35 YEARS AGO TODAY >

[Clammer]

We would being doing [ok] with Tommy cod . they have started to move . we had been catching them most of the winter .. way in the brackish water / they have now moved down a little .
they will peak about the middle of April / getting 30>40 a day .
still catch some now in the winter months /but now like it was ;;

We would start to see that movement of winter flounder / just starting to move from the mud . they would peak ar0und the middle of May ; there use to be so many we would dig for a while / stir up the bottom >. fish for a while & then back to the same rountine . @ the end of the day / we usually has a descent pay between / quahogs & flats ;
Now I hav,t caught one on R&R in 15 years . I know they came back descent in the Boston/quincy area & Salt Pond you can pick away at you limit ; but the limited season that is open for them in RI is too early to have a chance of actually catching a few ;;

....... White Perch & frost Fish are another story ;;

[Pt.JudeJoe]

2053 years and 2 days ago Julius Ceaser was killed by his friends. ....and yes it does suck that there are no more flounder in the spring. Easter vacation would start the fishing year for me using nightcrwlaers at the Goat Island causeway and gettting a bucket of flounder.That's a pleasure kids today,even most of you 20 somethings never had.Damn shame.

[FishnGrega]

Originally Posted by Pt.JudeJoe

2053 years and 2 days ago Julius Ceaser was killed by his friends. ....and yes it does suck that there are no more flounder in the spring. Easter vacation would start the fishing year for me using nightcrwlaers at the Goat Island causeway and gettting a bucket of flounder.That's a pleasure kids today,even most of you 20 somethings never had.Damn shame.

I remember hearing stories of my father and his father going down to the Causway and having a field day with flounder....

[cheferson]

Couple 3-5 years ago i remember hearing about a load of market sized cod from up the sakkonet

[Crafty Angler]

Boy, you guys are some really old pharts if you remember that...

.........

Winter flounder are about as rare as tarpon up here anymore

Ah, the good old days - I remember going to Tolman and Macks waiting for them to throw the monkfish overboard - - it was trash fish then - and stomping on their backs when they washed up on the boat ramp to see if we could get 'em to spit up some squid...

...which we used to put in a tin bucket and ride our bikes to Jagschitz's bait shop at King's Park and try to swap for fishing stuff ...

Yeah, try to tell kids that today and they won't believe ya...

[Crafty Angler]

Hey Uncle Joe -

How about fishing off the finger piers at King's Park for mackeral...or frost fish from the beach there...

Or rowing over to Goat Island before there even was a causeway...

[Crafty Angler]

Or seeing doormat sized fluke skimming across the sand in the Wellington Ave corner as we rowed our skiff over them...

Dude, I'm gettin' nostalgic here...

[Nebe]

Originally Posted by Crafty Angler

. to put in a tin bucket and ride our bikes to Jagschitz's bait shop at King's Park and try to swap for fishing stuff ...

Yeah, try to tell kids that today and they won't believe ya...

I bought my first fishing tackle at that shop
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[Raven]

i was working at roseland nursery in fairhaven

and living out on west island

then i took my VW to a place in dartmouth to have the front end fixed... only place around...

well those bastards there..... took my car
and went out with it breaking into homes

and soon after i got it back
detectives were following me around
and i am like WTF " who are those guys" ?
like on butch casidy and the sundance kid

eventually i went to the dartmouth police station
thinking they had found my lost wallet
and the cop there starts reading me my rights
and then i definitely going WTF are you talkin about

it was similar to the ballard of ALICE'S restaurant i'm a tellin ya

then the guy says well we don't care about all the other robberies
.... just this one.... (what a baloney salad)

and again i professed my innocence which was the absolute truth

then they had to search my house and of course they never found anything because they had the wrong guy

i totally regret forever not suing that front end shop too...

after that i split to california having had enough of this non sense
because my landlord got wind of it and kicked us out
that little prick... shoulda smacked him in the mouth before i left.

[fishaholic18]

[BigBo]

Hey Raven. Have Mr. Peobody and Sherman re-calibrate the Wayback machine. I think it took you to the wrong thread.

[Raven]

i must have looped around a black hole
just outside our space time continuum....

[BigBo]

[Sea Dangles]

Beware the Ides of March.

[LeCounts1099]

When I was a kid... (I'm 43 now )


Winter Flounder were so plentiful where I'm from (L.I. Sound West), I used to catch them as an inexperienced kid, using self- dug Nightcrawlers, freshwater (Kirby)- type hooks, & freshwater rods & reels... anytime starting today! (St. Pats. Day was our "Flounder opener" each year... )


Doing everything "wrong" & with no boat & no chum at all... we'd still get 6- 12 fat Flounder for a days effort, all fish from 12- 17+ inches (we kept only 12" or better even back then with liberal limits). 2.5 lbers. were common for us... & I saw some way bigger caught! We used to catch them at low tide straight down under a dock in only 3- 4 ft. of water, where you could see them approach the bait-- big ones too!


Same places these days-- you MIGHT get a few under 10" for that same days' fishing, using a boat & doing everything "right!"


Lots of theories abound as to why the demise of Winter Flounder more so than other heavily- pressured species has occured. To me the explanation is the proliferation of another species now beyond all control, exactly as the Flounder stocks dwindled! In one word: CORMORANTS!

[JohnR]

35 years ago (well, 34 & 3/4 years ago) my father had his 20' Welcraft Cuddy and we were probably catching schoolies, err, Rockfish, off the Chesapeake Bridge.

[RickBomba]

35 years ago today my dad still wore clothes
there was no Rappin Mikey
the world was a much more simple (less diverse, however) place

[bloocrab]

Originally Posted by Crafty Angler

....
How about fishing off the finger piers at King's Park for mackeral...

Good sized Macs too!!!

Jiggin' up butterfish off the floating docks at Fort Adams, catching mackerel ALL along that park and then live-lining em out at the bend near the Old' rusty Bell that I'd ring after catching something decent, had some great choggie catching contests with my grandmother, God rest her Soul...........and Goat Island would always have someone on it doing something ALL summer long.........this remeniscing stuff sux

[Fish_Eye]

I would be catching big pollack off the state pier in Jerusalem. The old Mitchell 302's drag would get a work out and we would get some good eating fish.

Crafty,

Jaggy ran a safety boat for me in the 1979 National Spearfishing Competition and wound up fishing several divers out of the drink...the 30 knot winds didn't help.

[Crafty Angler]

Inshore pollack...

[Clammer]

Whatever happen to Blowfish // Baloonfish .. with their rabbit teeth & green eyes .......use to catch them regulary when bottom fishing ..usually scup ...last one I,ve seen in RI was in a Lobster Dealers holding tank ,, a lobsterman got it in his traps . but WTF did he catch it .. if if was a offshore boat;;;;

[maddmatt]

.....you were "free" to drive from ptown to eastham on the beach without having to run greenshirts over while fishing