Fishing question

"Terry Lomax" wrote in message
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but many northerners practice a bizarre Yankee ritual
called "shore lunch".

I have been fishing for 40 years. First time I heard of "Shore Lunch" was at
Woodlands Park Colorado. I was fishing there one early cold morning in 1992
and saw this group along the bank cooking. (I always fished off the Dam). I
walked over being that I was nosy to see if they had caught anything. There
were 4 of them, I recall that they had about 50 trout. Stockers about 12
inches long. And they were frying them up. I am for the most part a C&R
fisherman with the exception of Catfish. Anyway, they had about 50. IIRC the
possesion limit was 8. They told me they were having "Shore Lunch" at 7 in
the morning. I know for a fact this group didnt eat 50 fish, were well in
excess of possesion limits and I have no doubt some were under 12 inches.
When the game warden came along later that morning, I sent him thier way.

"Jeff" wrote in message
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"Terry Lomax" wrote in message
oups.com...

but many northerners practice a bizarre Yankee ritual
called "shore lunch".

I have been fishing for 40 years. First time I heard of "Shore Lunch" was
at
Woodlands Park Colorado. I was fishing there one early cold morning in
1992
and saw this group along the bank cooking. (I always fished off the Dam).
I
walked over being that I was nosy to see if they had caught anything.
There
were 4 of them, I recall that they had about 50 trout. Stockers about 12
inches long. And they were frying them up. I am for the most part a C&R
fisherman with the exception of Catfish. Anyway, they had about 50. IIRC
the
possesion limit was 8. They told me they were having "Shore Lunch" at 7 in
the morning. I know for a fact this group didnt eat 50 fish, were well in
excess of possesion limits and I have no doubt some were under 12 inches.
When the game warden came along later that morning, I sent him thier way.



To be honest, I had never heard of "shore lunch" before.

Stinkweed wrote:


To be honest, I had never heard of "shore lunch" before.



Shore lunch is a common service provided by guides, especially Walleye,
and trout guides. Most of the time they catch a daily limit, then go to
the shore and fix it up for lunch, then continue fishing, keeping
another daily limit. It's not legal, but they have eaten the evidence of
keeping more than the daily limits.

I have to admit, eating fish that fresh on the bank somewhere, sure is a
great out door experience

--
Rodney Long,
Inventor of the Long Shot "WIGGLE" rig, SpecTastic Thread
Boomerang Fishing Pro. ,Stand Out Hooks ,Stand Out Lures,
Mojo's Rock Hopper & Rig Saver weights, Decoy Activator
and the EZKnot http://www.ezknot.com

"Rodney" wrote in message
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Stinkweed wrote:


To be honest, I had never heard of "shore lunch" before.

Shore lunch is a common service provided by guides, especially Walleye,
and trout guides. Most of the time they catch a daily limit, then go to
the shore and fix it up for lunch, then continue fishing, keeping another
daily limit. It's not legal, but they have eaten the evidence of keeping
more than the daily limits.

I have to admit, eating fish that fresh on the bank somewhere, sure is a
great out door experience

--
Rodney Long,
Inventor of the Long Shot "WIGGLE" rig, SpecTastic Thread
Boomerang Fishing Pro. ,Stand Out Hooks ,Stand Out Lures,
Mojo's Rock Hopper & Rig Saver weights, Decoy Activator
and the EZKnot http://www.ezknot.com

Thanks for explaining this to me, I had never heard of this before. My
brother has told me before that he has fished and eaten some trout that he
caught right after catching them and he said there is no better taste. I
was surprised at the attitude as I know my brother wouldn't do anything
wrong like kill them just for the fun of it. This summer when our son come
out with his kids, we fished on the lake for perch and had fish fries, I
know the fish did taste very good and we ate all that we caught. But Bass,
we put back, no matter how big.
Hey I like your paddle boat in the picture. We have a pontoon and we fish
off it a lot, but our favorite is to take our 2 person paddle boat out and
fish off it. Good exercise and lots of fun. When we use it we use don't
laugh ice fishing poles because they are so small that the work perfect
with the paddle boat.

Stinkweed wrote:


Hey I like your paddle boat in the picture.

That's "Peddle"


That thing is the greatest , The trouble is, I can't keep the wife, kids
and grand kids out of it, so I can use it fishing, they scoot all over
the lake on it,, we have a 4 passenger peddle boat as well, but it is
slow compared to the Out Back fisherman. It is so stable, no one has
ever flipped it, my son can get 8 miles an hour when peddling it, it
actually throws a wake.


For those who don't know what fishing boat we are talking about, it's on
my home page, it's a Hobie Out Back Fisherman , you peddle it with
your feet so your hands are free to fish, you can still paddle it (which
is it's only reverse), it comes fully rigged for fishing, anchor, 4 rod
holders, tackle box, and even a cooler. It has wheels that you stick
under it and it can be rolled anywhere you can walk, although it only
weighs 67 pounds

--
Rodney Long,
Inventor of the Long Shot "WIGGLE" rig, SpecTastic Thread
Boomerang Fishing Pro. ,Stand Out Hooks ,Stand Out Lures,
Mojo's Rock Hopper & Rig Saver weights, Decoy Activator
and the EZKnot http://www.ezknot.com

"Rodney" wrote in message
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Stinkweed wrote:


Hey I like your paddle boat in the picture.

That's "Peddle"


That thing is the greatest , The trouble is, I can't keep the wife, kids
and grand kids out of it, so I can use it fishing, they scoot all over the
lake on it,, we have a 4 passenger peddle boat as well, but it is slow
compared to the Out Back fisherman. It is so stable, no one has ever
flipped it, my son can get 8 miles an hour when peddling it, it actually
throws a wake.


For those who don't know what fishing boat we are talking about, it's on
my home page, it's a Hobie Out Back Fisherman , you peddle it with your
feet so your hands are free to fish, you can still paddle it (which is
it's only reverse), it comes fully rigged for fishing, anchor, 4 rod
holders, tackle box, and even a cooler. It has wheels that you stick under
it and it can be rolled anywhere you can walk, although it only weighs 67
pounds

--
Rodney Long,
Inventor of the Long Shot "WIGGLE" rig, SpecTastic Thread
Boomerang Fishing Pro. ,Stand Out Hooks ,Stand Out Lures,
Mojo's Rock Hopper & Rig Saver weights, Decoy Activator
and the EZKnot http://www.ezknot.com

I never noticed as I just went through there really fast, do you sell them?
How much? We just got Kayaks summer before last and have enjoyed them a
great deal, but I can't fish in them. My husband won't even try. Are they
easier to use than the paddle boat? I know after awhile my legs get pretty
tired in it even with my husband peddling too. But I need him there with me
to get the fish off the hook for me. I'm learning to do it, but he can do
it much quicker and get the fish back in the water. I actually like to fish
more than he does. He wants to come in way before I do. So we compromise
and stay just a little longer. :-)

Stinkweed wrote:

I never noticed as I just went through there really fast, do you sell them?


No,, I just love mine

http://www.hobiecat.com/fishing/mode...fisherman.html


How much?

Well they are not cheap for a Kayak, that's because of the "peddle drive"
We just got Kayaks summer before last and have enjoyed them a
great deal, but I can't fish in them. My husband won't even try.

This is no regular Kayak it's actually designed just for fishing, super
stable, they are not designed to be rolled. I didn't even put my bass
boat in the water last season (I did go with others in their boats)
every time I went fishing alone, I just took the Out Back
Are they
easier to use than the paddle boat?


You mean "peddle boat", many times easier , the peddles don't turn a
wheel, they activate flippers, on the underside of the boat, these have
Zero drag, you can peddle once and coast 25 feet. You can peddle real,
real, slow, about as slow as you can move your feet and the thing will
go about walking speed on the ground (2 to 3 miles an hour) you also
don't have to do a full peddle, you can just move your feet a couple of
inches back and forth
I know after awhile my legs get pretty
tired in it even with my husband peddling too.

It takes so little effort with the Out Back, you just pace yourself, now
if you want to get a work out, you can peddle fast, and you will go
faster than any other human powered boat on the water, even faster than
one of them skinny racing row boats

--
Rodney Long,
Inventor of the Long Shot "WIGGLE" rig, SpecTastic Thread
Boomerang Fishing Pro. ,Stand Out Hooks ,Stand Out Lures,
Mojo's Rock Hopper & Rig Saver weights, Decoy Activator
and the EZKnot http://www.ezknot.com

On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 09:21:42 -0600, Rodney wrote:

Stinkweed wrote:


To be honest, I had never heard of "shore lunch" before.



Shore lunch is a common service provided by guides, especially Walleye,
and trout guides. Most of the time they catch a daily limit, then go to
the shore and fix it up for lunch, then continue fishing, keeping
another daily limit. It's not legal, but they have eaten the evidence of
keeping more than the daily limits.

Hmm. The way I've read about it, I didn't think they cooked up a
whole limit. That's usually several fish per person. A wee bit too
filling for a lunch, especially with legal walleye. Never occurred
to me that some might do it to avoid limit rules. Just the taste of
the fish and the fun of them being fresh caught would be the thrill
for me.

I have to admit, eating fish that fresh on the bank somewhere, sure is a
great out door experience


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Cyli wrote:
On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 09:21:42 -0600, Rodney wrote:

Stinkweed wrote:

To be honest, I had never heard of "shore lunch" before.


Shore lunch is a common service provided by guides, especially Walleye,
and trout guides. Most of the time they catch a daily limit, then go to
the shore and fix it up for lunch, then continue fishing, keeping
another daily limit. It's not legal, but they have eaten the evidence of
keeping more than the daily limits.

Hmm. The way I've read about it, I didn't think they cooked up a
whole limit. That's usually several fish per person. A wee bit too
filling for a lunch, especially with legal walleye. Never occurred
to me that some might do it to avoid limit rules.

The trips that I have been on, the shore lunch consumption was not added
to the afternoons catch, but on these trips (fly in's) every fish that
was kept, was consumed, none were flown out (walleye 2 meals a day for
7 days, and I still didn't get bored with eating it)

Since the law was you could not transport over one day's catch, a 7 day
trip meant eating every thing that was caught and kept the first 6 days,
few people can eat more than a daily limit in a day's fishing, unless
some were not fishing in the group, over daily limits were seldom kept

--
Rodney Long,
Inventor of the Long Shot "WIGGLE" rig, SpecTastic Thread
Boomerang Fishing Pro. ,Stand Out Hooks ,Stand Out Lures,
Mojo's Rock Hopper & Rig Saver weights, Decoy Activator
and the EZKnot http://www.ezknot.com

"Rodney" wrote in message
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Cyli wrote:
On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 09:21:42 -0600, Rodney wrote:

Stinkweed wrote:

To be honest, I had never heard of "shore lunch" before.

Shore lunch is a common service provided by guides, especially Walleye,
and trout guides. Most of the time they catch a daily limit, then go to
the shore and fix it up for lunch, then continue fishing, keeping
another daily limit. It's not legal, but they have eaten the evidence of
keeping more than the daily limits.

Hmm. The way I've read about it, I didn't think they cooked up a
whole limit. That's usually several fish per person. A wee bit too
filling for a lunch, especially with legal walleye. Never occurred
to me that some might do it to avoid limit rules.

The trips that I have been on, the shore lunch consumption was not added
to the afternoons catch, but on these trips (fly in's) every fish that was
kept, was consumed, none were flown out (walleye 2 meals a day for 7
days, and I still didn't get bored with eating it)

Since the law was you could not transport over one day's catch, a 7 day
trip meant eating every thing that was caught and kept the first 6 days,
few people can eat more than a daily limit in a day's fishing, unless some
were not fishing in the group, over daily limits were seldom kept

--
Rodney Long,
Inventor of the Long Shot "WIGGLE" rig, SpecTastic Thread
Boomerang Fishing Pro. ,Stand Out Hooks ,Stand Out Lures,
Mojo's Rock Hopper & Rig Saver weights, Decoy Activator
and the EZKnot http://www.ezknot.com

I have never been on a fishing trip like that, my fishing has just been on
lakes with a boat of your own or you rent a boat. With the exception of a
boat trip out on the Gulf of Mexico to deep sea fish and that turned out not
to be so good as I got sea sick. I caught a couple but I don't even know
what they were and I gave them to friends.