What Are Your Plans for 2008?
 

The weather is about to warm. Also in less than 2 weeks we get to spring forward and have more time in the evenings. I thought I'd throw up this cabin fever post.

1) Have you planned any fishing trips yet - where and for what?

2) Do you plan to target anything different this year than in years past?

3) If you could go fishing or lay in bed with your girl, which would you rather do?


Here are my answers:

1) Cape Hatteras, Memorial day weekend offshore dolphin, wahoo, tuna
2) Cobia, Tuna, trigger, sheepshead
3) Go fishing! :booty:

1. Head up to Crystal River/ Bayport area to fish the flat's for some trout and red's.

2. Not really, I want it all:sly:.

3. Lay in bed, and then go fishin. Aint nothin like fishin with 1 carnal urge already satisfied. Or better yet get a boat with a cabin and do both at the same time:laugh:.

Hey now yer talkin!!!
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going to do more sweet water fishing this year, got the delaware River 1/2 hr away and they are catching walleye, small mouth and trout. Plus they have been catching huge stripers all the way up in to NY State the past couple of years. I picked up two Cannon downriggers for the G Spot will post some pics when I get them installed.
Other than that will go out a lot with my bud with the 2550 Maycraft Pilot house out of Raritan Bay for all species starting with the winter flounder in a couple of weeks.
My other best friend has the 25 foot Grady and I fish the inlets and off shore along with the Barnegat Bay for all species. Plus crabbing,clamming and general messing around in boats.
Possibly a trip down to see the Puhbah if all goes well.
As far as the punami is concerned I usually work it the evening before, then again the evening of, save the time on the boat for my friends and the fishing. That way I am actually able to get my mind off of it for several hours and concentrate on other things.
At least it works for me:beer:

1. West palm Beach
2. Sailfish - pounded them at Los Suenos (costa rica) in 2003 and I miss catching 150 pounders. They won't be that big in the states, but that's cool.

3. I'm with the Firm on this one. When the bite is slow, I've got my.. .

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whatknot, please tell me that is a very recent picture and PLEASE tell me her name is not Kathlene!!
(I don't need more complications in life and work)

I call her Kathy.

Just messin' around. It's not Kathleen.

JUST GO AHEAD AND GIVE ME A HEART ATTACK!
That girl has a twin that lives about a mile from you (husband and 2 -18yr plus boys).

My plan is to go to her beach!! :drool::drool::drool: and I know care about he name, I call her what ever she wants!! You guys worry about the craziest things!

It'll prolly be to "HOT" for you down in Savannah MJ?

Besides, he wouldn't survive the sandgnats.

:sand:I am planning a trip to Holden Beach the week after Easter to catch whatever will bite. Usually go Memorial Day weekend as well.

Also gonna try to get down there for 2 or 3 weeks over the summer. I would like to try to catch a tarpon, they say they are around the Fryingpan Shoals in the summer.

Also plan on sweetwater (as Willy says) fishing every chance I get.

You guys are both right!! I heat the big heat and I hate bugs!!

We have BITING!! Green head fly's here, and one season I was one of my spring areas, well summer brought them in, and 10 min after we got there I called it a day!!
Man we were doing all we could to keep them off us but they were out for blood!

So as long as she down there mid summer Whatnot she is safe from me!!

For those of you unfamiliar with our state bird.
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Wish I had a better picture of the "wings with teeth".
Only thing that makes them tolerable is, they like the taste of whitemeat yankees better.

Hey I might be down in Nags Head on Memorial weekend and would love to take the boat off shore. I've been out 4 time in the V but sense the motor has a few more years on her I'm not up to running out alone. It adds safty for both of us and it would be fun making the run. Let me know what your plans are as we get closer to Memorial day. I'm sure I'll be down that weekend as my parents have a cottage around the 81/2 mile post in Nags Head.

Blue, sorry about the hijack of the thread.
1. Lower Lake George Fla. June 14-22 (willy should be busy elsewhere). Bream.
2. Anything, if I can hook it or stab it.
3. Don't matter what I'd rather do. Her favorite greeting to me, "don't you have something you can go kill or catch"?

Tsub, no problem. I liked the "wings with teeth pic." Never seen those before but they look gnarly.
Still, I'll let you know when I get down that way. We'll probably be heading out of Hatteras inlet, so it'd be a small drive for you but I bet you $5 we'll catch some good fish!
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Emerald Isle, right outside of bogue inlet in mid July they are there. Saw them rolling there 2 years ago. It was cool. We were not prepared to throw at them.

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1 - Nope - I'll know that I planned the trip when I step foot on the boat.

2 - Nope - Whatever I manage to hook, that's what I will catch.

3 - Lay in bed, I am just too lazy and work too hard during teh week to drag my *** out of bed.:sleep::sleep::sleep::sleep:


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Blue I was given a cottage to use that week so I will be down for MM weekend. I lucked out and was given a three story cottage right on the beach for the week. We will have a few friends down that weekend so I would have a crew of 3 to make the run. Ther's no problem towing to Hatteras so thats not an issue. As we get closer to that weekend lets talk and see if we can make it a trip.

Absolutely SR! It would add a nice comfort level for me have another boat go out - one for safety and two for seek and destroy. I'm hot and heavy looking for an insulated fish bag in case we catch a big wahoo, dolphin or worse a big yft there will be nowhere to put it....its a great problem to have when the fish is too big for your fish box or cooler. We broke off a large wahoo last year and probably a good thing because it would not have fit!

Always a good problem to have when the fish is too big for the box. My second off shore citation was a Wahoo which weighed in around 64 pounds. We lost one that was allot bigger but we never really had much of a chance with that fish. If I'm correct don't you need a seperate tuna lic.? For that insulated fish bag. If you go to thehulltruth.com and ask there you will get some good info on them and the best place to order one.

Yes on the tuna permit. Federal HMS (highly migratory species) is required which is like $22 or so.

I got boarded by the coast guard last year and the coasties tried to tell me you have to have the HMS for mahi. I had it but what kind of idiots are they if they don't even know the law? I had to just nod and say yes.

Hey blue, If you catch a big tuna you can core it out and fill it with ice, and then wrap in a big space blanket. We have used many fish bags especially on the kingfish tournament trail, we used them a lot for toting the fish to the weigh in. But when we go out of NC for giant bluefin tuna, and 500-600 pounder won't fit those bags, so we use the space blanket idea and works. its all about reflecting the heat.

Also on a side note guys, we line our fish boxes with more insulation, and then space blanket reflective insulation. its like a emergency space blanket thats kinda thick. And we can hold ice for a few weeks. We can keep fish fresh for three days, and on the third day the ice in the bottom of the box is all frozen together with the fish. So it works!!!

Oh and these we dont fish the pro tourneys, or the BFT in my little V. For those we got a Wellcraft scarab 35. I didn't wont you thinking i was crazy. The ideas will work on the V just a smaller fish box.

So Blue your planning on catching a 500 to 600 pound tuna? I'll be glad to video that from my boat.

i'll be focusing on seabass this summer because our new fluke regulations will look something like this.

1. one fish at 44.5 inches per man per day.

2. you cant take it home with you but you can look at it for a few minutes before you release it.

3. it must be an in water release.

4. you must use their favorite food so as not to upset them or give them a tummy ache.

5. in fact dont fish for them at all because we dont want you waking them up if they happen to be napping when you get there.

i can slap my old lady around whenever i want but we only get a few months of good fishin weather up here.



hey new yorkers, i hear tell they may shut down the fluke fishery for the 2009 season.
anybody got any good searobbin recipes?

I heard, second hand, it may go to 21", four per day, limited season. NO GOOD!

Yeah do you think my TLD 25 will handle it? LOL

Naw man, all I want is a couple 20 - 50 lb YFTs, some wahoo, mahi and a couple sailfish releases....all in one day!

I know, I know, it sounded somewhat doable until I said in one day!

Sucks about your fluke regs. And I thought they screwed us over in SC. The limit went up from 12" to 14" @ 20 per person per day. How will I ever survive?!?
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Enjoy it while you can Blue, things are not so good up here anymore, not because of no fish, because the commercial guys pay more graft.

Hell even with those limits I haven't caught a flounder in SC in 2 years. And believe me I've tried!

I don't know what the problem is??

Hey blue, I mentioned hooking up and going out deep sea fishing this weekend but its going to be a no go for me this up comming week. I've been out of town for the past week the boat has been sitting up for a monthe and I just don't have the time to get her ready. That and the 18 month baby is taking up all my time. I know you go a couple of times a year so maybe we can find another date and hook up. I will be down in Nags Head this up comming week from Fri. 23rd to fri the 30th so I will get a little surf fishing in and I customer gave me a years pass for me and a guest to the Avlon fishing pier.

Limit for NY is 4 per day and 20.5". That s the same creel as last season but 1" longer. Ct is 19.5" with 5 fish and RI is 20", 7 fish limit but no closed season. I am hoping to head out tomorrow for fluke as it is opening day in CT.

SR - sorry I didn't get up with you before we went. I was slammed between work and getting everything ready for the trip. I plan to post a report soon in the fishing section, however here is what we did between 3 boats Thursday - Saturday:

23 - dolphin up to 23 lbs (biggest caught on my boat :-))
14 - trigger fish
10 - keeper flounder
7 - big bluefish (released)
1 - 18 lb cobia
1 - 5 lb spade
1 - keeper bsb

I put over 230 miles on the boat, burned approximately 100 gallons of gas, saw some big seas, lost 2 monster mahi pushing 30+ lbs after long battles....saw some really cool stuff. Ready to go back.

Blue

Going back to the original question posed...my plans for 2008 have changed. I intend to fish more than ever...just gonna have to pay the piper,er, the oil man I guess.:nut:

Ah Air, free free free at last:sun::beer:

Willy, I here somebody may be auditioning supermodels around here:sun:

Just remember the auditions last a short time as talent lurks behind every door my friend