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End of year at home when boats are mostly out.








Summer trip to another club for a few nights...




















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...not a sunset, but still nice.

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Very nice Carl here’s my Flower pot lol!!

Beautiful images Carl! Was that the sunset I was enjoying from my hotel on Monday Oct 25 (just before NYC was hammered by record rain)?

Carl, that pic with the stern of your boat and the scenery and colors, one would expect “jaws” to break surface and the captain on the helm...

Carl

Great shots. NIce, peaceful, with family. That is what it is all about.

Wishin' and hopin' and thinkin' and prayin'

one of my other passions is photography - here's some shots

How about before Sunrise? not my B28 in the foreground
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Cr1pgtfReWC4gqzn8

Another first light - Rounding Monomoy Island at 4:40am at 25kts
https://photos.app.goo.gl/vfMAariZcpATg4NC8

east of Boston Harbor - sunrise
https://photos.app.goo.gl/bncYvUkvnW2oKyYw6

late afternoon - Rock Harbor on Cape Cod
https://photos.app.goo.gl/6na2ZuU7rud1hAky8

Waiting for a Lobster - out in front at Beal's Lobster Pound near Acadia
https://photos.app.goo.gl/qmhPFAnBExB58FQ28

"fishing" near the railroad bridge on the cape cod canal
https://photos.app.goo.gl/jzH96wCST84nDhB68

Jason- The sun never sets on the Bertram Empire. Nice picture.


Mat, you definitely have some great pictures in there. I do have to ask, what is with the tree in Rock Harbor?

Doug- -no these pictures are a bit older. That was a pretty good storm though...we didn't get much here, but boy did some around here get it bad.

Chance...I have a few of those wishin hopin shots somewhere...loads of color in that shot.

I was scratching my head on this one for a bit as I was thinking sunset...but this is the back of my harbor and the sunsets on the other side.

Sunrise, I guess it was a morning we slept on the boat
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......Not from the boat...but there is a beach straight ahead and the South Pole. It is the southernmost point in New York State.


I see this picture and think Poltergeist...Don't go into the Light.

Carl,

Rock Harbor seems to me to be a misnomer. It is on the inside of the elbow of the cape and is an expanse of sand. At low tide there is a massive sand flat which goes for miles on either side of the harbor channel.

The harbor channel is very shallow and the use cut down old trees as channel markers. Here's another pic, the channel is not very wide, maybe 15' which is navigable, if you look closely you can see the bottom.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/4QvyoK8SqtqC2byC9

LOL...got it. Interesting whats done in places. I've seen the sticks before, but using trees as a channel marker is a 1st for me.

Some great shots. I need to take more pictures. They all look great.

Great pics everyone. Thanks for sharing!

These shots have me longing for warmer (and longer) days to come.

Here are a few from late summer.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CS5rlRzrE- ... =copy_link

I thought maybe I’d see some girls in bikinis in a thread titled Eye Candy. And I ended up waiting for the spin off to see Mrs Sim’s feet.

Peter, Eye Candy is Cams post…


Cell phones are a double edge sword, but It’s nice to capture a moment.

Carl wrote: ↑Nov 6th, '21, 07:24 Peter, Eye Candy is Cams post…


Cell phones are a double edge sword, but It’s nice to capture a moment.

I’m totally joking… . It’s nice when all the drinkers, I mean boaters clear out for the season. You guys are on a real nice spot with a view in that marina.

We West Coasters have an advantage as the sun sets through Pacific Ocean maritime air. Throw in some wild fire smoke and they can be really striking. And best of all at that time of day you can have a glass of wine and enjoy it. I think on the East Coast most color comes in the AM when the sun rises over the Atlantic Ocean. Although I guess some could be having a Bloody Mary about then.

Prevost Harbor, Stuart Island in the Northwest corner of the San Juans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCvBazV ... e=emb_logo

I did not take this but this is basically where we boat. It is a shot of sunset last night on Barnegat Bay looking west up the Toms River.

Tony- that's a great video, thanks.

Your right it was a really nice sunset Sunday night.

I took pictures, but they were mostly of the wash from the jet drives...very impressive. 40mph, we went from Atlantic Highlands to 39th street in Manhatten, then up the Hudson to Cold Spring New York in 3 hours. Stayed a bit walking the shops, had a great lunch and then back on the Ferry reversing the trip in 3 hours back to the highlands.




https://imgur.com/MYHUFNh

This was last Friday, it may have been the last trip of my season, if not one of the last.







So that would make this my last fish of the season, if not one of the last. I'm not sure if I'm happy it was small enough to be a keeper??? It's so odd HAVING to put the bigger ones back.

Carl wrote: ↑Nov 9th, '21, 11:11 Tony- that's a great video, thanks.

Your right it was a really nice sunset Sunday night.

I took pictures, but they were mostly of the wash from the jet drives...very impressive. 40mph, we went from Atlantic Highlands to 39th street in Manhatten, then up the Hudson to Cold Spring New York in 3 hours. Stayed a bit walking the shops, had a great lunch and then back on the Ferry reversing the trip in 3 hours back to the highlands.

Jet Drives

Now you are talking. What were you on?

The Seastreak Ferry. I always wanted to ride on one, and we did there and back we rode on one for 6 hours on Sunday. I was impressed with that large of a vessel running 40mph. Quiet, smooth, and fast...had a nice swell coming in from the hook on the way back, it made for lots of remarks from passengers.

Running 40mph in the dark in that area with so much big debris had me a little apprehensive...but as they say...ain't my boat. Up around West Point he was going slow in a no-wake area, tons of BIG debris...as he went to run he got a piece of something stuck in the drive, heard it go in...tons of vibration every time he tried to run. He did a few reverses which did nothing and we went the last bit to Cold Spring slow, where we got off. He made a trip with others back to West Point slow. I guess they got it cleared as coming back to get us he was running. I was wondering how long to get back at 5mph or would they send another ferry up.

Mom and Dad on the bridge. Me on the bow. I was about 17. I'm 56 now -- still my favorite picture...

Carl,all the bass here are huge and their are a lot of them I mean alot

Neil, I know it's crazy, guys are getting them up to 50lbs one after another, yet everyone is coming home with empty coolers. It's like they know we can't keep big bass and they are biting just to piss us off.

Normally I wouldn't care as I tossed everything back, but last year I finally got a taste for them. So this was a good trip, got a keeper...a small bass.

Marshall Mahoney wrote: ↑Nov 11th, '21, 09:18

Mom and Dad on the bridge. Me on the bow. I was about 17. I'm 56 now -- still my favorite picture...

What a great shot!
I bet you can close your eyes and put yourself right back in the moment, smelling the air, feel the wind going by

You keep the small bass and throw back the big ones?
Shouldn't it be the other way around?

Yannis wrote: ↑Nov 11th, '21, 22:32 You keep the small bass and throw back the big ones?
Shouldn't it be the other way around?

You would think...
It just goes to show you how screwed up we are getting over here.


To keep Striped Bass in NY, they have to be no less than 28"(71cm) nor over 35" (89cm). This year everything seemed to be way over 40"(101cm) so yes they all went back in.

I can't say if it is a good sign for the stripers, I didn't catch a slot fish this year, all were 30# or bigger or sub 24". It seems like there is a gap in the year classes.

Carl wrote: ↑Nov 12th, '21, 08:01
To keep Striped Bass in NY, they have to be no less than 28"(71cm) nor over 35" (89cm). This year everything seemed to be way over 40"(101cm) so yes they all went back in.

Carl-Our King salmon have been steadily decreasing in size over the years. They only come back once, on their way to spawn so its not as though we're catching (well, some are catching) them at an immature stage of their lives--the mature fish are just getting smaller. Could be a lack of ocean forage or its possible by keeping the large ones and releasing the small ones which go on to spawn we've been inadvertently selecting for smaller size.

BTW, the largest salmon used to be the Elwha River Kings which would get up to 85 lbs. Fishermen called them "hogs". Then they installed a dam in the early 1900's which killed off that run. The dam was removed about 10 years ago and salmon are moving upriver again to spawn but no evidence yet if the large fish genetics survived.

It takes time to replenish and see a comeback. Bass here in the 80's was horrible...a keeper was 12" and getting one of those was tough. I remember fishing all night under the Verrazzano with my dad with only 2 or 3 fish...and we were the ones doing well. Kinda...a customer went commercial in same area.
I fished with him a few times on an open 25' boat in NY harbor, to out a bit just past the VZ "up to Governor Island", not past it as "those" fish were toxic from PCB's. Anyway, with him we would put 10-15 fish per person in the boat, using little tricks of the trade...it worked and the night was never boring. With dad we gave an area a try meaning it could be 1/2 hour to an hour with multiple drifts to decide, nah not a good area. With Sonny, my sinker would just about touch bottom and he'd say lets go...

Anyway, it took years for the bass to come back. First truly good run was when I bought my first house. Buddy came over to help me spruce it up before I got married and moved in. He didn't want to fish so we worked on the house for weeks, the bass run I heard was incredible. I got phone calls daily about how good it was...that I believe was 96. So 16 years for a good comeback, they kinda faded a bit and now it seems we get a nice run each spring and fall. So maybe a few years of good conservation will turn the tides on the salmon...maybe it will allow the Hogs to revive.