OT: The Thread About Nothing Part 200: Where does the time go?

[Bleedred]

Nope. I very rarely keep anything I catch, and what I do keep is by request from someone else. Even then, it's only if I feel I owe it to them. If left to my own devices I will release everything every single time. It's the most satisfying part of the experience. I rarely take pictures of anything I catch either. This picture was a request as well. While these fish aren't super rare, you don't see them as often as a northern or chain pickerel, so it's nice to have a picture to refer to.

I've seen a few of those ones before, but not too many.

I keep saying I wanna make my own little pond outside, with some exotic fish. It never happens though.

 

[njdevils1982]

Well, while everyone was gearing up for a tropical storm, I was at Lake Champlain doing some much needed fishing. I'm not one for pictures, but this fish was particularly interesting. It's a hybrid between a northern pike and a chain pickerel. Pretty neat fish:

thats real cool **** man

and i dont even fish


well done

 

[Sinner]

Beautiful fish, pike are my favorite to catch.

 

[sabremike]

thats real cool **** man

and i dont even fish


well done

Don't you mean REEL cool?

I'll get my coat...

 

[thethinglonger]

Don't you mean REEL cool?

I'll get my coat...

Brill-iant!

 

[JimEIV]

Well, while everyone was gearing up for a tropical storm, I was at Lake Champlain doing some much needed fishing. I'm not one for pictures, but this fish was particularly interesting. It's a hybrid between a northern pike and a chain pickerel. Pretty neat fish:

Awesome, beautiful fish. Chained Northern

How was the fishing overall?

 

[TheUnseenHand]

Awesome, beautiful fish. Chained Northern

How was the fishing overall?

This was a very good trip for nice sized pike. That boga grip has a scale on it that is relatively accurate. We had a 9 pounder and several 7s. We probably had over a dozen in the 5+ pound range. It was also a good trip for largemouth with a bunch in the 4 lb. range and a few over 5 lb. Unfortunately the smallmouth bite was slow, but I did manage a 5.5 lb. smallie at night. That was a hell of a fight on an ultralight St. Croix panfish rod with 6 lb. test in the dark

This time of year all the fish seem to be pretty spread out, so we pick them up here and there and then move on. We put a lot of miles on the boat motor on this trip.

 

[The Wumpus]

It's actually a lot calmer and sunnier here at the Shore than yesterday. The ocean looks pretty riled up, though.

 

[Devils Dominion]

Yeah? And in that same press release he encouraged for the people to stay at the resorts. AC is so damn prone to surge, absolutely ridiculous to go there this weekend if this forecast holds.

The mayor was right afterall.

 

[BenedictGomez]

The mayor was right afterall.

Not really "right", so much as statistically, improbably, lucky.

Kind of like the drunk who hits on 18 and gets a 3.

 

[JimEIV]

I wonder how much revenue was lost this weekend due to forecasting?

 

[Devils Dominion]

I wonder how much revenue was lost this weekend due to forecasting?

Millions a the Shore alone.

 

[Richer's Ghost]

I wonder how much revenue was lost this weekend due to forecasting?

but if they hadn't forecasted for the worst and it happened, there'd be lives lost and blame for not being prepared.

Risk averse society.

 

[ForeverJerseyGirl]

Better revenue lost than lives lost especially since NJ has been hard hit by hurricanes the last few years. If you aren't prepared, you get called an idiot when disaster strikes. If you take precautions that aren't necessary, the consequences are less dire.

 

[Devils Dominion]

I will go to Mayor Guardian for my weather forecast instead of Sam Champion going forward.

 

[JK3]

Got real lucky with this one, could have been pretty bad, everyone was wrong on this one which is crazy. Like FJG said I'll take this result every single time. Mayor Vaughn from Jaws would not have been pleased though.

The only problem is the next time a lot of people won't take the warnings seriously and put themselves in potential danger.

 

[JimEIV]

Not huge but I was happy to see this one the camera.

 

[Emperoreddy]

the "told you so" attitude from people who don't understand weather is how people end up getting killed.

A storm making a lucky turn late in the game does not make someone right.

 

[ForeverJerseyGirl]

the "told you so" attitude from people who don't understand weather is how people end up getting killed.

A storm making a lucky turn late in the game does not make someone right.

Yep. I'd rather be alive and uninjured to get laughed at for taking a hurricane threat to seriously than be caught unprepared and maybe injured or dead because I didn't heed a warning. Better safe and over-cautious than the alternative.

 

[JimEIV]

Meh, I pee stronger than a category 1.

 

[ForeverJerseyGirl]

After Irene and Sandy, I'm just grateful to be spared. Don't care about Shore revenue or fun one bit by comparison.

 

[The Wumpus]

There might not have been any flooding, but the ocean has been way too rough for swimming. We're avoiding trouble by a fairly slim margin. Not sure how else the forecasters could have called it.

 

[njdevils1982]

Meh, I pee stronger than a category 1.

even with an over 40 prostrate? impressive

 

[JimEIV]

even with an over 40 prostrate? impressive

Lol. We'll maybe I've been downgraded to a Tropical Storm

 

[Richer's Ghost]

Lol. We'll maybe I've been downgraded to a Tropical Storm

Tropical depression.