Let's hear your best fishing moment from 2019
 

Mine hands down was fishing Plum Island the second week of August. I got to fish three nights with Rockfish Joe Brotz on the Princess Warrior. He put me on some big fish from the boat, which helped me unlock the secrets of getting some nice fish from the sand near the end of my vacation. With the highlight being a 36# fish I got on a green salty's needle from the beach.

Catching my PB on the bucket with a bunch of my buddies from this site.

It was the absolute best moment in my life aside from Jack being born.

the day before hurricane Dorian had my local albie bite on fire

and not a soul out besides me. no boats, no kayaks, just me and the dog from shore.

went 8/9 on albies on the fly, and two fish 8-9 lbs. My arms were tired and my soul recharged.

one of the more interesting things was a group of guys booked a charter with me for the Bad Daddy tournament. one of the anglers was a blind guy. conditions were tough that day, it was blowing 15-20. I prefer to drift fish for seabass and drifting that fast is a chore at best. most of the other boats anchored up but I told the guys if they wanted large they were gonna have to work for them and they were game. the blind guy was having a tough day trying to hold bottom and at one point stepped on a brand new shimano rod in the gunnel rod holder and broke it. he was grumpy the rest of the day but ended up with 1 good fish and a bunch of others that were average. it was a decent seabass around 5.5 pounds but I didn't think they had a shot to be in the money. at the end of the day they paid for the trip and he reimbursed me for the rod and headed to the weigh in. turns out it was the winning sea bass and he won $300, enough to pay for the rod and his part of the trip

My annual Halloween trip to ribbons and yet another killer end of season Tog trip with an old engineer friend from my working days. Took him and his son out on my boat a couple times for business a decade ago, we became good friends and we have made the end of the season trip an annual event.

Caught a couple new species inshore this year but the best day of fishing this year was just getting out on the sharks with Tattoo and putting a hurting on the toothers.
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Fished with the Owl and his son...

The Olws father and I have fished for 40 years, more back in the day than now. Started in a tiny , only bad weather ( too bad to work) and nights and the Owl fished all of it. We’d wrap him up in a yellow suit and stow him up in the bow.... can still see him up there... LOL
Didn’t want much to do with schooling, even ran a trap lines for muskrat before school in the mornings. Graduated, met a girl headed west and became a Fire Jumper.

Took his son fishing once a year or so ago but hadn’t seen the Owl in all these years, his son is the spitting image of him at that young age.

The three of us back together again with another Owl, best day of the year by far...


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Roster fish in Mexico.
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Tough choice

Early in the season did the Boston BOMA charter for the 10th or 11th year.
My charter took 1st place (largest fish) 47 lb

Put the BHM up for sale

The month of June was pretty much the same, a lot of big fish caught on the BHM Raider Nation 2

1st week of July bought a new (bigger, faster & much better) boat
33 Flowers downeast.
Named it KALM SEAS (the KALM is 1st initial of my wife & 3 kids)

Mid July - late September son Leo fished every day, I spent most of my time working on new boat doing modifications & upgrades.

October 5th brought the BHM home, put the new boat in my slip
October 7th, 1st trip out put a 100 inch tuna in the giant fish hold with my sons Leo & Matt

November 29th finalized sale of the BHM and it left my yard.

Had a blast on the Fishbucket, as always, with the kid, the Rickman, and the rest of the crew.

I fish alone most nights, days..spending a few nights with Rappin Mikey most definitely was the high light of the summer, we had as many laughs as we did fish.
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I had some really nice surfcasting outings this year, some with quality in quantity.

The best outing in 2019 was a bit different. I had found some early
season activity where the bass were active during a dusk bite. The
next couple nights I returned without any gear or intention to fish but
on a mission to put my 9 year old daughter on fish.

She cast to and landed her first bass, then over the two evenings
caught 37 more. They were all caught on bucktails. I just stood next
to her coaching and acted as the designated official bass unhooking
assistant.

She landed many more bass than that, but she noted that they were
bass that I cast to an hooked for her. Funny.... By the end of the two
nights you would swear that she had been bucktailing and landing
bass her whole life.

I am really happy to have the opportunity to share those evenings
with her. It was blitz fishing and these days those incidents are rare. I
really never thought I would have a chance to share that experience
with her. The energy in the surfline with the birds, bass and bait in a
frenzy. It was awesome!!!

spent a couple weeks last spring "rustic" camping and fishing the Keys by paddle board...the things that you see cruising through that habitat are incredible and there are so many options for locations to put in and explore...heading down again this spring... making it a yearly endeavor so favorite fishing buddies can fly in and share the experience. To be able to isolate yourself and think about nothing but chasing fish, exploring flats and enjoying the laid back atmosphere down there is about as good as it gets for me

The bonito fishing in kayak and shore range was definitely a highlight. They were on the small side, but there were a ton of them. I hope they come back a little bigger next year. The Spanish macks were fun too.

Introduce the boy to blackfish w/ Tautog on Valhalla.
Turns out he is a secret cod whisperer...
'Nuff said:kewl:

Great thread!

Two amazing highlights for me...

(1)Took my 12 year-old on a night trip to Block with Cohen, and all by himself, he boated 5 fish over 35 pounds.


(2) In late September, took him out with a commercial lobsterman out of P-town, worked a full day, hauled 255 pots, brought 875 pounds of lobster to market. A lot of hard work, but so much fun.

annual S-B Bahston Hahbah trip was sweet. got into some fattys tossing live pogies into the rocks.
Save the harbor save the bay tournament with 6 young ladys all oogling over Bradley was another good day. (we got 1st, 2nd &3td place) and even got my boat on the news and used in a news clip for the summer.
best day I wasnt even there, was when Bradley took the boat out for the first time solo and all my friends were updating me throughout the day on him hammering on the bass.
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The coolest sight I can remember
Local pond , While I was standing on a ledge over the pond a large school of brookies swam by . These were all 2# to 5# fish I was able to count 30 in the time they swam by and that was a small number . The State stocked 250 of those fish just days to a week before . Oh yeah caught 4 of them up to 4# that day . All over 3# on 4# test 5.6 ft rod



best catch 12# salmon on 6# test with a 7 ft rod in November in local river nice fight and plenty of jumps and the 10# brown I caught on the Salmon river in December what a hard fight on 8# test with a 10.5 ft rod.
Was going to go this weekend but river is too high and too windy for me .


oops wrong site !!! but is is fishing and it is winter and it is catching .

I didnt fish for stripers this year .

Bought a new house this spring so didn’t have as much time to fish as years past. Had a good second outing of the year in upper narr bay early spring where we hammered fish on the whippy stick. Had a fun night in buzz bay with a few guys from this site got to see bonesie land a solid fish’s on a live eel from the rocks. Fished the cuttyhunk open with a few guys from here and while no one went large the laughs and serenity made up for it.
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I was lucky enough to catch and release a new personal best from shore so that was definitely the highlight of my season...

a very uneventful season for me on the great fishing moments,on the negative side almost lost a good freind and fishing patrner at a place that took the life another freind a few years ago

Over a week long stretch from late June through 4th of July, I experienced one of the best top water bites to date. Even when no fish were showing, a simple cast with the Daddy Mac (Bobby Rice model) slayed.

I was able to enjoy this with my two brothers (one visiting from Chicago, one from Delaware), my cousin (local on Cape), my neighbor (who fishes with me once per season) and my youngest son (who fished with me 98+% this yr).

*Now with pictures

How Big? Pics? I love to see big fish!

I think my most memorable fish was an albie that took over 20 minutes to land on a 7wt fly rod. I expected a double digit fish but it only weighed 7lbs. I've caught a lot of fly rod albies but that fish fought harder than any other fish I've ever hooked.

54 lbs

DJ SWEET :hidin:

That is a slammer,great pic
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Awesome..... congrats

Wow that’s awesome. Looks to be on a needle as well?? One of your own needles diggin jiggin??
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Congratulations Dave, that is outstanding!

looks like one of your needles and a redhead WOW

Looks like you earned that fish
a lifetime memory for sure :btu: