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Originally Posted by Flaptail

It was ( and still is) a typical season. Lot's of fish to 35 pounds, bigger than that were tough round these parts (Cape Cod) from shore.

Highlights so far have been the most spectacular hit on one of my homemade poppers I have ever witnessed in June when a 35 pounder followed the plug for a 100 feet and as I sped up the retrieve ten feet from the boat she lost her mind and killed the thing just off the rod tip. Me and Eric were soaked from the water that thing threw.

A 23 pound bass on the flyrod while drifting lazily across sand flats in Cape Cod Bay sight casting to rolling bass under a noon day crystal clear sky. There were hundreds of bass of all sizes for weeks there.

A 45 inch fish that ate one of my home spun needles on a dark night on a noted rocky island shore that just fought harder than any fish that size I have caught in a while. One of many low to mid 40 inch fish I had there this year.

First cast one June morning at the canal, again on a home made popper and having a 25 pound fish cartwheel across the surface after hitting the plug ass over tea kettle style. That fish thought he was a salmon.

With Numbskull one hot humid night in August on a point on a distant island and having fish after fish after fish, mostly all legal or better hit until I was actually tired of being on with a quality fish mid to high 30 inch range every cast and went and streched out under the foggy sky on an old surfboard and passed out.

Me and Stiffy and Kissell talking old times and taking 15 to 20 pounders on just about every cast in May at our secret inlet on Chrome Creek Chub poppers.

Walking for miles on a winter beach several times with TC and talking about the many ways to catch bass and how many of the old guard are gone that once fished with us.

There are so many memories to keep me at the lathe all winter perfecting and refining plug designs in preperation for next year.

2008 goal: Fish with Flaptail!!!