More "Wow Noreaster equals great fishing BS"
I have seen at least 5 threads this morning on the internet hyping up the Northeast pattern as blowing the fishing wide open. All a Noreast pattern does for NJ is bring us dirty water in the aftermath. It also diminishes any good feeding patterns that might have developed. Yes it does sometimes bring a bonanza for guys who fish clams, but generally speaking most other fishermen will not have great success in the days directly after a noreast pattern. The better times to fish, as has been mentioned here many times, are in the nights leading up to that. http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/...cons/icon3.png
Whether you catch fish or not, the opportunity is still better after a NW system has set up and is in effect. :learn:
Stripers and Anglers Posts of the Year!!!!!
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Originally Posted by
finchaser
He looks for bubbles on the waters surface he's so good he can smell fish farts. Some times when you plug you get covered up with weed,no water ,no signs of any life,water too rough to fish,water to dirty. But DS it's about the farts.
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Originally Posted by
dogfish
darkskies, the fish fart whisperer.:scared:
surfwalker, the mermaid fart whisperer.
finchaser, the hook doctor.
monty, the brick fish catcher and tree whisperer.
What a group!:kooky: :cool: :clapping:
If there were awards or sections here for Posts of the Year, these would be at the top of my list. :clapping::clapping: :thumbsup:
I was laughing so hard when I read this I literally fell off my chair. :ROFLMAO
Priceless!
The imagination of you mooks is beyond hilarious....I wish I had the resources to create a fishing show.....it would be off the hook with the characters we would have in it...unfortunately I would have to have creative control because it would be unacceptable to show where we fish, and I would really want to focus on the humor and things that went on besides fishing.....,for example, I relayed the conversation to Pebbles that Fin and I had when I hooked myself.....
"I can't believe you did that you ****ing dillydock!"
(There was more, along the lines of "I told ya not to be stupid, ya moron!" from the old Stern show)
Fishing is the theme that brings us all together, but sometimes the things that happen, while we're out there...are the icing on the cake, the sizzle in the steak...and the things that make it all worthwhile, even when we ain't catchin'.
Thanks for the laughs, guys, absolutely priceless. :HappyWave:
dark skies the $6million Fish Finder!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HofoK_QQxGc
dark skies, astronaut and fisherman: a man barely alive
Gentlemen we can rebuild him
We have the technology
We have the capability to make the worlds first fish fart smelling fisherman
dark skies will be that man
Better than he was before
Better, Stronger, Faster
Able to smell fish farts that lead him to the fish.
Able to hook a fish while simultaneously hooking himself.
Able to sleep in a public toilet, despite the stench.
Able to wear waders for weeks at a time without washing, and able to exist on coffee and bargain basement hindu pork roll sandwiches (maybe that's why the waders smell so much):ROFLMAO
And able to withstand bitter cold winds, and fish 71 hours at a time, for one fish.:HappyWave:
We have the technology
We have the capability
If we unleash this man upon the world, will it be for the better good, or a science experiment gone wrong?:scared:
Fishing bait during a sand eel bite.....
I have no beef with guys who fish bait, and want to first acknowledge the fact that the biggest fish are caught on bait, every year. Whether you use bunker, clams, eels, worms, live herring or spot, there are times when bait will out-produce artificials...and that's definitely the time to use it....
But for all the guys fishin clams out there.....when you see fish starting to swirl in the fall surf at first light, and they're feeding on sand eels, that means the profile is sand eels, not clams....and the best presentation to catch those fish is metal, slim slender profile jigs of some kind that resemble those sand eels....not clams........:beatin:
Fishing a clam rod is fine, but for Pete's sake bring another rod with ya, and throw that metal...we saw too many guys fishin clams this morning, with the rod idly sitting in the spike or in their hands, while the rest of the guys fishing metal were hooked up consistently......:learn:
Salute to the members and friends who are hitting it hard....
I have always been a little uncomfortable with praise and acclaim...
I have found a lot of fish over the winter....
Some have sniped about that, and in some internet forums made comments that could best be described as petty jealousy....
In a way, it makes it so you are a little hesitant sharing a night when you get double digit fish...and ultimately tend to be more inclined to share those numbers with the guys you also know, who are doing as well. Those who know me know I have a pretty thick skin, and have cultivated a persona for myself as a larger than life character. It's easy for me, because I'm the same crazy character both on the internet and off.
A lot of the folks I am in contact with regularly, who catch numbers and good sized fish, are not reporting it, not weighing in at tackle shops, and really hate the internet and what it has done to the learning curve in fishing...most of us learned the hard way, and still, when we have good nights, may have to work for every fish. Even for those of us who fish a lot, it's a very rare night when you have "a fish on every cast".
I love that kind of quiet isolated fishing, and seem to gravitate toward it more and more lately...if everyone is fishing at location A....I'll try to go to location C, just for the solitude...
What I really want to focus on here, is the efforts of friends, and members who have been posting here...:clapping::clapping:
I know you all are out there at night, hitting it hard...and every time you catch a teen to 25# class fish this Spring, out there alone by itself at night, that is note-worthy.
You,(collectively) who have been out there in the cold, rain, windy nights, and generally sloppy and unpleasant conditions, who have suffered through countless skunkings and nights where the only way you would come home with a fish is to stop at the Acme on the way home....http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/...cons/icon9.png,,,yet you have been out there anyway,,,,making your own reports, and knowing that it would only be a matter of time before the fish would turn on....
To you folks out there....I salute you all..and your efforts..
Remember that posting a report here, even if you got the skunk, there is no shame...I post my skunk reports all the time, it's part of fishing for me...
To the guys who are just starting out, if you see someone here who is consistently catching fish...try to learn from them....ask them questions politely, and they just might help ya a bit....remember that a lot of us learned to fish without the internet..don't be surprised if they are only slightly helpful and not willing to give the store away....
But keep at it, keep a detailed log, and eventually you will see how it makes a difference...
Good luck out there, folks. There are a lot of nice fish to be caught...so go out and have some fun..... (and please remember to bring your trash home with you when possible)....:thumbsup:
Notable Spring triggers for NJ
Some of these are for the ocean, some for the bays...I'll leave it up to you folks to figure it out...:d
There are those who feel I'm making it too easy on the new guys...
So this post may not be up for too long...
I'll try to leave it up until we get the site bugs fixed....and you are able to use the search key to find all the informative threads we have on these topics....
After that it may disappear depending on how many grouchy comments I get back-channel....:scared:
Spring Triggers....
1. The first Noreast pattern when the season opens.
2. A few sunny days in a row...
3. Dramatic drop in barometric pressure preceding a pending storm system.
4. The sudden upward shift of bay temps to where they consistently hold between 45-50 for more than a few days.
5. The shift in ocean temps to where they are steadily at 45 deg and trending upward..
6. The abundance or absence of cold dirty water
7. Gathering of herring in certain harbors and ports
8. The arrival of bunker in back bay areas.
Note how the bunker was the last one. Is it significant that while others place such a value on it, it's listed last here?
You tell me....
Anyone who understands the first 6 triggers I listed, doesn't need my advice.....they're already out fishin somewhere when a combination of two or more of those factors are in play......:learn: