fishing

[Paul B]

I took a day off from my retirement today and went fishing in the Sound.
I got everything together in my garage and cleaned out my tackle box of all the things I won't be using today. I got down to my boat, put up the bimini top, got the poles into the boat and went to put the hooks on. Of course I left the tackle box home. :smash:
Home is 20 minutes away so I ain't going back. There is a bait and tackle shop near the boat so I went there. $40.00 later I am all set with hooks, sinkers, weights, ruellers and pliers. I go out in my boat and get to the fishing spot. It's a beautiful day, I put the lines in the water, open a nice bottle of Italian Merlot, put on some nice music, open the newspaper and in five minutes disaster strikes. :irked:

I catch a fish. :bablefish Now I have to find a weight to put on the newspaper so It don't blow all over the Sound, put the wine down where it won't fall over, get something to wrap around the fish because I don't really have a fishing boat, it is more of a pleasure, party boat, and I have to reel in the stupid fish. Of course the thing, a fluke is only 17 inches
(I bought a paper rueller at the bait shop) they have to be 20 1/2" (there are no 20 1/2" fluke in the Sound that I know of.
I, of course wrestled the hook out of it's mouth and let it go. (it's a $1,000.00 fine for undersize fish, each) Now my nice clean white boat is full of fluke slime.
Then I got smart and fished for the next few hours without baiting the hooks. I am not as stupid as I look. The rest of the day was great and non eventful.

 

[Bob 1000]

Lol that's funny..

 

[jhale]

:biglaugh: sounds like a good day after all.

 

[BroRage]

A friend and I went out to Raritan bay and we were having the same dilema with the fish - that water area has the border of jersey and ny - so we were making fun of the fact that what do we tell the cop if we get pulled over in the ny side "we can prove the fish is from jersey"

 

[ssmtcarlo]

Nothing hate more than catching a fish while im fishing :supermad: :biglaugh:

 

[Paul B]

After I got back to the dock,(and finished the Merlot) I collected about 100 tiny grass shrimp around my boat. Now thats fishing.
I wasen't planning on catching fish thats why they call it fishing. If I wanted to catch fish I would have called it "catching"

 

[crox99]

Paul,

I am glad you are enjoying your retirement.

 

[reefman]

u should take more days off :lol2:

 

[cb747]

LOL your too funny! 20.5 inch fluke are tough to come by out here. There more plentiful out east. Now go back to your retirement and stop working so dam hard!

 

[Paul B]

I would but I have to work tomorrow. If I knew this new business was going to take off so well, I would have done something else.

 

[masterswimmer]

You sound just like an old friend of mine. He loved work. He could watch it all day

Definitely sounds like you need to take more days 'off'.

swimmer

 

[cb747]

Paul needs to retire from his retirement!

 

[Paul B]

When I started fishing as a kid it was a big thrill, then when I was about 20 I got certified to dive with a friend of mine.
We had boats and dove every weekend for years but in the beginning in the seventees almost no one dove here in the Long Island Sound. We usually went for lobsters or wrecks and it was so much fun and we caught so many fish and lobsters that we lost all interest in fishing from the boat. Why wait all day for a flounder when I could stab two at a time.
Anyway we would usually dive around rocks because thats where the fish and lobsters were and of course there was always boats with people fishing there.
We used to bring down signs with us to put on people's hooks like "sorry Charlie" or "how about some fresh bait" Sometimes we would put a rubber chicken on a line.
When we surfaced, of course they realized that it was us and they asked us where are all the fish because they weren't usually catching much due to the abundance of shrimp in the Sound. We would hold up our bags full of flounders and lobsters and say, they're all in here.
A lot of that happened here at Execution Lighthouse in the middle of the western Sound, commissioned by George Washington.

Here I am sitting on the rocks there

 

[Domboski]

Lmao!

 

[Paul B]

Dom I have been looking for you, do you want to go collecting tomorrow morning"
I PMed you my phone number

 

[Domboski]

I replied Paul. Sorry, I have been crazily busy at work.

 

[Chapz]

I wondered what there reactions were when they pulled up a rubber chicken.
heheheheh

 

[cb747]

LOL Too funny! Paul we need to do an OB run one of these days when your back into retirement!

 

[Paul B]

Chris I can take off almost any day

 

[cb747]

Awesome i hope to go in the next week or so! Ill keep you posted