canyon partyboat run

[niko]

thanks to everyone for coming. you all worked your asses off and it paid off bigtime - it was truely an amazing trip with a great group of guys. we will make this an annual trip - maybe next year we will book the boat for ourselves. i'm pretty banged up. the biggest of the tuna on sat thumped my hand pretty good w/ it's tail and it's pretty swollen still and i've lost some mobility in my thumb. my wife, a nurse, thinks it may be broken. a few great trip memories - victors neverending ear to ear grin, me ruthlessly busting kieths nuts that he could not land the unknown beastie and as soon as i had the rod turning to him and saying "i take it all back", everyone cheering on tyler (captains 12 yo son) while he fought his first tuna, the terminator brothers john and frank- the 2 hardest working guys i've seen on a boat aside from matt the mate, and many more. helen H is a top notch operation, hats off to them, would go w/ them again in a heartbeat. what's next - maybe a trip to the carolinas for a big red drum from the surf or winter sailfish from miami?

[niko]

i forgot... togfest II is next, then carolinas or miami

[PRBuzz]

Originally Posted by niko

the biggest of the tuna on sat thumped my hand pretty good w/ it's tail and it's pretty swollen still and i've lost some mobility in my thumb. my wife, a nurse, thinks it may be broken.

You are lucky it was your thumb, I know a guy that got his bells rung really good with a blue fin tail, right Skippy?


So that is your excuse for not man-handling the Keith shark? No really, I've never seen a guy pull harder in defeat.

Get that thumb fixed/cured pronto, Tog-fest II will be here before you know it and you don't want a tog taking you to the cleaner!