PENN no slip tools

Penn Has a great new line up of non slip tools and knives.
Check them out, cant wait to start using them on the boat

Tough weather fishing 10/24

Headed out with Eddie to do some bottom fishing today.
Met a much angrier ocean than forcasted as expected with the east winds.
Chased a few areas of working birds that had spike weakfish under them.
Plan was to do some catch and release togging , and then sea bass.

sea bass were crushing the crabs at the first drop, so we switched to them for awhile.
Lots of shorts and just keepers, but we threw those back just keeping fish over 14" .
I had one nice trigger fish there.
Wanted to make a move , and ended up losing the wreck anchor as we got hammered by two 8' plus waves while pulling it. was crazy how far those waves pushed the heavy contender.
Mother nature is one tough lady.

moved south and drifted for sea bass , once again it was drop and reel, but mostly smaller fish. we picked away at some nicer ones who made their way into the box.
Finished the day early with a decent cooler of fish, as we had enough of getting our butts kicked out there .

check out the spine on the one blackfish we kept. I didnt know tog could have scoliosis .

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Slow Windy Togging 10/18

Headed out with Tracey and Eddie to do some togging.
Winds were cranking making it tough not to swing  off the smaller pieces.
so I jumped around to a few bigger spots, not finding much.
5 drops produced 10 keepers ( all released).
as we were looking for a few nicer sized dinner fish with the limit still at one per.
Biggest fish was about 17" so they all got to swim another day.

More finishing touches

Added a few more rod holders today
As well as outfitting the boat with Engel Coolers to keep both the catch and lunches COLD .

Boat is finally ready The way I want to fish it.
come on Stripers and Tog

TOG LIMITS 10/11

BUT thats not saying much since the limit is 1 per person still.

Headed out with Tracey to do some catch and release togging.
thought the seas had settled down alot after the blow this week , and they would be chewing their heads off.
NOT as the bite was very scratchy , and we only boated a few keepers as well as a handfull of shorts.

Still was nice getting out on the boat , and doing some running around

SLOW FLUKE FISHING 9/17

Headed out with Tracey and Steve to try and do some fluke fishing today.
Got to try out the new electronics today. was nice to have the extra screen , as on leaving this morning it was densely fogged in.
was able to set the radar and chart plotter, as well as the fish finder screens on and make our way easily and safely out to the grounds.
Had very good intel of some BIG fish being found relatively close to home.
Worked that area for a few hours and had a bunch of shorts , as there def were fish there but couldnt find bigger ones wanting to chew.
Worked a few miles north where we still had way more small fish. but put a few keepers in the box to Traceys 4+ pounder.
I had one fish that was a definite surprise when A big cownose slammed my gulp and pulled off over 100 yards of line before I was able to turn him and bring him boatside.
The Revo Nacl drags worked flawlessly on those long hard runs, another testament to their reliability for most fish encountered inshore

Getting there

Finally was able to get the electronics installed in the boat.
Installer coudnt figure out a glitch between the units, a quick call to Furuno Tech support had it up and running in minutes.
The Furuno tech support is second to none.Great to deal with a company who sets the bar high in making sure the users of their units get the best set up possible.


Just a few more other things to add and the boat with be much better equipped for the fall fishery