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I am with jigmaster, not looking for it to end, just reporting what i am seeing. On the other hand I am looking forward to open water fishing/trolling.
Those look tasty...
they are, unfortunately,, in a small boat, there is a very tiny window of opportunity to get them...
I take it they head for deep waters quickly into the season?
I'm just not ready to start even talking about this open water stuff. It's March 5th. Nonsense! I'll get on somewhere, somehow through the end of the month. Always do.
they do, I get them in 160' of water 5 miles off the beach when they spawn, unfortunately any easterly wind makes the inlet treacherous, any kind of wind is just plain miserable.jigging ( real jigging not this 2lb test stuff) is the best way to put a bunch in the boat in a hurry, and to add insult to insult , as soon as the draggers know they are there, they scoop up every last one of them.. soon as the water reaches 50, Ill start looking for flounder and drop my lobster pots...bass will begin to show and summer will be here before I know it.
I hear ya, but I already spend 4 hours each ( round )trip on the road.. not quite ready to make it, 6 when I can trailer the boat for 20 minutes and be fishing..I'll be driving every day next week except for Friday.. 24 hours of driving.. that'll be enough for me to be ready for open water.
It's amazing how the wind can appear from nowhere in an instant... I've gone out of Rye harbor twice in my bassboat, the 1st time we got lucky and it stayed quiet and glassy water, the 2nd time we launched in the dead calm and an hour later mother nature smacked me in the head asking if I was stupid or something bringing a bassboat out there... The most scared I've ever been on a boat...
No I hear ya there. That's alot of driving. I just always hate when my ice season is cut short(which seems to be more often these days with the weather). These days in my life, I ice fish waayy more than I open water fish(wasn't always that way). Winter is my downtime at work, it's when I have the most free time throughout the whole year. Once open water season gets here, im back to 60 hour weeks and little time to fish. So I always hate to see Ice season go.Once ice season is over, I look forward to hunting season.
wane is like you, lives for the ice season... he always feels cheated when the season is like this..
I’m with Joe. My haddock jigs and Flounder rigs are ready to do work so let me know
I can’t wait for redfish. They’re my new favorite fish to eat.
one of the few fish they haven't put a ton of regulations on.. they make the BEST fish tacos
Yeah, but I bet they are coming. They are super slow growing, and the shorts never make it past the birds. I felt the same way when we went on a pollack slam this past December.
I've watched all of our salt water fisheries as they slowly dissapeared, I remember catching 20 lb pollock from the merrimack river jetties in the spring,and jigging cod fish from the mouth of the river all winter when conditions allowed, on any given night,you could catch enough cod from the beach in mid winter for a few meals...
Those tactics sounds so foreign to me, must of been amazing to witness that!
Roccus,Do you still fish the river at the north end of Plum Island.Amazing current there.We fished that from shore for years and picked up lots of fish and millions of greenies bit you until you were rawJohn
3 or 4 nights a week and run pots for bugs every Saturday, May through October... that place is my Home.