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foxfire
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Getting ready for the fishing season
#52637 - 17/03/06 04:59 AM

The "Foxfire" goes in the water this week. First a little Cod fishing and then maybe some Flounder.

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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: foxfire]
#52641 - 17/03/06 05:40 AM

Oh man your making me envious, I just took my Sea Ray to the canvas people for a new higher fishing top to be made. I am new to the bigger boating stuff and I'm busy outfitting her with fish finders, GPS, new down riggers and poles. I think I will name her the money pit. I will being docking her on Senaca Lake.

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foxfire
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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: 8x56mn]
#52651 - 17/03/06 08:00 AM

8x58mn,
A bigger boat is a money pit. You gotta love it. I guess like hunting. More boat, more guns more money.
Mine is a 35 Albin. I've had it new since 97. If you need any help let me know. I've been around the offshore boats for sometime.
My boat is moored at Montauk NY.

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Edited by foxfire (17/03/06 08:01 AM)

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mikeh416Rigby
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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: foxfire]
#52981 - 22/03/06 07:14 AM

Foxfire, I've sent you an email.

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foxfire
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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: mikeh416Rigby]
#52994 - 22/03/06 08:26 AM

E-mail answered Mike.

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mikeh416Rigby
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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: foxfire]
#53014 - 22/03/06 11:05 AM

Thank you. I'll be in touch.

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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: foxfire]
#56962 - 12/05/06 05:21 AM

How's the fishing been so far?

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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: mikeh416Rigby]
#56963 - 12/05/06 05:26 AM

I have been picking up a lot of Lakers here on Seneca with my new toy, learning how to fish after 58 years.

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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: foxfire]
#57034 - 13/05/06 01:22 AM

Foxfire

Nice boat!

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foxfire
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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: mikeh416Rigby]
#57045 - 13/05/06 04:21 AM

John, Thank you very much.

mikeh416Rigby,
The boat has been in the water for almost a month and this past weekend was the first time the weather allowed us to be able to fish. We fished Saturday offshore for Cod and Blackfish. We did well. We had about a dozen keeper Cod up to 20 pounds and one 10 pound Blackfish. On Sunday we fished for Summer Flounder (Fluke) this was the opening weekend. We fished the morning and had 8 keepers up to around 5 pounds and called it a day at noon as the wind blew up and it started to get a little sloppy.
This weekend is a bust, gusts to 35 MPH so I'll be good and stay home for Mother's Day.
The Striped Bass showed up right on cue fish to 30 pounds were caught.
My next trip will be next weekend for Stripers and then by Memorial Day the Sharks should be here also.
The season is shaping up very nicely.

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mikeh416Rigby
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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: foxfire]
#57070 - 13/05/06 08:29 AM

Are Winter Flounder still running, or have they moved out?

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foxfire
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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: mikeh416Rigby]
#57130 - 14/05/06 01:13 PM

Mike,
They really never showed this year. The season ends for winter flounder May 30th. So I still might get a shot at them but they never showed as I know. No one around caught any on purpose. A couple of fish were caught as bycatch fishing for Cod but no real showing of the winter flounder.

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mikeh416Rigby
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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: foxfire]
#57132 - 14/05/06 01:20 PM

For many years I used to go up to Quincy, Mass around the time the dogwoods started to bloom. We'd rent a 16 foot fiberglass boat with a 9 horse propeller, and fish for Winter Flounder. It was normal to come in at the end of the day with anywhere between 75 - 125 flounder between 2 people. Guys on the dock would filet them for you for a quarter. I haven't been up there for about 15 years now, but boy oh boy we had fun then.

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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: foxfire]
#57135 - 14/05/06 03:04 PM

Foxfire,
You are making me jealous. First you hunting buddies and now the boat.

Our last fishing trip was in April. Unfortuneately we had very bad weather and could only go out for three days. I will miss the upcoming trip to Mozambique in July as I will be hunting.

Enjoy the fishing, you surely have a nice boat.

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foxfire
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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: SAHUNT]
#57496 - 21/05/06 10:35 PM

I went fishing yesterday for Summer Flounder (Fluke). The weather was terrible 6-8 foot seas but it was my day off and a day to go fishing. We got beat up pretty good by the ocean and only caught one Striped Bass and one Fluke.
It sucks getting older as today every bone in my body is sore.
But I did get dinner for two for tonight. Well, there's always next week to try again.

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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: foxfire]
#57510 - 22/05/06 03:59 AM

Old age is like a hemeroid A PAIN IN THE *RSE.
The last day we went out in Richards bay we had the same problem. We were running with the sea when we went out to our fihing spot, it took us a hour, coming back we were against the sea, it took us 3 hours. Everything was aching by the time we reached the harbour. Have a rum, it subdues the aches.

In good fishing

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foxfire
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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: foxfire]
#58041 - 31/05/06 06:03 AM

Last years fish, we have to try to beat it this year.

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mikeh416Rigby
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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: foxfire]
#58051 - 31/05/06 08:59 AM

Nice. Is that a Mako?

My wife and I went down to Ambergris Caye, Belize last week and did a little sport fishing. We caught about a dozen Black Tip Reef Sharks up to @ 6 feet, and several Barracuda up to 5 feet, along with many, many grouper and snapper. Fun trip. A full day of fishing and snorkeling, along with a barbque lunch of fresh fish and chicken went for $310.00 US.

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foxfire
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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: mikeh416Rigby]
#58070 - 31/05/06 09:03 PM

Mike,
That is a Mako. We do a lot of shark fishing and usually tag around 70 sharks a season. We enjoy shark fishing. If we catch a Mako, he's dinner the rest usually get tagged and released.
Your trip to Belize sounds fantastic. In todays ecconomy it cost me more than $300.00 to go fishing for the day and I already own the boat. On a typical Tuna trip we usually burn around 250 gallons, @ $3.50 a gallon for Diesel fuel the trip costs $875.00 in fuel alone.

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mikeh416Rigby
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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: foxfire]
#58083 - 01/06/06 03:43 AM

Mako are indeed fine eating. A long time ago, someone told me that some of the less than scrupulous fish mongers use round cookie cutters on Mako, and then sell it as scallops.

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foxfire
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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: mikeh416Rigby]
#58087 - 01/06/06 05:12 AM

If they did that Mike I'd eat more scallops. Those less than nobel fish mongers use cookie cutters and cut scallops out of Skate wings.

I like Mako steaks and when we catch one it doesn't last long around my house. I usually call my house on my way in with a Mako, the Bar B Que is fired up and ready when we pull into the dock.

Come on out to Montauk this season and we'll see what we can catch.

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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: foxfire]
#61558 - 22/08/06 02:07 PM

You've either been very busy, or the fishing hasn't been too good because you haven't posted a fishing report since June 1st. How has it been going?

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foxfire
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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: mikeh416Rigby]
#61816 - 28/08/06 12:57 PM

Mike,
I just walked in from a weeks vacation in Maine with the family. Fishing in Montauk just before we left was showimg some great signs of improvement. The Fluke fishing picked up and was excellent, The Striped Bass have started biting better. We made a Bluefin Tuna trip for a couple of Bluefin and a couple dozen Mahi's. I have yet to make a Shark or Yellowfin trip but there still plenty of time. I'll be out in Montauk this thursday for a 5 day weekend. Fresh fishing reports to follow.

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foxfire
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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: foxfire]
#66839 - 12/12/06 08:11 AM

Well the time is here already to put the boat away for the winter. It was a fair season. Nothing exceptional but a good season none the less. Time to dedicate myself to some serious hunting.
St. Patty's Day the boat goes back in and it will be here fast.

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Re: Getting ready for the fishing season [Re: foxfire]
#73215 - 06/03/07 01:25 AM

Seems like the winter is almost over. It feels like yesterday we put the boat away for the winter and now it's time to make it ready for the spring.
I'll be doing some maintenance in the next couple of weeks and then the boat goes back in for this season.
It seems the older I get the faster time flies.

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