I'll try and get this back on track, LOL Then again maybe it is, Clams the Man
When I started out on my own framing houses the first house I framed was bought by a young family , a brick mason from off cape who was just starting out on his own...
We became friends and fishing buddies. He was a striper nut like no other, seemed like he'd been there, done that with all manner of pursuit... As if I wasn't hooked enough myself,
We fished together (with his son now and then) for the next 15 to 20 yrs.. With a vengeance! Beach, tins and an 18 CC places we never should have gone chasing fish.
Well life has a way of changing things and for the last 15 to 20 it was occasional golf day and family get togethers....
The Stars finally lined up and we where fishing together again the other day... It was like that second 15 to 20 never happen,,, it's the middle of the night, hell bent headed for a ramp with a boat in tow.... Nothing better!
I spent a week getting ready for this, rods, plugs, leaders, trailer and boat stuff, awake all night praying I'd get my buddy, mentor, into fish, big fish...
Here is a copy paste from the next day....
"Ray, Thank you for a great day on the water. Of all the years I have been fishing I have never seen big fish stay on the top that long. Never have I got that many fish that size on the top in one day. "
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