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You definitely don't want to eat anything out of the Potomac. Just about anywhere you set up in East Potomac Park can produce bluegills close to the sea wall. Cut them up and cast them out on a fishfinder rig will produce some nice sized blue catfish.
If you are looking to keep stuff, night fishing at Burke Lake for catfish using chicken livers is a good bet on nice size channel cats. One caveat, if you cast out a liver with the sun still up, the tiny bluegills will shred it almost immediately. At both spots, bring lots of mosquito spray.
Even though I live locally in Falls Church, I almost never fish locally when shad season ends. Too many people, too many bugs, and not enough payoff. Late October is when trips over to the Bay starts to pay off for rockfish, and Lake Fairfax stocks big rainbow trout in late February-April.
I recognize the upside and potential, but I think a lot of the concern stems from the fact that we have nearly an entire staff of coaches, including the head coach, learning on the job with regards to recruiting at a program like VT. We don't really have a proven recruiter on the staff. Bud and Wiles have been here forever, but they are not known for recruiting ability. You think Fu would have thought it prudent to hire a few seasoned recruiting vets at the power 5 level for his first big time job. He must be really confident in his ability to coach kids up, hope that they will become great recruiters after some winning, or they think it's just as easy as it was at Memphis. I'm ecstatic about the coaching aspect of this new staff, but recruiting has some serious doubts.
I, for one, think it's a good policy. If you want to take other visits, get wined/dined, etc...don't commit. If you want to commit...commit.
Im sure his rating increasing after his commitment helped with this. Oh whale. This is why I have a hard time following recruiting, theres a lot more rejection and losing involved than there is winning. I too am hopeful positive results on the field will help us with recruiting. I don't understand the argument that it won't by some of those above. We need to hurry up and start playing.
Short term, you'd be better off buying fish at WalMart than trying to justify the expense of fishing by the savings at the table. Sport fishing is more than economics, and if your fiancee doesn't appreciate the return on the investment, well, you aren't married yet, right?
Just kidding, of course, but as to the shad fishing, you don't wanna eat them anyway...believe me, but they are truly considered one of the best river run game fish to target. They fight like their tails are on fire and unless you have a taste for really strong tasting oily fish, even their roe is, well, best called an acquired taste, at best.
The good thing is, if you keep expanding your fishing, you will have ample opportunity to provide good food and enjoy great angling action, but if it is only the chow that drives you, you'll never really "get" the allure of fishing.
IMHO, of course.
Garbutthole
He's a 17/18 year old kid who wants to make sure he's making the right decision. He still says VT is at the top of his list. Let's not do this. Please. Let's not do this.
Edit: I'd better comment on the topic as well.
Interesting that Bama/PSU are leading the "worst" categories. They are by their very nature as bland and average as possible, leading me to believe that no one would have a strong opinion of them either way. I wonder why recruits think they're the worst?
Glad to respond, and I just wish someone on this site could hook me up with Gulp, for all the free advertisement they get from me. I prefer a 4" Gulp Swimming Mullet (your basic curly tailed grub). I prefer the chartreuse color, next the pink and right with it the white. I use them on a painted jig head, either 1/4 oz from the dock or in still water, or in the surf and running tide, a 1/2 oz. There is a locally sold brand of jig head, called Gotcha that makes them, they're not ball jigs, but are thinner in the head, but any jig head will suffice. I like to contrast the jighead with the gulp, maybe red jig with chartreuse swimmer, or the chartreuse head with the pink or white, but if in doubt, I say if it ain't chartreuse, it ain't no use and use all chartreuse. If there were anyone on this site who drank more beer than I do, I may be more careful about this recommendation, but I will slow down the brew for the action when the fish dictate it. Hope you get a chance to do this. It totally changed my surf fishing for the last couple of decades to realize what grubs on light tackle could do in the surf, but Gulp is such a superior product to what I used to use, I have become an evangelical asshole about it.
No brag, just fact. Too bad I didn't use them.
This is surprising?
ah, I, used mine eyes to observe what was done hither
I had a lot of growing up to do to earn the balls I was born with
now, there's a humble-brag if ever I've seen one
Well, that's probably not going to work out that well. That's a policy from a different generation, today's kids are too entitled for that tough-love type of approach. It also works better when you have Bama type of leverage over a kid.
But, hey, if it works....then great. It certainly is more representative of the working world. It's capitalistic, we spend resources on you, you commit to us, we adjust resources spent on you, if you look around at other schools, we spend those resources on others. It's just bid'ness.
...ah pitt, I heard they enjoy a hearty diet rich of fecal matter.
this staff has recruiting upside. It's a bunch of young, engaging guys. But very few of them have ever done it before at this level. Burden is on the "experienced" side of the table and he's got one year.
I think our offense will be markedly improved this year. I don't think our recruiting will be. But in recruiting, there is always hope.
That's some sweet work right there. He should get into media if football doesn't work out for him after college. Well done!
That's what she said...right?
I once ended up with two dates to the prom. One was a beautiful girl from another school that I met while broken up with my then girlfriend, from a more local school. With a dad who was a cop. With a big brother that was, well, a bit threatening. Who, at the last moment, decided to unbreak up with me and dared me not to take her to the prom.
For the rest of my life, I will regret the horrible experience of calling the out of town girl and telling her, two weeks before the prom, that I had to break the date. Not because of the embarassment of it all, not for the bullet I had to bite with the old girl friend, but because of letting the out of town girl down and generally showing that I had a lot of growing up to do to earn the balls I was born with. I just wish kids had grown in maturity since I was a ute, but it is obvious that that hasn't happened.
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Beer and Pie.
Repeat.
Prost!
Yes according to several recruits.
Bingo. We did not hire a recruit-first staff. Whit and Fuente obviously think they don't need to spend any more on recruiting than they already are. Fuente himself is not the kind of coach who wants to play the recruiting games and wine-and-dine the elite guys. This staff must either truly be top-notch talent evaluators, hope to eventually become better recruiters, or some combination of the two.
Is that a stated policy of Fuente's?
Dabo has the same policy. Seems to work for him in this modern generation.