Basic Patrick really hit it home, well done.
The only time I've actually been able to meet people from this board was on the island during the derby. It's really is about the experience not "killing fish". Last year I fished for 9 days, the year before I was down for the whole thing helping film a documentary about it. Unfortunately this year I might only get down for the very last weekend but you bet your A$$ I'll be fishing hard.
A funny story from last year. The first weekend I was down for a wedding and was going to stay the whole week cause my dad and his crew were coming the next weekend. We had a house the first few days but I was houseless for the middle of the week. BP had given me his # in case I needed to crash at the shack but I ended up fishing off east beach one morning and caught a few albies I end up meeting Wilson Kerr a member of the derby committee. We had a great morning and I told him my situation with out blinking he offers to let me stay at his house and crash in the bunk-bed room. We end up fishing together for the next 3 days! This was a guy I just met on the beach?
He basically taught me the art of fly fishing for albie's off the jetties. I spent 10 hours on the lobsterville jetty with out anything happening but the fish were around. The next day we go back and before I know it I'm hooked up on the fly rod! I never weighed the albie she swam away but all the time and effort was worth every second. I ended up catching 2 more albies on the fly.
I love the vineyard. I see the derby as a convient excuse to get down to enjoy one of the most beautiful places in New England in the fall!
I hope to see some of you down there, maybe we can wet a line together and who knows I might just invite myself over for some much needed sleep
