Indeed, Raven. It was a picture perfect morning. Just a breath of wind, glassy water, nice sunrise over the dunes, and a decent bite. On the way in she says, "I can totally understand why you get up at 230 AM to drive down here now." I'm not sure she's "understood" the habit before, but has always accepted it as something that makes me very happy. I could have BackBeach to thank for that. Early in our courtship she and Mike were having a conversation about how to make me happy and he told her, "just don't ever,
ever try to keep him from fishing." She took his advice, and has never once in 15 years (and I fish as much as anyone with a wife and 2 young daughters) given me grief about a single outing.
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