Sharphooks
Well-Known Member
For the last several decades I’ve always been able to go out in my local waters during the month of June and at least have the option to try and catch a spring. This year, June is out. No fishing. So now, the season opened 01 July, but you can’t fish on Thursdays and Fridays. And if you want to set a dungeness pot—-you can’t do that until 12 JUly, and only on Sundays and Mondays...
And if you fish prawns, they give you 4 hours of fishing time per year. Yes, per year—-you read that correctly.
And I can’t go north to the promised land this August because we can’t manage our plague properly so no border crossing.
Meanwhile, everyone I see is driving around in these huge brand new boats with double and triple outboards. Rocket launchers bristling with rods. Brand new downriggers. Doppler radar. Twenty five footers are so yesterday—-28 footers, 30 footer.....a quarter million bucks for just the base package before you start adding the goodies.....These are go anywhere boats; bad weather? No problem....just blast through it and fill your fish boxes on the other side of the rainbow!
Am I missing something here? Seems to be a huge disconnect, especially when you read the marketing hype about the “bottomless” fishing opportunities the owners of these new boats will almost certainly have because now, bad weather won’t stop them....
Meanwhile, for my last two outings on home water I stared at blank screens....no bait....no signs of life other then scads and scads of jelly fish.
I was all set to get a bigger boat. Had it chosen, had already done the re-power in my mind....then woke up one morning and asked myself....why would you need something bigger then what you already have when all the opportunities for doing things with the bigger boat just seem to be getting smaller?
And if you fish prawns, they give you 4 hours of fishing time per year. Yes, per year—-you read that correctly.
And I can’t go north to the promised land this August because we can’t manage our plague properly so no border crossing.
Meanwhile, everyone I see is driving around in these huge brand new boats with double and triple outboards. Rocket launchers bristling with rods. Brand new downriggers. Doppler radar. Twenty five footers are so yesterday—-28 footers, 30 footer.....a quarter million bucks for just the base package before you start adding the goodies.....These are go anywhere boats; bad weather? No problem....just blast through it and fill your fish boxes on the other side of the rainbow!
Am I missing something here? Seems to be a huge disconnect, especially when you read the marketing hype about the “bottomless” fishing opportunities the owners of these new boats will almost certainly have because now, bad weather won’t stop them....
Meanwhile, for my last two outings on home water I stared at blank screens....no bait....no signs of life other then scads and scads of jelly fish.
I was all set to get a bigger boat. Had it chosen, had already done the re-power in my mind....then woke up one morning and asked myself....why would you need something bigger then what you already have when all the opportunities for doing things with the bigger boat just seem to be getting smaller?
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