Fishing Rhino

Good luck buddy. Wishing the best for you.

Nothing is going to stop a determined, experienced thief. Guys have had Loc-R-Bars torn off their boats, wrecking the hatches and covers in the process. I keep very little in my boat when I travel, and, I leave it unlocked. If they want to steal my pee bottle, they can have it. Take your gear into the room where you are staying, and then take what you plan on using when you leave the room. It can be a pain, but not as much of a pain as having all, or most of your gear stolen from your boat. Talk about ruining a fishing trip/vacation.

I know some who have fished it for Stripers around the power plant in Somerset, but that was years ago when the plant discharged warm/hot water into the river. That was a long time ago. Never heard of anyone fishing it for largemouth or smallmouth bass. You'd have to go all the way to Dighton or Taunton to get clear of the brackish water, if it's at all possible. It's possible there may be some sea run trout in the upper reaches of the river. But that's all just speculation.

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After getting used to the trolling motor, I doubt you'll be leaving it home much. On flat, calm days you'll do fine. But on breezy days you're going to spend more time paddling to hold position, unless you anchor, or use a good size wind anchor. You an also back it into the shoreline vegetation to hold it in place, but it's you'll still spend less time casting when you do not use the trolling motor. I've had the trolling motor fizzle out. It only took a few minutes to appreciate how much of an advantage it actually provided. If you're going to mix exercise with fishing, that's one thing. But if you're primarily interested in fishing, you cannot beat the trolling motor.

I've been fortunate the past few years to have two, good, regular fishing buddies. Here's how we worked it. We rotated taking our boats. The boat owner pays for the boat and tow vehicle fuel. The first mate caters (brings lunch, snacks, and beverages) and provides valet service (backs the rig into the water to launch, and parks the tow vehicle, after fishing, he gets the tow vehicle and backs it down the ramp to load the boat. It has served us well. Now, one of my buddies has moved to South Carolina (where he's supposed to be scouting out the local waters before I make the drive to spend a few days fishing with him, and the other got a promotion at work, which makes more demands on his time).

All you need to remove a hook from flesh is a stout piece of twine a couple of feet long. It's quick, it's slick, and it doesn't hurt a lick. I saw this technique in a Salt Water Sportsman magazine in the late 1960s. In 1971, I had the occasion to try it when a fellow who was fishing with me buried a hook in the base of his thumb. I told him I'd read about it, but never tried it. He told me to go ahead, and give it a shot. You cannot be tentative about it so I gave it a quick hard jerk, and it popped right out. Didn't take any meat with it. Slick. I've had one other occasion to use it and it too worked as advertised.

I don't know about the pill. It's been five years since my last one and I'm booked for one in late March. It's the two bottles of Magnesium Citrate that do me in. Need tie down rings around the john to keep me from blasting upward through the roof. I don't mind chicken broth, and have plenty of frozen Luigi's Lemon Italian ice. I always tell the doc that I feel so cheap. No dim lights. No romantic music. Not even a sip of wine. Just slam, bam, thank you ma'am.

Hey JG, give me a shout, the week before your sabbatical. While you're ordering, make sure to get a couple of black and blue jigs in your brand of choice. Sawdy and Devol bass have liked jigs in the early spring. I should probably fish them more. The same can be said of drop shotting. I spent a couple of seasons fishing primarily drop shot rigs. The past four years I rarely used them. I don't think I used a drop shot at all last year.

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You coulda fooled me. I thought it was set up for a Raiders football game.

If you ever need a name for a vessel, may I suggest "Perseverance"? Anyway to all the locals who participate in this thread, when we return from our annual trek to Daytona Speedweeks, and our daughter's home in GA, I'm thinking about hitting up the two small ponds close to home. One is surrounded by private property. The other, while it has a public access, you need a canoe, kayak, jon boat, Pelican or something similar to negotiate the channel that leads to the pond. So it is about as exclusive as it can get for a public pond. I'll return by the middle of March. On calm days, I plan to hit up both ponds. If the fish are biting, I'll put out the invite to any and all. Middle of April, I'll be gone again on what has become an annual expedition to Pickwick Lake for two weeks. I hope the gas prices hold for at least another three months. It's two hundred gallons to tow the boat back and forth, plus what I use in the truck and the boat down there. Thankfully, we've learned quite a bit about Pickwick so we don't burn a lot of fuel in the boats. Plus, there are plenty of ramps, so it you want to fish twenty or thirty miles upriver, we use a ramp in that area.

Have a graphics place make you stickers that say Z 10 and put them over the Z 9s that are now on the boat. That should leave other fishermen scratching their heads. Shouldn't be an expensive modification.

Has Raider been on a diet?

In no particular order. 1. 4 inch Senko, watermelon w/blk and red flakes, wacky rigged on a Gamakatsu wacky jig head. 2. 4 inch SK or Zman elaztech finesse worm pb&j shaky head rig on a 3/16th ounce Spot Remover or Vike jig head. 3. Rage Tail Menace, green pumpkin w/gold and purple flakes on a 1/8th ounce Keitech super round tungsten jig head. 4. Rage Tail craw green pumpkin w/gold and purple flakes fished on an Owner keel weighted hook or weightless for top water, rigged weedless both ways. 5. Lunker City 2 3/4" Grubster Clearwater color, on a 1/8th ounce Keitech super round tungsten jig head.

This is more Raider's style.

Uh oh. I have a feeling that BigBill is about to make an appearance.

I once had a salt water aquarium. I caught a very colorful small lobster in one of my traps. Put it in a bucket to take it home. I found out a lot of interesting things about lobsters. First, they are not scavengers as most believe. They are not only meat eaters. They will also eat vegetation. They will dredge up shellfish and eat them. The first thing they do after they shed is to eat their old shell to get calcium for the new shell. They do it very quickly, and they always do it in the dark, because once they shed, they are totally vulnerable. The only hard part of their body that they do not shed is their mouth/teeth. Some of this I knew from reading but it's the first time I witnessed it. They are also hunters. I had some small salt water fish in the tank, along with some shellfish. The lobster was constantly rearranging the bottom of the tank. It would use its claws like the blade of a bulldozer to push the sand and gravel around. Once it was satisfied, it would usually back into one of the corners of the tank, and wait for a fish to settle in above its head. Once a fish arrived on the scene, the lobster would reach up with its ripper claw ever so slowly. It was like watching the minute hand on a clock. Once the fish was within the confines of its claw, it would snap it shut to capture the fish. Its problem was that the fish were a little too large and they would slide free of its grip, losing a few scales in the process. The lobster would also find the shellfish and when possible it would crush the shell of the clam, and eat its innards. My first thought was that the bulldozing I mentioned earlier was the lobster scraping around in search of a shell fish. But, I never saw it capture one when it was landscaping. It would prowl around, waving its feelers/antennae, then would scratch around and pull a clam up as soon as it started digging. Lobsters and crawfish are similar in many ways. If possible, it might be interesting to add a crawfish or two to your aquariums.

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May she serve you well and provide you with many wonderful memories.

I'd go with the side that felt more comfortable.

That's a little too far out for Raider.

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