Day 186 - Photo A Day Challenge - 7-4-2012 (Page 3): Yep-sand in your shoes for sure! :-D...

Tooth Maker Loc: North Carolina

Roadrunner wrote:

Here are a few, some new some not, but they are all fishy

Yep-sand in your shoes for sure! :-D

lilac

Roadrunner wrote:

A couple of trips

#1 was a striper caught at the dock there. Now I want to include a story here, please put up with me...

The Last Striper

Always nice to get back home and that was what I did in this one October many years ago. Spent a week with my mom and neighbours who had been family friends for nearly a half a century and it was nice and the warmth of it all was exactly what I wanted at that time as I had previously retired and now had time to travel and get back to my roots more often. We would walk down to the seawall mornings for coffee and muffins at my moms favourite table overlooking the water and always she would see someone she knew and they would chat a bit. Yes, we lived in a very small town.

This one afternoon I decided to go fishing after supper and I prepared my pole and canoe and all and later on I brought the canoe down to the beach and paddled out to lighthouse and anchored off of the point. Fishing from a canoe on Long Island Sound is rarely seen and in fact, Ive never seen another canoe out there but it was all I had and it suited me fine and besides I was not that far from shore either. I was all alone, not a boat in sight and I noticed a large ripple heading my way. A ripple can only be bait fish and if they are rippling that means that bigger fish are chasing them, and in this case either blues or stripers. I waited and cast out and immediately got a hit and brought in a striper, and quickly cast out again, and got another hit and another striper. I looked up and eight boats were following the bait, as were the gulls. Boy, that happened quickly.

Before we go any further, I respect limits, I was taught like that as a kid. These two were two inches short and I was going to put them back in the water but something, a premonition maybe, but something told me to keep them. I paddled back to the beach and on my way I was happy as we were leaving the next morning and I knew that my mother loved stripers and I thought that I would fillet them and she could have a dinner the next day of fresh striper and save the rest for the winter. Came back to the house after sunset and set to the task of filleting my catch and she was so happy to have them.

Left the next morning and that was the last time I saw her alive.

Premonitions? Yes, I believe in them, do not go against them anymore, they are there for a reason.

A couple of trips br br #1 was a striper caught a... (show quote)

Beautiful story, I have been told they are your angels. You were wise to listen to them.

sands Loc: Jacksonville, FL

Jer wrote:

The conclusion of fireworks Thursday night at Fort McDowell Casino outside of Phoenix.

Cool shot, Jer!

sands Loc: Jacksonville, FL

Roadrunner wrote:

Here are a few, some new some not, but they are all fishy

Love the last one Roadrunner... a dedicated fisherman to the last!

Roadrunner Loc: Quebec, Canada

Tooth Maker wrote:

Roadrunner wrote:

Here are a few, some new some not, but they are all fishy

Yep-sand in your shoes for sure! :-D

Yeah, you bet, Tooth...thanx for the reply

Roadrunner Loc: Quebec, Canada

sands wrote:

Roadrunner wrote:

Here are a few, some new some not, but they are all fishy

Love the last one Roadrunner... a dedicated fisherman to the last!

Thank you Sands

Roadrunner Loc: Quebec, Canada

lilac wrote:

Roadrunner wrote:

A couple of trips

#1 was a striper caught at the dock there. Now I want to include a story here, please put up with me...

The Last Striper

Always nice to get back home and that was what I did in this one October many years ago. Spent a week with my mom and neighbours who had been family friends for nearly a half a century and it was nice and the warmth of it all was exactly what I wanted at that time as I had previously retired and now had time to travel and get back to my roots more often. We would walk down to the seawall mornings for coffee and muffins at my moms favourite table overlooking the water and always she would see someone she knew and they would chat a bit. Yes, we lived in a very small town.

This one afternoon I decided to go fishing after supper and I prepared my pole and canoe and all and later on I brought the canoe down to the beach and paddled out to lighthouse and anchored off of the point. Fishing from a canoe on Long Island Sound is rarely seen and in fact, Ive never seen another canoe out there but it was all I had and it suited me fine and besides I was not that far from shore either. I was all alone, not a boat in sight and I noticed a large ripple heading my way. A ripple can only be bait fish and if they are rippling that means that bigger fish are chasing them, and in this case either blues or stripers. I waited and cast out and immediately got a hit and brought in a striper, and quickly cast out again, and got another hit and another striper. I looked up and eight boats were following the bait, as were the gulls. Boy, that happened quickly.

Before we go any further, I respect limits, I was taught like that as a kid. These two were two inches short and I was going to put them back in the water but something, a premonition maybe, but something told me to keep them. I paddled back to the beach and on my way I was happy as we were leaving the next morning and I knew that my mother loved stripers and I thought that I would fillet them and she could have a dinner the next day of fresh striper and save the rest for the winter. Came back to the house after sunset and set to the task of filleting my catch and she was so happy to have them.

Left the next morning and that was the last time I saw her alive.

Premonitions? Yes, I believe in them, do not go against them anymore, they are there for a reason.

A couple of trips br br #1 was a striper caught a... (show quote)

Beautiful story, I have been told they are your angels. You were wise to listen to them.

quote=Roadrunner A couple of trips br br #1 was ... (show quote)

Thanx for reading me Lilac, 'preciate it.

sands Loc: Jacksonville, FL

babbs2424 wrote:

At the cabin

Love the foggy morning shot, Babbs!

Roadrunner Loc: Quebec, Canada

Upat the camp.....

markar Loc: Michigan

photogrl57 wrote:

Welcome to Day 186 :) Today is going to be double ... (show quote)

My favorite fishing picture.

Grandson doing his favorite evening activity.

sands Loc: Jacksonville, FL

photogrl57 wrote:

Welcome to Day 186 :) Today is going to be double ... (show quote)

Some shots of recent fishing trips...

Trout - Rocky Mtn Nat Park

Rocky Mtn Nat'l Park

Toccoa River - Blue Ridge, GA

woman44004 Loc: ashtabula, ohio

My brother likes to fish, here he is comparing his latest with his new grandson. Grandson is 3 months old.

Dr Rae Loc: Sarasota Florida

I'm so glad you took those fish to your mom. That's a great memory.

The other photo of the hook in the face reminded me of when my 16yr old daughter got a hook in her finger - it was all the way in and we had to take her to the ER to have it removed. 3 years later my 10 year old daughter got a hook in her finger. We were at the same lake (3 1/2 hrs from home and the first time we'd been back there) and the same ER doctor removed it for her. He remembered my first daughter because he was concerned about his technique since she's a cellist.

Dr Rae Loc: Sarasota Florida

woman44004 wrote:

My brother likes to fish, here he is comparing his latest with his new grandson. Grandson is 3 months old.

I'd be taking that kiddo on every fishing trip. Imagine the size of the catch when he's 8!

babbs2424 Loc: Michigan

sands wrote:

babbs2424 wrote:

At the cabin

Love the foggy morning shot, Babbs!

Thanks sands