricD
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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: foxfire]
#111106 - 05/08/08 07:25 AM

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Still no mechanic to fix the boat. I should have been a diesel mechanic.

Sorry to hear that you're having engine trouble. I know how frustrating that can be, as I've been having trouble with an engine too (although mine is an outboard, and the trouble is electric). This has put a slight damper on this summers boating activities.

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foxfire
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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: EricD]
#111188 - 06/08/08 05:24 AM

The Cummins dealer called and said he'll be at the boat this thursday morning to fix the head gasket. I'll be there with bells on. Hopefully he'll get it taken care of.

The tuna season is just starting to heat up. The cost of a gallon of diesel fuel at the dock is $5.50 per gallon.The average tuna trip is 150 to 200 miles or 150 to 200 gallons of fuel or $800.00 to $1,200.00 for the trip.

I hope there's a lot of tuna around.

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EricD
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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: foxfire]
#111193 - 06/08/08 06:31 AM

Is it possible for you to sell some of the tuna you catch, to bring in a little money to weigh up for the diesel costs?

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foxfire
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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: EricD]
#111199 - 06/08/08 11:13 AM

ErikD,
I fish for the love of it. I've never over fished to catch and sell. I just catch some for fun and for the table.
It is possible to catch enough to offset the cost of the trip and maybe a couple of extra bucks but never enough to make a profit.
Thank goodness I can afford to fish the boat, because to fish for the money to offset the cost makes it a job and I already have one and don't want another.

Hopefully the boat gets fixed Thursday and we'll have a great tuna trip to celebrate. Tuna on the Bar B Que

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foxfire
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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: foxfire]
#111528 - 11/08/08 05:31 AM

The mechanic was here on Thursday and changed the head gasket. I'm now back in business. We test ran the boat on Friday and fished on Saturday. We caught as many Fluke or Summer Flounder as you possibly could reel in but only managed six keepers for the day. Well at least the boat is back in business and we have a few dinners for the effort. Hopefully next week maybe a Tuna trip.

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foxfire
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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: foxfire]
#116867 - 14/10/08 12:34 AM

I finally got out this past Saturday with my wife for a little fishing. We fished the morning for Black Sea Bass and caught literally hundreds of fish, culling out the small ones and keeping a few for some dinners.

The Striped Bass fishing right now is pretty hot so before we headed in for the day we deceided to fish for them with eels for the last hour of the tide. We both caught fish in the 40 pound range. My wife says her fish is bigger than mine but I don't think so.

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Marrakai
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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: foxfire]
#116920 - 14/10/08 08:01 PM

Lovely stripers there, mate!

Look like twins to me....!

Live eels? ...dead? Or rubber...?

We have a corporate fishing day coming up in a week or so, just Darwin Harbour but should be fun: the barra are on the go around the tidal flats and gutters. No stripers though!

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foxfire
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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: Marrakai]
#116950 - 15/10/08 03:53 AM

Marrakai,
Those Stripers were taken with live eels. During the fall as the winter is approaching the entire Striper fishery goes to live bait. For the next month they will be feeding on live eels until the herring show up then they'll switch over to feeding on live herring.
During the herring run there is a striper for every herring you catch and put back out there for them. In late November early December it's possible to catch 20 to 25 Stripers per man using live herring.

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foxfire
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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: foxfire]
#118672 - 11/11/08 04:58 AM

After one of the lousiest fishing seasons in a long time I gave the boat to the marina for the winter. I figured I had better end this season on a high note rather than a low one.

I gave the marina the boat on Saturday I'll pick it up again sometime in the middle of March.

Now for some shooting and hunting.

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foxfire
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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: foxfire]
#129396 - 13/03/09 05:34 AM

The boat should be going in the water next week. Amazing, the winter is almost over. I heard the Cod fishing is on fire. I can't wait, as I love bottom fishing.
Here's hoping this turns out to be a great season.

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Marrakai
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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: foxfire]
#129462 - 14/03/09 12:44 AM

Our peak barramundi-fishing time is fast approaching: the 'run-off' at the end of the wet season, when the inundated coastal floodplains begin to drain into the big tidal rivers and fish movement increases dramatically.

Meanwhile, I have had to content myself with a few small harbour-fish up to 60cm taken during my lunch-break just in front of my workplace. Bagged another one yesterday, 59cm, using the fabled blue and white small-bib Nilsmaster 'Stalwart' of course!

Look forward to hearing a few cod-fishing war-stories in the coming weeks, foxfire!

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