[Flaptail]

She's 40 years old this year and as Stifftip say's she's "still fishin"!

We took more bass last year in this old skiff than we had in the last five so she is got more and better things yet to come.

She has taken us to Cuttyhunk in November, rounded Monomoy several times, dragged up the beach at Monomoy for nights on end, was turned upside down on the beach there while we sat under her to weather a horrendous day and a half storm, launched from the Race Point surf and been caught in seas a 20 footer would think twice about and last season one day miles off the Cape Cod Bay shore brought home in a fog so thick you couldn't see the front of her bow and we made it in before bigger boats with radar. The ghost of some of the greats still ride with me in her on still mornings while bass break all around us and they smile as we glide along the endless flats chasing dark shadows ahead of us.

Shes caught more bass than 80 percent of the boats she fishes with and has fished with, I love the little old biddy.

Happy 40th Baby, your the best!