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Best Boat Day of 2003
Team ave Maria...Myself, ChubsDad & Captain Mike were in an ASA Pro tourney...We were in Cape Cod Bay with the fleet hammering fish up to 18 pounds...lots of em but only 18 pounds...after a few hours we make the gutsy call to move to another spot where there were no other boats...marking nothing on the sounder we decided to fish the spot anyway as the conditions were perrfect...Captain Mike was dozing...I was at the helm...Chubsdad had just reset the tangled wire...I was up...Bam...fish on...strong run, lots of head shaking...came up top 400 feet behind the boat....damn its a blue over 15#s...It took a second run and then a shorter third, still acting like a blue...about 100 feet of the stern she rolled..."Oh My god" said chubs & me at the same time...Capt. Mike said "I told ya it was a bass"...We saw a white coffee table in the water flared up in what was one of the most beautiful scenes I have ever seen...She hit the deck at 52" 44# 2oz...my second biggest Bass of my life...took second place...fishing with friends, trophy fish, adrenaline from the competition...I got goosebumps now
Best Shore Day of 2003...
During the MV Derby my Brother and I go to a famous MV spot and it is bright, sunny, and empty...not one soul...we start fishing and a school of bloooofish come down the beach and move right into the hole in front of us...non-stop action for over two hours...Just me and my brother, laughing, joking, goofing, hammering away on this school of blues...everythin worked...fly rod, plugs, tin...it did not matter...we had so much fun...the fish were only up to 7 pounds...it did not matter...the whole thing was about sharing the moment...doing what we do...
I would trade the first story for another of the second...I lovecompetition but my best days fishing are always linked to my loved ones and laughter
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