The tasty flounder is a great sport fish you can target in Rhode Island waters. Every day during the summer hundreds of boats are out there targeting this great fish. By following a few tips you can become a better flounder fisherman. Summer flounder are a funny-looking brownish fish with a totally white underside. They have two eyes on one side of their head and swim with the eyes upward, tending to cruise along the bottom, not moving to far away from it. They cruise about 1-3 feet off the bottom looking for something to eat, usually using the current from the tides to cover ground. Often they will spook some small life form as they approach, and a small puff of mud or motion is sent into the water which attracts the flounder to that area and he will pounce on the poor creature. This habit is the one we exploit when fishing for them.
Ok, so you want to find some flounder. Well, they aren’t always in the same place. As the season progresses, you have to go deeper and deeper to find them. Sometimes they move east or west with the tide. They prefer sandy bottoms, so these are where you want to be and you always drift for them. Never spend more than 15 minutes on a drift when searching, that is the point many anglers don’t understand, keep moving until you find a good drift where you catch 4 or more fish. Then keep doing that drift until it no longer produces well. Sometimes I may move 10 times before finding them. If the drift is slow, the flounder fishing will be slow. If the drift is too fast, either slow the boat down with a drift sock or sea anchor, or give it up.
Onward to rigs and methods. A typical flounder rig uses a 3-way swivel with sinker snap and a 30″ leader with some kind of fluke rig attached. It can be as simple as a bare hook, or very elaborate with spinners, small squids and beads, etc. The sinker is important, as you need to have your rig on the bottom to catch these fish. The rig itself, well usually a simple green squid and a spinner blade works pretty well. Catching colors can change, and size of the spinner blade. But a bare hook doesn’t always work that well. Of course, we always put bait on the hook. It might be squid, smelts, peanut bunker, or strips of flounder belly. Depends on what is working that day. Squid is usually a good bet to bring. Cut it into long strips and hook it a couple times before putting it down. Now, as for sinker weight, use the smallest sinker that will keep your rig on the bottom, so you can jig it. The rig should always be jigged, never let it drag on the bottom. A gentle jigging, lifting the rod tip no more than 12″ and back down till you feel the sinker hit the bottom. Down below, what happens is your rig is moving as the boat moves along, and each time the sinker hits the bottom, it makes a noise and a puff of sand or mud. This noise and puff of mud attracts the attention of the flounder, and the bait on the hook tastes good. This is what brings them in.
Now, on to hooking the fish. The big mistake I see here is everyone wants to haul back quickly as soon as they feel a hit. This is a bad idea, as the flounder typically grabs the end of the bait away from the hook. So when you jerk the rod, it pulls the bait out of his mouth, or off the hook. The trick is to lift the rod tip slowly until he is hooked or lets go of the bait. Once he is hooked, then you can proceed with reeling him in. Use a light tip rod, a rod with a heavy tip makes it hard to feel the hits and hard to tell when you’ve hooked the fish. Put two anglers side-by-side, one with with a heavy rod, and the other with a light rod. The angler with the light rod will outfish the one with the heavier rod every time, given the same level of skill.
If you want to catch big ones, put on a big bait and be patient. If you follow some of these points you’ll be rewarded with more flounder in the boat.
Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/fishing-articles/flounder-fishing-secrets-797380.html
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Marketing…floundering Around in the Shallows!
There is a crisis at the very heart of marketing. There have been some very interesting studies on the wisdom of the crowds. It turns out that they are almost intuitively right.
More and more evidence emerges that Marketing flounders around seeking opportunities for their increasingly irrelevant advertisements. However and despite all these efforts broadcast TV ads are increasingly DVR-ed into irrelevance, advertisers are scrambling to find the most effective,form of media/advertising
Weekend destination
It now appears that advertising at the movies makes sense when you consider 70% of all box office tickets are sold on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, when retailers’ biggest weekend sales are being held.
But cinema has also emerged as a scalable place for marketers to supplement their TV buys or, in some cases, replaces them entirely.
Frankly they are really just playing with other vehicles, That’s not to say they’ll never do TV again, they’re really just experimenting. They believe that the brand needs to be represented by sight, sound and motion, and we’re trying out different ways to put that in front of the consumer.”
Watch till you shop
Advertisers are particularly drawn to cinema’s ability to combine TV-esque video advertising with a coupon give-away offering customers 15% or 20% off their next purchase, all in one place. Many theatres reside in the same malls where major retailers exist.
It’s a great way to bring the two together, as opposed to doing separate promotional offers. When you’re watching a commercial on TV you don’t necessarily have that immediate opportunity to drive sales. This is a way of combining two things we believe in: the call to action to get people in stores and the experience of what the brand represents.”
Cinema advertising increased 18.5% in 2007 to $539.5 million, fuelled by categories like retail, travel, package goods and automotive. Cinema has become especially appealing to retailers in recent years because of its proximity to their stores, making brand recall generally three to four times higher than that of TV. .”
Supplement, not replacement
Media buyers are also starting to buy cinema more diagnostically, as evidenced by MediaVest’s attempt to shift as much as $100 million in TV dollars for clients like Procter & Gamble, Kraft and Coca-Cola into cinema last January. MediaVest was only able to commit $20 million to $30 million by June, but vowed to increase that in 2009. Now, beginning with fourth-quarter 2008, the Group M agencies — Mediaedge:cia, MediaCom and Mindshare — have become the first to move their cinema buying groups from out-of-home into TV, to better help clients identify national video distribution opportunities on TV, in digital out-of-home and in web video.
In these days of floundering around Marketing Clients need someone that can look broadly at other options, as opposed to sitting in these specialty units wondering who’s going to integrate them.
Meanwhile whilst Advertising flounders around trying to persuade advertisers to waste even more money on the Internet yet more evidence emerges to the fact that the Internet isn’t really a suitable advertising medium at all.
A new study from Yahoo Europe claims that British surfers are suffering from a surfeit of information, so much so, that they deliberately screen-out irrelevant messages.
Eighty per cent of respondents consciously disregard the tsunami of irrelevance that bombards them via their computer screens, avers the search portal – an unhappy situation it implies it can overcome by better targeting. With pressures increasing both at work and home, respondents say they have less free time. So when online they want to be as efficient at possible.
A large majority of web-users (79%) demand something of value in return for heeding ads, whether that ‘something’ is pure entertainment, a relevant message or access to learning something new.
Says Yahoo Europe’s vp of marketing Kristof Fahy: “Consumers are overwhelmed with the constant flow of information they receive on a daily basis.
“So businesses need to convince them of the relevance of their messages in order to gain their attention. This means that on line marketers need to think hard how to better target and engage with their time-poor audiences.”
Forget the current Banking crisis…The biggest scam is still to be exposed!
As you will already have ascertained, it is our view that current, conventional advertising has been beset with problems from the very beginnings. Probably the principal problem advertising has is …accountability. Or rather the lack of it! As we have said before, the real differences that exist between competing products is frequently perceived as no longer significant.
The result is that it is not self evident just what an advertiser has to sell that is so different and worthy of consideration.
Therefore, if no significant point of difference is apparent, why is that product more deserving of the customer’s money than any other?
It was partially because of this that we have seen a dramatic rise in the acceptance of own-label products and now services, in this country as elsewhere.
Tesco, Sainsbury, Asda and so on, all developed their own-label offerings and the manufacturers, along with their agencies observing on the sidelines, sat back and let them do it.
In some cases they were complicit in doing so.
Now own-label has become so acceptable to consumers that they not only cover grocery products and with a differentiation between value and premium, the brand extensions encompass, motor insurance, home insurance, life cover and a multitude of offers that did not exist only a few years ago.
And it is unlikely to stop there. Sainsbury’s have at the time of writing, announced plans to enter the scratch card market as a rival to Camelot, despite being an outlet for the purchase of the latter’s own scratch cards.
It is also interesting to note that we are now subjected to messages that not only extol the virtues of branded products, they even go so far as to make a point that certain companies do not make own-label, to justify their premium pricing.
You have to take your hat off to the ad man who came up with that little gem of building a campaign out of that one.
The human desire for interaction.
If interactive communication had been put into everyday practice then billions of pounds and dollars would never have been poured down the black hole of television advertising!
So let’s review that desire in terms of the marketing of products and, at the same time, hope that those people working in or with advertising agencies read this simple lesson and learn a little of what they should have already known and been doing on behalf of their clients.
All advertising is a form of learning whereby the advertiser is asking people to change their behavior after learning the benefits of the products or services on offer. However, we all tend to filter out information, which we do not want to hear. This clearly alters the effectiveness of conventional advertising in quite a dramatic way.
The final purchase decision is invariably a compromise and this leads to a certain amount of anxiety; the worry that perhaps the decision was not the best or the right one. In order to minimize this anxiety the purchaser seeks to reinforce their choice and begins to take more notice of their chosen product’s marketing communications.
Due to a lack of understanding of the communication process we have created a media society during the past 40 or 50 years, where the whole process has been de-humanized.
In the past there was an extraordinary reduction in interaction because conventional advertising and marketing have become a one-way practice whereby information is disseminated in a passive form. But, people still have this desire to be taken account of. To affect change, to learn and personalize their relationship with their environment. There are a phenomenal number of reasons that cause people to interact, going far beyond just giving them things.When people agree to participate in truly interactive marketing programmes they are told that their efforts and feedback are of positive help to the advertisers.
And most important to the advertisers, by participating and becoming involved, they then learn and understand the advertising message and do so at their own pace and to fit in with their schedule.
Consequently, because they are being involved in the process of developing the product or service, it starts to re- personalize their relationship with the advertiser and their products.
This takes the consumer through the barrier of not wanting to address change and takes that compromise, the anxiety and worry that perhaps the decision was not the best or the right one, out of the equation. In other words, there is no reason why they should not change from their usual brand in favor of this alternative that they have now learned, fulfils their needs better.
Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/advertising-articles/marketingfloundering-around-in-the-shallows-670998.html
More and more evidence emerges that Marketing flounders around seeking opportunities for their increasingly irrelevant advertisements. However and despite all these efforts broadcast TV ads are increasingly DVR-ed into irrelevance, advertisers are scrambling to find the most effective,form of media/advertising
Weekend destination
It now appears that advertising at the movies makes sense when you consider 70% of all box office tickets are sold on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, when retailers’ biggest weekend sales are being held.
But cinema has also emerged as a scalable place for marketers to supplement their TV buys or, in some cases, replaces them entirely.
Frankly they are really just playing with other vehicles, That’s not to say they’ll never do TV again, they’re really just experimenting. They believe that the brand needs to be represented by sight, sound and motion, and we’re trying out different ways to put that in front of the consumer.”
Watch till you shop
Advertisers are particularly drawn to cinema’s ability to combine TV-esque video advertising with a coupon give-away offering customers 15% or 20% off their next purchase, all in one place. Many theatres reside in the same malls where major retailers exist.
It’s a great way to bring the two together, as opposed to doing separate promotional offers. When you’re watching a commercial on TV you don’t necessarily have that immediate opportunity to drive sales. This is a way of combining two things we believe in: the call to action to get people in stores and the experience of what the brand represents.”
Cinema advertising increased 18.5% in 2007 to $539.5 million, fuelled by categories like retail, travel, package goods and automotive. Cinema has become especially appealing to retailers in recent years because of its proximity to their stores, making brand recall generally three to four times higher than that of TV. .”
Supplement, not replacement
Media buyers are also starting to buy cinema more diagnostically, as evidenced by MediaVest’s attempt to shift as much as $100 million in TV dollars for clients like Procter & Gamble, Kraft and Coca-Cola into cinema last January. MediaVest was only able to commit $20 million to $30 million by June, but vowed to increase that in 2009. Now, beginning with fourth-quarter 2008, the Group M agencies — Mediaedge:cia, MediaCom and Mindshare — have become the first to move their cinema buying groups from out-of-home into TV, to better help clients identify national video distribution opportunities on TV, in digital out-of-home and in web video.
In these days of floundering around Marketing Clients need someone that can look broadly at other options, as opposed to sitting in these specialty units wondering who’s going to integrate them.
Meanwhile whilst Advertising flounders around trying to persuade advertisers to waste even more money on the Internet yet more evidence emerges to the fact that the Internet isn’t really a suitable advertising medium at all.
A new study from Yahoo Europe claims that British surfers are suffering from a surfeit of information, so much so, that they deliberately screen-out irrelevant messages.
Eighty per cent of respondents consciously disregard the tsunami of irrelevance that bombards them via their computer screens, avers the search portal – an unhappy situation it implies it can overcome by better targeting. With pressures increasing both at work and home, respondents say they have less free time. So when online they want to be as efficient at possible.
A large majority of web-users (79%) demand something of value in return for heeding ads, whether that ‘something’ is pure entertainment, a relevant message or access to learning something new.
Says Yahoo Europe’s vp of marketing Kristof Fahy: “Consumers are overwhelmed with the constant flow of information they receive on a daily basis.
“So businesses need to convince them of the relevance of their messages in order to gain their attention. This means that on line marketers need to think hard how to better target and engage with their time-poor audiences.”
Forget the current Banking crisis…The biggest scam is still to be exposed!
As you will already have ascertained, it is our view that current, conventional advertising has been beset with problems from the very beginnings. Probably the principal problem advertising has is …accountability. Or rather the lack of it! As we have said before, the real differences that exist between competing products is frequently perceived as no longer significant.
The result is that it is not self evident just what an advertiser has to sell that is so different and worthy of consideration.
Therefore, if no significant point of difference is apparent, why is that product more deserving of the customer’s money than any other?
It was partially because of this that we have seen a dramatic rise in the acceptance of own-label products and now services, in this country as elsewhere.
Tesco, Sainsbury, Asda and so on, all developed their own-label offerings and the manufacturers, along with their agencies observing on the sidelines, sat back and let them do it.
In some cases they were complicit in doing so.
Now own-label has become so acceptable to consumers that they not only cover grocery products and with a differentiation between value and premium, the brand extensions encompass, motor insurance, home insurance, life cover and a multitude of offers that did not exist only a few years ago.
And it is unlikely to stop there. Sainsbury’s have at the time of writing, announced plans to enter the scratch card market as a rival to Camelot, despite being an outlet for the purchase of the latter’s own scratch cards.
It is also interesting to note that we are now subjected to messages that not only extol the virtues of branded products, they even go so far as to make a point that certain companies do not make own-label, to justify their premium pricing.
You have to take your hat off to the ad man who came up with that little gem of building a campaign out of that one.
The human desire for interaction.
If interactive communication had been put into everyday practice then billions of pounds and dollars would never have been poured down the black hole of television advertising!
So let’s review that desire in terms of the marketing of products and, at the same time, hope that those people working in or with advertising agencies read this simple lesson and learn a little of what they should have already known and been doing on behalf of their clients.
All advertising is a form of learning whereby the advertiser is asking people to change their behavior after learning the benefits of the products or services on offer. However, we all tend to filter out information, which we do not want to hear. This clearly alters the effectiveness of conventional advertising in quite a dramatic way.
The final purchase decision is invariably a compromise and this leads to a certain amount of anxiety; the worry that perhaps the decision was not the best or the right one. In order to minimize this anxiety the purchaser seeks to reinforce their choice and begins to take more notice of their chosen product’s marketing communications.
Due to a lack of understanding of the communication process we have created a media society during the past 40 or 50 years, where the whole process has been de-humanized.
In the past there was an extraordinary reduction in interaction because conventional advertising and marketing have become a one-way practice whereby information is disseminated in a passive form. But, people still have this desire to be taken account of. To affect change, to learn and personalize their relationship with their environment. There are a phenomenal number of reasons that cause people to interact, going far beyond just giving them things.When people agree to participate in truly interactive marketing programmes they are told that their efforts and feedback are of positive help to the advertisers.
And most important to the advertisers, by participating and becoming involved, they then learn and understand the advertising message and do so at their own pace and to fit in with their schedule.
Consequently, because they are being involved in the process of developing the product or service, it starts to re- personalize their relationship with the advertiser and their products.
This takes the consumer through the barrier of not wanting to address change and takes that compromise, the anxiety and worry that perhaps the decision was not the best or the right one, out of the equation. In other words, there is no reason why they should not change from their usual brand in favor of this alternative that they have now learned, fulfils their needs better.
Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/advertising-articles/marketingfloundering-around-in-the-shallows-670998.html
Friday, October 8, 2010
Flounder Gigging Tips
I hope you find this Flounder Gigging Information helpfull. I hope this will provide you with tips and techniques that will help you get more fish while Flounder Gigging .
It is always a good idea to check for the latest rules and regulations in your area before going flounder gigging.
Flounder gigging is done after dark in shallow water. You need a way to light up the bottom so you can see the flounders laying in the water waiting to eat their lunch. I first used a gas lattern then hand held battery lights. Now I have a generator with 120vac 150watt lamps,one on each side of the boat at the front. While I stand on the front of the boat I use my 5 prong #7 steel spear with a 8 foot wooden handle to push the boat forward, looking for flounder. You can also use a trolling motor but be sure not to go to fast.If you go to fast and do not look real hard you will miss a lot of flounder.
Flounder gigging is like fishing sometimes you see one real soon then again it may take some time to find one. When you see a large enough flounder do not hurry and try to stab it. Wait until you get close so you can get a good stab straight down .Try to gig it in the head so the boney head will have a better grip on him. Do not try to pick him up untill you are sure the gig went all the way through the flounder. Now aim his head to the back of the boat and bring him along side the boat then up and over into the boat.Put him in the icebox and go get ready for another one.
A few flounder gigging tips that may help you get more flounder.
Flounder do not like wind so you need to go on calm night.
The flounder like to come in with the tide. So try to go on a incoming tide.
Also a dark night is good so the flounder can not see you and run. If the moon is out try to wear dark clothes.
Be careful at night and enjoy your flounder gigging trip.
Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/fishing-articles/flounder-gigging-tips-664793.html
It is always a good idea to check for the latest rules and regulations in your area before going flounder gigging.
Flounder gigging is done after dark in shallow water. You need a way to light up the bottom so you can see the flounders laying in the water waiting to eat their lunch. I first used a gas lattern then hand held battery lights. Now I have a generator with 120vac 150watt lamps,one on each side of the boat at the front. While I stand on the front of the boat I use my 5 prong #7 steel spear with a 8 foot wooden handle to push the boat forward, looking for flounder. You can also use a trolling motor but be sure not to go to fast.If you go to fast and do not look real hard you will miss a lot of flounder.
Flounder gigging is like fishing sometimes you see one real soon then again it may take some time to find one. When you see a large enough flounder do not hurry and try to stab it. Wait until you get close so you can get a good stab straight down .Try to gig it in the head so the boney head will have a better grip on him. Do not try to pick him up untill you are sure the gig went all the way through the flounder. Now aim his head to the back of the boat and bring him along side the boat then up and over into the boat.Put him in the icebox and go get ready for another one.
A few flounder gigging tips that may help you get more flounder.
Flounder do not like wind so you need to go on calm night.
The flounder like to come in with the tide. So try to go on a incoming tide.
Also a dark night is good so the flounder can not see you and run. If the moon is out try to wear dark clothes.
Be careful at night and enjoy your flounder gigging trip.
Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/fishing-articles/flounder-gigging-tips-664793.html
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Breeding success of southern flounder
January 9, 2005, Hainan Province, southern flounder introduced (origin USA) Lingao County of Hainan Province breeding success. Experts believe that the species breeding efficiency significantly, highly promotional value, the formation of industrial-scale farming, it will be a big high-tech Hainan enriching industry.
Early last year, Hainan Province, by bringing together the marine and Fisheries, Aquaculture Co., Ltd. Hainan introduction of 5000 for industrialized southern flounder in attempts to raise seedlings, after 10 months of culture, the survival rate as high as 95%. Now these fish have reached 35 cm in length or more, weight 1-1.4 kg, consistent with standard commercial fish.
Marine and Fishery Department of Hainan Province Culture Department states that the species introduction and promotion, can alleviate the lack of Hainan Province cultured species problem is the development of aquaculture facilities, fishing better varieties.
January 9, 2005, Hainan Province, southern flounder introduced (origin USA) Lingao County of Hainan Province breeding success. Experts believe that the species breeding efficiency significantly, highly promotional value, the formation of industrial-scale farming, it will be a big high-tech Hainan enriching industry.
Early last year, Hainan Province, by bringing together the marine and Fisheries, Aquaculture Co., Ltd. Hainan introduction of 5000 for industrialized southern flounder in attempts to raise seedlings, after 10 months of culture, the survival rate as high as 95%. Now these fish have reached 35 cm in length or more, weight 1-1.4 kg, consistent with standard commercial fish.
Marine and Fishery Department of Hainan Province Culture Department states that the species introduction and promotion, can alleviate the lack of Hainan Province cultured species problem is the development of aquaculture facilities, fishing better varieties.
Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/business-articles/breeding-success-of-southern-flounder-2313410.html
Early last year, Hainan Province, by bringing together the marine and Fisheries, Aquaculture Co., Ltd. Hainan introduction of 5000 for industrialized southern flounder in attempts to raise seedlings, after 10 months of culture, the survival rate as high as 95%. Now these fish have reached 35 cm in length or more, weight 1-1.4 kg, consistent with standard commercial fish.
Marine and Fishery Department of Hainan Province Culture Department states that the species introduction and promotion, can alleviate the lack of Hainan Province cultured species problem is the development of aquaculture facilities, fishing better varieties.
January 9, 2005, Hainan Province, southern flounder introduced (origin USA) Lingao County of Hainan Province breeding success. Experts believe that the species breeding efficiency significantly, highly promotional value, the formation of industrial-scale farming, it will be a big high-tech Hainan enriching industry.
Early last year, Hainan Province, by bringing together the marine and Fisheries, Aquaculture Co., Ltd. Hainan introduction of 5000 for industrialized southern flounder in attempts to raise seedlings, after 10 months of culture, the survival rate as high as 95%. Now these fish have reached 35 cm in length or more, weight 1-1.4 kg, consistent with standard commercial fish.
Marine and Fishery Department of Hainan Province Culture Department states that the species introduction and promotion, can alleviate the lack of Hainan Province cultured species problem is the development of aquaculture facilities, fishing better varieties.
Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/business-articles/breeding-success-of-southern-flounder-2313410.html
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Keeping Your Home Budget or Budget Spreadsheet From Floundering in the Wake of an Un-attended Checkbook
Sitting at your favorite restaurant hand-in-hand with your special someone with a steady stream of culinary delights wafting by, lights down low, and the occasional whispering of what might be violin music from somewhere in the establishment. What was to be the beginning of a night to remember in one sense of the word is now, instantly transformed into a night you would more likely want to forget by the look of distain engraved, as if on granite, worn by the face of your returning waitress; your credit card did not go through!
More often then not when we start to speak about a home budget or budget spreadsheet, we tend to focus on the setting up and the working with the budget; as if that was all there was to running a family’s home budget; never touching on the broader and more general aspects of home budgeting that interlace to form a overall successful financial picture. The successfulness of your budget spreadsheet will be reflected in how you handle, define, and process all of your financial information. For today’s discussion, we will only focus on your family’s checkbook and the effects misinformation can have your family’s home budget.
Checkbook registers come in many sizes, shapes, and colors; yet, for all of their physical diversities, their only function is to provide information about your bank account. And since you are basing your lifestyle on the amount of funds in your bank account; it would behoove you to have an accurate account. Remember, you are the first line of defense against potential problems that can arise from having misinformation. Of course, you can be like our friend above who waited and had his card returned, deflated and useless only then to realize that there is a serious problem.
First, you must balance your checkbook. You can either use software, or pen and paper to accomplish this task. Now, if the concept of balancing a checkbook eludes you, just search the internet on how to balance your checkbook. And, as you balance your checkbook, you should pay particular attention to missed transactions, bad math, or any unexpected transactions. I remember that on one occasion I had recorded an unexpected deposit as a withdraw in my checkbook register. So, to my chagrin, my $150.00 deposit became on paper, a $300.00 withdraw.
Once your checkbook is balanced, you should take a moment to look at the wealth of information contained therein. What? What is this wealth of information you are talking about? Try looking at your checkbook as a snap shot of your spending habits over time. By looking at what you purchase, where you go to purchase it, and how frequently you travel there to purchase it; it will soon be clear to your brain that all of those little trips to the store sure do add up! Look at all the gas you are using, and the wear and tear you are putting on your vehicle. Since you are spending the money already, you might as well purchase the items once a week and not on an everyday basis. Likewise, since you already know the items that you purchase on a daily basis, you might consider buying them in bulk (only if bulk means costing less!).
Keep your home budget or budget spreadsheet from floundering. Gain the benefits of understanding what your spending habits are. Please, do not forget that you are the first line of defense against misinformation! No one tries to drive their vehicle with their eyes closed because they know that they will soon disassemble their vehicle by the means of a tree. In the same sense, that is how it is for those who close their eyes to their home budget spreadsheet; soon they too have undone all of their dreams in life. An un-attended checkbook can cause your budget spreadsheet to reflect money that you may not have. It will give others un-monitored access to your checkbook. There is no happy end to an un-attended checkbook. If you do not understand your spending habits, and control your financial picture by the means of a home budget or budget spreadsheet. Soon, very soon, your money will be needlessly in someone else’s bank account!
My name is Michael Reichwein and I would like to invite you to come and visit our home budgeting spreadsheet website at http://www.bottomlinebudget.com today. You will be able to see the solutions that we have implemented in our budgeting spreadsheets and checkbook spreadsheet, that have enabled families from all over the world in making their home budgeting dreams come true! Take the challenge! Come, use our free download, and see if you can start building your dreams today!
Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/personal-finance-articles/keeping-your-home-budget-or-budget-spreadsheet-from-floundering-in-the-wake-of-an-unattended-checkbook-766981.html
More often then not when we start to speak about a home budget or budget spreadsheet, we tend to focus on the setting up and the working with the budget; as if that was all there was to running a family’s home budget; never touching on the broader and more general aspects of home budgeting that interlace to form a overall successful financial picture. The successfulness of your budget spreadsheet will be reflected in how you handle, define, and process all of your financial information. For today’s discussion, we will only focus on your family’s checkbook and the effects misinformation can have your family’s home budget.
Checkbook registers come in many sizes, shapes, and colors; yet, for all of their physical diversities, their only function is to provide information about your bank account. And since you are basing your lifestyle on the amount of funds in your bank account; it would behoove you to have an accurate account. Remember, you are the first line of defense against potential problems that can arise from having misinformation. Of course, you can be like our friend above who waited and had his card returned, deflated and useless only then to realize that there is a serious problem.
First, you must balance your checkbook. You can either use software, or pen and paper to accomplish this task. Now, if the concept of balancing a checkbook eludes you, just search the internet on how to balance your checkbook. And, as you balance your checkbook, you should pay particular attention to missed transactions, bad math, or any unexpected transactions. I remember that on one occasion I had recorded an unexpected deposit as a withdraw in my checkbook register. So, to my chagrin, my $150.00 deposit became on paper, a $300.00 withdraw.
Once your checkbook is balanced, you should take a moment to look at the wealth of information contained therein. What? What is this wealth of information you are talking about? Try looking at your checkbook as a snap shot of your spending habits over time. By looking at what you purchase, where you go to purchase it, and how frequently you travel there to purchase it; it will soon be clear to your brain that all of those little trips to the store sure do add up! Look at all the gas you are using, and the wear and tear you are putting on your vehicle. Since you are spending the money already, you might as well purchase the items once a week and not on an everyday basis. Likewise, since you already know the items that you purchase on a daily basis, you might consider buying them in bulk (only if bulk means costing less!).
Keep your home budget or budget spreadsheet from floundering. Gain the benefits of understanding what your spending habits are. Please, do not forget that you are the first line of defense against misinformation! No one tries to drive their vehicle with their eyes closed because they know that they will soon disassemble their vehicle by the means of a tree. In the same sense, that is how it is for those who close their eyes to their home budget spreadsheet; soon they too have undone all of their dreams in life. An un-attended checkbook can cause your budget spreadsheet to reflect money that you may not have. It will give others un-monitored access to your checkbook. There is no happy end to an un-attended checkbook. If you do not understand your spending habits, and control your financial picture by the means of a home budget or budget spreadsheet. Soon, very soon, your money will be needlessly in someone else’s bank account!
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Flounder Gigging – A Fishing Fool Article
If you have never been Flounder gigging you are missing out on some really great fun. I started a couple of years ago by going with a friend that has been doing it for over 20 years now. If the idea of combining some hunting skills with your fishing skills, having the water all to yourself, and getting a cooler full of fresh flounder sounds good to you then read on…
First make sure flounder gigging is legal where you live. I live in south Florida and we can gig up to 12 per person here with a minimum length of 12”.
What you will need:
Boat
Although you can gig flounder while wadding in the shallows with a spotlight I use my boat so I can get to the sandbars in the middle of channels. I have a 19’ center console with a nice flat area in the bow to stand. A trolling motor works great but you can use a push pole also.
Lights
I purchased 2 12 volt pole lights from Boaters World and removed the 12 volt bulbs and replaced them with 200 watt bulbs that I got at Lowe’s. I then cut off the 12 volt battery clamps and replaced them with 110 electrical plugs.
Generator
I purchased a small 1000 watt Honda generator off of Craigslist for $300 and it works great for the boat. It is quiet and very fuel efficient. If a generator is not in the budget right now you can use a battery with the 12 volt lights.
Gigs
I found my gigs at Dicks sporting goods for around $50 each but you can order them online or you can make your own if you want to.
I have my lights mounted in the bow of my boat with the generator right behind them. I have a total of 900 watts of light and it works great. We stand shoulder to shoulder in the bow working the trolling motor in the shallows looking for the flounder. It is very hard to spot them at first. I guess the best way to describe it is to look for “something different” in the sand. The flounder like to bury themselves for ambush of baitfish and they are very good at it!
When you do see a flounder, be calm, put your gig in the water slowly and aim for his head if possible. Then just give it a quick stick and hold the gig down on the fish for a few seconds until he calms down a bit then left him into the boat.
If you stick a really big flounder you might want your friend to gig him also to provide more leverage on a big fish.
I have found that high tide works best for me but just keep trying in your area to see what works best there.
You will see many other species of marine life at night in the shallows. We see Redfish, mullet, black drum, sharks, crabs, shrimp, and sheeps head almost every night we go.
Thanks for reading!
Fool
Please practice catch and release whenever possible and remember the large fish don’t taste any better than smaller ones. Take a picture and let the big ones go back to catch again later.
Visit The Fishing Fool.com for more great articles on fishing.
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About the Author
Crystal P.
http://thefishingfool.com
First make sure flounder gigging is legal where you live. I live in south Florida and we can gig up to 12 per person here with a minimum length of 12”.
What you will need:
Boat
Although you can gig flounder while wadding in the shallows with a spotlight I use my boat so I can get to the sandbars in the middle of channels. I have a 19’ center console with a nice flat area in the bow to stand. A trolling motor works great but you can use a push pole also.
Lights
I purchased 2 12 volt pole lights from Boaters World and removed the 12 volt bulbs and replaced them with 200 watt bulbs that I got at Lowe’s. I then cut off the 12 volt battery clamps and replaced them with 110 electrical plugs.
Generator
I purchased a small 1000 watt Honda generator off of Craigslist for $300 and it works great for the boat. It is quiet and very fuel efficient. If a generator is not in the budget right now you can use a battery with the 12 volt lights.
Gigs
I found my gigs at Dicks sporting goods for around $50 each but you can order them online or you can make your own if you want to.
I have my lights mounted in the bow of my boat with the generator right behind them. I have a total of 900 watts of light and it works great. We stand shoulder to shoulder in the bow working the trolling motor in the shallows looking for the flounder. It is very hard to spot them at first. I guess the best way to describe it is to look for “something different” in the sand. The flounder like to bury themselves for ambush of baitfish and they are very good at it!
When you do see a flounder, be calm, put your gig in the water slowly and aim for his head if possible. Then just give it a quick stick and hold the gig down on the fish for a few seconds until he calms down a bit then left him into the boat.
If you stick a really big flounder you might want your friend to gig him also to provide more leverage on a big fish.
I have found that high tide works best for me but just keep trying in your area to see what works best there.
You will see many other species of marine life at night in the shallows. We see Redfish, mullet, black drum, sharks, crabs, shrimp, and sheeps head almost every night we go.
Thanks for reading!
Fool
Please practice catch and release whenever possible and remember the large fish don’t taste any better than smaller ones. Take a picture and let the big ones go back to catch again later.
Visit The Fishing Fool.com for more great articles on fishing.
Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/fishing-articles/flounder-gigging-a-fishing-fool-article–892778.html
About the Author
Crystal P.
http://thefishingfool.com
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Outdoors: Hopefully no more floundering
By Jim DarnellDaily Record Columnist
Fishing was slow. An hour of drifting slowly across the shallow grass flats in my kayak with methodical casts to sand holes and other likely looking spots had not produced one strike.
Then the lure stopped.
Not a hard strike or a jerk. It just felt like grass on the lure.
I set the hook hard and the rod bent like a bow.
The fish stayed deep, hugging the bottom. It had to be a flounder.
As the fish neared the kayak, the big flatfish rolled on the surface and made a power run.
This was my Clint Eastwood fish. Only one fish all day can “make my day” and that’s a big southern flounder.
With the landing net lying in my lap, I eased the big flounder near to the kayak. Then he made a sharp turn and began to peel out again. That’s when the jig head popped out of his mouth and flew over my head.
Heartbreak.
I already had visions of Mr. Flounder stuffed with shrimp and crabmeat dressing.
Hooking a flounder is not so common an event as in years past.
For the past 30 years, the southern flounder population along the Texas coast has been in a slow, steady decline. Then the bottom fell out of the numbers in the mid-1990s. This sharp decline in the population really caught the eye of Texas Parks and Wildlife biologists.
Changes to the fishing regulations, like raising the minimum keeper size from 12 to 14 inches, didn’t seem to help much. The decline continued right on into this decade, with no end in sight.
At public meetings in November 2008, the biologists explained the severity of the situation that was told by years of research data. A potential collapse of the entire flounder population on the Texas coast was just around the corner.
In March 2009 some radical recommendations were presented to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission. Bag limits were to be reduced for both commercial (30) and recreational fishermen .
The most radical recommendation was a total close of flounder harvest in the month of November.
The majority of flounder caught on the Texas coast are taken in the peak spawning month of November. This is the month that the biggest numbers of flounder migrate from the bays to the Gulf through fish passes and jetties.
Recreational flounder giggers stick lots of flatfish on cold November nights. Memories of dozens of giggers carrying Coleman lanterns near the Port Aransas Ferry landing are vivid in the memories of many of us.
The commission adopted all the recommended changes with the exception of one. Fishermen will be allowed to retain two flounder per day in November.
This concession was primarily made because of economic consideration. Flounder fishing in November is big business in coastal towns and cities during that key month.
Without the possibility of keeping any fish most retail stores would feel the loss of business big time.
These changes that went into effect Sept. 1 should produce great results. Flounder grow fast. Their life span is only six years.
“We expect that after one generation has passed through the new system (or about six years), the spawning stock biomass of flounder will increase by roughly 80 percent of early 1980s population levels,” Art Morris, fishing specialist at TPWD’s Corpus Christi Field Station, said.
He added, “Due to the fast-growing nature of the species, two years after implementation, we should see about 85 percent of the benefits of the new regulations.”
Let’s hope it works. Flounder is still my favorite to catch and eat.
Jim Darnell is an ordained minister and host/producer of the syndicated television show “God’s Great Outdoors.” His column appears every Thursday in the Daily Record.
Monday, August 11, 2008
Anglers fishing for higher limit
The summer flounder stock is on the rise and, if the federal government gives a nod to the plan spawned by independent fisheries, an expert scientist and both the commercial and recreational fishermen who know our waters, the flounder quota for next year could be increased modestly.
That may end what has been a frustrating and unnecessarily costly three-year ordeal for Jersey Shore anglers.
The quandary experienced by fishermen who saw more and more fluke, another name for summer flounder, yet had their hands tied by increasingly restrictive fishing regulations has been troublesome since 2005, the last year catch limits were increased.
Meanwhile, forced cutbacks seriously hurt the industry at the Shore, with both commercial fishermen and party charter boats experiencing drastic losses. Many of those involved wondered if all the restrictions that threatened to doom a once-thriving industry were for naught — a mere numbers game being played by those who weren't in a position to see what anglers were seeing.
Now the National Marine Fisheries Service of the U.S. Department of Commerce will be asked to approve a modest 2.68 million pound catch increase, taking it to a reasonable total for 2009 of 18.45 million pounds. Details, including the length of the 2009 fishing season and the allowable minimum fish size, won't be known until actual catch numbers from 2008 are reported at year's end.
But if the national fisheries service sees what many others are seeing — that stocks are closer to being restored and that the population is a solid 72 percent rebuilt of the desired 132 million pounds — they should approve that catch plan.
"This is only the first part of the equation. But it's good news," says Tony Bogan, a party and charter boat captain in Brielle and one of the organizers of the Save the Summer Flounder Fishery Fund. He and other Shore fishermen, both commercial and recreational, have every right to feel validated: Indeed, many have been saying privately that they've not seen such a bounty of summer flounder since the 1960s.
If all goes as hoped and the national fisheries service approves the catch increase for 2009, not only might consumers see more fluke at better prices on the market, but also a fishing industry that rebounds as quickly as the summer flounder.
That may end what has been a frustrating and unnecessarily costly three-year ordeal for Jersey Shore anglers.
The quandary experienced by fishermen who saw more and more fluke, another name for summer flounder, yet had their hands tied by increasingly restrictive fishing regulations has been troublesome since 2005, the last year catch limits were increased.
Meanwhile, forced cutbacks seriously hurt the industry at the Shore, with both commercial fishermen and party charter boats experiencing drastic losses. Many of those involved wondered if all the restrictions that threatened to doom a once-thriving industry were for naught — a mere numbers game being played by those who weren't in a position to see what anglers were seeing.
Now the National Marine Fisheries Service of the U.S. Department of Commerce will be asked to approve a modest 2.68 million pound catch increase, taking it to a reasonable total for 2009 of 18.45 million pounds. Details, including the length of the 2009 fishing season and the allowable minimum fish size, won't be known until actual catch numbers from 2008 are reported at year's end.
But if the national fisheries service sees what many others are seeing — that stocks are closer to being restored and that the population is a solid 72 percent rebuilt of the desired 132 million pounds — they should approve that catch plan.
"This is only the first part of the equation. But it's good news," says Tony Bogan, a party and charter boat captain in Brielle and one of the organizers of the Save the Summer Flounder Fishery Fund. He and other Shore fishermen, both commercial and recreational, have every right to feel validated: Indeed, many have been saying privately that they've not seen such a bounty of summer flounder since the 1960s.
If all goes as hoped and the national fisheries service approves the catch increase for 2009, not only might consumers see more fluke at better prices on the market, but also a fishing industry that rebounds as quickly as the summer flounder.
Friday, July 25, 2008
Bottom Fishing Will Be Top Notch in the Surf Catch of the Week
Summertime weather and warm inshore water should provide a variety of small bottom fish to keep surfcasters busy along the northern beaches this week.
Small croaker will be abundant almost anywhere along the beaches. They should be easily taken, using almost any type of bait on small hooks. Fair numbers of small spot also should be caught fairly regularly on bloodworms. There is no size or creel limit on small bottom fish such as spot, croaker and sea mullet, but anglers should keep only what they intend to use.
The best time for fishing for these small bottom fish will likely be on the incoming or high tide. If the weather is hot and skies are cloudless, early morning and late afternoon anglers should have the best luck.
A few flounder and an occasional pompano also should be landed by bottom-fishing surfcasters.
Fair numbers of small bluefish should be taken regularly on metal lures if the water is clear, and on fresh cut bait if the water is dirty. Steel leaders are a must for successful bluefish catches, as these aggressive fish have very sharp teeth that can make quick work of most monofilament.
Northern beach pier anglers should deck plenty of small croaker, some small spot, pigfish, sand perch and scattered sea mullet when the water is somewhat murky.
Bluefish action should be good with 1/2- to 2-pound tailor blues caught from the ends of ocean piers when the water is clear. Fishing should be most productive early mornings and at sunset.
When light onshore winds push clear, warm Gulf Stream water in close to the beach, pier jockeys should land some spadefish, triggerfish and filefish around pier pilings. These fish congregate around inshore structures when the water is clear, feeding on small crustaceans and worms.
Lots of small flounder should be hooked and released, and a few nice-sized flounder will be decked. Most of the keeper flounder will be taken on live minnows fished inshore close to the pier pilings. Anglers can keep eight flounder, 15 1/2 inches or larger in total length per person per day. Total length is measured from the tip of the snout with the mouth closed to the top of the compressed tail.
Live-bait anglers should catch an occasional king mackerel, jack crevalle or cobia during periods of light onshore winds when water temperatures are high.
Anglers trying their luck from the Melvin Daniels Jr. Bridge on the Nags Head/Roanoke Island causeway should land a few speckled trout and flounder just about every morning at first light. Scattered small bottom fish and black drum should be taken during the day. Action should be best when winds are from the northeast.
Oregon Inlet area
Anglers fishing from the catwalk on the south end of the Bonner Bridge across Oregon Inlet should catch some nice sheepshead and a few black drum around bridge pilings. Some small bottom fish, bluefish and a few flounder also will be landed from the catwalk.
A few trout and small bottom fish should be reeled in from the Off Island Channel behind the Bodie Island Lighthouse, but fishing has been slow in the area recently because of grass.
Pea Island to Buxton
Pinhead croaker, small spot, sand perch and pigfish should keep surfcasters busy in this area. Bloodworms and fresh shrimp on No. 4 to 6 hooks should provide the best results.
Scattered mixed-sized flounder and a few pompano also should be beached by bottom-fishing anglers. Sand fleas, also called mole crabs, usually prove to be the most effective bait for pompano. These small crustaceans, which burrow in the high energy surf zone amid the breaking waves, are the favorite food of not only pompano, but also of sea mullet.
Small bluefish should be fairly abundant along the beach in this area with action particularly good when the water is clear. Some Spanish mackerel also should appear in catches. Most of the bluefish and Spanish mackerel should be taken on Stingsilver lures. Anglers can keep 15 bluefish per person per day, with no more than five greater than 24 inches. There is no minimum size limit on bluefish.
Pier anglers along the northern beaches of Hatteras Island should deck lots of pesky pinhead croaker along with small spot, pigfish, sand perch and sea mullet when the water is slightly stirred up. A few gray trout and speckled trout, keeper flounder, sheepshead and spadefish also should appear in catches. Lots of small flounder should be released.
Quite a few bluefish and some nice-sized Spanish mackerel should be caught on Gotchas from the ends of piers when the water is clear. Action should be best at sunrise and sunset, but sometimes it will continue off and on all day. Anglers can keep 15 Spanish mackerel 12 inches or larger in fork length per person per day. Fork length is measured from the tip of the snout to the middle of the fork in the tail.
A king mackerel, big jack, cobia or barracuda could be landed at any time by a live-bait angler when winds are light and the water is clear and warm.
Small croaker will be abundant almost anywhere along the beaches. They should be easily taken, using almost any type of bait on small hooks. Fair numbers of small spot also should be caught fairly regularly on bloodworms. There is no size or creel limit on small bottom fish such as spot, croaker and sea mullet, but anglers should keep only what they intend to use.
The best time for fishing for these small bottom fish will likely be on the incoming or high tide. If the weather is hot and skies are cloudless, early morning and late afternoon anglers should have the best luck.
A few flounder and an occasional pompano also should be landed by bottom-fishing surfcasters.
Fair numbers of small bluefish should be taken regularly on metal lures if the water is clear, and on fresh cut bait if the water is dirty. Steel leaders are a must for successful bluefish catches, as these aggressive fish have very sharp teeth that can make quick work of most monofilament.
Northern beach pier anglers should deck plenty of small croaker, some small spot, pigfish, sand perch and scattered sea mullet when the water is somewhat murky.
Bluefish action should be good with 1/2- to 2-pound tailor blues caught from the ends of ocean piers when the water is clear. Fishing should be most productive early mornings and at sunset.
When light onshore winds push clear, warm Gulf Stream water in close to the beach, pier jockeys should land some spadefish, triggerfish and filefish around pier pilings. These fish congregate around inshore structures when the water is clear, feeding on small crustaceans and worms.
Lots of small flounder should be hooked and released, and a few nice-sized flounder will be decked. Most of the keeper flounder will be taken on live minnows fished inshore close to the pier pilings. Anglers can keep eight flounder, 15 1/2 inches or larger in total length per person per day. Total length is measured from the tip of the snout with the mouth closed to the top of the compressed tail.
Live-bait anglers should catch an occasional king mackerel, jack crevalle or cobia during periods of light onshore winds when water temperatures are high.
Anglers trying their luck from the Melvin Daniels Jr. Bridge on the Nags Head/Roanoke Island causeway should land a few speckled trout and flounder just about every morning at first light. Scattered small bottom fish and black drum should be taken during the day. Action should be best when winds are from the northeast.
Oregon Inlet area
Anglers fishing from the catwalk on the south end of the Bonner Bridge across Oregon Inlet should catch some nice sheepshead and a few black drum around bridge pilings. Some small bottom fish, bluefish and a few flounder also will be landed from the catwalk.
A few trout and small bottom fish should be reeled in from the Off Island Channel behind the Bodie Island Lighthouse, but fishing has been slow in the area recently because of grass.
Pea Island to Buxton
Pinhead croaker, small spot, sand perch and pigfish should keep surfcasters busy in this area. Bloodworms and fresh shrimp on No. 4 to 6 hooks should provide the best results.
Scattered mixed-sized flounder and a few pompano also should be beached by bottom-fishing anglers. Sand fleas, also called mole crabs, usually prove to be the most effective bait for pompano. These small crustaceans, which burrow in the high energy surf zone amid the breaking waves, are the favorite food of not only pompano, but also of sea mullet.
Small bluefish should be fairly abundant along the beach in this area with action particularly good when the water is clear. Some Spanish mackerel also should appear in catches. Most of the bluefish and Spanish mackerel should be taken on Stingsilver lures. Anglers can keep 15 bluefish per person per day, with no more than five greater than 24 inches. There is no minimum size limit on bluefish.
Pier anglers along the northern beaches of Hatteras Island should deck lots of pesky pinhead croaker along with small spot, pigfish, sand perch and sea mullet when the water is slightly stirred up. A few gray trout and speckled trout, keeper flounder, sheepshead and spadefish also should appear in catches. Lots of small flounder should be released.
Quite a few bluefish and some nice-sized Spanish mackerel should be caught on Gotchas from the ends of piers when the water is clear. Action should be best at sunrise and sunset, but sometimes it will continue off and on all day. Anglers can keep 15 Spanish mackerel 12 inches or larger in fork length per person per day. Fork length is measured from the tip of the snout to the middle of the fork in the tail.
A king mackerel, big jack, cobia or barracuda could be landed at any time by a live-bait angler when winds are light and the water is clear and warm.
Anglers hope bait will switch
There is a great deal of chatter about the huge amount of bait out on Stellwagen Bank and east of Chatham, as anglers are trying to predict how it will affect the late-summer fishing.
There is some hope that a northeast blow will push the sand eels and the remainder of the pogies in from the offshore waters and the stripers will follow, but that may be wishful thinking. Right now, the big bass seem quite happy to be swimming with the tuna, and they could remain in federal waters and follow a southerly migration pattern later on that takes them well outside any waters that can be legally fished. At the very least, the near future should be interesting.
North Shore
Cooler water this week has improved the fishing, reported Derek Spingler at First Light Anglers. There are still some good schools of mackerel around because the bluefish haven’t arrived to scatter them, and anglers who are catching the macks with Sabiki rigs and then live-lining them are catching larger bass around Baker’s Island out to the first green can and at Halibut Point.
Black or black-and-purple flies as well as darker-colored soft-plastic baits are good choices when the swell is big along the rocks and ledges, and now that the weed has cleared, the islands from Marblehead to Gloucester are fishing well. Tinker’s Island, the Inner and Outer Breakers (a rocky area outside of Baker’s Island), and Newcomb Ledge have been particularly good spots on fish from 20 inches up to just-legal size.
There has been fair to good schoolie striper activity in the Essex and Ipswich rivers, while in the Merrimack River, pogies and shad have kept some larger fish around.
The Joppa Flats are strictly a nighttime spot right now, but many anglers are surmising that the stripers have moved to deeper, cooler water. Any action has been in a short window on each tide.
Flounder fishing remains good on the front side of Plum Island, as well as at the jetties at the mouth of the Merrimack.
Greater Boston
Anglers who are taking the time to snag or net pogies inside Quincy Bay are having some success this week either live-lining or slow-trolling them in deeper water around Point Allerton and the Outer Brewsters. Overall, the water has been a little cooler this week, sparking a bit more activity. There are also some tinker mackerel around with no bluefish to scatter them, said Russ Eastman at Monahan’s Marine.
Pete Santini from Fishing Finatics reported a 50-plus-pound bass that was caught during the Wharf Striper Tournament last weekend on a live pogy fished around the harbor islands.
Spectacle Island is a good spot, but Deer Island and George’s Island are also worth checking out with slowly trolled pogies taking some 35-40-pound bass this week. The real thing is generally outfishing tube-and worm rigs at the moment, probably due to all of the bait that is available.
More anglers are focusing on bass fishing, leaving the flounder angling to those dedicated to winter flatties. That doesn’t mean the fishing has slowed for flounder; there are good numbers in front of Deer Island between the 8 and 10 cans as well as the channel around George’s Island and the deeper humps at Point Allerton.
South Shore
Mackerel are plentiful, and they are nice ones, emphasized Pete Belsan at Belsan Bait and Tackle, but the bass are not cooperating. Some stripers in the 16- to 20-pound range have been caught from in front of Scituate, around Minot Light, and in front of the North River.
Bluefish are definitely late to show up around Scituate and Marshfield, but they are now in force in Duxbury and Plymouth, and the bait up north should bring them in soon. The fog this week around Duxbury and Kingston produced spring-like, early-morning striper blitzes. Small plastic shads worked very well on these fish.
Flounder fishing remains steady around Green Harbor, but the fish are moving into deeper water around the channels.
There is some hope that a northeast blow will push the sand eels and the remainder of the pogies in from the offshore waters and the stripers will follow, but that may be wishful thinking. Right now, the big bass seem quite happy to be swimming with the tuna, and they could remain in federal waters and follow a southerly migration pattern later on that takes them well outside any waters that can be legally fished. At the very least, the near future should be interesting.
North Shore
Cooler water this week has improved the fishing, reported Derek Spingler at First Light Anglers. There are still some good schools of mackerel around because the bluefish haven’t arrived to scatter them, and anglers who are catching the macks with Sabiki rigs and then live-lining them are catching larger bass around Baker’s Island out to the first green can and at Halibut Point.
Black or black-and-purple flies as well as darker-colored soft-plastic baits are good choices when the swell is big along the rocks and ledges, and now that the weed has cleared, the islands from Marblehead to Gloucester are fishing well. Tinker’s Island, the Inner and Outer Breakers (a rocky area outside of Baker’s Island), and Newcomb Ledge have been particularly good spots on fish from 20 inches up to just-legal size.
There has been fair to good schoolie striper activity in the Essex and Ipswich rivers, while in the Merrimack River, pogies and shad have kept some larger fish around.
The Joppa Flats are strictly a nighttime spot right now, but many anglers are surmising that the stripers have moved to deeper, cooler water. Any action has been in a short window on each tide.
Flounder fishing remains good on the front side of Plum Island, as well as at the jetties at the mouth of the Merrimack.
Greater Boston
Anglers who are taking the time to snag or net pogies inside Quincy Bay are having some success this week either live-lining or slow-trolling them in deeper water around Point Allerton and the Outer Brewsters. Overall, the water has been a little cooler this week, sparking a bit more activity. There are also some tinker mackerel around with no bluefish to scatter them, said Russ Eastman at Monahan’s Marine.
Pete Santini from Fishing Finatics reported a 50-plus-pound bass that was caught during the Wharf Striper Tournament last weekend on a live pogy fished around the harbor islands.
Spectacle Island is a good spot, but Deer Island and George’s Island are also worth checking out with slowly trolled pogies taking some 35-40-pound bass this week. The real thing is generally outfishing tube-and worm rigs at the moment, probably due to all of the bait that is available.
More anglers are focusing on bass fishing, leaving the flounder angling to those dedicated to winter flatties. That doesn’t mean the fishing has slowed for flounder; there are good numbers in front of Deer Island between the 8 and 10 cans as well as the channel around George’s Island and the deeper humps at Point Allerton.
South Shore
Mackerel are plentiful, and they are nice ones, emphasized Pete Belsan at Belsan Bait and Tackle, but the bass are not cooperating. Some stripers in the 16- to 20-pound range have been caught from in front of Scituate, around Minot Light, and in front of the North River.
Bluefish are definitely late to show up around Scituate and Marshfield, but they are now in force in Duxbury and Plymouth, and the bait up north should bring them in soon. The fog this week around Duxbury and Kingston produced spring-like, early-morning striper blitzes. Small plastic shads worked very well on these fish.
Flounder fishing remains steady around Green Harbor, but the fish are moving into deeper water around the channels.
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