After a brief rain delay, or should I say deluge, I hit the road early and launched around 4:30. Headed to one of my favorite areas, no hints but this picture might just give it away
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Didn't friend Pete and I get into some nice fish this morning, he lost one that just might have been a fish of a lifetime. I've seen a lot of bowls or eruptions after you first stick a big one, but I've never seen one this big. It was like someone dropped a VW from 1000 feet up, man I wish it hadn't come unbuttoned after the first smokin run. I had the trolling motor on high just to keep up, or that fish would have easily spooled his Abu 6500.
Then shortly after I hit the bigger 21 lber in the picture below and since I couldn't revive her, I upgraded (yeah I know it's illegal) and sent the smaller fish I had just put in the livewell for diner back home. [img="http://www.rgsiroisco.com/bob18.jpg"] About ten minutes later I had one on that was much bigger and she took me under a lobster pot line. Man I wish I could have all the nice fish back I've lost the same way. So frustrating to see a nice fish 10 feet below the boat on the other side of the line attached to a pot 20 feet away. I tried giving her slack, tried forcing her under when I worked her close, but she finally came unglued.
Had 6 fish over 30 inch, two that were over 20 lbs and lots of chucks that were just under that 28 inch mark. The bigger fish came on eels we drifted behind the boat, but the rest hit the standard plastic offerings. I would have continued working the area, but didn't a F**king A-hole in big red center console come right in and anchor up on the flat I'd just drifted and hooked up on. I was so tempted to give him a piece of my mind, but people like that will be clueless until the day they die. Not like he didn't see me hook up and fight that fish while drifting off the spot either, because he took his time idling through shallow water to get there.
Looks like I've got my spot to work hard for next weekends tourney. John did you get my email
, have room in the boat and will spend some serious time in that area. Hope everyone had a good one today. I was going to try to hook up with some of the SOL boys down on the cape, but just not in the cards.
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