Almost,... For Once.

[Avenger]

We ran out to the JI this morning, really expecting to just drown bait.

We (meaning me) got a couple of short fluke. The captain and I both brought a couple of Sea Robins aboard which generously sacrificed a few fillets for bait.

While that was going on we worked our way back through the inlet making a couple of drifts at various buoys and "by the Coast Guard Station." Everyone says they catch fish "by the Coat Guard Station." Maybe they're fishing a different Coast Guard Station.

Anyway we picked up a few more short fluke, sea robins and really small sea bass etc. when he gets his hook bit off. Then we get into a conversation about hooks and I'm pontificating about circle hooks and he asks to borrow one of my rigs.

Doesn't the ba$+@rd start catching everything in the water with my rig. It's not that I'm unhappy that were catching fish, but....

Do any of you fish with someone who will break your chops when they're catching and you're not? How would you feel?

Eventually he pulls up the biggest fluke we've seen all season. (on MY rig!) 18 inches, which brings me back to our earlier conversation about the rules and is anyone seeing fish close to the limit? Well, apparently at least one exists.

Finally, something,... probably a Bluefish, bit off the circle hook I gave him and the inequity stopped.

We finished up by the Wantagh bridges with the same collection of shorts and trash before we finally decided to call it a day. The high point of the trip was being treated to a fly-by from four F-18 Super Hornets, probably related to the golf nonsense going on.

Sorry, I couldn't get to a camera fast enough. You'll have to settle for the picture of a buoy.

 

[Pangaroo]

I drove down to Jones Beach for a drive and to look where they were fishing for fluke.I'm going out tomorrow. Saw a bunch of boats concentrated right off the Construction dock near the Coast Guard Station. It was outgoing tide . At least they're still in the bay.

 

[Avenger]

Good luck tomorrow!

 

[longcast]

We ran out to the JI this morning, really expecting to just drown bait.

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We (meaning me) got a couple of short fluke. The captain and I both brought a couple of Sea Robins aboard which generously sacrificed a few fillets for bait.

While that was going on we worked our way back through the inlet making a couple of drifts at various buoys and "by the Coast Guard Station." Everyone says they catch fish "by the Coat Guard Station." Maybe they're fishing a different Coast Guard Station.

Anyway we picked up a few more short fluke, sea robins and really small sea bass etc. when he gets his hook bit off. Then we get into a conversation about hooks and I'm pontificating about circle hooks and he asks to borrow one of my rigs.

Doesn't the ba$+@rd start catching everything in the water with my rig. It's not that I'm unhappy that were catching fish, but....

Do any of you fish with someone who will break your chops when they're catching and you're not? How would you feel?

Eventually he pulls up the biggest fluke we've seen all season. (on MY rig!) 18 inches, which brings me back to our earlier conversation about the rules and is anyone seeing fish close to the limit? Well, apparently at least one exists.

Finally, something,... probably a Bluefish, bit off the circle hook I gave him and the inequity stopped.

We finished up by the Wantagh bridges with the same collection of shorts and trash before we finally decided to call it a day. The high point of the trip was being treated to a fly-by from four F-18 Super Hornets, probably related to the golf nonsense going on.

Sorry, I couldn't get to a camera fast enough. You'll have to settle for the picture of a buoy.

Do any of you fish with someone who will break your chops when they're catching and you're not? How would you feel?


No. Not the folks I choose to fish with.

 

[Avenger]

Do any of you fish with someone who will break your chops when they're catching and you're not? How would you feel?


No. Not the folks I choose to fish with.

You're right. Some people love to break b@lls and that's just how they relate. And if they're cool with that, that's fine.

In my general view, that's not the way you treat people you respect. And I tend to be compassionate towards people who are having a bad day. Particularly if it's one of those fate things they can't control.

That being said, it's an interesting psychological study watching the dynamic between the captain, his cousin and me. The captain and his cousin are unmerciful with each other. But with me they're both relatively chill. Sure there's some ribbing, and it's just in fun, but nothing like how they jab each other.

A couple years ago the captain brought up something about another recent mutual associate breaking his chops and observed that if they don't care enough to joke around with you, they just don't care about you.

Interesting.

OTOH, I know people that can't treat people in any other way than non-stop b@ll-busting. A lot of people don't take it as good-natured and the "ribber" doesn't necessarily pick up on that. I'm guilty of not picking up on that as well.

It's unlikely that anybody here has noticed, but I can be a first-class jerk sometimes. It's taken me fifty years to learn to not take myself so seriously, and it's still a work in progress. And a big part of that is my friends who like me enough to break my chops occasionally, and more importantly, to not take my responses so seriously either. They're good friends to have.