Long Island Sound Gathering?
 

Last year I tried to get a CT gathering going and there was some interest but it didn't pan out. I'm just throwing this out to see who is interested but we should start talking about an LIS gathering. It seems there are plenty of new guys from the area so what do you think?

Last year we were going to meet at Duck Island, which is fairly central to the eastern side, and do a small fluke tournament. Lets plan something that will get the most boats and people. Here is some inspiration for that....

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y84...r/100_2688.jpg

This is not meant to take away from the Newport gathering, when is that going to be this year? I have missed it twice now, maybe I can get there this year, hopefully.

Here are the old posts.
http://www.classicseacraft.com/forum...b=5&o=&fpart=1
http://www.classicseacraft.com/forum...b=5&o=&fpart=1

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I'm game. Though I'll have to check with Rodney to see if he has a futon. :D

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I am in

Doormats watch out!!!

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What kind of "game" do you play on his "futon" :D

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Fetch.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v485/Handel/Chuck.jpg

:D

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How about a Barn Island - Naps - Fisher's meet :) Crack 'O Dawn bassin' daytime Flukin' Boat Beachin' grill on the Sand Spit inside of Naps??

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John R-


your gooooooood!!! that sounds fun as well but it may be a haul for Bryan?

I game for anything involving saltwater this summer

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That sounds good too, lets plan a few events. I still would like to get some of the guys up from the Wester side of the sound. Open to all suggestions.

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I'd be in if it were not too far. I've got a trailer, but would rather cruise.I'm coming from Mt. Sinai (Port. Jeff area) in NY.
Incidentally, the fluking has been beyond red hot during the end of june the last few years right outside our harbors. I won't say it lasted a whole long time, but it was as good as it gets when it was on.

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I hear ya on the June bite. Last year we called it "Flukin in June" but it never happened.

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Come on all you Long Island Sound Lurkers ........ chime in :mad: :D

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I am sure that some of us Jersey guys could come over and put on a fishing clinic for you.

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Do I here a challenge........ :D
LIS vs. Jersey Shore....biggest slab wins!!!!

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Can I bring my own slab.. I have a great hole which gives up a few 30"+ mats every year... lol sounds like fun just got to see how the summer plays out.

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Don't you love those holes :D
They seem to produce year after year. Up here there are some that get passed down generation to generation. Now that the Fluke are on the comeback those old spots are even better.

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Sounds like we need to have a neutral spot around the sound (as though there is such a place).

All kidding aside, if I can swing it I would love to do it.

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Aside from Oldfielder, its seems we have more NJ and RI guys stepping up to the challenge than LIS. Where is everybody............... :D Bottom bumping for Fluke must not be glamourous enough. :D

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Dude, we've been challenged......... :cool:

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All in good fun and fishing. Is winter over yet? So close but yet so far......

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Finster, we could do a home and home series. First trip up north and then we could do a summer LBI/Little Egg Harbor rematch.

Yes, it is in fun.

On a related matter we are already getting consistant reports of striped bass being caught on both worms and clams at Union Beach, NJ. This is in the western portion of Raritan Bay, NJ. It is a shallow sod back area, and is usually the first place in central NJ to start producing.

I plan on putting on rig in the water on April 1, and going winter flounder & bass fishing. We will see.

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I'm up for what ever you guys want to put together. My only problem is I'm joined at the hip with a towboat once it goes in the water (which my be tomorrow).
But I'm sure I can pull off a quick trip here and there. :cool:

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I'm in of course. The boat is going to stay on the trailer up in New Haven through the spring, so I just have to haul it up happy I 95!

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Jim - I was hoping you would pop your head in sooner or later.

Guys - Lets come up with a date. Any suggestions.

Finster - we'll call for a tow from Mystic to Cape May :eek: on the day we decide to fish. :D BTW I worked for Tow Boat US part time for a summer a few years back.

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Thats cool. How'd you like it?

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It was cool, but at the time I was working another job and starting a family so the COOL tow boat job had to go on hold for a while, maybe in the future. Need any help?

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I'd be interested. Sorry for the late reply, I never check the gathering section. It always seems to be about Fla.

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How bout a "BLOWFISH" Tourny there ! Chicken of the Sea ! Man0Man I remember catch'n them ! Sho' was some good eat'n ! :cool:

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Lets change that this year.....tell all your friends.

Blowfish, I haven't seen one of them round these parts since I was a kid :D

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Blowfish? We get piles of'em around here. We used to get piles of weakfish too, but they've been off for a few seasons. Can't get an answer why??

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Weakfish! Thats the other one,Couldn't remember its name.Sandsharks & Flonder.Oh yea digg'n & grabb'n Clams with Your toes& dropping them in the bucket ! Yep its been a LIL' Whille! :D
Tug :cool:

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Man your just dripp'n of Yankee! Don't deny it! Your some suit high up in Manhattan....

All that redneck studder'n Mel Tillis BS. Yeah right! :D

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And "BLUEFISH" ! Yankee ? Man I got Toes lik'a Coon or oppussum Depends on which side of da' Bayou I'm on ! Almost rip a oyster of the bar! :cool:

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I gotch ya. We call'em clam-digger toes around here. :D

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any progress on a date or location?

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I have been waiting for other guys to chime in thinking more people would be able to make it if they chose the date. Last year things fell apart at the last minute. What are the dates for Newport and Chatam? I'd like to start planning something too. Suggest a date and we'll go from there.
Now I really need to get my boat back together. :o

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Chatham July 15 or 16
Newport (same as Jazz Fest) weekend of August 12th.


I am not a Fluke fisherman but though late May early June is a good time? How about a weekend after your classes are finished?

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That would be the 24, 25 of June. Which is the Montauk Marine Basin Shark Tourny for us. Then we are into July 1,2 which is going to be the 4th of July wekkend this year, Then we are close to Chatam time. Maybe end of July? Not the best Fluke time but it fits the Schedual (Now we need a secretary for this site to handle the event timing) :D :D

Or the weekend between the Fourth and Chatam (8th & 9th)????

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Not looking good for me in late June July.