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    Fishing New Hampshire

    Two other friends and I had gone to northern New Hampshire and we did a couple days of Fly Fishing on the Androsgogin River for brook trout. We filled our limit of 15-16 inch brookies. The fly that worked the best was a size 12 white cahill. We also had seen some wild life, we saw a couple of...
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    Ocean Claims Another Bass Fisherman

    Yesteray morning the Atlantic Ocean along our shore line claimed another striped bass fisherman. Very hard to fish along Cape Ann when there is a nor east wind. Seas were 6.9 ft. crashing onto the rocks. This fella from the report was that he was out on an out crop of rocks when he was swept...
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    Fishing Cape Ann

    Spoiled another beginner. Took a person that has never fished for stripers before and he is 68 years old. Yesterday he caught his first striper, a 46 inch fish and weighed 45 lbs. and we had four more fish. He was very happy. You could not miss yesterday,stripers were every where. there is no...
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    North of Boston

    Today the mac's were every place, could not miss loading the boat. My intention was to go flounder fishing even wasted seven bucks on sea worms that I did not use. Once I seen the mac's I jigged up a couple of dozen and went striper fishing. Brought seven stripers between 36-44 inches to the...
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    Fishing Cape Ann

    Striped bass fishing has been excellent. Some nice fish in the 25 -35lb. class are being caught. In Massachusetts recreational fish must be over 28 inches to keep and you are allowed two per person per day. Went out the other day and hooked 13 fish, all keepers and I released all but one to give...
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    Getting a Haidryer through Customs

    An attractive young woman on a flight from Ireland asked the Priest beside her, 'Father, may I ask a favor?' 'Of course child, he said. What may I do for you?' 'Well, I bought an expensive woman's electronic hair dryer for my Mother's birthday; it is unopened but well over the Customs limits...
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    Fishing Cape Ann

    Here it is the second week in May up here on Cape Ann and the fishing season is just getting under way. The schoolie stripers have arrived in the Annisquam River. Catching the schoolies on a fly makes for some good fishing. Big fish in the 30-40lb. class should be arriving within the next week...
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    Chum Maker

    Thirty to forty five minutes to make if you have the right tools. Here is what I use to make chum. Take a commercial paint stirrer picture #2 cost approx. 20 dollars, picture #3 cut the sides leaving an inch or two, cut the bottom of center rod an extra two inches longer. Sharpen both sides of...
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    Pictures

    How to add new pictures? Clicked on "managed attachments" and did not see where to put new pictures. Old pictures came up.
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    Belichick and Brady

    Patriots head coach takes top honors as,"Coach of the year." Well deserved. And once again Brady walks away with being MVP. Sorry Drew Brees, some day you may be there.
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    Field Goal Kickers

    How important are field goal kickers in a game? If you watch many NFL games we seem to forget how many games are won with a field goal. With a five point difference at the end of the Packers/Eagles game the two missed Eagles field goals made a big difference of who won. I would believe that the...
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    Seahawks Upset

    Seahawks upset the Saints. Hasselbeck, until today had thrown only one touch down pass all season
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    Words To Live By

    People with goals succeed because they know where they're going. Earl Nightingale Failure is success if we learn from it. Malcolm Forbes The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore. Dale Carnegie You...
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    National Anthem

    Tired of them "recording stars" singing the National Anthem? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ETrr-XHBjE
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    Always Be

    Always, Be understanding to your enemies. Be loyal to your friends. Be strong enough to face the world each day. Be weak enough to know you cannot do everything alone. Always, Be generous to those who need your help. Be frugal with that you need yourself. Be wise enough to know that you do...
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    Tuna Fishing

    There has been a tuna fish blitz going on now for the past three weeks. Friends of mine that have been going, have been bringing in three fish just about every day. They come in with their three fish, fuel up and head back out to catch three more the next day. The boat pictured had three fish...
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    Sensationalism

    The weather service has used sensationalism perhaps to better their ratings. they have created panic. This storm was way over blown. It was no more then a nor'easter in the Carolinas, Nantucket will be high winds gusting to 75mph and around Cape Ann the winds will be around 35mph. Yes there may...
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    Face Book Enthusiast

    Facebook has launched, Face Book Places. this is a facebook site that could find out where you are when your logged-in. It will give your actual address and map location to others as you are on line with facebook. With all the crack pots out there this could be very dangeous for children. To...
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    Fishing Cape Ann

    This past week has been great fishing off of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Matter of fact fishing all around Cape Ann has been super this summer. There has been many striped bass caught near shore just one to two miles out, many fish over twenty five pounds. I have had a few weigh in at 37lbs. or...
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    Fishing Cape Ann

    As we are mid way through the fishing season here the fishing has been great. There are plenty of striped bass with fish being taken in the 40 - 50 lb. class and a 61 lb. fish was caught a week ago. There are plenty of tuna around but hard to catch. On a recent outing we had two nice fish, one...
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