Fitty's Angling Ramble 6.0

[iccyman001]

Did a little hand watering the grass tonight, 3 more Scorpions went to see the great Scorpion in the sky.

Do I have those to look forward to in New Mexico?

[Nainoa]

You'd be really surprised at how often a guy says Hey do you see a tick under my nuts? ...... and I actually look.

F-UUUUUUUU!

I took the first load up to the new place today and my wife was running an errand so the house was locked up... No big deal... I wandered the forests, found a MASSIVE patch of wild raspberries that I'm going to have to do something with.

Afterwards I came back into the house, and found ticks dug all over into me... Felt a scratching sensation just north of the taint and found a tick. Then my wife didn't believe me, but refused to look!


Took two giant loads tonight up to the new place, then finished painting, removed wall paper in the spare room, rehung all the curtains in the whole house. I am battered, beaten and bruised. And I still haven't even gotten to the big move yet!

[HairyScandinavian]

Do I have those to look forward to in New Mexico?

I would imagine so, yeah. But then it gets a lot colder up there in the winters so the numbers may be low.

[44hunter]

Turkey hunting, noodling, and maybe some frogs this weekend. Hopefully Ill have some stories. Have a good weekend fellas

[storm1507]

Turkey hunting, noodling, and maybe some frogs this weekend. Hopefully Ill have some stories. Have a good weekend fellas

Sounds great 44.


My fishing trip went pretty good. Topwater nighttime striper action was good. Dad and I caught several, but mostly small 20-23"...only 1 keeper. I also caught a largemouth about 3.5#'s.

I fished w/ Shelia during the day and we caught some crappie to eat.

This trip screwed up my sleep habits. Dad and I fished from midnight to 5 AM and I've been wide awake all night and I leave for work in about 30 min.


I'm getting pretty close to the new boat purchase.

[jimmybimmy]

Sounds great 44.


My fishing trip went pretty good. Topwater nighttime striper action was good. Dad and I caught several, but mostly small 20-23"...only 1 keeper. I also caught a largemouth about 3.5#'s.

I fished w/ Shelia during the day and we caught some crappie to eat.

This trip screwed up my sleep habits. Dad and I fished from midnight to 5 AM and I've been wide awake all night and I leave for work in about 30 min.


I'm getting pretty close to the new boat purchase.

Mostly small 20'-23'? What size do you normally catch.

And send the old this way!

[storm1507]

Up until about 3 years ago we would catch a few/yr in the 34-37" range. Since then the big ones have died and the most numerous class is 20-23 inches now.....keeper size 24".












Oh, come and get the boat....buy now price $1,500.

[HairyScandinavian]

Nice looking Stripers there mr Storm.

We picked up the boat and hit the bays, Saturday was brutal and we ran around in 3 footers all over the place. We headed out to a new bay where we've never been before. Finally found a sheltered shoreline and ran down that to an oyster reef on my map. Damn water was dirty, found the reef by feel cruising around 20mph. Watched my fishfinder go from 4.9 ft to _._ ft in the blink of an eye. We caught some small reds but it was tough fishing because kiddo didn't bring any wading boots (can't wade barefoot on oysters) so we had to attempt to drift the reef, wind was wrong and the waves were knocking us around enough to where we had a hard time just standing in the boat to cast. Sunday much better, started out windy but as we were running a storm was moving in from the opposite direction of the normal winds and they cancelled eachother out. Ran all over the place exploring most of the morning because I wanted to explore a little while the winds were down, found tons of oyster reefs and mapped locations, lots of little inlets to back bays with plentiful bait which should all prove to be fishable at different times (especially in the fall). We watched a school of reds running mullet up into the reef and watched them work the reef a few hundred yards but we couldn't cross the reef as it was maybe 2" deep over the top of it. I hopped out to wade the other side for a bit and a flounder jumped out of the water in front of me chasing a mullet. Made a few casts with no production. Getting late in the morning we headed back to a muddy shoreline we passed on the way out, drifted a few times over that picking up some speckled trout and getting sunburned. Noon hit so we had to bug out and head home. I love exploring new areas and this place was pretty good with lack of boat traffic, most of the places we fished we couldn't even see another boat as far as the eye could see.

[Procta]

nice strippers, you sure did age a lot in that last pic

[storm1507]

Nice looking Stripers there mr Storm.

We picked up the boat and hit the bays, Saturday was brutal and we ran around in 3 footers all over the place. We headed out to a new bay where we've never been before. Finally found a sheltered shoreline and ran down that to an oyster reef on my map. Damn water was dirty, found the reef by feel cruising around 20mph. Watched my fishfinder go from 4.9 ft to _._ ft in the blink of an eye. We caught some small reds but it was tough fishing because kiddo didn't bring any wading boots (can't wade barefoot on oysters) so we had to attempt to drift the reef, wind was wrong and the waves were knocking us around enough to where we had a hard time just standing in the boat to cast. Sunday much better, started out windy but as we were running a storm was moving in from the opposite direction of the normal winds and they cancelled eachother out. Ran all over the place exploring most of the morning because I wanted to explore a little while the winds were down, found tons of oyster reefs and mapped locations, lots of little inlets to back bays with plentiful bait which should all prove to be fishable at different times (especially in the fall). We watched a school of reds running mullet up into the reef and watched them work the reef a few hundred yards but we couldn't cross the reef as it was maybe 2" deep over the top of it. I hopped out to wade the other side for a bit and a flounder jumped out of the water in front of me chasing a mullet. Made a few casts with no production. Getting late in the morning we headed back to a muddy shoreline we passed on the way out, drifted a few times over that picking up some speckled trout and getting sunburned. Noon hit so we had to bug out and head home. I love exploring new areas and this place was pretty good with lack of boat traffic, most of the places we fished we couldn't even see another boat as far as the eye could see.

<<<<<Looking to trade striper fishing trip for flounder/red fishing.

nice strippers, you sure did age a lot in that last pic

Unfortunately Dad has aged considerably in the last 3 years.

[HairyScandinavian]

<<<<<Looking to trade striper fishing trip for flounder/red fishing.

Let's do this! Then we'll go down to FL and fish for strippers with Procta, bet they have some nice ones down that way and I hear they bite all day long on a stack of 1's.

[Procta]

red fish are running pretty good right now

[HairyScandinavian]

copy/pasta from another bb.com thread, figured I gotta post these in the Angling Ramble.


Yeah we caught some small reds and a few speckled trout. Reds were all too small but I'll be eating some speck fillets tonight. This was mostly an exploring trip to a bay system that I've never been in, so we did a lot of cruising in the boat and didn't use bait, just threw soft plastics and some hard twitch baits to explore some spots that looked promising. It was a good trip, but I feel kind of silly because not a single pic was taken.

Pics from Google Images

Red:


Speck:



We got some keeper Specks, but nothing spectacular in size just a few inches larger than minimum... they're great eating either way though and we prefer to release the larger ones for spawning anyway because larger are typically females and obviously house more eggs the bigger they are. Fish down here are usually freaking beautiful, did the pics of the Speck and Red in the post above not display? Never know if Google pics will work...

I just happen to have Google Earth still open from Friday, LOL. Here's a shot... We launched/camped on the far left of the pic where the finger comes down and ran all the way up the channel to the top-right and around that hook into the top end of Mesquite Bay on Saturday, then down through the bottom of it on Saturday and roamed around the South shoreline of the barrier island down there. Those oyster reefs scattered all around are no joke, got some nasty scratches on my boat getting through there.

[Nainoa]

Well I'm in the new house but hot spot internet wont let me log onto bb.com

[GREENFEATHER]

Stripers with one P are running quite well up here, they should be spawned out by now. The reds are mulling about on the south coast and the yellow bellies are running in the Delaware bay. Guess where I'll be this weekend? Delaware bay for yeller bellies. Nothing better than a grilled Spot, NOM!!!

[jimmybimmy]

Up until about 3 years ago we would catch a few/yr in the 34-37" range. Since then the big ones have died and the most numerous class is 20-23 inches now.....keeper size 24".




Oh, come and get the boat....buy now price $1,500.

Those are some large fish! You have a limit on strippers in KY? Or is it the specific river?

And I can't get a internet acquaintance price discount down to 0? I'll pay transportation fees!

[HairyScandinavian]

So I get an ad from the local dealer (did not buy my boat from them). I'm thumbing through and I see my boat with my kids and dog in it listed in their sales ad. I'm honestly not too sure how I feel about it, kinda strange. If it were online I could ask that it be removed, but this is a print ad that's been delivered in the mail to who knows how many peeps. It's a pic I've posted online before so they obviously just grabbed it from there. I guess it's not a big deal but think they should have at least asked first. Feels weird man...

[jimmybimmy]

So I get an ad from the local dealer (did not buy my boat from them). I'm thumbing through and I see my boat with my kids and dog in it listed in their sales ad. I'm honestly not too sure how I feel about it, kinda strange. If it were online I could ask that it be removed, but this is a print ad that's been delivered in the mail to who knows how many peeps. It's a pic I've posted online before so they obviously just grabbed it from there. I guess it's not a big deal but think they should have at least asked first. Feels weird man...

You might be able to threaten legal action and render some monetary gain?

[psychowolverine]

Finally killed a turkey yesterday. Much like last year the frustration of not seeing any male birds lead me to kill a good Jake... Ill take it.

Sorry no pics to share of the bird.

[grace_ou]

So I get an ad from the local dealer (did not buy my boat from them). I'm thumbing through and I see my boat with my kids and dog in it listed in their sales ad. I'm honestly not too sure how I feel about it, kinda strange. If it were online I could ask that it be removed, but this is a print ad that's been delivered in the mail to who knows how many peeps. It's a pic I've posted online before so they obviously just grabbed it from there. I guess it's not a big deal but think they should have at least asked first. Feels weird man...

I'd consult a lawyer, but he might cost more then you will get from the company. Be glad it was a boat add.

Edit: The reason I say this is because there are shady companies that steal pics and then sell them to legit companies and bad companies to. So you have no idea where else that pic might land or how it might be manipulated.

Last year I had pics taken off the internet on me and my team mates (normal training and progress pics ect... nothing private) and they were used on site with what was very close to porn and child porn. Like none of the children were nude but they were very close to it and very suggestive.. ect.. It was a bad site. They were attacking athletics and trying to say it lead young children to porn .. it was stupid. We had to get a lawyer to get an order to have our pics removed from it.

It's why I'm very careful not to post pics of me or my team mates in them in which you can see our logos or faces. I don't post pics with our gear in them any more, if I post a pic I make sure you can't see my face ect.. anything in which you can see face was on the net before this happen.

Bodybuilding sites are common place for people to steal pics from. I remember one of the mods once having his wedding pics stolen and used on a bad site.

[psychowolverine]

So I get an ad from the local dealer (did not buy my boat from them). I'm thumbing through and I see my boat with my kids and dog in it listed in their sales ad. I'm honestly not too sure how I feel about it, kinda strange. If it were online I could ask that it be removed, but this is a print ad that's been delivered in the mail to who knows how many peeps. It's a pic I've posted online before so they obviously just grabbed it from there. I guess it's not a big deal but think they should have at least asked first. Feels weird man...

Id definitely seek counsel for a consultation about it... Thats absolute BS! They used your family's likeness for their own monetary gain.

[lhprop1]

I'd consult a lawyer, but he might cost more then you will get from the company. Be glad it was a boat add.

Edit: The reason I say this is because there are shady companies that steal pics and then sell them to legit companies and bad companies to. So you have no idea where else that pic might land or how it might be manipulated.

Last year I had pics taken off the internet on me and my team mates (normal training and progress pics ect... nothing private) and they were used on site with what was very close to porn and child porn. Like none of the children were nude but they were very close to it and very suggestive.. ect.. It was a bad site. They were attacking athletics and trying to say it lead young children to porn .. it was stupid. We had to get a lawyer to get an order to have our pics removed from it.

It's why I'm very careful not to post pics of me or my team mates in them in which you can see our logos or faces. I don't post pics with our gear in them any more, if I post a pic I make sure you can't see my face ect.. anything in which you can see face was on the net before this happen.

Bodybuilding sites are common place for people to steal pics from. I remember one of the mods once having his wedding pics stolen and used on a bad site.

That's crazy. How did you ever find out they were using your pics?

[grace_ou]

That's crazy. How did you ever find out they were using your pics?

We got a letter from a lawyer who was seeing them on behalf of another athlete who recognized our team jersey.

Other wise prob would never have known. They found their puts were on it because a fan of theirs posted a link to the site in one of their online blogs..

[psychowolverine]

5 mile run on lunch.. nice and sweaty for my co workers lol

[grace_ou]

5 mile run on lunch.. nice and sweaty for my co workers lol

Look no snakes from this weekend!! But there were lots of spiders!!



OMG!! Our training this weekend was full of these things! Like I could look out from the trail and see anywhere from 10 to 15 thick spider webs with these damn things in it! I was not happy!!

[psychowolverine]

Look no snakes from this weekend!! But there were lots of spiders!!

I found a drowned mouse spider in my dogs water bowl... thing was BIG!

[grace_ou]

I found a drowned mouse spider in my dogs water bowl... thing was BIG!

Hey at least it was dead! I really hate spiders. LOL I have two scars one on my ass and one on my leg from ****ing spider bites.. LOL it's not at all embarrassing to have to go to a doctor cause a spider bit me on the ass..

[lhprop1]

I haven't mowed a lawn in quite some time, but I don't think I'll have any trouble remembering how. I just hope that .4 acres isn't too much to mow with a push mower.

Pfft... I've been doing .75 acres with trees and garden causing all kinds of obstacles since 1995!

.4 with a push mower and assuming it's a lot of open runs, should take you a half hour.

I push mow over 2 acres... Dont be a sissy.

So I finally got out to mow the lawn in the new house for the first time last night. I though it would be a 3 beer job. I was wrong.

2-3 weeks of the previous owners not mowing + lots of rain = suck city

It was so clumpy that I needed a hay rake. After the first few strips, I realized I'd need to bag all of it. I was able to make it all of about 75-100' before the bag would be full and I had to walk back to the garden to empty it. 2 hours and 20 minutes and 7 beers later, I was done.

[44hunter]

Well I'm in the new house but hot spot internet wont let me log onto bb.com

Guess Ill take over as head honcho of the OR.

First things first. Resetting Hairy Teets rep power back to 7337

[GREENFEATHER]

Hey at least it was dead! I really hate spiders. LOL I have two scars one on my ass and one on my leg from ****ing spider bites.. LOL it's not at all embarrassing to have to go to a doctor cause a spider bit me on the ass..

Could be worse, you could show up in an ER with an "object" like a hotdog lodged in a certain orifice and have to explain that. Trust me, we've seen more back sides than you ever care to think about in all shapes and sizes.