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we had some good days on the porgies by going up and making the run to long island sound, and a few good days in the spring on sea bass. we do not like tossing shads and jigs all day for bass and we do not like the new regs. used to blackfish under the verrazano and fill a cooler. as for tuna, i actually used to work the deck with one of the guys from wicked tuna back in the 80s. the less said the better, but you can figure out who he is. he made a lot more money on tv than he ever made fishing. i'm looking forward to some nice holiday photos tomorrow. cheers.

we had a crap season; too much wind, stripers were skittish, porgies were only in the sound, sea bass got picked over in a week. friend is thinking of calling it quits, we've been at it since 1982.....and porgies going for a staggering 12.99 a pound at wegman's.....with those kinds of prices, it won't be long before we have a 3 fish limit with a closed season, so the netters can have their fill.....

i was outside doing yard work with just a shirt jacket, but the ground was still frozen and so were the raised beds. snow should stick nice.

gassed up the blower; got out the big daddy, because it is self propelled; the smaller craftsman does a crap job.

"it will bring its own cold air with it" there, i said it so no one else has to. and, i wouldn't count on it, i never do....let's see how it unfolds. been around long enough to see forecasts completely turn around, for good and bad....

yes. get your cameras ready. it may be the only snow of the season; if you celebrate holidays and have decorations, it is a rare chance to get great seasonal photos; make a card.

2010 shall live in infamy in the nyc metro....it was great by today's standards, but most of the good stuff was just a hair too south....still i'd take the 3 big storms we had that were around a foot each in a heartbeat today. but as a retiree now with bad knees and a bad back, and adult kids who have to drive each day, i no longer wish for a lot of snow. i never had to work or drive in it, working in a school, and my kids would be home, but things are different now. 3-6 inches is about my limit these days. and even they are getting hard to come by. 2021 was quite good, but we were all busy with something else that year. i still suffer bouts of brain fog from long covid.

my grandparents were visiting from southern indianan and they had never seen snow like that.....an older woman told me her husband died shoveling the snow and she had to keep him the house for a few days as no one could get to her.....

we did have the jan 2016 blockbuster after a warm snowless december, but it was really a one off kinda winter....

here's where you can use qualitative data....62 years here, 63 next week....can't tell you much about the 60s, but the 70s were colder, i would see frozen ground in november, we had only one real big event in cnj in the 70s. mid feb 78....snow remained scarce in the 80s except for jan and april 82, feb 83, jan 87, and a freak november event in 89. nada until the harsh winter of 94, one big event in feb 95, the gold standard of 96, nada until dec 2000, then the aughts begin with blockbuster winters in between snow droughts, until around 2015, with a big daddy and 2016, and nothing really big till 2021. 2018 and 2022 were decent south and east, 2024 had a few events. been rather quiet otherwise, and warmth the likes of which someone my age never saw as a child. that is qualitative, observational, and not scientific. however, failing to use qualitative data which was readily available caused scientists to badly underestimate how much overfishing has been taking place; they did not ask anglers, seafood buyers or markets, what they had observed over the decades, relying a lot on trawl data. what you guys are arguing over is esoterica for me, but i can tell you, its warmer and doesn't snow as much lately. now, my next question would be, what does the peer reviewed literature say? this is like the experts on dog evolution, one arguing they all descended from the european wolf, the other saying nonsense, it was clearly some smaller animal.....but i do get a kick out of reading it all.

poster has a doctorate in a hard science. show some respect.

and fireworks

i believe in 2015 we were sitting outside, because it was too hot inside and the ac vents had all been closed for the winter....

could you elaborate? not that i would trust that dude.

consensus is we aren't having much of a winter here this year, so there, i'm glad the experts got it off their chests.....and actually haven't seen much of one since 2021, which was pretty snowy, and seems ignored around here. i guess there were other things in the news....the local reservoir is down to a trickle, though it is not used for drinking anymore and is scheduled for dredging and redevelopment. that would be the clark reservoir, subject of much controversy these days.

yes, i was fishing that day and brought a bucket with a bag of ice, usually fine for this time of year, but it quickly melted and i had to empty the lunch cooler out and stuff the fish in there.

we could not grow the amounts of food we do without pesticides. period. and we'd be inundated with roaches without them too. not all pesticides are onerous; boric acid and baking soda are pesticides. pyrethrins are pretty safe. if you've ever had a roach hitch a ride in your groceries and drop an egg sack, you would be much more inclined to be friendly to pesticides.....

my son's entire job is determining impacts on wetlands. been tough to take samples this year with all the dry soil. developers often get pissed at him for delaying their projects, but there is a criteria and a set of plans to be implemented if wetlands are present. and unlike some idiots on the supreme court, he knows that wetlands don't have to be connected somehow to running water.....because he has a degree in this stuff....

the weather must be boring.....

sure, if you have a good down parka.....i used to hike all winter, jogged when i was younger. it was cold. very much so.

many kids did not do well, i was working in schools at the time. motivated kids did well, others did not, and the data bears this out. but hindsight is 20-20 and there was no playbook for this. over a million dead...the worst results in the developed world. my kids did fine online, but some kids just never logged in.

when i started teaching in 1988, teachers told me what a disaster it was in the 70s as they watched the sunrise during first period....kids at the bus stops in the dark, walking to school in the dark...

i don't do tog anymore.....something has happened with that fishery. back in the day you could catch a mess of them, i used to fish under the verrazzano.....the block island sound fishery is a good one though, but these limits, jeebus....guys are eeling bass already up here, but those are resident river bass. gotta see what shakes out after this storm; my guess is inshore is kaput; but it might get those stripers moving our way. going to dinner now for some porgies and sea bass, the last of our catch earlier in the week. see you out there, cap....

you don't chase the stripers? the best of the season is mid november up here...

funds that are unlikely to come these days.....hey we don't need fema right? the states can do it all themselves......