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I fished way more than I ever have. I usually beat myself up fishing long nights the first 2 months of the season and then take a break when midsummer rolls around but this year I just shortened the duration of the trips and just kept going all season. The canals a short trip for me, so I was down there 5 or 6 nights a week from mid may thru october, I guess thats somewhere around 120+ nights.
This year I tried to fish smarter, rather than just long hours. I'd find maybe 3 hours or so on a tide where I'd find fish and I'd just work that part of the tide each night till the pattern changed.
Numbers wise, its hard to compare this year to others for me as I've never fished that many nights before. Spring was pretty good and I did well jigging, and I got a few decent fish on the few plugging trips I made in June. My best night for both size and numbers was in mid july, and I got my only 2 30's in august.
The fall run for me was a huge dissapointment. I had 2 or 3 nights with multiple 20's in late september but no 30's and nowhere near the numbers of good fish as I had the year before.
I went down to nantucket for the first week of october and that was a complete bust. And when I got back from there I had one last good night with a few 20's and from that point on there were so many schoolies you really had to work thru them to get a decent fish.
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