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That's how it's been for years ... I can remember one fall day about 10-11 years ago, early November, it was a windy cold morning, on a boat around Fisher's Island/Watch Hill area ... not much action that particular morning from a top water feed, but fish were around ... but took a break in a cove protected from the wind ... was eating lunch or a snack ... put a rod into the side rod holder ... some googans see me holding the rod from about a quarter or half mile off (not sure if they were using binoculars) come charging into the cove I was in happily sitting in the sun warming up and eating my food, relaxing ... they come full bore in with their motors on ... I stood up and asked why they were charging me ... the looked at each other and left ...
.... the next morning, over off the North Fork of Long Island, the wind and water calmed down and the temps warmed a bit ... there is a particular pocket where the current goes opposite of the surrounding tide and current and the fish hold there, very unassuming spot but very productive, like to fish it when no one's around (or did then when I had access to the bigger boat) ... started working the area, not much happening that morning, a few smaller fish ... then moved over a bit where there's a nice reef off this island, and a good current, fish hold between the reef and island and it's easy to drift on the outside of the small reef (which doesn't show very often) but I can cast far enough to reach the shore ... start throwing toward the shore and second cast, a different boat comes charging out of no where and runs in between me and the shore ... I was hoping they'd hit the reef, but not sure if they did ... so I started casting my plugs at their boat and was able to hit the side once ... they didn't notice much ...
... at that time, I wished I had a bazooka, would have used it twice that weekend ...
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