eelman
05-05-2000, 09:12 AM
Briant I have no idea why you feel the need to prove to me you are catching fish. I could care less what you catch at the narrow river or anywhere else.How many do you have this year? I have 267 fish since march 29th.
A 31 inch fish is not a big fish bud! Im glad you think it is.The problem is everyone says they got a keeper! But at 29 or 30 inches I do not aggree,Those are school bass. They are a blast to catch, but to put all that work into getting herring and hauling them out to the river mouth just isnt worth th e effort right now.A friend of mine fished charlestown tuesday night and said someone was there near where they park the trailers fishing with buckies,He said all that was chasing them was fish in the 26 inch bracket.It just isnt time yet for big bass!!
Yesterday I had 17 fish in matunuck,in less than an hour up to 30 inches on small bucktails.We should go back to 34inches for a "keeper".At 29 inches a fish is way to small to take home.I would be embaresed to go to a takle shop with a fish like that unless I was seriuosly going to take it home for a meal.
I think swimming herring for 30 inch fish is not nessasary when you can easily catch them on plugs now or jigs.
So again I say may 15th because I consider a decent fish to be around 18 or 20lbs and it just isnt worth it till then.
As for narrow river, I know all about the place, we have been getting fish there , at night off of river rock for most of the week.The only reason we didnd go last night was because the tide was just to late.I caught my first striper ever from narrow river in 1982.I have pulled 40pound fish from there.The soft side stinks! River rock is the place you want to fish and , the last two hours of the ebbing tide are when you want to do it!We used to be able to drive right along the beach to the inlet.That place isnt even a fraction as good as it used to be, not even close!! We used to liveline bunker in that inlet and get some nice fish.those days are long gone!!Now it has become a popular flyrod spot.And every tackle shop sends everyone and there brother there.The inlet has filled in to much and the big bass just dont go there like they used to.The only exception is in the late fall, november, we still do okay at that time, Back in 1991 my friend steve got two 40lb fish there on a skinplug on back to back casts!! That was around election day.
Two nights ago we had 40 fish there on the bottom of the outgoing tide From 12 midnight till arouind 2 am, on small yo-zuri plugs.Some of the fish pushed 32inches.The only reason I still go there on occasion is to escape the crowds and get some school bass at night.No one ever fishes river rock, because they cant get in there.So we usually have it to our selves.
Tonight Im going back to matunuck.If you want to talk fishing you can meet me there and I would be more than happy to discuss fishing with you.I will be there about 6pm.I cast conventional gear so, Im not hard to spot.
Im tierd of the cyber games,so this is my last post here,Id rather be fishing.The war of words doesnt get you anywhere.
The only one you need to please is yourself,if your catching fish ,all the power to ya!!Im glad your hookin up!
Come over to striped-bass.com and look at the 53 I caught last fall, Now thats a bass that can take a buckie!!!!!!!
Some friends and I were talking about what we consider a "big" or good fish,The general concences was a fish over 30lbs is a good fish.Its all relative,in freshwater a largemouth the weighs 3lbs is a good fish,Because stripers are a bigger fish the size is relative,anyfish over the 30lb mark makes the list as big.
In the mid to late 80s on block island we would catch fish all night long from the surf at southwest point and the small fish were 25lbs!! 30s were very common and everyone had multiple 40plus pound fish!!! I had a night once were I had 3 fish in the 40s!! on the islands south side!! We would get so tierd from carrying bass out of the snake hole that it took more time to do that than to catch them,But everyone was selling bass then and I dont feel bad about the past, it was common practice to fill a pallet with ten fish over 30lbs.Block island is the best surf fishing spot in the world for striped bass!! and those days for the huge cows are coming back!! I still fish there regularly in the summer and do well, just not as good as in the 80s.
So im sorry if I just dont share your enthusiasm about 30inch fish,I used to walk away from fish that small.But if thats all thats around then so be it! Matunuck is very easy to fish and there are a ton of fish there right now!! Come on down there and we can talk about big fish.
Lets keep it clean from here on out,no more cyber wars.I have a two year old to deal with noe, In fact I think she needs to get a custom rod soon!!
A 31 inch fish is not a big fish bud! Im glad you think it is.The problem is everyone says they got a keeper! But at 29 or 30 inches I do not aggree,Those are school bass. They are a blast to catch, but to put all that work into getting herring and hauling them out to the river mouth just isnt worth th e effort right now.A friend of mine fished charlestown tuesday night and said someone was there near where they park the trailers fishing with buckies,He said all that was chasing them was fish in the 26 inch bracket.It just isnt time yet for big bass!!
Yesterday I had 17 fish in matunuck,in less than an hour up to 30 inches on small bucktails.We should go back to 34inches for a "keeper".At 29 inches a fish is way to small to take home.I would be embaresed to go to a takle shop with a fish like that unless I was seriuosly going to take it home for a meal.
I think swimming herring for 30 inch fish is not nessasary when you can easily catch them on plugs now or jigs.
So again I say may 15th because I consider a decent fish to be around 18 or 20lbs and it just isnt worth it till then.
As for narrow river, I know all about the place, we have been getting fish there , at night off of river rock for most of the week.The only reason we didnd go last night was because the tide was just to late.I caught my first striper ever from narrow river in 1982.I have pulled 40pound fish from there.The soft side stinks! River rock is the place you want to fish and , the last two hours of the ebbing tide are when you want to do it!We used to be able to drive right along the beach to the inlet.That place isnt even a fraction as good as it used to be, not even close!! We used to liveline bunker in that inlet and get some nice fish.those days are long gone!!Now it has become a popular flyrod spot.And every tackle shop sends everyone and there brother there.The inlet has filled in to much and the big bass just dont go there like they used to.The only exception is in the late fall, november, we still do okay at that time, Back in 1991 my friend steve got two 40lb fish there on a skinplug on back to back casts!! That was around election day.
Two nights ago we had 40 fish there on the bottom of the outgoing tide From 12 midnight till arouind 2 am, on small yo-zuri plugs.Some of the fish pushed 32inches.The only reason I still go there on occasion is to escape the crowds and get some school bass at night.No one ever fishes river rock, because they cant get in there.So we usually have it to our selves.
Tonight Im going back to matunuck.If you want to talk fishing you can meet me there and I would be more than happy to discuss fishing with you.I will be there about 6pm.I cast conventional gear so, Im not hard to spot.
Im tierd of the cyber games,so this is my last post here,Id rather be fishing.The war of words doesnt get you anywhere.
The only one you need to please is yourself,if your catching fish ,all the power to ya!!Im glad your hookin up!
Come over to striped-bass.com and look at the 53 I caught last fall, Now thats a bass that can take a buckie!!!!!!!
Some friends and I were talking about what we consider a "big" or good fish,The general concences was a fish over 30lbs is a good fish.Its all relative,in freshwater a largemouth the weighs 3lbs is a good fish,Because stripers are a bigger fish the size is relative,anyfish over the 30lb mark makes the list as big.
In the mid to late 80s on block island we would catch fish all night long from the surf at southwest point and the small fish were 25lbs!! 30s were very common and everyone had multiple 40plus pound fish!!! I had a night once were I had 3 fish in the 40s!! on the islands south side!! We would get so tierd from carrying bass out of the snake hole that it took more time to do that than to catch them,But everyone was selling bass then and I dont feel bad about the past, it was common practice to fill a pallet with ten fish over 30lbs.Block island is the best surf fishing spot in the world for striped bass!! and those days for the huge cows are coming back!! I still fish there regularly in the summer and do well, just not as good as in the 80s.
So im sorry if I just dont share your enthusiasm about 30inch fish,I used to walk away from fish that small.But if thats all thats around then so be it! Matunuck is very easy to fish and there are a ton of fish there right now!! Come on down there and we can talk about big fish.
Lets keep it clean from here on out,no more cyber wars.I have a two year old to deal with noe, In fact I think she needs to get a custom rod soon!!