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A goal for some time was to get a boat and I did that this year. By the time I was situated, I missed some of the best fsihing in the bay, but I did get to experience some of that fishing with P23. I had a blast catching porgies and snappers with my kids and time on the boat with my family. I thought I'd be able to get more sleep fishing from a boat, but I was still on the water between 2-3am. Sometimes dusk until 1am. I spent a lot of nights, up close to the rocks tossing eels, it was a blast. My goal was to break 30lbs which I have not yet done. Got a few in the 20s, most under 15.
My two most memorable times were 1, around labor day. All alone on my boat, no one around and massive blues feeding on snappers. The water was glass, and it was large blues on every cast. The visuals were amazing. Not something anyone cares about, but I must have caught well over 100 blues this year. I can offically say I am now sick of them (until next summer)
The 2nd was 2 weeks ago, beautiful early evening, pink purple skies, glass water, fsihing around a small island and rock out croppings. I have rarely caught stripers on topwater , but this day I was casting a white pencil on nearly every cast, bass between 24 - 32" where nailing it . Missing about 1/2 of them, popper flying in the air. I looked around me and it was so incredibly beautiful on the water and I was nailing the fish. It was almost too good.
I've had a good season, and learned alot. I am really looking forward to next spring.
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