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Need help finding Mill Store in Newhampshire

Birddogs1964 — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:53:19 GMT

I am told that there is a Mill type store in New Hamphire near Lake Winnapesaukee . It was an old mill at one time I guess that has Floors and Floors of fighing gear . ALEGEDLY you would fill an old shopping cart with gear and make an offer for the things you had in the cart . The owner use to buy Overstock from tackle shops going out of business ?

Any help you guys could give me would be appreciated , as I would like to go check it out .
Thanx ,
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Herring & Striper update

2stripers — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:33:25 GMT

Kris Mcshane
just Emailed me again, they have just posted on the dec site
the Results from this springs meetings, and public input, like the one i went to in Delmar.
it`s been posted . http://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/57672.html
CURRENTLY they are working on updateing all the data for the ASMFC
STOCK ASSESSMENT.as they move to completion of the assessment
evaluater the regulations, change suggestion,made by thoes of who attended the meeting. the change should be complete some time this fall.

ALSO we wanted to let you know of an upcomeing meeting on AUG 18
Concerning an ADDENDUM to AMENDMENT 6 OF THE ASMFC, STRIPED BASS FISHERY Mangment PLAN.
Details can be found @ http://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/40998.html

Deadliest Catch fans?

Coalman — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:28:33 GMT

Readers of my blog ( huntingresource.com/coalman ) know how much I like the show Deadliest Catch. I feel kin to them. Not in the work but the ocean harvest. They do crab, I do lobster.

My best man Mike Lavallee of killerpaint.com has been painting his flames on the captain's toys for years. Mike painted the dual Harley tanks they laid in Captain Phil's grave.

When I heard he knew Captain Sig and the crew of the Northwestern, which is my favorite vessel I asked him if he could get me an autographed sweatshirt.

Forward fast six months. Mike attended the memorial for Captain Phil. He called after the memorial and said he had a surprise for me. When I opened the US mail box inside was a sweatshirt signed by Captain Sig that said.

"For Dave... Shut Up and Fish... Capt Sig"

Also a signed picture of Captain Sig standing in front of the Northwestern. I got them framed for my office wall. I was the envy of work last week.

Thank you Mike and Captain Sig.

footballs!

krbernier74 — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:17:16 GMT

setting up to try trolling for football bluefin just south of isle of shoals. anyone care to give a few hints as to rigging for them?

Ogunquit

PhishnTim — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:39:49 GMT

Heading up to Ogunquit Beach for a couple days on Sunday and will try to get the stripers we missed in Jersey this spring, any reports?

Thanks

Video Diaflash XT-A 360 xxh hook up European Sea Bass

tiagolaurentino — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:59:51 GMT

Hello this is may rod hook up one european seabass 2,8kilogram

YouTube- Robalo ao spinning

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Hello.

tiagolaurentino — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:54:55 GMT

Hello im Tiago from portugal and my favorite fishing are european seabass whith lures.
thanks

Bunker

headlessblade — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:35:01 GMT

I finally used bunker today as bait, paid $1.75 each... and man it was the worst idea... it was hard to cut, my hands were nasty, and the crabs/something was eating it of my hook as fast as I was baiting and recasting :(((((((((( any suggestions? how to keep your hands clean? how to keep the bait on the hook longer? and of course HOW TO GET THIS FISH SMELL OF MY HANDS? lol i tried tide, Palmolive, soap, lmao still smells :(:flyfish: btw I had one left so i gutted it and froze it lol don't know if it would be easier to cut it as an iceblock LOL

Swimming With the Fishes: Anglers Tangle Over 'Skishing'

striperjim — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:57:02 GMT

Wall Street Journal Article link
July 26 2010

Swimming With the Fishes: Anglers Tangle Over 'Skishing'
Extreme Method Puts Fishermen Deep in Water; Casting Aside Critics

MONTAUK, N.Y.—Fishing hasn't changed much over the years. Then along came Paul Melnyk.
During a surfcasting tournament here in the mid-1990s, Mr. Melnyk landed a striped bass large enough to be in contention. Then word got around that he was swimming offshore in a wetsuit with a fishing rod when he caught it.

Paul Melnyk believes that the best way to catch a bass off of Montauk, Long Island, is to jump in after it. He invented a form of fishing in which the fish pulls him through the water, as if he were skiing. Thus was born, Skishing. Christopher Rhoads reports.

The tournament committee responded by banning fish caught while swimming. Later—after an incident involving an irate Mr. Melnyk in pirate garb, Captain Morgan rum and floating his baited line hundreds of yards from shore with a kite—it banned Mr. Melnyk.
"They called it a crooked playing field," says Mr. Melnyk, a 55-year-old who works in construction. "I don't care about that—I care about winning."
Instead of complying with the rules, Mr. Melnyk went rogue. He committed himself to his fishing method, attracting others with a penchant for the extreme. Today, they're challenging what it means to fish.
A recent YouTube video shows a man swimming in Florida with a mask, snorkel and flyrod, catching a tarpon. ZeeBaaS, a fishing-gear company in Stratford, Conn., recently added a section to its product line and website devoted to the activity. Cable channels, like National Geographic, have featured it. Enthusiasts sharing tales on websites hail from the U.K., Turkey and South Africa.
"There used to be a whole bunch of people against this concept," says Mr. Melnyk, whose right shoulder is covered with a tattoo of a skeleton, holding up a massive skeleton of a fish. "But there's a new generation of fishermen out there."

Paul Melnyk

Practitioners interviewed agree he coined the sport's name: "skishing." It's a mix of skiing and fishing. The idea is to hook a fish big enough to tow the angler through the water. Stripers can reach more than 50 pounds; the record caught with rod-and-reel weighed 78-1/2 pounds.
Without the benefit of a boat or land, the fight is considered to be, by the fisherman anyway, on more equal terms. Skishers swim sometimes hundreds of yards from shore to water well over their head, with their flippers and the buoyancy of their wetsuits keeping them afloat.
Some have come to skishing by persevering to become a prot�g� of Mr. Melnyk, who prefers skishing alone.
Frank Blasko, a 39-year-old in the motion-picture lighting business in Bayport, Long Island, pestered Mr. Melnyk for several years with phone calls and emails, even offering him $300 if he would show him the ropes.
Mr. Melnyk finally relented. "I needed a new carburetor on my chopper," he says.
Mr. Blasko, who's making a documentary on the sport called "The Skisherman," describes the attraction this way: "I just like to get out in the middle of the night, catch a monster and have it splash its tail in my face."
Acceptance of skishing—and of Mr. Melnyk—has its limits.
"I hope you get eaten by a shark," wrote one commenter on Mr. Melnyk's website, calling him a cheater. Mr. Melnyk says he receives hate mail, admonishing him for promoting such a dangerous activity.
Among other risks: boats and strong currents whipping skishers out to sea. Skishing is typically done at night, when bass are thought to do most of their feeding.
Since skishers can catch fish just beyond the reach of traditional surfcasters in waders, the skishers are sometimes blamed for scaring fish away or catching what might otherwise belong to the purists closer to shore.
Mr. Blasko, Mr. Melnyk's prot�g�, says he's been hooked twice by surfcasters, probably intentionally. Cursing is common.

Christopher Rhoads/The Wall Street Journal As
he prepares to head out to sea, Paul Melnyk
shows off the eels he uses as bait to catch
striped bass. Before suiting up, he usually
drives along the beach in his pickup truck in
the pre-dawn hours, looking for good spots to fish.

Gary Stephens, a 54-year-old landscaper nicknamed "The Toad" for his ability to jump over car hoods, is a traditional surfcaster and is considered Mr. Melnyk's main rival for bragging rights among locals. "Wetsuiters have a clear advantage," says Mr. Stephens. "If they think that's fun, that's fine. I stick with the fishing."
Once, when Mr. Melnyk was skishing far from shore, a fishing-boat captain, startled to see a person in the water with a fishing rod, came up alongside him and derided him as a "menace to navigation," Mr. Melnyk recalls.
"That's when I started carrying a knife," he says.
The annual surfcasting tournaments, held from spring to late fall here on the eastern end of Long Island—a place some locals call a drinking town with a fishing problem—forbid skishing. The rules read like they were written for Mr. Melnyk.
"Feet must be on mother earth or rock when you hook up," reads Rule No. 4. "No free-floating, drifting or swimming while actually fishing. No boats, prams, kayaks, balloons or kites."
Fred Kalkstein, a member of the executive committee for the locals-only tournament, says skishing "will never be allowed."
It gives the practitioner too much of an advantage, he says. "It's not surfcasting," says Mr. Kalkstein, an East Hampton stockbroker nicknamed "Eelman" for using only eels as bait when striper fishing. "They're using their body as a boat."
But some views have softened.
About ten years ago, a separate wetsuit division was created. Old-timers protested, but today about 15 of the customary 50 participants don wetsuits, allowing them to swim to rocks from which to cast. Mr. Melnyk was eventually invited back, though he's mostly declined.
Maneuvering his pickup along a beach here one night in the pre-dawn cold, Mr. Melnyk spotted waves crashing about 200 yards from shore.
He crammed his thick frame into a wetsuit, strapped on a ziploc bag of live eels and, with a fishing rod under his arm, clomped past startled fishermen on shore in his yellow flippers and swam out to sea.
Within minutes, as dawn broke, he bobbed in the swells in about 15 feet of frigid water. Birds dove at the baitfish around him. After some casts, he reeled in a small bass. He put a short rope from his waist through its gills, so he could continue to fish.
Finally, he made his way through the heavy surf back to the beach, just in time to see one of the surfcasters from shore trudge by with a 25-pounder.
"Hey!" Mr. Melnyk shouted. "That should've been mine!"
Write to Christopher Rhoads at christopher.rhoads@wsj.com

Long Island Sound fishing near West Haven

fishingvt — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:04:19 GMT

Hey guys how has the striper fishing been around West Haven Conn? Any recent activity, best baits?

Fishermen at Melton Hill Dam on 07/29/2010 early A.M.

thecurrent — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:34:32 GMT

I am a Photographer and was at the Melton Hill Dam area this morning 07/292010 around 7:30-8:00 am this morning.
I got some VERY cool pictures of 2 different fishing boats in the fog. If you or anyone knows who they are please send me a private message or respond.
One of the boats was a John Boat with 2 guys, one with a red shirt and one with a bluish green shirt. The other boat wasn't a John Boat but had 3 fisherman.
I would love for these folks to have a few copies of the pictures since they were in them. They came out very nice!!

-Mike

The Latest On the Mac Haba Situation

bostonfisher — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:10:46 GMT

Based on my experience last weekend and what I've heard from a few guys fishing this week the macs beat it out of town. Pogies are in and that's what Ill be shifting my focus to. Good luck everyone!

Gloucester

beiny — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:29:11 GMT

Going to Gloucester this weekend to visit my daughter.
Just wondering how the surf fishing has been the past week or so.
She lives near Good Harbor beach, is there any decent surf fishing there??? I will have the fly rod as well.
Not looking for specifics just general.

Chattahoochee River Outfitters

chadbryson — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:21:19 GMT

Guided fly and light tackle fishing for Striped Bass on the Chattahoochee and Tugaloo rivers in GA.

Full and Half day trips available
All tackle and equipment provided
More fly caught Stripers than any other guide service on the river

Contact me for bookings-
Chad Bryson
flyguide71@gmail.com
:flyfish:

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Yet another new guy

LynnG — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:08:45 GMT

Just wanted to introduce myself to the forum. I have spent summers in Maine for the last 15 years and moved from Ohio to Trenton, ME year round two years ago. Married a Maine girl and they always return home. I fish fresh, salt and hard water both from a boat and shore. I will be retiring soon and plan to significantly increase my fishing time. I focus on stripers in the salt as much as I can. Lots of success until the last three years. Any advice for fishing the MDI area will be greatly appreciated. I am about ready to head down to southern Maine so I'm not skunked three years in a row. I've tried other bottom fish with no luck. Macs are all I can seem to catch.

Custom Boat Buckets

busterbuckets — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:19:18 GMT

We make custom boat buckets.
We decided to improve the boat bucket by fastening a one inch thick double braided nylon nautical deck line to the bucket.
Then we considered the individuality of each bucket. Customizing the bucket, gives the bucket a clean nice look.
www.busterbuckets.com

Southern Maine New To It All!!

Maineiac — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:21:36 GMT

Hey all, Just saying hello to you all. Been reading alot of great info on this site! Other than the past couple weeks of fishing, I havent been fishing in about 15 years! I picked up a couple rods (8'6 and a 12' Ugly Stick Medium Light) and a couple reels. After about 5 trips to the shores of the Piscataqua River that dumps out at the Portsmouth Harbor, I have only been catching Mackeral on a 1oz Kastmaster silver wedge.. I have caught nothing by chunking Mackeral... Yesterday i swapped my mono line for some Power Pro 50lb braid.. My question is do I need to have a Flourocarbon leader on it? Or can i just tie direct to my swivel that I attatch my 18" leader with hook on it? Thanks to anyone who answers :) And nice site!!

Anyone know about Gilgo

bob g — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:54:32 GMT

Does anyone know if Gilgo Beach is open to 4-wheel yet ??? OR if it will open up ??? Sore Thumb is way TOO CRAZY and looking for an easy beach to drive on to fish....
Thanks everyone....:frustrated:

New from MI

Flapjack23 — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:27:53 GMT

I'm from MI, but I have family in MA that we try to visit every summer. Got my Grandma in Shrewsbury, and Aunt in Princeton, and an Aunt in Plymouth (hence the reason I'm here). Live about 1.5 hours north of Detroit in farm country, wife and 3 girls. Love hunting and fishing, my 1st salt water trip was in Cabo in Nov 08. Got interested in trying to surf cast last trip, wife and kids got me a rod and reel for my b-day and gave it a try. Didn't catch anything, but I'll be trying every summer we make it out now. Thats all I got.

Andy

PS. I'm originally from MA, moved to MI when I was 4

3 prong question

Shylady — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:45:17 GMT

What is the rule on using a 3 prong lure on Raystown lake?

new to the site...

NJPlugginfool — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:41:49 GMT

and i'm glad to be here! can't wait to read the wealth of information being shared on this site.

NJP

Rod/Reel Combo for Stripers

rpearlberg — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:41:33 GMT

I'm looking for recommendations for a rod/reel combo for stripers/bluefish in Long Island Sound. Would like to stay under $100. I saw the Penn 550SSg for $63 and then I could get a rod, but not sure if that would be good. Am I better off getting a combo or separate and putting together myself? Any help would be great!!

Thanks!!!

Tsunami rod vs Ugly Stik?

I'm looking at the Penn Sargus now, which model is best for a 7' rod? 3000? 4000? 5000?

Rods n reels

Sudsy — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:46:45 GMT

Selling some of Gary2's (RIP) rods for Barb

Cash, check to Barbara Hull (but only if I know you), or USPS money order.
Pickup or meet somewhere central NJ only

St Croix ––8’6” – Surf Spinning – Premier – 1/2 to 2 – very clean, I don’t think it’s ever been used - $150

St Croix – 10’ 6” – conventional heaver – Premier – 4 to 8 – some very minor surface scuffs - $150

Pair of Berkley "Frank Parker" 5'6" fresh water trigger sticks - good condition - $10 each.

Loomis – 8’ – Spinning - Surf Series – � to 1 � - very clean - $150

These next three weren’t Gary’s, these are mine

Daiwa conventional setup – 6’ 6” – model ?? (silverfish grey blank) soft tip lots of power, rod was recently rewrapped and not used since – with pimped Penn 350, Newell Bar, base and bearings, Penn aluminum spool. - $85
Good all around inshore setup from spring bass to fluke.

Ande Tournament – 6’ 6” - Heavy power – new, never been wet with an extremely clean, (maybe new, it's that clean) Jigmaster 500 with an upgraded Penn aluminum spool - $70
Perfect bunker run boat setup.

AnyFish Anywhere – 10’ 6” – spinning – Custom wrapped (semi lowrider) on the USA blank – Rod is beautiful - 1 to 5oz - $150

stripers in the Chattahoochee????

mtbculler — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:08:59 GMT

We have been bank fishing on the Etowah and are looking for a good place to bank fish on the Chattahoochee, somewhere north of Atlanta near Lake Lanier, We tried the end near West Point but its a little far, so anyone that could help, please do... Keep in mind we are bank fishing no longer have a boat. Were wanting to go again this weekend.. Thanks

What species is this?

lizardking3 — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:17:39 GMT

This was on the north shore of long island, NY. There were thousands of these small fish caught in some tidal pools as the tide went down. They were about 2 or 3 inches long and a bit wider than most minnows when looking at them from the top.

Can anyone tell me what kind of fish this is??

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Surf fishing bethany beach area?

ISLANDER914 — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:13:28 GMT

Heading down to bethany beach area next week. Just wondering if a license is needed to fish the ocean... also, any good public access areas to fish? Originally from Long Island NY. now live upstate NY. I only get to fish stripers in the spring. Looking foward to some good ocean surf fishing. Any input would be great, Thanks.

Jones Beach fishing pier?

Haggkool — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:05:54 GMT

I hear that JHones beach has piers to fish from. Is this true and where are they located? I have been to Jones more times then I can remember and don't rememgber seeing a pier.

seriously?

krbernier74 — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:29:14 GMT

Ok so someone claims to have seen a 24' white shark at the mouth of the Merrimack river....I think they took one too many hits off of the happy pipe.:sign17:

T-Man 7-21 & 7-23

T-Man — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:59:07 GMT

Got out a couple times last week with Frank helping me out bigtime on a Friday charter trip.

We caught an early tide on Wednesday and slowed trolled around Black Point & Hatchetts Reef. We had a decent bite on the tubes and managed a few medium size keeper fish in 18-30ft of water.

On Friday I took my first 2010 clients out since having the by-pass in May and good ol Frank was nice enough to mate for the day and haul some fish over the gunnels for me. Not too many people would give up a morning of fishing so they could play netboy but Frank was all over it.

Anyway we had a bit of a tough tube bite so I switched over to some live scup and found a nice pile of fish deep. Everybody went home happy and who knows I might even get in enough charters this season to actual cover my costs....

Yikes, what a bust this year.

Here's some stuff to look at...

YouTube- 7 23 2010

Gilgo

bob g — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:09:20 GMT

Does anyone know if Gilgo Beach is open to 4-wheel yet ??? OR if it will open up ??? Sore Thumb is way TOO CRAZY and looking for an easy beach to drive on to fish....
Thanks everyone....:frustrated: