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headed way out to the Eastern end of Long Island yesterday to join TheTinMan in our first,[early], fall bass trip. We were drifting eels in the rips off an area called Hortons Point. On the water at 3pm, last 3hrs. of the flood. Sort of a wind against tide thing going on.... managed a few run-offs, no hook-ups. Tide slacked and turned quickly around.Wind was light and now going w/ the tide. TinMan has many run-offs,and lost what appeared to be a nice fish. Phester has nada. Tin brings up a 38' 20something pounder, nice fish.Then Tin brings up a small porgy.Tide picks up, I've got a nice eel and 10 ounces of lead and send him to the bottom. We're in this about four and a half hours and Phester needs a fish.BAD. Finally I hook up, nice fight, only two runs, but pulled like a freight train. Tin gets him in the net. I take out my K-mart digital scale/tape measure......solid 42" and 29.85 lbs. Not a trophy, but a nice way to start the fall season

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Nice Phes, hoping to do the weakie thing tommorow. Tell Tin I sais hi.

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good luck on the weaks, young Will.

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Man I wish I were fishing, or sleeping, or drinking, or anything but working.

Nice job phes. But you know hammer wont let you slide w/ no pics.

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Good start there phes. Tell TinMan I miss him. ;)

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randle, yes I am the king of slackers when it comes to posting pics......TinMan has got three pics in his camera[I didn't have mine w/ me]. I'll see if he'll post them up for me. Forgot to mention that Tin also caught a decent bluefish.....we were calling his catch "a Hortons Point grand slam".....a bass, a blue, and the porgy. And yes Chum, I will tell Tin that you [and Willy] were asking for him. He'll often ask me how you are doing.

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30 lbs, thats a good fish in my book. Nice job!

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sounds like a fun day to me :)

Yeah, what happened to TinMan?

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my "canned" response to that, Bass, is TheTinMan is just old and crusty, and sometimes prefers to be a hermit.....but he will always go fishing. We [myself and another friend] gave it a shot last evening/night. Anchored up w/ bunker chunks and fish finder rigs in one of our favorite, rocky bass locations. Conditions were there....a little drop in temp, outgoing tide, a bit overcast sky and loosing daylight.....at least it looked fishy :-/, Nothing to show for it but some pretty big sand sharks/dogfish.

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Hey!!! I resemble that remark!

Hi all!

It's been awhile, huh?

Computer was down for months, busy with work, blah, blah, blah....

Anyway....here is Phester's fish.

hmmm....can't remember photobucket's username/password...waiting for them to email me back, will post pic soon!

The fall run is here!!! Go Get Em!

Here she is;

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...2987Medium.jpg

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Nice looking fish!! Congrats!

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I missed about 10 runoffs that night!!! >:( I boated only 1 fish, 38". batting .100 really sux!

Anyone using Gamigatsu (sp?) "Octopus hooks"? Not the "Octopus Circle hooks". The offset is less on the non-circle hooks. I was trying the "no Set" method as in using circle hooks, tried the "set" method as in regular hooks. I've had pretty good luck with circle hooks in the past. It is tough to get in the habit of NOT setting the hook and just reeling. Circles do result in nice hook sets, always hooks em right in the corner of the mouth.

I was letting the fish run for several seconds but kept missing them. Oh well, can't really complain. Last 2 trips I've boated 4 Bass from 36" to 42" (phesters).

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nice fish....dam sounds like a good time ;D

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Missing all that fish is still fun in my book, hey look at the bright side on it , no fish guts to clean ;D

Guys, last Monday I was on yer neck of the woods, I took my eldest boy and a friend to Plum Island looking for seabass, all we found were tons of undersized fish and the result was in favor of Mother Nature...no keepers. It was still fun

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nice fish ;D

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Hi Tin!!!!!!!!!! ;D

Good to see you pop in. Don't be such a hermit. We miss having you around (I do anyways). Hope all is well. Things are going much better for me. I'm back to work for a while now and close to full remission. 8)

Good to see you and phester still getting on the water and hammering some big girls.
That's a corker of a fish phes.

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Hey chumbucket on the south shore. I am heading up your way this weekend for a week with Mom et al. in Scituate. I might bring the V. What's the fishing been like in the Scituate area.

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There are some nice fish right now being taken from Scituate to Boston Harbor. 8) Get in touch with me when you come out and I'll try to give you the latest skinny. ;)

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holy crap! he is still alive.
ahoy tin.
hangin to the left, is it?

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Hi CB! Great news, so glad you're doin better :)

Ahoy there CTT! Pretty much hanging perpendicular ;D