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    Happy birthday

    An inspiration to us all!
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    Snow melt off effects on fishing in the NY Bight & LI Sound

    "Large amounts of fresh water can deplete oxygen levels " Why? I know that warm water holds less oxygen, but why would fresh water? Is there any difference between rain runoff and snow runoff other than temperature? A foot of show is equivalent to an inch of rain, so I don't know if there is...
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    Offshore Wrecks

    I wonder why the WIEGAND didn't help with the rescue and coast guard, or maybe it did?
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    Do they think we're idiots!

    Before we scrap the concept of wind power altogether, maybe there's a way to satisfy all the relevant interests? For example, due primarily to land and off shore wind generation, Scotland generates much more power than it consumes, exporting large amounts of electricity to other parts of the UK...
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    I finally found a type of Ice Fishing I may consider -Halibut Fishing!!

    how did they get the hole big enough to fit the fish, without crashing through?
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    2025 Hudson River Striped Bass was poor

    "I do agree that the spring spawn North of the GW needs to be protected as well as the Raritan Bay area where alot of those big females start feeding in spring" We don't know whether a female, caught and released, will then spawn, or take a pass!
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    Books (Good reads) about fishing.

    The movie comes at you so fast, and is so startling, there's not enough time to assess what's going on!
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    Books (Good reads) about fishing.

    New England codfish helped feed the human world for 600 years, and then in about 50, we humans killed the fishery with greed.
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    Books (Good reads) about fishing.

    Jaws, on the other hand, in retrospect, has to be one of the stupidest movies of all time. I read the book 50 years ago and cannot recall how it differed from the movie. The premise of the movie is that a giant shark has decided to stay inshore in the shallow water and feed on humans. So what...
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    Books (Good reads) about fishing.

    Cod, by Mark Kurlansky, is a fantastic book. He explains how for 600 years, cod from the Grand Banks helped feed much of the Western World, including most of the slaves working the sugar fields in the Caribbean. That's why salt cod is part of the national dish of Jamacia, even though they have...
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    This has been a cold winter so far

    A buddy suggested that when it does get cold when your boat is still in the water, keep the lower unit down, in the water. His reasoning was that you were not going to get much marine growth that time of year. However, if there were any water in your lower unit after you tilted the motor up, it...
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    This has been a cold winter so far

    Sometimes it gets cold while the tog are still biting and you miss having a cabin ....
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    Another Braid-to-Leader Knot that's pretty straightforward

    My head is still spinning. It seems like it is not that much stronger or smoother than an FG. My big issue with an FG is finishing it. With the bobbin knot, you have that same issue: locking down the braid tag end and preventing that annoying leader tag end from creeping out during use. That...
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    Magnolia pier

    My guess is that because a party boat can't advertise a catch and release trip for sea bass and cod, and there are customers who are anxious to bend a rod, they advertise "cunner" trips. But what do I know. I've been told that cunners taste great.
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    Blackfish Jigs and colors

    I agree that color really does not matter. More important is weight, hook gap, barb length, point sharpness, hook diameter, and shank length,
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