Today was great. I was just going to do a splash test for the boat to make sure she holds together under load after I put all the new parts on. Pulleys, steering pump, steering fluid cooler.

I am really happy I had my rods on the boat. I was really unhappy that they sat for six weeks. I fouled 2 with real skill, no hope for them untangling. One rod broke a guide from the force of a cast and the leader knot catching. So I was three rods down. I lost my Sebile swimmer, and three jig heads.

Now the good news. There are fish in the bay. The only way I took bass today under the birds was Sluggos on bullet lead heads. I used 3/4 oz, with 7 1/2 inch tail. The fish were on top (blues) and about 6-20 feet down (bass). I caught about 12 bass by allowing the jigs to sink below the fish then retrieve back up through them. As long as I stayed with the fish, I got a bass every cast. I saw a lot of people catching bluefish, not so many bass.

The nice guy in the yellow boat with a diesel engine came by to see why I was catching bass. After I lost my last jig head, again bad leader, all curly and funky from sitting 6 weeks, I used plugs and my Sebile to mess around with bluefish. I caught about 8 blues, from 4-12 lbs. I stayed out until I lost the Sebile to a blue, then headed in.

We are going to do a spicy Thai crispy fried bass tonight.

Here are the two fish about to be filleted. They were 35 inches. All 12 were about the same size.
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They have such beautiful colors:
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Here is the mother or all wind knots:
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Sounds like a great day and an even better dinner!!

throwing sebiles to bluefish/??? :)

throwing sebiles to bluefish/??? :)

Unfortunately, I lost all my jig heads already from old knots and crispy leaders. It was not part of the plan to lose, just happened to be tied on and I grabbed the pole and cast it to what I thought the bass were on top that I saw. They were not.

Great day

I fished the back side of nauset inlet today out of town cove and caught one small scoolie and a whole lot of waves over the bow. Time for a bigger boat I guess. Wanted to head out of Wellfleet but the waves were tooo much. Great to be out though!!!!!!

Agreed that is the mother of all wind knots and I hope I never run into one like that!!!
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