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"SoFarrell" wrote in message
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Went today with the kids. Netted up some white bait off Barefoot Beach
and headed out to a nearshore reef out about 3 miles. My older son and I
caught a few keeper snapper, a couple of spanish macks, and several
undersized gag grouper. We then decided to move back inshore to fish the
pass for a snook. The current was ripping through there at about 5-6
knots, and it was hard to hold position. I kept the boat in slow forward
postion while my 5 1/2 son was casting a shiner out. He got a big hit
that pulled some drag but then broke him off. Some idiot in a Century
must have seen him fighting the fish, because he tried anchoring up
current about 50 feet from me. Dumbass. There was no way an anchor would
have held in that current. He of course broke loose and came difting at
me. In an attempt to keep him from slamming into me, I cut the wheel to
port and slowly moved forward just as 12 PWC's came shooting through the
pass rocking me side to side. I got on the throttle too hard and sent my
son stumbling backward, until he fell and hit the back of his head on the
steering mechanism on the outboard. This of course scared the **** out
of me. I iced his head and had my wife meet me at one of the boat ramps
nearby. She picked him up and took him to the ER, since the knot on the
back of his head grew to the size of a small orange. The doc ordered a
CT scan as a precaution, and it thankfully came back negative.

I met them at the hospital, and my son's first words were "when I get
better, can we go back out fishing again?" His second question was "I
didn't dent your boat, did I?"



Wow. Glad your kid is ok.

Thanks.

I'm jealous of your catch, though.

There wasn't much to my "catch". The snapper, although keeper size, were
right at 10". The spanish macks are fun to catch on light tackle, but
they're a nuisance when you're fishing with light fluorocarbon leader since
they break off more than half of the jigs that they hit. The gags were all
12-16 inches...but they need to be 22" to keep. Most of the big ones move
off the nearshore reefs in the summer and head to deeper water. We had

One interesting thing happened. My son caught a mack and it jumped clear of
the water on the strike and hit me square in the chest to the left of my
left nipple. It left what looks like a big hickey.

If I didn't have the kids with me, my wife would have been curious as to why
I came back with a hickey and smelling like fish. ;-)

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"SoFarrell" wrote in message
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Anyone discussing this? I don't want to wade through 4000000000 posts .


Went today with the kids. Netted up some white bait off Barefoot Beach
and headed out to a nearshore reef out about 3 miles. My older son and I
caught a few keeper snapper, a couple of spanish macks, and several
undersized gag grouper. We then decided to move back inshore to fish the
pass for a snook. The current was ripping through there at about 5-6
knots, and it was hard to hold position. I kept the boat in slow forward
postion while my 5 1/2 son was casting a shiner out. He got a big hit
that pulled some drag but then broke him off. Some idiot in a Century
must have seen him fighting the fish, because he tried anchoring up
current about 50 feet from me. Dumbass. There was no way an anchor would
have held in that current. He of course broke loose and came difting at
me. In an attempt to keep him from slamming into me, I cut the wheel to
port and slowly moved forward just as 12 PWC's came shooting through the
pass rocking me side to side. I got on the throttle too hard and sent my
son stumbling backward, until he fell and hit the back of his head on the
steering mechanism on the outboard. This of course scared the **** out
of me. I iced his head and had my wife meet me at one of the boat ramps
nearby. She picked him up and took him to the ER, since the knot on the
back of his head grew to the size of a small orange. The doc ordered a CT
scan as a precaution, and it thankfully came back negative.

I met them at the hospital, and my son's first words were "when I get
better, can we go back out fishing again?" His second question was "I
didn't dent your boat, did I?"




Holy cow NOYB! I did not catch this post.

Thank goodness your son is OK!! What wonderful things our kids say even
when they are the victims of incidents they have no control over.

Damn the folks who don't know or respect the rules of the road. Obviously
they could have caused substantial injuries if you did not react properly.

Did they come back to see if everything was OK?

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"SoFarrell" wrote in message
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Anyone discussing this? I don't want to wade through 4000000000 posts .


Went today with the kids. Netted up some white bait off Barefoot Beach
and headed out to a nearshore reef out about 3 miles. My older son and I
caught a few keeper snapper, a couple of spanish macks, and several
undersized gag grouper. We then decided to move back inshore to fish the
pass for a snook. The current was ripping through there at about 5-6
knots, and it was hard to hold position. I kept the boat in slow forward
postion while my 5 1/2 son was casting a shiner out. He got a big hit
that pulled some drag but then broke him off. Some idiot in a Century
must have seen him fighting the fish, because he tried anchoring up
current about 50 feet from me. Dumbass. There was no way an anchor would
have held in that current. He of course broke loose and came difting at
me. In an attempt to keep him from slamming into me, I cut the wheel to
port and slowly moved forward just as 12 PWC's came shooting through the
pass rocking me side to side. I got on the throttle too hard and sent my
son stumbling backward, until he fell and hit the back of his head on the
steering mechanism on the outboard. This of course scared the **** out
of me. I iced his head and had my wife meet me at one of the boat ramps
nearby. She picked him up and took him to the ER, since the knot on the
back of his head grew to the size of a small orange. The doc ordered a
CT scan as a precaution, and it thankfully came back negative.

I met them at the hospital, and my son's first words were "when I get
better, can we go back out fishing again?" His second question was "I
didn't dent your boat, did I?"




Holy cow NOYB! I did not catch this post.

Thank goodness your son is OK!! What wonderful things our kids say even
when they are the victims of incidents they have no control over.

Damn the folks who don't know or respect the rules of the road. Obviously
they could have caused substantial injuries if you did not react properly.

Did they come back to see if everything was OK?

Of course not. They went up current and threw the anchor again. And guess
what? It didn't hold again. Big surprise.

They were definitely what we call "googans".

SoFarrell wrote:
Anyone discussing this? I don't want to wade through 4000000000 posts .


I took the day off work and the wife and I hit the Columbia river near
St. Helens OR. for summer steelhead. We anchored up in about 20' of
water on the edge of the channel and used small orange flatfish on a 4'
leader above a 2-3' dropper with 1-2oz. weight.

The current does the work while we nap, read, eat, listen to music,
etc... Every now and then a rod bounces and the reel screams. By late
afternoon when the tide came up and the current died we had released 2
nice 25-28" natives and kept 1 small 22" hatchery fish.

-rick-

My 5 year old son and I plan to see how many fish we can scare away from our
hooks tomorrow. Report at 11....

--Mike

"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 16:35:23 -0400, "SoFarrell"
wrote:

Anyone discussing this? I don't want to wade through 4000000000 posts .

Quite a bit lately in fact.

I've been doing quite well in sweet water and as to salt, my Contender
is pulling in some decent bucks on the different NE tournament trails.
I've fished it a few times and my fishing partner has run more than I
have - we're both doing well in that sense.

How about you?

Yes, good to hear the boy's ok. Something similar happened out of the
GG a couple weeks ago. Here's an edited fishing report.

Here is a story we'd like to share about 6 year old Hunter
"Stitch" Jury as posted on our forums by member "BLAIR". Here
is an edited version of their adventure fishing at Dux for salmon....

Their day started off great as they got an early start. They launched
at 5.45 and were in line for Bait at 6am. They got to the golden gate
and BLAIRS buddys' 6 year old son took a spill, cracking his head
open.

Needing stitches, they turned the boat around and had the boat back on
the trailer by 8am and were at the hospital at 8:30am. After waiting
and receiving 5 stitches they were done at 10:30am at the hospital.

The funny part is that "Stitch" tells the doctor halfway through
the stitching process that he would appreciate her hurrying up, as he
needed to get back out to go fishing!!! He needed his 1st salmon and a
few stitches weren't going to stop him!!

The doctor cleared the idea with father Jeff Jury after she picked her
jaws off the floor and stopped laughing. Blair had no choice but to
take the boy out and that they did.

The weekend prior "Stitch" had lost a BIG salmon on the downrigger
cable and was seeking his redemption so back out they went.

Back fishing around noon ten minutes into the fishing, the 1st rod goes
off! "Stitch" takes helm of the rod and reel and lands his 1st
keeper salmon!

Congrats Hunter on a job well done. Your family and friends should be
proud. You're off to a great start at being a True Fisherman!

Priceless picture of 'Stitch' he

http://www.anglernet.net

-phish

On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 21:45:51 -0400, "NOYB" wrote:

That was a nice story, Nobs. I haven't been out in about three weeks. We've
doing the annual Children of Chernobyl thing again this year, and it seems like
there's something planned for every day. I *am* taking three of the Belarussians
out on Monday for some bottom fishing. Hope to load up on perch and have a fish
fry before we take them to a baseball game Monday night.

Will give a report Tuesday!

--
John H.
On the 'PocoLoco' out of Deale, MD

On 5 Aug 2005 23:15:49 -0700, wrote:

Yes, good to hear the boy's ok. Something similar happened out of the
GG a couple weeks ago. Here's an edited fishing report.

Here is a story we'd like to share about 6 year old Hunter
"Stitch" Jury as posted on our forums by member "BLAIR". Here
is an edited version of their adventure fishing at Dux for salmon....

Their day started off great as they got an early start. They launched
at 5.45 and were in line for Bait at 6am. They got to the golden gate
and BLAIRS buddys' 6 year old son took a spill, cracking his head
open.

Needing stitches, they turned the boat around and had the boat back on
the trailer by 8am and were at the hospital at 8:30am. After waiting
and receiving 5 stitches they were done at 10:30am at the hospital.

The funny part is that "Stitch" tells the doctor halfway through
the stitching process that he would appreciate her hurrying up, as he
needed to get back out to go fishing!!! He needed his 1st salmon and a
few stitches weren't going to stop him!!

The doctor cleared the idea with father Jeff Jury after she picked her
jaws off the floor and stopped laughing. Blair had no choice but to
take the boy out and that they did.

The weekend prior "Stitch" had lost a BIG salmon on the downrigger
cable and was seeking his redemption so back out they went.

Back fishing around noon ten minutes into the fishing, the 1st rod goes
off! "Stitch" takes helm of the rod and reel and lands his 1st
keeper salmon!

Congrats Hunter on a job well done. Your family and friends should be
proud. You're off to a great start at being a True Fisherman!

Priceless picture of 'Stitch' he

http://www.anglernet.net

-phish

Nice story and cute pic. Thanks!

--
John H.
On the 'PocoLoco' out of Deale, MD

The doc ordered a CT scan as a precaution, and it thankfully came
back negative.

I met them at the hospital, and my son's first words were "when I get
better, can we go back out fishing again?" His second question was "I
didn't dent your boat, did I?"


Glad he (and the boat) is OK. I still think if we shoot a few of the
rude Bast---ds the word would get around pretty quick. We often fish a
cut and it's amazing how many boats seem to want to see how close they
can get to you when they run through. Another annoyance is how many
people never consider their wake - most boats at full plane don't kick
up much of a wake but a lot of skippers seem to think that if they
slow down when they pass they are doing you a favor when actually
their plane/wallow is kicking up a much larger wake.

"Tom" wrote in message
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The doc ordered a CT scan as a precaution, and it thankfully came
back negative.

I met them at the hospital, and my son's first words were "when I get
better, can we go back out fishing again?" His second question was "I
didn't dent your boat, did I?"


Glad he (and the boat) is OK. I still think if we shoot a few of the
rude Bast---ds the word would get around pretty quick. We often fish a
cut and it's amazing how many boats seem to want to see how close they
can get to you when they run through. Another annoyance is how many
people never consider their wake - most boats at full plane don't kick
up much of a wake but a lot of skippers seem to think that if they
slow down when they pass they are doing you a favor when actually
their plane/wallow is kicking up a much larger wake.


Give those skippers a break. It's hard to turn your head and check your own
wake when you're trying to look stiff & macho.