StripersAndAnglers.com Helpful Hints/Helpful fishing links
Stripers and Anglers Helpful hints!
Translating from Spanish or another language--
There have been some inquiries from some sites in other countries. They want to post here, but the translation would be a problem.
Meanwhile, some of these sites have great fishing experiences to relate. I'm always interested in knowing how people in other places approach fishing, what fish they catch, how they make their plugs, what the conditions are like, etc.
I thought it would be helpful if we could find a way to translate if there was ever a communication problem, so I put this tutorial up for you folks. Just go through the steps I have outlined, and follow the babelfish instructions.
Press the link below to translate this site into another language.
http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/tr
Procedure for translating the whole site into another language:
Enter www.stripersandanglers next to the http://
Select a language - Example English to Spanish
Click translate
Procedure for translating a post into English so it can be posted here:
Go to babelfish
Type your post in the outlined box
Select ________(your language) to English translation
Click the "translate" button, and you will now have the English translation!
This translation can be Cut and Pasted into your post at Stripersandanglers.com
Instructions for Translating into English
Instrucciones por tradicir por Ingles
Ha habido algunas investigaciones de algunos sitios en otros paÃ*ses.Desean fijar aquÃ*, pero la traducción serÃ*a un problema.
Mientras tanto, algunos de estos sitios tienen grandes experiencias de la pesca a relacionarse. Estoy siempre interesado en saber la gente en otros lugares acerca a la pesca, qué pescados cogen, cómo hacen sus enchufes, como qué las condiciones son, etc. ]
Pensé que serÃ*a provechoso si podrÃ*amos encontrar una manera de traducir si habÃ*a siempre un problema de comunicación, asÃ* que puse esta clase particular para arriba para usted gente.
Apenas pase con los pasos que he contorneado, y siga las instrucciones del babelfish.
Presione el acoplamiento abajo para traducir este sitio a otra lengua.
http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/tr
Procedimiento para traducir el sitio entero en otra lengua:
Incorpore www.stripersandanglers al lado del http://
Seleccione una lengua - inglés del ejemplo al español El tecleo traduce
El procedimiento para traducir un poste en inglés asÃ* que él se puede fijar aquÃ*:
¡Va al tipo del babelfish su poste en el ________(selecto contorneado de la caja que su lengua) al tecleo inglés de la traducción "traduzca" el botón, y usted ahora tendrá la traducción inglesa!
Esta traducción se puede cortar y pegar en su poste en Stripersandanglers.com
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Striped Bass weight estimation chart
Striped Bass Length - Age - Weight Chart
This chart is based on catch records in the Northeast. Its overall accuracy is good, especially in the Fall. Weights in the Spring months are generally lower. Most fish above 40 pounds are females.
Attachment 4306
Size Estimation formula for catch and release:
Length X length X length /1,950
OR
Girth x Girth x Length / 800
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Searching this site:
How do I find new posts?
Easy! Go to the middle of the top menu bar where you will see the "new posts" area. Click on that and you will see all the new posts since your last visit.
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To quickly find a thread or post of interest anywhere on the bulletin board, click on the 'Search' link in the navigation bar at the top of most forum pages. Then, type in the keyword or phrase you wish to search for, and select either 'Show Threads' or 'Show Posts' to view the results. By selecting posts, you will be shown only the actual post in which the search word appears.
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Striped Bass Length to Weight Chart
Found this on the net:
Striped Bass Length to Weight Chart
A = length and B = girth
http://stripers247.com/images/measure.gif
Bass - Pike - sunfish - walleye length to weight formula is on page bottom
Striped Bass Length to Weight Chart
Age - Weight - length chart
This chart is to approximate the weight and age of your striper
Length X length X length /
1,950
Striped Bass length to weight to Age Chart
Striped Bass growth statistics
( New England - Chesapeake bay studies)
Age Your Fish
Notes: Average size is just the median of both weights. It is more realistic maximum in the
late fall after the striper has fattened itself up for the winter. Feeding will slow
when water temperature drops below 50 degrees, so in the spring
the minimum weights are then more accurate. This of course
does not apply to a roe laden female. There has been much discussion
about the varients in weights. There are many factors that
contribute to weight or lack there of. A good digital flat scale will put less
stress on the fish than than those lip grip types and are more accurate.
A measurement should be taken while the fish is on a flat surface from the tip of the nose to
the outer most point of the tail.
There is no substitute for an accurate scale but to estimate the weight
of your striped bass the formula is thus.
Length X length X length /
1,950.
For example: a 30 inch striped bass weighs ~ 14 pounds
30" X 30" X 30" /
1,950 = 14
Use your calculater and the above formula for a fair approximation Margin of error up to 6%
The Formula for following species is thus
Bass weight = (length x length x girth) / 1,200
pike weight = (length x length x length) / 3,500
sunfish weight = (length x length x length) / 1,200
trout weight = (length x girth x girth) / 800
walleye weight = (length x length x length) / 2,700
For example, you catch a 16 inch walleye. Using the formula for walleye above: (16 x 16 x 16) / 2,700 = 1.5
pounds. Your walleye weighs approximately 1.5 pounds.
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Striped Bass Age Growth chart
How to post pics on stripersandanglers.com
How to post pics on stripersandanglers.com
I. Normal method
To upload photos in a thread you can follow these guidelines.
1. Go to "post reply" (can not use quick reply)
2. scroll down to and click "manage attachments"
3. click "browse"
Find your file or picture file where they are stored on your computer.
4. click "open" when you have found the correct file.
5. click "upload" to upload pics no bigger than 100k for jpgs
6. The pics will upload, and you will see the results in the window when you see the file name.
7. Then, close this window by clicking "close window" at the bottom of that window. This is important. If you fail to do this your pics won't load.
8. Preview post to make sure that is what you wanted. Once you have done this a few times, this step is not necessary and can be eliminated.
9. If it is what you want, then click "submit reply".
Pictures can be no bigger than 100K. When you go into manage attachments there is a key chart which outlines the maximum picture size allowed for each document or photo type.
If your pictures are larger they need to be resized. There are many resizing programs out there. One recommended by CNET is Fast Stone Photo Resizer. This can be downloaded for free. Here is the link: http://www.faststone.org/FSResizerDetail.htm
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II. "PAPERCLIP" method
Useful if you have a lot of pics to post, or if you want to post a story and insert pics at various points within the story.
1. Go to "post reply" (can not use quick reply)
* Follow the above procedure until you get to step 2.
SKIP step 2, instead click on the "paperclip" icon at the top of your post area.
This will open a "manage attachments" screen at the top.
Follow all the rest of the steps. The only difference is that once you close the paperclip feature, you will be brought back to your original posting screen.
You will then have to re-open the paperclip icon, and click on it again. This will bring your pics as attachments to whatever point your cursor is at on the screen. (so be careful where you have your cursor. Make sure it's not stuck in the lines of text.)
Then, based on how many pics you have downloaded, you can manipulate them around on the screen by cutting and pasting EACH one to the point in the test or story that they pertain to.
This can be a little confusing until you have done it a few times, so only attempt this once you have a decent amount of experience downloading pics. The Normal method explained above is much easier for beginners.
How not to lose a pending post and keep your sanity
This is for Surfstix, who had some trouble posting lately. Also for any others out there who may run into the same difficulty.
Some internet/ server issues that can affect posting and ways to make it easier:
OR...
How to Copy and Paste...
1. If you are creating a large post that would cause trauma if it was lost on the internet, familiarize yourself with your right click mouse button.
2. Copy the text you're working on by taking the mouse and moving the cursor over it so the text is highlighted.
3. Click the right click mouse button, select the option "copy"
4. Then, if when posting, your screen blanks out on you, you will have that text saved. You can log on again, right click the "paste" button, and your saved text will not have been lost.
If you are going bald or getting grey hair from all the stress in your life, this is a good way to slow down that process, at least a little bit. :d
Stripers and Anglers Helpful hints!
Searching this site:
How do I find new posts?
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How do I search for something?
To quickly find a thread or post of interest anywhere on the bulletin board, click on the 'Search' link in the navigation bar at the top of most forum pages. Then, type in the keyword or phrase you wish to search for, and select either 'Show Threads' or 'Show Posts' to view the results. By selecting posts, you will be shown only the actual post in which the search word appears.
For more control over the search, select 'Advanced Search' from the drop-down box. The advanced search page allows you to restrict your search to individual forums, find posts or threads by user, or return results based on tags (?). There are also options to find posts from a certain date, or threads with a certain number of replies.
How do I search a specific forum or thread?
If you are browsing a forum, you can quickly search for a thread or post within it by clicking on the 'Search this forum' link near the top of the page (it's above the list of threads). You can also search for individual posts within a thread by clicking on the 'Search this Thread' link at the top of any thread view page.
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And please consider changing your passwords periodically, or not using your same fishing or personal passwords on all internet sites out there so as to foil any internet crooks.. Thanks, people.
Pics and picture posting tutorial
This was posted by Paco33. Thanks Paco!
Quote:
Originally Posted by
paco33
Dark, as has been said, maybe some of the new members may have some difficulty. If it's ok, I thought I would post a little tutorial, and you can move it to wherever you want later.
File upload manager - this is what you will see when you click on the attachments button (paperclip icon) when posting.
Steps:
1. Click on the green "add files" button in the right hand corner. This has a plus sign to the left of it.
2. This will open a box that says "upload files from your computer".
3. Click on the "select files" button at the bottom of that screen.
4. This will bring you to your section on the computer where you have your pics stored. Depending on what your cookies and settings are set at, and the last time you were on the site, you may have to browse for them. Use the browse feature. This, I believe, was also the same in the past before the update was done.
5. Select your pics.
6. Then hit the "upload files" button at the bottom of that new window. There is also a "basic uploader" button that you can use if you just want to upload one pic in that post. It actually allows you to upload more than one. It reminds me of the way they had it with the old version, so maybe they saved it for legacy sake and people would feel comfortable either way.
7.You can also hit "clear list" if you made a mistake and want to start over again.
8. Once the files are uploaded, there is a window at the very bottom of the original attachments window "Insert inline".
You can hit this to insert them per your tastes and style. By that, I mean you can either choose NOT to hit this button, and close it out. If so, your pic will come up as an attachment with a paperclip attached around a box in the post.
9. Or, you can hit the "insert inline" button, and the pics will be inserted into the post awaiting further manipulation by you.
This is not really necessary to do it this way, it's merely an advanced feature that some of you tech heads might appreciate having. With this feature, you can actually manipulate, and move the pics around in your post, by looking at the pics. This is a VERY cool feature. I believe they had it before, but you had to move the text renderings of the pics, without being able to see them.
10. When you are done, make sure you hit the "done" button on the bottom right hand side of the big original window, or your files will not load.
Remarks --- in all, I think this is an outstanding improvement.
Dark, thanks for being the first on the block to bring us the new technology and features. I imagine it must have been a real headache. Thanks also for all you and Pebbles put into this site. I can't stand the arguments on some other places, and I thank you for monitoring that here. :clapping:
Here is the new thread explaining the system changes:
http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/...rs-and-Anglers
Photobucket:
I also wanted to add that the option of storing your pics on Photobucket as explained by Jonthepain in post #3 is a great choice to make. :thumbsup: In these modern times many members belong to different forums. Using photobucket as your pic platform allows you to easily cross-post your pics every time without regard to size limit.
We do have a size limit here of 80k for pictures. If yours are bigger the system will ask you to re-size before posting. (I think the new V-bulletin version does it automatically.) It's pretty easy for me to re-size, as I have some very simple programs that do batch re-sizing. PM me if you need to download it. It's free and reliable. Though the easiest one doesn't work for Windows Vista, I have some other free ones that do.
Ultimately, some will find that aspect to be a hassle. I understand that. For those folks, please consider Photobucket. And thanks for recommending them, Jon. :thumbsup: :HappyWave:
New look at Stripers and Anglers 11-2010
In November we upgraded to an updated modern format. It was a PITA, but it does have some more robust features than the old format. We'll only be trying them one at a time so as not to blow the site up or confuse people. :)
Some things can be modified, some can't. I believe this new format gives the members many more options and flexibility, so I'm sticking with it. :cool: Let me know if any of you are having difficulty, and I'll try to walk you through the problem.
Here's a thread that talks about the changes and some of the key features. Feel free to jump in there with any feedback you have, positive or negative. We want to hear it. Thanks, people. :HappyWave:
http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/...rs-and-Anglers
How to quickly and efficiently search for new posts
Here's some helpful advice...
1. When members first log in, there is a "What's new" tab on the top line of your page, near the middle. Clicking on that will allow you to see the new posts since you've last visited here. Fast, easy and convenient. It's one of the features in the new version that everyone should know about. :thumbsup:
2. Once you've logged in and are browsing the site, you can always click on the additional feature line that opens up at the top of the page and contains the following options. Clicking "New Posts" (look under the Montauk picture) enables you to see the new posts since you last posted or checked the forums.
New Posts Private Messages FAQ Calendar Community
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Hassle free, One click posting! - VIDEOS, PICS, QUOTES, HTML, E-Mails, etc
Life just got a little easier around here. :cool: :wheeeee: :viking: :bigeyes:
With the software update, you don't have to make those stupid brackets to embed the youtube and vimeo videos anymore.
I'm trying to learn the new features one day at a time. As I better understand each feature I'll try to write a little tutorial. If anyone gets to it before me and wants to write their own...feel free, I would be much obliged. :thumbsup:
When you post here, there are a series of new icons with this version on the 2nd line of your word processing menu.
Here are some of the coolest ones:
Attachment 12884
If you've ever become annoyed with the posting utilities in the old version, these will make your life a lot easier. :)
Anyone who is having trouble, please use this thread to post your questions, and I'll try to walk ya's through it as needed.
Eventually I'll merge this thread back into the "S&A Helpful hints" thread to keep things in one place. Good luck and have fun! :HappyWave:
http://stripersandanglers.com/Forum/...-Helpful-hints!
How to post, how to answer a post
This may seem elementary to some, but a few members here are having trouble posting.
I think part of the confusion lies in the new format.
First, as always, you hit the "reply to thread" button.
However, with the "quick reply" button we now have, there is often no need to hit the "reply to post" button.
Someone was hitting the "reply to post" button, and getting irritated when his posts disappeared when he typed his response in this dialogue box, hitting "reply to post" and seeing them vanish. :mad:
Remember that "reply to post" brings you to an entirely new box and cancels out the action or words you typed out before hitting that button.
HINT HINT: If you are sick and tired of losing posts, PLEASE COPY that post with your mouse as I have described below. This will hold it temporarily in your PC's memory in case it is lost. Just this one step will save you from countless aggravations and drinking heavily to vent your frustration. :plastered:
Or, maybe when this happens you just want to go out and drown a googan. :eek:
In any event, please try to follow the suggestions below whenever you have a long post that you don't want to lose. You'll be glad ya did! :HappyWave:
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How to reply to a thread:
1.When you hit "reply to thread" you get a screen at the bottom where you can post your reply. After you hit it, you should be typing your response in the box.
THEN, you hit the "quick reply" button to post.
That will "post" your reply.
If you hit the "reply to thread" button AFTER you type in your post, that has the same effect as "refreshing" your screen, and will wipe out your entire post!!!
2. Another tip: (How not to drive yourself insane when putting up a long post)
When you have a long post, a little bit of insurance is to click on your mouse over the entire post before you hit the "quick reply" button, and highlight what you have typed.
Then, use the mouse to right click, and see your choices.
One of them will be to "copy" the post.
Select that choice, it will copy the post into your PC's memory.
Then, if you lose the post due to some problem or glitch, you can always start again, right click the mouse, and use the "paste" feature to restore the post to your dialogue box.
This little step above will save you from lots of cursing and gray hair. Ask me how I know this! :kooky: :laugh:
