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    Is there a herring run on the East End?

    Without getting into specifics on locations, just curious. I've fished the North Fork for a few years now, and I've had all kinds of fun chasing the usual suspects. I've even pulled out the old car batteries and squid jigs and had a go. Not to fill a bucket or because of the thrill of landing...
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    What do you use to seal screw holes in hardtop

    Is it really complicated and I've been doing it the wrong way? I thought the objective was to drill a hole larger than what you wanted to pass through with a hole saw, fill the hole with epoxy (with tape on the bottom to hold it in until set), then drill through the center of the epoxy with the...
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    Peconic Porgy Slam-fest This Morning!

    I'm a resident so I use the Southold ramps, but in the past I had paid Orient By The Sea to get out to the grounds quicker, since you're a stone's throw from the gut at that point. What captmike says is absolutely true - you're better off paying double (assuming OBTS is even open) for one of...
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    Grounded or not

    Are you going to die as a certainty? Maybe not. Are you grounded and safe from the electricity? Absolutely not. The same logic used to have people run to their cars because they sit on rubber tires, which effectively grounded them. It was actually the metal that offered the protection...
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    Weekend Boating Accidents

    If he's operating a 50' boat at an unsafe speed in a crowded area and wasn't intoxicated I hope to hell he's tried for murder. There's no way there's no malicious intent there, those are prime conditions for a serious accident.
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    Brianna's Law

    It's for your own good - not for you, but for the guy whose buddy just gave him an old boat he didn't want anymore and he's about to go steaming out of the inlet at 30 knots while texting on his cell phone with 14 other people on the boat. If these classes can knock some sense into that...
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    So who's going out this weekend (5/17/19 edition)

    Same! Except I'll be solo, on a 24' Grady WA that will have way too many rods for one person, working the Greenport to Jessups stretch. Good luck to you guys - wish I could convince one of my sons to come out, but the older they get the lazier they get it seems.
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    Whats on tonights Menu

    The name of the game today is pig - pulled pork and baby back ribs. For the vegetarian crowd, some corn bread. Maybe.
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    So who's going out this weekend (5/17/19 edition)

    I got out two weeks ago, to find London worthy fog so bad that I couldn't see the ramp that delayed me a few hours (after already being delayed to finish the last of my essential spring commissioning duties). Out into Peconic Bay I went with a few hours of daylight left and the pickings were...
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    boating Safety education requirement

    The other thing to remember is that these laws seem oppressive and aimed at protecting people from themselves, but they're also there to protect you from others, in particular those clueless or lacking in common sense that can't immediately see the obvious. No matter how responsible...
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    boating Safety education requirement

    Of course - nobody is walking out of one of these basic courses a grizzly old captain. That's expecting way too much out of any type of limited time training, even if it was 1:1 on the water with an experienced professional. Some things, only time can teach. But - ask yourself if that...
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    boating Safety education requirement

    This is where I'm mixed on the government forcing people to take classes. I'm generally against the government forcing anyone to do anything. And more than enough people have either had the proper training on their own or from people they know, and have the experience to not need a class. And...
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    boating Safety education requirement

    I'm actually all for the school bus cameras - there's just no reason why you should get caught doing something like that, the law is pretty clear and if you're going around, you're breaking it. What I don't care for are the 5 billion speeding cameras they're going to put on every other block in...
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    Watch your stuff

    That sucks Joe, sorry to hear it. If there's one thing I learned from having my boat docked at a marina in Brooklyn with zero security is that you lock EVERYTHING up. Some sack of crap came onto the boat and stole a toolbox full of lead (I hope it gave him a hernia) and my kids butterfly nets...
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    DEC Temporarily Closes Northport Harbor in Suffolk County for the Harvest of Carnivorous Gastropods

    Well, there's something I never knew, that whelk are carnivorous gastropods and eat other shellfish. Cannibals!
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    Suffolk County spends $7M to dredge 16 waterways

    I'm guessing the dredging they mention here hasn't happened yet at Gull Pond, since there's still shoaling near the entrance.
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    celtic quest vandalized

    A crappy thing to happen to anyone, but I've fished with these guys and my son when he was younger before I bought my boat, and they're one of the nicest and most helpful crews around. I wish them the best of luck, and hope the jackass that pulled this gets what's coming to him.
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    ***Racor Filter Warning***

    Didn't realize this was an issue. I was running a Racor with a clear plastic bowl for the first year I had the boat, until I had an issue with some water in the gas. I drained the bowl from the bottom, then tried to remove the filter from the bowl. And tried, and tried - and never managed to...
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    Boating Safety Class Bay Shore Library April 23, 24 and 25th 6-PM to 9-PM

    That's what I'm looking to do as well. Someone recommended an online school, but that seemed a little tedious. Would you recommend the one you went to?
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    Boating Safety Class Bay Shore Library April 23, 24 and 25th 6-PM to 9-PM

    That's going to happen with or without a class. When I got my boat I had almost no boating experience - what little I did have I got as a teenager with a 15' Whaler. I went looking for a captain willing to do some instruction until I got the hang of it, and one of my friends asked me 'it's a...

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