Who said you can't go boating when it's cold.......

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Re: Who said you can't go boating when it's cold.......

Don't know the guy that said it, but his wife probably said something akin to "Just because you can doesn't mean you should!" :lol:
 

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Re: Who said you can't go boating when it's cold.......

Don't know the guy that said it, but his wife probably said something akin to "Just because you can doesn't mean you should!" :lol:
It's currently oyster and Striped bass season.

I would imagine that just the opposite is true.....you've been sitting on that couch for three days now. Get your big butt off the couch, go down to the boat and go to work.
 

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Re: Who said you can't go boating when it's cold.......

very cool
 

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Re: Who said you can't go boating when it's cold.......

Guess the lead boat is the ice breaker?
 

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Re: Who said you can't go boating when it's cold.......

runnning supplies out to Smith or Tangier?
Is that this year? We didn't freeze up but a couple days here and it was not as thick as that.
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dingbat

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Re: Who said you can't go boating when it's cold.......

runnning supplies out to Smith or Tangier?
Is that this year? We didn't freeze up but a couple days here and it was not as thick as that.
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Re: Who said you can't go boating when it's cold.......

just as much as I love our soft squishy bottoms, I love our soft squishy ice!
 

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Re: Who said you can't go boating when it's cold.......

Guess the lead boat is the ice breaker?

Wait a second. Is this another picture of all those boats stuck in the Antarctic ice field? :facepalm: I sure looks like them... I guess their mission to prove the Earth is warming turned cold... :lol: Doesn't look like something I would want to be in. :faint2: Not my idea of fishing the waters... :eek:
 

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Re: Who said you can't go boating when it's cold.......

Not my idea of fishing the waters... :eek:
If that is the case, you wouldn't make much of a commercial Striper Fisherman. Season runs 12/31 - 3/31
 

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Re: Who said you can't go boating when it's cold.......

Stripper fishing around here is an open season. But what we call strippers and what you call strippers may not be the same type fish... I love to fish but not necessarily in those conditions...but I could be persuaded differently! If the fish are biting, that changes everything!
 

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Re: Who said you can't go boating when it's cold.......

Hmmmm considering where I boat.....the ice is only about 18 inches thick right now........
 

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Re: Who said you can't go boating when it's cold.......

Hmmmm considering where I boat.....the ice is only about 18 inches thick right now........

We're at 27" in some places on lake minnetonka
 

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Re: Who said you can't go boating when it's cold.......

Man you guys are some serious fishermen.........or you are just crazy....
 

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Re: Who said you can't go boating when it's cold.......

Stripper fishing around here is an open season. But what we call strippers and what you call strippers may not be the same type fish... I love to fish but not necessarily in those conditions...but I could be persuaded differently! If the fish are biting, that changes everything!

I hope you meant stripers. It's hard to get a stripper out in the bay when it's cold, but stripers are not so hard.

I'm further down the bay from dingbat and that photo. our most popular striper fishing is November/December and primarily at night around the bridges crossing the bay, so it's cold. But you fish for schoolies (18" and up) as well as big ones (45" is a good but not unusual size) so it's worth it--hence my asking my deluded fresh water fishing friends to send me their prize catches for me to use for bait!
now (after Jan 1) you can only striper fish in the ocean, from the beach out 3 miles. The fish hang out about 4 miles out....
 

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Re: Who said you can't go boating when it's cold.......

It's currently oyster and Striped bass season.

I would imagine that just the opposite is true.....you've been sitting on that couch for three days now. Get your big butt off the couch, go down to the boat and go to work.

And, their wives believe in the Coast Guard Motto, "You have to go Out - But you don't have to come Back!"
 
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