MOTHERS DAY Footballs and Fishing

What happens when you the first thing you catch in the net is a FOOTBALL ? and a nice one at that.

you end up getting Bass & Blue playing LOL

Headed out tonight with Tracey for a shakedown run.

Big  to Capt Rich for doing another tune up for me and having the boat running sweet .

Headed out of the inlet to find a nice football floating about a mile off.
netted it as we hit some big bunker schools getting crushed by blue fish ,and LOTS of them .

caught blues until our arms were sore then moved off looking for bass away from the ravaging blues.

Found a nice pod of bass looking to feed and it was game on , leaving them still biting till well after dark.
A great start to the new year.

ALL fish RELEASED to fight another day >

Troops lining up '14

Bucktails getting lined up for the new season

PENN hits a homerun

Got to see one of the rods Penn has designed for bucktailing fluke tonight.

Hung a few bucktails on it to 8 OZ, this rod seemed to handle the bucktails to 6 OZ very well, the next rod in the series should be great for anything heavier than that

it is a perfect match to the ABU Revo  NACL, and just floats in your hand.Just perfectly balanced

CANT wait to fish these rods this summer , as hearing they will be available around June

FLUKE SEMINAR AT RAMSEY OUTDOORS 2/22

Did a fluke seminar at the Ramsey outdoors cast and blast.
Had a decent turn out on the first warm day of the year.
really looking forward to the new fishing year finally soon to kick off.

OK BLACKFISHING 12-28

Headed out with Ed today to do some end of the year black fishing. And to bring the boat home for its winter nap.
Had a slow pick most of the morning, with a few nice tog in the mix.

I limited out, and Ed had three, as well as us having about a dozen shorts.

Was pretty nice out today inspite of the HOWLING wind all day .

SLOW BLACKFISHING 11/17

Headed out with Mike and Tracey to blackfish on sunday.
unreal weather for mid November, warm , flat seas. BUT the bite was very slow.
Ended p putting 7 blackfish on ice, and about a dozen shorts thrown back,
Had more Bergals than blackfish for sure.

Thought it was going to turn on when Mike had this double.
Bunch drops all had life, but seemed to be best right at the beginning of each drop, as we never seemed to build any life as we were catching.
Can only get better as the waters cool a little more

WEEKEND FLUKING WITH THE OHIO BOYS 9/7-9/8

Was out with my buddy Craig from Ohio yesterday to do some fluking with him, his son Reece, friend Dillion and Brown socks Steve , jumped on (also bringing a great lunch for the gang THANKS) .Headed out to the ruff stuff to show them how we bucktail.
Armed with lots of lead and plenty of gulp we fished hard all day . Catching was great as far as numbers of fish but only 15 made it into the box.
Steve had had big fish of the day at 6 pounds even until My rod doubled over late in the day, and Craig got to slide the net under a mat. Just over 10 pounds.

Fun day with great friends and off to do it again today 

DIllions first ocean fish was a nice sea bass that had to go back.

Sunday we headed back out to the same area, and found nothing but shorts and a few sea bass.
Made a move to some lumps in 90' and found the same just shorts.

Hit a few more lumps south in 60' before heading in at 1 so the guys could drive home in the daylight today.

Was a fun weekend, but todays trip makes me think many of these fish are starting to leave their summer haunts