[tlapinski]

here are Katie's storys:

my most memorable moment was when my dad,my sister,and i met my dad's friend Dave aka canalman on the other s-b.com and when we got down to out lil spot we saw tons of seagulls and all we could think was "BLITZ!!!" we ran with our plug bags and our rods as fast as we could and we just lost it laughing but as we were running my reel messed up and so i had to use one of dave's rods with a shweet white needle on it so here we are chasing these bass that are all well over 29inches and there were some blues mixed in and we're catchin them left and right and thank god i had my plyers cuz there were a few blues that just loved the needle so much they wanted to swallow it. so after getting the needle out of the moths of the darn blues we finally run into some SHWEET sized bass all over 32 inches tons of peanut bunker everywhere so we had to problem following the fish and they were about i'd have to say about 2 feet off the shore of the beach so the water wasn't too deep. so in the end i had caught 8 fish 4 bass 4 blues my dad caught like 10 fish 3 blues 7 bass dave caught 9 fish 5 blues 4 bass and my sister who was the one who almost got the plug hook in her face while running got 6 fish 3 bass 3 blues.. so in the end after chasing the fish up and down the beach we did pretty darn well.

another one of my many favorites was when my dad me and his friend dave went down to pur little spot and it was about 8:30pm at night at the end of August and it was a full moon out and its clear as can be not to cold or windy and so another one of our friends show up Don, who is a spectacular fisherman.there these people from everywhere that bring their trailors and put them along the beach in their lots and so Don comes froms his trailor and we all get downthere and after about an hour theres nothing we had tried pogies,mackeral,herring,plugs and there was nothing out that night so when Don is out in the water in his wetsuit and his wading boots he starts pretending like he has the biggest fish in the world and so we all run down there and find out he's just standing on his plug.. so we all start laughing and then there was this older guy in his late 60's and he ran over with all his stuff rod included and comes over and asks these questions like its a interogation and he's asking "What test line ya using? What type of plug? What type of leader?" and so on.. the old guy casts out about 20 feet away and about a minute after that Don pretends that he has another fish and we know hes just standing on the plug again so the old guys is REALLY trying to find Don's line to cast where he is and so he casts right in front and then Don pretends to lose the fish. He comes up to change his plug and then the old guy goes back to where he was in the first place and then Don and Dave work this plan out to mess with this guys head some more and so they both pretend to cast out and the after they pretend to catch the fish when they are really standing on their plugs the old guys comes running over fast as he could again with all his stuff and he starts asking these questions again "What test line ya using? What type of plug? What type of leader?" and while the old guys quizzing Don and Dave. Dad and I are laughing histerically and we had to turn the lantern off so the old guy wouldn't see us if he hadn't already spotted us. and at the end of it all the old guy left thinking there were 50 pound bass around and Don and Dave come back up and we light the lanter again and We all pack up to leave and we are all laughing histerically and we didn't end up getting nothing not even seaweed. So we all returned home covered in sand and we tracked it all around the house and ticked my mom off who hates sand with a passion and then after sweeping the floor for 15 minutes we showered and went to bed laughing.