3 weight MIA!!!!

[Farmy Joe]

I'm formally putting out an APB on my buddy Jim aka. 3weight. If anybody knows his whereabouts, please update us. Everyone here hopes that both he and his family are ok and that the terrible rumors about his cyber disappearance are just gross exagerrations and hideous lies. :(

[Flyone73]

I was wondering the same thing. I haven't seen any real long posts in a while. Hope everything is ok

[Housy Dave]

I bet his computer is broken. There's just no way he could restrain himself otherwise.

The last I talked to him he was headed to the cape for a family vacation and some striper fishing. In another three days I think we better send out a search party. We'll comb the beaches and cast to all fishy looking spots till we find him. However, we'll only look for him at high tide around sunrise/sunset.

[Farmy Joe]

In another three days I think we better send out a search party. We'll comb the beaches and cast to all fishy looking spots till we find him. However, we'll only look for him at high tide around sunrise/sunset.
Good plan! We'll also have to consider extending the search area to include the Housy, preferrably around 8ish. While we're there we might as well cast to all those fish rising to the white flies... :wink:

[Housy Dave]

Yeah, that's true, he could be somewhere up there. I'll start looking on Fri.

[Farmy Joe]

Perhaps we should combine resources on that day to broaden our search?

[The Fisherman]

I just called his cell. No answer. Left a message.

[Farmy Joe]

"Calling all cars, calling all cars...."

[Catch 22]

I haven't seen any real long posts in a while

LMAO!

[JACHARBO]

Who in the world is 3weight -

By the sounds of his loyal following here and in other posts, he may want to consider a bid for public office.

John

[flyrodder]

I haven't seen any real long posts in a while

LMAO!

I was expecting nothing short of a novel after his trip to the cape.

[Farmy Joe]

I was expecting nothing short of a novel after his trip to the cape.

Yeah, instead of War and Peace, we got Peace and Quiet... :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Todd K]

Hello guys. I have been away a lot lately and was wondering the same thing every time I checked in. I was going to post the same question but you got to it before me.

There is a new member called 2weight.....hmmm

[2Weight]

Hello guys. I have been away a lot lately and was wondering the same thing every time I checked in. I was going to post the same question but you got to it before me.

There is a new member called 2weight.....hmmm

Nope! There is only one of me and all my friends say that too.

[Todd K]

There is only one 3Weight also!

[Farmy Joe]

Thank God on both counts... :P :lol:

[Farmy Joe]

Great News! I just made first contact with Jimbo in over a month! Well not exactly. He left me a voicemail saying that I was the 2nd person to inquire about his stautus :oops:. He's alright and everything was fine as far as I could tell from the message. I'll call him back later when the cell phone rates are cheaper and we're both on of peak time. :lol:

[The Patriot]

I heard ya missed me......

I'm BAAAAACK!!

:lol:

Dave,

If you fish the outer Cape beaches, the fishing is better on the late half of the outgoing and the first half of the incoming, unlike CT/RI/LIS. That's when the rips and bars are visible and when the fish are in the bowls and cuts. Fishing the outer beaches at high tide can be tough, since you can't really read the water as well, the water is deeper, the waves are often alot bigger, and it can be tough to find or reach fish. On the other hand, at high tide the fish can be right at your feet near the shore, but they can be spread out. I have always done better at lower tidal stages, and that's what was recommended to me by the local expert at the Nauset Angler in Orleans.

:D



Bob,

You've got a he!! of a nerve talking about MY long posts! :roll:

:wink: :D

Have you actually read some of your long winded tomes? :P :D



Thanks to all for your concern... (and particularly for your selfless efforts to search for me in likely fishing spots..... I'm touched by your personal sacrifice to try to locate me..... :wink: maybe you could even do some fishing while you're out there..... :D ).... I'm just great, thanks!



Late Cape report:

Spent Saturday night 7/8 out dining and bar hopping with my wife and my eldest daughter and her boyfriend.

Fished Sunday evening 7/9 and Monday morning 7/10... got nothin' both times.

Monday night we took the kids to the Drive In in Wellfleet, so no fishing Monday night or Tuesday morning.

Tuesday night we had a beach fire at Herring Cove in Ptown, too windy to fish then, I tried pl***ing with my s**f rod, it was virtually impossible.

Hooked up with a guy from another board (www.reel-time.com) Wednesday morning 7/12, , a "supermoderator" there named Bob Parsons, who took me out on his boat in Barnstable Harbor and Cape Cod Bay. We put about 60 fish in the boat between us, I only accounted for about 25 or so, a mix of blues and stripers, my big fish was a 22" blue, the rest were all 14 to 18 inches, on a variety of clousers and sand eel imitations. White was the hot color. My big blue was taken on a white gurgler on the surface. We found fish everywhere we went. Some surface action, but the fish on top were incredibly hard to hook and very spooky. Bob is a very good angler and boater who knew where to go. He was constantly hooked up, but didn't get all his fish on the fly. He has a bad shoulder so every once in awhile he'd grab his sp***ing rod and throw some white sl***go or some such rubber l*r* and every time he did he caught something. He got two blues about 24 inches for his big fish, but no big stripers were to be had.

Thursday I took my nephew to the Nauset Inlet late in the afternoon to fish until dark. Picked up some b**t for him to use on my s**f rod. Forty five minute walk each way from the lot to the point (reminded me of Bluff Point, only you could fish Nauset Marsh on your way out if you wanted). BEAUTIFUL spot! Simply breathtaking! It had been gray and rainy that day, but the sun came out and the sky and the dunes were unbelievable! My pics haven't been developed yet, and I'm not very computer savvy. I'll have to see what I can do. Maybe Joe can help me post some photos.

Anyway, I only got one schoolie about 16 inches there, but the highlight of the week was my 16 year old nephew Kyle got two fish, 20 and 22 inches, his first ever striped bass! :D

Friday morning I headed out at dawn, but the Outer Beaches were loaded with weeds and mung, and by the time I relocated to the Bay side, it was too bright and the tide was too far out.

Friday night was seafood fest, shucked some littlenecks, cooked up some steamers, picked up some chowder, boiled some lobsters, and grilled some swordfish and scallops, then went out to the Wellfleet Beachcomber, a great bar on a cliff overlooking Cahoon Hollow Beach with my wife.

Saturday morning we had to clear out.

Overall, I did better last year in terms of finding fish from shore and got bigger, higher quality fish, but this year I caught more fish numbers wise. (I'll take quality over quantity.....)


Haven't wet a line since I've been home. Been spending alot of time at the beach and grilling on the patio, hanging out with Carol and the kids. Seems like when I have a day off it's been sunny, so off to the shore we go..... some days were too hot to even think about putting on the waders. I gotta pick up some footwear for wet wading.....

I've manipulated my work schedule for the rest of August so that I never work more than two days in a row, with at least two days off between "tricks". For example, I worked first shift Wed, a double Thursday, and now I'm off until Tuesday. I work Tuesday till 3, a double on Wed, then I'm off Thurs and Friday. Basically, I work two days a week and every other weekend, but I'm still putting in my 80 hours in two weeks. Nice work if you can get it.....

Hopefully I'll get the urge to throw my gear back in the truck and do some fishing, but right now, I'm enjoying other summer distractions.....

Later in the month, my wife will be heading back to her classroom, and then I'll definitely be back on the water.

This ought to slake everyone's thirst for a long winded 3weight post for awhile....

See y'all around!

Jim

[The Fisherman]

I don't have the energy to read the whole post...where did you get the energy to type it? :wink:

[Todd K]

welcome back! I better make some room on the server. :-)

[Z Fisher]

Welcome back. Glad to hear you're enjoying the summer.

[Housy Dave]

ahh man, now my head is spinning. Welcome back Jim!