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[george]

Last week in Jamaica bay.View attachment 103446

This thing is a slob.

 

[MakoMatt]

Hey @Leprechaun George asked me to whip up an article for you this. You can find it here.

Nice work Susie, that should help to dispel some of the conspiracy theories surrounding the windmills.

 

[Matts]

Hey @Leprechaun George asked me to whip up an article for you this. You can find it here.

well that was interesting

 

[Matts]

A Penn Long Beach?? That was a "Cadillac" back in the day. Why not make it a Penn Sea Boy? Do you even know what that reel looked like?

Check Penn's archives if you really want a good laugh.

I remember my dad taking a deep breath, then reluctantly shelling out the big bucks for our Penn Long Beach.
Still works, but the drag is inconsistent. Prob was never ever serviced.

 

[Leprechaun]

This has been my toughest deep-water fluking season, by far. Just can't seem to locate more than a NY keeper or two or two every trip. And that's for the boat, not per man. Offfah!, quite the test for my nervous system. Near endless action with shorts - many of which being real heart-breakers. But legit keepers? Few and far between. It's getting so that I've sailed solo a couple of times, not wanting to subject my regulars to such frustration. See? I DO have a heart. Someone please let my wife know.

Anyway, Capt. Mike and I sailed yesterday on my boat. Based on the afore-mentioned crappy offshore results of late and some very recent intel, we went right to a local "inshore" reef, and fished directly in the real sticky stuff - which in the past has given up some very impressive-sized specimens. George's avatar pic of his 8.5lb PB came from there a couple of seasons ago. Mike and I spent more than an hour working those drift lines, perfect conditions, 30 fish boated, zero in the box. Even though it was still early and the fleet had not yet fully built, the crowd was getting a bit too much - many Sunday sailors not realizing that cruising past drifting boats at 15kts is not conducive to polite waves. Enough, I couldn't take it any longer.

Ran to the Deep and again immediate action. Some huskier (is that a word)?) shorts and then a fat 5 pounder found my 5" Nuclear Chicken worm irresistible. Good, a nice one for the box - about time too. So we drifted some of my more "productive" (a relative term this season) drift lines for what had to be an additional 50 shorts and three more keepers, for a trip total of four in the box for the two of us. Still not great, but better than the past few trips, that's for sure. Of course many "one-pump chump" drops of better fish, some with real weight. Oh well.

On the positive side, the boat's been running well (knocking on my mahogany desk right now) and the weather for nearly all of my trips has been extra nice. Some of my buddies have been using their a spot-lock setups to help out, with pretty decent results. I have given some thought to adding one to my boat. However because such an addition is probably worth as much, or maybe more than my entire vessel, I've not moved forward with that investment. That math just isn't mathing for me.

 

[longcast]

This has been my toughest deep-water fluking season, by far. Just can't seem to locate more than a NY keeper or two or two every trip. And that's for the boat, not per man. Offfah!, quite the test for my nervous system. Near endless action with shorts - many of which being real heart-breakers. But legit keepers? Few and far between. It's getting so that I've sailed solo a couple of times, not wanting to subject my regulars to such frustration. See? I DO have a heart. Someone please let my wife know.

Anyway, Capt. Mike and I sailed yesterday on my boat. Based on the afore-mentioned crappy offshore results of late and some very recent intel, we went right to a local "inshore" reef, and fished right in the real sticky stuff - which in the past has given up some very impressive-sized specimens. George's avatar pic of his 8.5lb fish came from there a couple of seasons ago. Mike and I spent more than an hour working those drift lines, perfect conditions, 30 fish boated, zero in the box. Even though it was still early and the fleet had not yet fully built, the crowd was getting a bit too much - many Sunday sailors not realizing that cruising past drifting boats at 15kts is not conducive to polite waves. Enough, I couldn't take it any longer.

Ran to the Deep and again immediate action. Some huskier (is that a word)?) shorts and then a fat 5 pounder found my 5" Nuclear Chicken worm irresistible. Good, a nice one for the box - about time too. So we drifted some of my more "productive" (a relative term this season) drift lines for what had to be an additional 50 shorts and three more keepers, for a trip total of four in the box for the two of us. Still not great, but better than the past few trips, that's for sure. Of course many "one-pump chump" drops of better fish, some with real weight. Oh well.

On the positive side, the boat's been running well (knocking on my mahogany desk right now) and the weather for nearly all of my trips has been extra nice. Some of my buddies have been using their a spot-lock setups to help out, with pretty decent results. I have given some thought to adding one to my boat. However because such an addition is probably worth as much, or maybe more than my entire vessel, I've not moved forward with that investment. That math just isn't mathing for me.


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Beautiful fish Pete!

 

[Snapprhead27]

Nice fish Pete!