Re: Monday Paramount Marathon
My friend and I drove down from NY state.. 550 mile round trip.... yikes...
We did pretty well, better than some guys did on sea bass, but not as well as most on ling.. Together we put 13 nice sea bass in the cooler, and lots of close call shorts as well, Got one really big knothead that got beat by a whisker for the pool... I think we took home about 11 ling as well... For a very long while we could not buy a hit from a ling in the stern while our neighbors were catching ling after ling... We simply weren't getting bit hardly at all, and when we did it was invariably a pout.... Then at days end we caught several nice keeper sea bass and some pretty close shorts when nobody else was catching a thing.. So odd,, Guy next to me is bailing ling left and right using just clams for an hour.. Then all of sudden, he stops getting bit completely, and my friend and I just a foot from him starting catching sea bass after sea bass, shorts and about 4 keepers in the last half hour of fishing.. It was nice talking to Tautog on the boat.. Inside the cabin was stifling, much better outside!, .. It was a nice day when the boat was moving, but man was it HOT when we stopped!.. The car was screaming hot when we got to it after the trip.. Looked at the cars digital thermometer driving up rt 35, at 5:30.. 97 degrees!,,, Not used to those temps any more.. Very rarely gets above 90 in central NY state..
We enjoyed the day, caught some nice fish as well... Nice to see a decent showing of sea bass.. Not a slaughter by any means, but a decent pick if you worked at it... Some guys jumped a big Thresher shark at one point.. I think they were throwing cut clams at it or something.. The splash was about the same size one school bus would make if thrown in... bob
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