Your Best Day Of Fishing

[Duffman]

Originally Posted by Detour66

Any day fishing with my Grandfather out on the east end of L.I back in the 70's. The fishing was unbelievable back in them days and how I miss him.

Where did you fish on the East End? In the 70’s my father and I used to rent boats out of Port Of Egypt. Fishing the north fork then was simply unreal. We would catch every species you can think of in a single trip. Some epic porgy fishing.

Oh and BTW….next threads gotta be “worst trip ever”. Like Andy said, I remember his worst. Personally I thought it was funny

[champ]

Mid 90's I started bass fishing from the surf. Did all my research and practiced some. Went to Pt Pleasant Beach 4:30 am in November for the right tide. Walking up to the beach I could see nothing and only hear the waves. Walked up to the beach thinking what the hell am I doing. Walked to the water, casted into the dark nothingness, couldn't tell where it went, then BAM, I caught one. On a teaser. Couldn't believe it. Caught about 10-12 more all shorts, all on a teaser. The sun came up and it was like opening day trout fishing. To my left and then right anglers as far as you can see. Caught about 10 more. Oddly, when the sun came up no more on teaser all on plug. In the crest of the waves you can see them darting back and forth.

[baseballman]

I'm lucky enough to have had several best days ever.

Surf: 2007 fall run, I was in college. Got to the spot right at dawn, and they were blues EVERYWHERE on peanuts (fishermen soon followed.) Caught them til our arms tired out. I went to class during a quick lull and out of curiosity, took a ride back after breakfast. Not only were the crowds gone, but there were 2 old salts snagging & dropping doing a good number on bass. Did that until dusk (missed 3 classes) when all hell broke loose again, this time on topwaters. They don't make days like those anymore.

Boat: A mid-December 2020 trip on the Fisher Price IV. Caught 20+ on diamond jigs on one nice long drift - the boat limited out - and then we ran out to a topwater bite that featured some really nice fish for that time of year - a couple of overs and a plump 36" that threw up 4 whole adult bunkers, something I've never seen before. Mustve caught at least 50 fish per person and we got back to the dock hours early.

Offshore: This year, I headed out on a buddy's boat to the tuna grounds just after a blow and we weren't sure what to expect. My goodness...we arrived on the grounds to chicks and slicks as far as the eye could see, and the screen LIT up whenever we went around the life. We had to weed through albies to pick at Yellowfins but my goodness did we put a catch together. Ended the day throwing out some peanuts and handfeeding them! Must've caught at least 40+ fish (albies, yellowfin and one single skipjack) with a boat limit of Yellowfin...The fish were smaller but we didn't keep our exact limit, thanks to one BRUTE 70 LB fish that we felt equaled a few of the smaller cookie cutter fish in the area.