<![CDATA[Sport Fishing Forums - Mix It Up & Introductions]]> http://www.sportfishermen.com/board/ If you’re not sure where to post, this is the forum for your post. Funny pictures, videos and introductions by new members are posted here. en Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:16:15 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.sportfishermen.com/board/images/misc/rss.jpg <![CDATA[Sport Fishing Forums - Mix It Up & Introductions]]> http://www.sportfishermen.com/board/ ROUGE RODS http://www.sportfishermen.com/board/f17/rouge-rods-375497.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:52:48 GMT they make some nice stuff. light and power, more freshwater stuff. here is a werite up about how to choose their blanks/rods. Blanks The graphite in our rods is the correct type, grade, modulus or whatever you want call it that suits the intended application of the rod. There is no hype... they make some nice stuff.
light and power, more freshwater stuff.

here is a werite up about how to choose their blanks/rods.

Blanks The graphite in our rods is the correct type, grade, modulus or whatever you want call it that suits the intended application of the rod. There is no hype about grades of graphite or fancy marketing names. Higher modulus alone does not make a better rod. There are about 10 different specifications to graphite material along with countless resin systems that have to be considered to pick the material to make the best rod. We carefully study the intended purpose of the rod and then choose the correct materials system that will optimize weight, strength, and achieve the correct action. The overall design of the rod and blank is more important to the performance than just the graphite modulus. Good material, bad design and execution = Ordinary Rod. Right material, good design and execution = Fish Whipping Weapon. There are 5 dimensions to blank design that must be calculated perfectly to create the right blank for the job. 5/D (5 dimension) Blank Design 1. Length 2. Diameter 3. Taper 4. Wall Thickness 5. Material. If you change one, it affects the others. Not one of the 5/D's is more important than the other. Material hype alone can be just that, hype. Sensitivity and power in a rod is determined by rod weight, action and balance, not just material hype. Pick up one of our rods and you will see that we are experts in calculating the 5/D's to make the perfect rod. ]]> paul708 http://www.sportfishermen.com/board/f17/rouge-rods-375497.html Are you a family run fishing shop? http://www.sportfishermen.com/board/f17/you-family-run-fishing-shop-375462.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:54:54 GMT Are you a family-run fishing shop? (bait, tackle, boat charters... The whole nine yards) does your family constantly argue fight about how to run the business? Do the elder older generations always believe in doing things one way, and the younger the opposite way? Believe in staying the same... Are you a family-run fishing shop? (bait, tackle, boat charters... The whole nine yards)
does your family constantly argue fight about how to run the business?
Do the elder older generations always believe in doing things one way, and the younger the opposite way? Believe in staying the same while you want to expand and change?
Do you have a constant flow of interesting and quirky characters? Are your customers interesting and quirky?
Television production company is looking for a family run bait and tackle shop for a new history channel documentary-style show. Family run business that includes two or more to three generations of the family currently working in the business.
If you or someone you know fits this description please send an email to wjbcasting@gmail.com with a short description and some photos.
Thank you! ]]> WJBCASTING http://www.sportfishermen.com/board/f17/you-family-run-fishing-shop-375462.html need a fiberglass man in Cape May http://www.sportfishermen.com/board/f17/need-fiberglass-man-cape-may-375362.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:18:35 GMT Looking for recomendations on a fiberglass guy must be mobile cause I have no way of getting the boat to a shop. Looking to get all 4 thruhulls sealed up. any leads would be appreciated Looking for recomendations on a fiberglass guy must be mobile cause I have no way of getting the boat to a shop. Looking to get all 4 thruhulls sealed up. any leads would be appreciated ]]> coachmac http://www.sportfishermen.com/board/f17/need-fiberglass-man-cape-may-375362.html FAST FOOD- Bluefin Tuna painting http://www.sportfishermen.com/board/f17/fast-food-bluefin-tuna-painting-374748.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:36:55 GMT Just in time to welcome the slobs back to Morehead. I felt like painting a smaller one this time.
This one is 16" x 20" on canvas called "Fast Food" :)

The 2nd painting is "Land of Giants" 30" x 40" that I painted earlier this year.

The 3rd painting is Big Blue Wrecking Crew 18" x 24"

I wish the best of luck to all you Bluefin hunters this year.
PLEASE BE SAFE OUT THERE! WE HAVE ALREADY LOST TOO MANY FISHERMEN THIS YEAR!
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]]> Mark Ray http://www.sportfishermen.com/board/f17/fast-food-bluefin-tuna-painting-374748.html Preliminary meeting on US position on bluefin at CITES http://www.sportfishermen.com/board/f17/preliminary-meeting-us-position-bluefin-cites-374618.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:49:15 GMT The Peta people and other groups will be here pushing for ban on bluefin. Fishermen need to have a voice too.


DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS–R9–IA–2009–N176] [96300–1671–0000
FY09R4]
Conference of the Parties to the
Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species of Wild Fauna
and Flora (CITES); Fifteenth Regular
Meeting; Provisional Agenda;
Announcement of Public Meeting
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: The United States, as a Party
to the Convention on International
Trade in Endangered Species of Wild
Fauna and Flora (CITES), will attend the
fifteenth regular meeting of the
Conference of the Parties to CITES
(CoP15) in Doha, Qatar, March 13-25,
2010. Currently, the United States is
developing its negotiating positions on
proposed resolutions, decisions, and
amendments to the CITES Appendices
(species proposals), as well as other
agenda items that have been submitted
by other Party countries and the CITES
Secretariat for consideration at CoP15.
With this notice we announce the
provisional agenda for CoP15, solicit
your comments on the items on the
provisional agenda, and announce a
public meeting to discuss the items on
the provisional agenda.
DATES: The public meeting will be held
on December 2, 2009, at 1:30 p.m. In
developing the U.S. negotiating
positions on proposed resolutions,
decisions, and species proposals, and
other agenda items submitted by other
Party countries and the CITES
Secretariat for consideration at CoP15,
we will consider written information
and comments you submit if we receive
them by January 4, 2010.
ADDRESSES:
Public Meeting
The public meeting will be held in the
Sidney Yates Auditorium at the
Department of the Interior at 18th and
C Streets, NW, Washington, DC. ]]> jackdaniels http://www.sportfishermen.com/board/f17/preliminary-meeting-us-position-bluefin-cites-374618.html Save the Summer Flounder Fishery Fund Meeting http://www.sportfishermen.com/board/f17/save-summer-flounder-fishery-fund-meeting-374601.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:16:32 GMT We will be holding a public meeting on Tuesday, December 1st in Manasquan, New Jersey. The meeting will take place at 7:00pm at the Manasquan Elks Lodge #2534 17 Stockton Lake Blvd, Manasquan, NJ 08736 A non-alcoholic cash bar will be available prior to and during the meeting and a full... We will be holding a public meeting on Tuesday, December 1st in Manasquan, New Jersey.

The meeting will take place at 7:00pm at the
Manasquan Elks Lodge #2534
17 Stockton Lake Blvd, Manasquan, NJ 08736

A non-alcoholic cash bar will be available prior to and during the meeting and a full cash bar available after the meeting ends.

Thank you very much Elks Lodge #2534 for you support!

SSFFF is a new, non-profit organization made up of Party and Charter boat owners, Tackle and Bait Store Owners, Tackle Distributors, Bait Wholesalers, Fishermen, and others whose livelihoods are dependent on a healthy and vibrant recreational fishing industry. All of these business owners, professionals and recreational fishermen realize the importance of an equitable and scientifically accurate management strategy for Summer Flounder. ]]> eppefour http://www.sportfishermen.com/board/f17/save-summer-flounder-fishery-fund-meeting-374601.html Fishery Management biology http://www.sportfishermen.com/board/f17/fishery-management-biology-372987.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:59:06 GMT Fishery Biology Finfish and shellfish are a renewable resource. They replenish themselves so they can be harvested within limits and still survive. Animals produce more offspring than survive. In theory if 2 fish produce 2 offspring that live the species will continue to survive. Fish lay... Fishery Biology

Finfish and shellfish are a renewable resource. They replenish themselves so they can be harvested within limits and still survive. Animals produce more offspring than survive. In theory if 2 fish produce 2 offspring that live the species will continue to survive. Fish lay thousands to millions of eggs. Very few of these eggs survive to be juvenile Fish. Fewer survive to be adults.

Surplus production

In theory the total weight (biomass) of fish in a habitat will approach the carrying capacity of the habitat (the maximum amount that can live in that area). If there is no fishing the population will be dominated by older larger fish. They prevent the survival of many of the younger fish. When fishing begins older fish are removed from the population and smaller fish survive because the biomass is below the carrying capacity. The fished population becomes a dynamic population with high turnover of individual fish. Some of the young fish must be allowed to survive to reproduce in order to maintain the population. The remaining surplus population is available for harvest.. You must always leave enough young and spawners in the population to continue to reproduce.

The basic goal of fishery biology is to determine the amount of fish that can be removed from the fishery and still have a healthy population. Political, economic and social considerations will influence the final optimum yield figure. The fishery is wasted by measure that are too conservative and decimated if decisions are too liberal.

Carrying Capacity

Habitat that supports a certain amount of fish historically is unlikely to support much more or less than that unless the habitat changes.
When habitat is lost then fewer fish can be supported. Habitat can be lost by
  • Pollution
  • loss of wetlands
  • loss of seagrasses
  • destruction of spawning areas
  • changes in freshwater flow- causes change in salinity


Fishery managers can’t change habitat, so they concentrate on how many fish the existing habitat can support. The carrying capacity can change over time as conditions in the habitat change. ]]> eppefour http://www.sportfishermen.com/board/f17/fishery-management-biology-372987.html Hey Bluffington http://www.sportfishermen.com/board/f17/hey-bluffington-372198.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:08:37 GMT Mike,

I ran into this woman the other day down in Mississippi and apparently she knows you. Said you hadn't long bought a new truck.
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]]> Robja http://www.sportfishermen.com/board/f17/hey-bluffington-372198.html Newbie http://www.sportfishermen.com/board/f17/newbie-369899.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:36:50 GMT I love this place been hangin out for awhile and thought I would pull up a chair and crack a cold one. and make myself comfy I love this place been hangin out for awhile and thought I would pull up a chair and crack a cold one. and make myself comfy ]]> fishinhahns http://www.sportfishermen.com/board/f17/newbie-369899.html All cleaned up and ready to go fishing, storm pictures in review. http://www.sportfishermen.com/board/f17/all-cleaned-up-ready-go-fishing-storm-pictures-review-369758.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:47:50 GMT After a couple days of getting ready for the Nor Easter here in Poquoson Virginia and a couple days of cleaning up, I am ready to go fishing. I have the yard picked up and the all four garages cleaned up. Luckily only about 18 inches in the garages and none in the house. You can see the water line... After a couple days of getting ready for the Nor Easter here in Poquoson Virginia and a couple days of cleaning up, I am ready to go fishing. I have the yard picked up and the all four garages cleaned up. Luckily only about 18 inches in the garages and none in the house. You can see the water line in some of the pictures.

Here are the cleaned and ready to be filled back detached garage / shop.






This is what it looked like after the tide was going out.






This is the outside as the tide was coming in.








The attached garage as the water is spraying thru the door, The tide was a foot higher outside than inside.




Letting the bay water out of my garage as the tide is going out.




Backyard pictures during and after the storm.



















My neighbors boat overturned then totally flipped over. I dove in on Sunday, put some lines on it and we were able to correct. Of course his engine was toast.




Some pictures from my street and parents house.









]]> jetskibrian http://www.sportfishermen.com/board/f17/all-cleaned-up-ready-go-fishing-storm-pictures-review-369758.html Kids these days http://www.sportfishermen.com/board/f17/kids-these-days-369397.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:18:52 GMT I grew up in a family of immigrants so multicultral activities were the norm. My son didn't want to learn spanish when i tried to teach him and I like a fool i relented and kept our converstation to english. But he did get the travel bug from me and my father. At 15 he has been to Brazil, Parguay, Argentina, Mexico and Morehead city (talk about cultural shock:D). Only Mexico has he actually gone with me. This april me and the Greek Grouper Killers (Nick and Nick) are taking him to Galapagos. Now he comes home with Jen and tells me they just signed him up for a summer trip with his english teacher to Greece, Turkey and Italy. Geez oh flip. I remember I was happy to go to Ocean City as a kid. Our children are living in a small world where everything is a fingertip and airplane ride away. Are other parents on here seeing their children visiting coutnries we use to only dream about.

I know Turners daugher went to Korea a couple of years ago and Double D just got back from Costa Rica with his kids. What are some of the Far reaches of the earth that you guys have taken your kids or let them go with others?

I find it really cool that our kids are seeing how the rest of the world lives so they can develop their own opinions of life in the USA. ]]> Squidnation http://www.sportfishermen.com/board/f17/kids-these-days-369397.html Dolphin Eye Commision Art http://www.sportfishermen.com/board/f17/dolphin-eye-commision-art-369149.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:20:39 GMT Finished this one today for a customer. He wanted a Mahi Eye with the reflection of his boat catching a Marlin. Finished this one today for a customer. He wanted a Mahi Eye with the reflection of his boat catching a Marlin.
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]]> Mark Ray http://www.sportfishermen.com/board/f17/dolphin-eye-commision-art-369149.html NEW SEEKERS http://www.sportfishermen.com/board/f17/new-seekers-369148.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:16:38 GMT couple new spinners for venice.
nice for the tuna down there:D
7'6" fuji sic aftco.
all the good stuff.
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]]> paul708 http://www.sportfishermen.com/board/f17/new-seekers-369148.html 36% of all fish caugh become animal feed http://www.sportfishermen.com/board/f17/36-all-fish-caugh-become-animal-feed-369083.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:41:25 GMT Alternative animal feed part of global fisheries crisis fix: UBC study

Finding alternative feed sources for chickens, pigs and other farm animals will significantly reduce pressure on the world's dwindling fisheries while contributing positively to climate change, according to University of British Columbia researchers.

"Thirty million tons – or 36 per cent – of the world's total fisheries catch each year is currently ground up into fishmeal and oil to feed farmed fish, chickens and pigs," says UBC fisheries researcher Daniel Pauly (AFS member, ’02), co-author of the Oryx: The International Journal of Conservation article, published online this week.

"Meanwhile, 25 per cent of infants in Peru – which produces half of the world's fishmeal using anchovies – are malnourished," says Pauly.

In the Oryx article, nine of the world's leading fisheries and conservation researchers – including four from UBC – reviewed the effectiveness of past conservation campaigns and propose new strategies to effect swifter and larger-scale changes.

"Globally, pigs and chickens alone consume six times the amount of seafood as US consumers and twice that of Japan," says lead author Jennifer Jacquet, a post-doctoral fellow at UBC's Fisheries Centre. "Ultimately these farm animals have a greater impact on our seafood supplies than the most successful seafood certification program."

"We should work to eliminate the use of tasty fish for livestock production. It's a waste," says Pauly. "Plus, it is not what pigs or chickens naturally eat. When is the last time you saw a chicken fishing?"

Many sustainable seafood campaigns focus on consumers but ignore large-scale market impacts – such as farming demand for fishmeal – and have failed to reach their goals, say the study's authors, which include Enric Sala of the National Geographic Society and Rashid Sumaila and Tony Pitcher of UBC.

After pioneering and distributing more than one million seafood wallet cards – pocket-sized guides that advise consumers of ocean-friendly seafood, the Monterey Bay Aquarium conducted a study that revealed no overall change in the market and that fishing pressures had not decreased for targeted species, the study points out.

"Sustainable seafood certification programs such as wallet cards have raised consumer awareness but are far less effective than targeting mega supermarket chains such as Walmart, Whole Foods and Loblaw through a combination of positive and negative publicity campaigns," says Jacquet, adding that more than 60 per cent of seafood in Canada and half the seafood in the U.S. is sold through supermarkets.

The authors also suggest establishing international standards for labeling sustainable seafood, eliminating harmful fisheries subsidies and leveraging momentum for fisheries conservation through existing global concerns for climate change.

"Global fisheries consume 13 billion gallons of fuel each year just to catch and land fish," says Jacquet. "That's more gas than 22 million cars would use. Energy use would be much higher if we include the fuel used to ship fish further for processing and to market. No discussion of the overall impact of fisheries would be complete without clarifying its contribution to greenhouse gas emissions and climate change."

"Overall, we'd like to encourage people to engage more as citizens – as they have with the global climate change movement – and less as mere consumers," said Pauly. "Big problems like overfishing require efforts to be directed at big change."

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The study is available online at http://journals.cambridge.org/action...sue?iid=292961 ]]> eppefour http://www.sportfishermen.com/board/f17/36-all-fish-caugh-become-animal-feed-369083.html NOAA issues final rule amendment 15B Snapper grouper http://www.sportfishermen.com/board/f17/noaa-issues-final-rule-amendment-15b-snapper-grouper-369011.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:08:17 GMT http://www.safmc.net/Portals/6/Library/FMP/SnapGroup/SGAmend15BFinalRule.pdf Summary * selected recreational vessels in the EEZ will be required to maintain and submit fishing records. * selected vessels fishing in the EEZ will be required to carry an observer, install an electronic logbook,or... http://www.safmc.net/Portals/6/Libra...BFinalRule.pdf

Summary
  • selected recreational vessels in the EEZ will be required to maintain and submit fishing records.
  • selected vessels fishing in the EEZ will be required to carry an observer, install an electronic logbook,or video equipment provided by NMFS
  • prohibits the sale of snapper-grouper by vessels with charter headboat permit regardless of where they were caught
  • requires boats with a charter-headboat permit to comply with sea turtle and smalltooth sawfish release protocols and have proper equipment to ensure safe release
  • allows transfer of a commercial permit under the limited access program and extends the renewal period for those permits
  • revises the stock assessment criteria for golden tilefish
  • established a recreational/commercial quota for snowy grouper and red porgy

Allocate 95% of the total allowable catch of snowy grouper to the commercial sector and 5% to the recreational sector.

Allocate 50% of the total allowable catch of red porgy to the commercial sector and 50% to the recreational sector.

Decrease the snowy grouper quota from 84,000 pounds whole weight to 82,900 pounds whole weight, and increase the red porgy quota from 127,000 pounds whole weight to 190,050 pounds whole weight.
The rule is effective Dec 16, 2009 ]]> eppefour http://www.sportfishermen.com/board/f17/noaa-issues-final-rule-amendment-15b-snapper-grouper-369011.html