Let's hear your best fishing moment from 2019

[niko]

one of the more interesting things was a group of guys booked a charter with me for the Bad Daddy tournament. one of the anglers was a blind guy. conditions were tough that day, it was blowing 15-20. I prefer to drift fish for seabass and drifting that fast is a chore at best. most of the other boats anchored up but I told the guys if they wanted large they were gonna have to work for them and they were game. the blind guy was having a tough day trying to hold bottom and at one point stepped on a brand new shimano rod in the gunnel rod holder and broke it. he was grumpy the rest of the day but ended up with 1 good fish and a bunch of others that were average. it was a decent seabass around 5.5 pounds but I didn't think they had a shot to be in the money. at the end of the day they paid for the trip and he reimbursed me for the rod and headed to the weigh in. turns out it was the winning sea bass and he won $300, enough to pay for the rod and his part of the trip

[Got Stripers]

My annual Halloween trip to ribbons and yet another killer end of season Tog trip with an old engineer friend from my working days. Took him and his son out on my boat a couple times for business a decade ago, we became good friends and we have made the end of the season trip an annual event.