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There's a new Shibest in town, who will be cleaning up these special teams mysteries.
Looks like I arrived too late :/
They're very good fans. Don't have to worry about getting out alive, contrary to Morgantown.
My buddies have been doing well on the sound side bridges for a couple of weeks on hexheads and bucktails for those schoolie stripers. It is awesome that there is a good fishery for them.
As for the ocean stripers, there are two completely separate groups. One is in the mouth of the bay now, and there have been a bunch of really big fish (40-60 pounders) weighed in on eels. I note, I don't want to deprive anyone of a treasure, but in this day and age with replica mounts and the poor food value of those older fish, I hate seeing them killed. There is also a big body of fish (generally smaller sized) at the mouth of the Delaware Bay in New Jersey waters. Delaware and Maryland surf fishermen are frustrated because those fish keep bypassing the beaches as they head south after they chewed the beaches up in November up in Jersey for the whole month.
Honestly, I have not fished down there. Best bet is to use small chunks of mullet on fishfinder rigs in the surf around structure. I am sure there will be redfish around.
From the web:
Off the beaches: The causeway beaches, the beaches near the Lighthouse end of Sanibel Island, Bowman's Beach and the beaches off West Gulf Drive are areas to fish in shallow water with light tackle using live bait, artificial lures or fly rods. Early morning or late afternoon, anglers can walk the beaches and cast to snook, sea trout, whiting, sheepshead, flounder, mackerel or pompano.
Fishing pier: Fishing from the pier, or just alongside it, offers catches of redfish, snook, sheepshead, black drum, snapper and other species. Fishing on the pier usually requires heavier tackle.
J.N. "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge: good fishing along Wildlife Drive for mangrove snapper, seatrout, redfish, snook and sometimes baby tarpon.
I can tell you, sheepshead are AWESOME to catch and eat, BUT they are very light biters and you need specialized tackle to catch them (powerful but light rod with little bend and braid line to feel the bite.) Sandfleas are good bait if any are around. When my buddies go to Florida in the winter they target sheepshead.
Casting 3/4 oz -1/0 oz read jig head tipped with chartreuse gulp alive should find some redfish and trout.
On your charter- always ask if there are amberjack around. Especially if he says things are slow. Let him tell you what the best options are, and then you decide what you want to pursue. Be engaged and that will help the trip. A good captain wants to keep you happy because he needs return customers and word of mouth. Those amberjack will save a trip if the grouper or other good stuff are not hanging around.
SET THE TONE!
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10 years 7 months
# | Report: Zohn Burden Retained as Virginia Tech's Running Backs Coach I don't know. I appreciate your perspective but respectfully disagree with you. It's basically bygones now so my passion to debate it is not what it once was, but I really felt, based on that quote and others that we had 5 RBs getting equal carries because we had younger guys who were better than the older guys and they were trying to balance seniority and history with who gave us the best chance to win at the time.
Coming from a team that last year, well we all know the story of the past two years. To this one... It's nice to hear that we might be moving out of the ACC basement apartment.
Man, these OL recruits are going to keep flipping from VT until us Hokie fans stop acting so entitled! /s
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10 years 7 months
# | Buzzketball Central: Lamar Cardinals (5-3) at Virginia Tech Hokies (6-3) 3PM ESPNU I was sitting just to the right of that guy. Got quite the smirk from the camerawoman. He was quite proud of himself for the rest of the game, as he should be
I know the feeling....both running backs go down before halftime and isaih Cromwell has 22 points on my bench....smh
🍺MAKES "BEER" ⚗️🦃
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10 years 7 months
# | Hokies Jump on Lamar Early, Cruise to 35-Point Thrashing of the Cardinals Unfortunately I had to miss this one. Glad to see us beating the teams we should and how we should. Enough with this preseason, bring on the ACC!
I read in the TD 12/10 that it has some merit he is interested
"Looks like a lovely commitment, but...qualification/math class issues with VT????"
Yeah he did! Samantha Ponder is fantastic, and she is way better then Erin Andrews!
Really great breakdown of the QB battle from our friends over at 247 Sports:
Breaking Down VTs QB Competition for 2016
Sparknotes version
Motley Pros: experience, athleticism
Cons: reading defenses, accuracy, consistency
Lawson Pros: athleticism, size, speed, arm strength
Cons: playbook understanding
Evans Pros: athleticism, size, speed, arm strength, accuracy
Cons: lack of experience vs real opponents
Jackson will likely redshirt
Northern Outer Banks: On the sound side, we have a fair number of 17"-20" striper on the bridges (legal over 18") but not really schooling up in open waters.
The ocean temp was 59 degrees this weekend... good for surfing, bad for fishing. The ocean striper are likely going to stay north this winter.
This:
And #allthetweetsatLOLUVA
You were the tip of the spear from the getgo, and it hurt to see you go. Loved every fleeting minute of it!
Best of luck Paisano.
Don't forget josh jackson
Yes. We have a charter booked with Captain Ozzie Lessinger for a half day. He was on Bass to Billfish with Peter Miller on NBC sports channel for an episode when Peter Miller was down in Sanibel Island. This charter is a Christmas gift for me. Any other charters that I want to go on are coming out of my pocket and as a college student, it's pretty pricey but I'm very tempted to go for another day when I'm down there. I will look into Whitney Jones' page. Thanks for info. I will probably try to surf fish or try to fish off the pier there but I don't really have much experience in those aspects. Hopefully the guide will give me some solid advice for that or if you have any suggestions.
Pylons of Promise says VT will award 4-year scholarships.
http://www.hokiesports.com/pylons/
FOUR-YEAR SCHOLARSHIP COMMITMENT
Athletics scholarships may be awarded on an annual or multi-year basis. Four-year scholarships are available for full equivalency scholarship student-athletes entering Virginia Tech. All scholarships set forth in writing the amount of the scholarship, the duration and any conditions of the award. Scholarship terms will be honored unless the student-athlete voluntarily leaves the team, renders himself or herself ineligible, or violates NCAA, ACC, university or department policies. Any reduction of a scholarship's terms may be appealed to an independent panel. Scholarship terms will not be reduced because of a student-athlete's injury, illness, or physical or mental condition which prevents or limits participation in athletics, nor on the basis of a student-athlete's athletics ability or athletics performance.
Would be a major black eye for one of Whit's signature initiatives to have a kid say he was no longer welcome on VT's football team with this policy in place.
Not renewing the scholarship of a kid who is putting in the effort on the field and in the classroom is a real dick move, and I would think less of any coach that resorted to that
I....I can't believe it took us this long to get here
Hard to say, we are in foreign waters. Under Beamer, it seemed kids were painted a realistic picture of their opportunities to play prior to Feb 6AMs. It can have a big impact if someone says you have no shot at playing right before you need to bust your ass at 6am three days a week for three weeks. Like most other teams, we also walked guys who were somewhat injured because you can say they will never recover and still pay for their education.
But with a new coach, you can just tell a kid they don't match what is needed for the position anymore and not renew their scholarship. I believe the ACC is still on annual renew scholarships.
Much love, CJ, best of luck to you. I'll shed a tear when your Monday Night Football intro has you saying you went to Marshall...
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