WORST day of the 2015 fishing season

Is the day I bring the boats home for their winters nap.
Would have liked to stay in until the end of December but the sea gulls have taken over the marina, and everything is covered in shit five minutes after you walk away from the docks.
Cant remember ever seeing so many on the docks. possibly hundreds on each dock. The normal deterants havent kept them away 

State needs to sell permits for them , and knock down the numbers like they have done to the deer  .

A good cleaning , then wrapped this week they will be ready for the snow.

Thanksgiving day shore banquet

Headed out Today with Tracey to get in some fishing on a Beautiful Thanksgiving day.
Blackfish bite was slow for us most of the day . some drops having little life on them.
Had four blackfish to 6 pounds. and way too many shorts 
saw a bass blitz going on , threw shads and hooked a nice fat bass ( released to fight another day)
and had one big bluefish hit a blackfish jig.

nice day on fairly flat seas. , got to watch the sunset getting back in at dark.

Blustery Bass Beatdown 11/15

Got to run out today with Tracey , Eddie, And Austin to have a go at the striped bass that have been finally abundant for this fall run.
Plan was to bass for awhile then tog, but That changed as the bassing was just too good to not take advantage of.

Got to fish a bunch of new stuff coming out from Pure Fishing for the new year .
I fished a new Revo beast on a volatile rod, Tracey was fishing a new clash reel on a new carnage rod.
Eddie and Austin were fishing Revo NACL on Battalion rods.
And everything we used made short work of lots of bass to Tracey's 36 pounder.
Throwing  heavy shads out produced snag baits by a  good margin today 

First stop was just south of our inlet where we had a bunch of small fish. A text from The Captain of Monger Nation had me move further south as he was doing well in big bunker schools.

We bounced around looking for working fish amongst a giant sea of boats, and picked here and there.
Seeing some working birds further off, we made the move and had awesome bassing with alot less pressure . 

Fished till a little after noon and headed in . Keeping 4 fish and releasing the rest to fight another day.

was an unreal amount of adult bunker as well as many schools of  peanuts pushing down the beach.
Finally getting to put some stripers on the new ride felt great .
The New Engel 240 cooler is def just the right size.

finished at the fillet table where the new line up of Penn fillet knives made quick work of turning those bass into nice table fare




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ENGEL coolers WOW

After looking and reading tons of reviews I decided on using Engel coolers on the boat.
While I would never get to see the ice last ten days on the boat recently on my Illinois hunting trip I did.
And all I can saw is WOW they really work.
Filled a 123 qt about 75% With ice before leaving Nj.
After daily use through 70 degree weather I still had over a third of that ice still in the cooler 11 days later.
I put my deer in the cooler frozen with no ice at all the night before leaving.
24 hours later when i opened the cooler at home it was like opening a freezer as the cold air escaped in a cloud.
The packaged meat was still rock hard frozen without any change in aperance.

They def proved to be a SUPER cooler.