Yeah thats right... I said it and meant it. If you are from a place the snow can fly you probably fit in this category... I don't know why I am bothering to put it down in post form sice you can't read but maybe some of my brothers to the south will understand. My attack on our pals from the polar ice cap stems from two things I have seen in profusion this season...
Item #1: Not that NOAA has ever been close to being correct but sometimes they do give a hint of what weather may be in front of us. Your best bet is to look at the sky feel the breeze, look at your watch and dig deep into a life time of memory banks and decide for yourself what the weather is gonna be. If you have a tough time doing that and need to read what the official forecast is, then at least read the WHOLE FRIGGIN THING and KNOW what the heck they are saying!
At every tourney I played in this mako season it started days before. "Deep! Its gonna be hellacious seas of 6-10' and most of us are all gonna die. I know you fish in that stuff but what about us regular guys? Can we survive? "
This wqas capped off by a tourney pulling the plug even though the local forecast was for 1-3'???
??????????? I look at the sky, I click on noaa forecast... Where the hell are they getting this stuff from? I look deeper then see the one forecast that shows numbers like that. This is where reading comes into play.
Read fully where the off shore forecast is for. You might click on Hudson- Baltimore but it reaches half way across the Atlantic for crying out loud.
Most of our sharkin is going to be west of 73W... The forecast is for snot city east of 69 W... Ummmm. A little 101 navigation. four degrees is roughly 240 nautical miles east of where you'll be. Thats like saying the weather in Washington DC will be the same as it is in Hartford Conneticut!
For the love of all things holy and pure READ the damn forecast and cut out the doom and gloom whining unless its deserved... You are not fishing, Georges Bank, Grand Bank, The Flemish Cap or off the coast of Friggin Scotland! You're 20-50 off the beach so look there!
Item #2: New Jersey has a set of regs for sharks from their waters. Their waters goes only three miles then it becomes federal waters. Those waters has a different set of rules. For those in quandry fed superceedes State every time I've checked. So where the f*** do tournie comittees get off reading state regs and pronouncing them as fed regs. No you can't take two makos. They don't live inside of three miles. No you cant take two threshers (unless inside of three miles). Yes you must have a NMFS permit to keep mako. How then is it that I saw a number of boats toting two makos last week at the insistance of the comittee boats? Then to hear that a two fish limit was even printed in a local paper by a prominent respected author throws me into a full blown tizzy! You all know my history of contempt for NMFS. As far as I'm concerned I would love to see it dismantled and the principals tried for treason... But... The law is one per boat per day in fed waters. Period friggin end. Its not a loop hole a$$hole there are two sets of rules and somebody better learn to read between the lines!
There I feel better now...
If fishing inside of three miles you can keep two. I'm more likely to get pregnant with a martian baby than catching two makos off the beach... Still dozens came in with two with the comittee approval..
Its still be ing argued. Hell, I fought with the crew of my boat over it all day. They had me kill the first fish. I turned and asked why/ Good legal fish but not a money winner... "Cause you can keep two..." "Bullshit!" All day the comittee came on the radio announcing that two was it so my crew looked at me like I was the stupid one. Luckily for the makos that first fish happened to be the biggest of our day...
The weather thing was over the top crazy. Didn't see a genuine five footer all season and these guys cried like babies at the thought of 10' death seas. God damn lemmings. One starts and the others follow his lead like he knows what the hell he's talking about?
Even noaa needs a shoe in the rudder post. I loved what I heard this saturday... " Small craft advisory is in effect through tomorrow morning for west winds 5-15 knots..." I give up...
and got # 3. after this, i dont know what im gonna do. i dont want to spend more than $20.00 for reading glasses. but without them, your right........i cant read. but i hear ya.
May want to check all your typo's and gramatical errors prior to ripping an entire region on their reading skills
But in all seriuosness do you really want to challenge the Northeast fleet on the conditions they venture out in and fish through on an annual basis versus the southern fleet? I would say your boys would have their hats handed to them in a big way.
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I give up...
get off the GOOD stuff!!!!
I think you and sal where on the meow meow list!!
