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Back in the day, that was my dad’s place too...he and a friend would be gone all night in my dad’s friends’s thompson boatand they would return to Lawrence in the morning...between the mighty Mac and the Plum Island areas, they did well! By the mid 70’s my dad had his own boat (he bought a new White hull and built a small cabin on it, all mahogany) and we kids got to go. He would run the boat up the river out to the mouth and drift back as we drifted sea worms...schoolies were legal then and some great memories resulted from those nights! Some scary moments with that river but my dad managed those incoming swells like a pro. Very easy to make a mistake out there with dire consequences! Listening to your striper and salt experiences brings it all back!
the river was SO dirty... but the fishing was insane.. people were much nicer then, the boats were slower and their operators much more considerate..
You mentioned dirty water.One of my fishing buddies was born and raised on the west side of Manchester.He told me he could tell what color shoes they were making by the color of the river.Yikes
Oh yeah, same with the wool mills, green, yellow, red.. and that was'nt the worst part, the water had so much dissolved toilet paper that you had to clean it off your line every 6 to 10 casts.. your line always had a greasy film on it, and it stunk like a backed up sewer.
You gotta be kidding me, that's nasty
It's sad, I got in just on the tail end of all of it..the pollock would come into the river in big schools like blue fish,you could see them on the top chasing sand eels, like a big black cloud, we used to huck 3 ounce cast masters and crank them as fast as we could, the hit was vicious, you know how they fight on a boat, imagine from the jetty fighting a 3 knot tide.., I was a teen ager at the time..by the time I was 20, the only pollock that visited the river were small harbor pollock..they used to go all the way to Joppa, they would stop at the tide rip in front of the duck blind on the west side just above the dike.. now even they are gone..the cod fishing from the beach was over by the late 70's,. a lot of people jigged the cod from tin boats, it slowed down in January and February, but was in full swing again by Easter
Pretty nasty, but the fishing was good.
Took my bobhouse off of Newfound yesterday...sad day and way too early. Removed 3 bobhouses in total, loaded onto the trailers, tied down and sent home. Everyone is off the ice safely. Not done ice fishing yet, will go out on open ice or portable if the wife is with me. Btw, season (Lake Trout) doesn't end till April 1st folks. Started my season Nov 17th (early ice) and will keep going until no ice or cant get on with a homemade bridge. Haven't missed a weekend of fishing since i got onto ice and actually took more time off during the week due to ice conditions in order to get my time in (full season) due to poor ice conditions.Cant believe some are wishing the ice away so early.....those are probably the ones "itching" to get onto (early) ice and then loose interest shortly afterwards?.....OCD?Stay safe if you continue to ice fish, use your chisel. It's a must with the conditions.
You got that right Mike! It’s the same fools catching concrete jungle liver pellet powered trout first ice chomping at the bit posting non stop thennnnn those fish get caught and you haveto actually know how to fish and they leave lollll jokers. The killer is they think they’re heroes when most with knowledge haven’t tried yet or just hit it hard and end hard like most left on hereProve me wrong!
Another slow day so far, only 1 white and a few smallies..plenty of corn
Took a drive by Willand Pond today in Dover and it still had all of its ice. Looked punky and decidedly unsafe but surprised to not see any open water. Another week or two it will be gone, I'm sure.
This week I assume, it wouldn’t hold me at 1 pm today and all the seagulls back in the middle
I did see all those seagulls!
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