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Something really wierd happened this evening...
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Posted by: LS1JAY

It freakin' rained!

Posted by: John

Awww! Did widdle Jay get all wet? Poor baby!

On a side note, Imma goin' fishin' tomorrow! WOOHOO! No rain in sight, low 80's and low humidity. Should be around 60%. Gonna be a gorgeous day!

Posted by: No Rice Allowed

"These are the seasons of emotion and like the winds they rise and fall
This is the wonder of devotion - I seek the torch we all must hold.
This is the mystery of the quotient - Upon us all a little rain must fall."

Posted by: bl3wbyu

Hey, that sounds familiar...

Posted by: bigjhaire

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Originally Posted by No Rice Allowed


	"These are the seasons of emotion and like the winds they rise and fall This is the wonder of devotion - I seek the torch we all must hold. This is the mystery of the quotient - Upon us all a little rain must fall."

what the hell is that? lol... hey, lets not go gettin soft around here..

Posted by: No Rice Allowed

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Originally Posted by bigjhaire


	what the hell is that? lol... hey, lets not go gettin soft around here..

Not a Zeppelin fan are ya?

Posted by: bigjhaire

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Originally Posted by John


	Awww! Did widdle Jay get all wet? Poor baby! On a side note, Imma goin' fishin' tomorrow! WOOHOO! No rain in sight, low 80's and low humidity. Should be around 60%. Gonna be a gorgeous day!

pardon me sir but , you suck.

Posted by: bigjhaire

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Originally Posted by No Rice Allowed


	Not a Zeppelin fan are ya?

a little to much modern chemistry in those days..

Posted by: John

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Originally Posted by bigjhaire


	pardon me sir but , you suck.

Why? 'cause I'm goin' fishin' and you're not?

NYAH NYAH NYAH NYAH NYAH NYAAAAAAH!!!!!

Posted by: merczephyr

If you think a day of rain is weird, here in Texas we're having a REALLY weird spring...

In the last 6 years, I don't think I've seen this place so green.

Posted by: TNT

It was weird here today too. June in the desert and it was cold enough to wear jeans all day. I actually ran the heater in the car when I wenht to the gym a little before midnight.

Where's that global warming they keep promising us?

Posted by: LS1JAY

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Originally Posted by TNT


	It was weird here today too. June in the desert and it was cold enough to wear jeans all day. I actually ran the heater in the car when I wenht to the gym a little before midnight. Where's that global warming they keep promising us?

Yeah, it was 68* here last night. Kinda strange for a June evening in Florida (even with the rain).

Posted by: LS1JAY

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Originally Posted by John


	Awww! Did widdle Jay get all wet? Poor baby! On a side note, Imma goin' fishin' tomorrow! WOOHOO! No rain in sight, low 80's and low humidity. Should be around 60%. Gonna be a gorgeous day!

I hope you catch a Mud Fish!

Ahh, I'm going tomorrow myself! Post some pics and show us what you catch.

Posted by: John

There are no retarded southern backwaters fish in the bays off the Jersey coast. Although cod is sometimes called Mud Fish. That wouldn't be a bad catch at all. They are quite large, good fighters and spectacular eating!

We are probably going for flounder because it should be a good drifting day. Otherwise, it's blues. If the ocean isn't too bad, we'll go trolling for blues or tuna.

Posted by: No Rice Allowed

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Originally Posted by John


	There are no retarded southern backwaters fish in the bays off the Jersey coast. Although cod is sometimes called Mud Fish. That wouldn't be a bad catch at all. They are quite large, good fighters and spectacular eating! We are probably going for flounder because it should be a good drifting day. Otherwise, it's blues. If the ocean isn't too bad, we'll go trolling for blues or tuna.

A mud fish is..a grade of cod fish discolored due to improper drying, from 'dun' referring to dingy in color...

Posted by: StoneFox

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Originally Posted by No Rice Allowed


	"These are the seasons of emotion and like the winds they rise and fall This is the wonder of devotion - I seek the torch we all must hold. This is the mystery of the quotient - Upon us all a little rain must fall."

Thats a damn good song NRA

Posted by: John

6 flounder
2 sea robins
4 sharks (dogfish)

Pictures to follow later.

Posted by: No Rice Allowed

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Originally Posted by John


	6 flounders 4 dogfish sharks 2 sea robins Pictures to follow later.

..and a mud fish I set freee.....

Posted by: John

It's too warm down here for cod. Gotta go up north around northern Maine at the furthest south to find cod.

Otherwise, I have no idea what Jay is reffering to as a "mud fish"

Since I was beat last night, further explanation.

The 6 flounder were nice. Good fighters but only one was big enough for a keeper but it was on the very edge of 17 inches. Since NJ Fish and Wildlife is very strict on the rules, it's better to throw one that is on the edge back than to keep it. Because if it is on the edge, the game warden or the stateies will confiscate the entire catch and fine you or run you in. Not worth it. So it was a catch and release day.

The two Sea Robins, also known as croaker fish, were caught when we were going for flounder. They hang out in the same areas and eat the same stuff so you usually catch at least one when you are dragging for flounder. They call them triangle flounder. They are ugly and nasty fish but are good eating. They have a taste similar to flounder but not as solid of a meat. So it's easier to filet them and break them up to serve with pasta or in a salad or something.

The sharks were dogfish which is a type of shark. They weren't real big. Maybe 3 to 3.5 feet. Limit is 48 inches so we couldn't keep any. We were dragging for flounder in a drift as the tide went out the inlet. You hang around, just off the inlet in the ocean and drag your line on the bottom with a minnow. The flounder hang around at the bottom waiting for the smaller fish stuck in the rip to pass by and they suck them up. If you are dragging a line on the bottom with a minnow attached, they will suck it up. Well, the drift was moving quite fast and we got over a drop real quick. As soon as we hit the drop, we went from about 6 feet of water to 27 feet. The sharks hang around right there picking up the scraps and small fish heading back to out to sea. Well, they eat anything and we had 6 on the line but were only able to land 4 of them. The last two snapped lines. The last two were probably keeps because they were strong. One even started spinning the boat. I only got a picture of the biggest keeper.

To get an idea of where we usually fish, here's a map from Google Maps:

http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8...98004&z=12&om=1

and here is the local weather station info:

http://home.comcast.net/~topbanana1/usa.htm

New Jersey's coast has some of the best sport fishing on the eastern sea board and probably the easiest access. The barrier islands up and down the coast provide for numerous sheltered harbors for small craft and if you live in any of the back-bay towns, you are never more than 20 minutes of sailing to open water. You don't even need a boat of your own, there are so many charter services I can't count them all. You can do everything from freshwater fishing for bass and perch to saltwater fishing for the big sport fish like marlin and swordfish. You can go whale watching and dolphin watching. If you're lucky, you don't even need to leave the bay to see dolphins and porpoises. If you are an avid fisherman, the NJ coast is a great place to live. If you like to eat seafood, the NJ coast is even better!

So here are some shots.

First off, this is the view from my friend's backyard:

This is his boat:

Here's a shot of Atlantic City from the northwest corner of the Great Bay:

This is the old Coast Guard station and now a fish and wildlife management office and lab run by Rutgers University:

We were drifting the great bay between the old Coast Guard station and AC for flounder. This was the biggest one we caught:

Then we went out to the inlet and open ocean:

and that's where we picked up a few of these guys:

Biggest Dogfish we caught:

He was about 44 inches. Looks smaller than he is in the picture. They are fighters. Very fun fishing!

We got on the water at about 2:30 and we fished until about 5:30. So we grabbed all those in about three to three and a half hours. Not a bad day and as you can see from the shots, there was nobody on the water! Very serene and quiet. Just the way I like it!

The chop was high because of a constant 15 knot wind with about 2 foot rollers. The ocean had about 4-5 foot rollers and a constant 30 knot wind which made the breakers pretty bad. When we drifted a little far out from the inlet, waves were starting to break over the gunnels. Not good. That was when we called it quits and went in.

Oh, the guy in the pictures is my friend Matt.

Posted by: LS1JAY

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Originally Posted by John


	I have no idea what Jay is reffering to as a "mud fish"

http://www.bowfinanglers.com/ <copy & paste

BTW, you spelled referred wrong.

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