What it means.......

[dunn6253]

I don't think that words can describe what fishing means to some people. Is it the excitement of the bite that we all look forward to? Just being out on the water? Catching your limit of striped bass out off the Race? Trolling for bluefin tuna up on Stellwagon Bank or out east of Chatham, MA? Jigging up cod and haddock in the Gulf of Maine? Chunking for sharks out past Wildcat? There is no better feeling then being on the water and fishing for me, whether that is a three pound flounder or a seven hundred pound bluefin tuna.

I started fishing at about nine years old, chasing striped bass from a little 15' Harvey skiff with my Dad and brother. Nothing can replace those memories of catching fifty stripers in a day. Then it moved onto cod, bluefish, and haddock as I got older. Now it is sharks and tuna. A lot of things can change in ones life, but the love/desire for fishing is hard to forget or lose.

I have since passed the fishing bug onto my two little sisters, ages ten and thirteen. They can't wait for the summer to come and to be trolling for stripers and bluefish. I know that I have hooked them on fishing, and I would hate to see it taken away from them.

One last question before I finish writing this, have you ever seen somebody in a picture with a fish with no smile or a pissed off look on their face?


I just want you to remember, I FISH AND I VOTE!!!!!

[aloop]

I always thought of fishing as having both feet on the deck and the advantage above above everyone else, except for those that could always find the fish. I met a lot of people that were great at this any fishing game either part time or fished year round. At age 6 my first salt water catch was a bluefish from Race Point beach and nearly got pulled in. Between ages 9 and 22, I was cheap labor catching mostly bass and blues, several cod and tuna trips. In the last 10 years I got a renewed passion for fishing starting back at the beginning, in the ponds, moving onto squid, then picking on the schoolies, blues, & flounder as the Summer goes on and always hoping to lay a down a fatty on the deck at the end of the season. Now I try to apply what skills I learned by working a 14' tin boat jigging wire by hand, trolling umbrellas and tubes. The chances to go troll around since I have a little boy that's 10 months old are slim esp now with trout season starting up but I hope to give him the similar experience and excitement I had!