She better freakin' float!.........................not planning on bringing swimming trunks!
You didn't have swimming trunks when you decided to go for a swim off tbob's boat either
The floating part is easy, it's all the other incidentals that pop up when a boat has been sitting for a few months, I'm pretty sure we will be fine. I'm just glad we are not counting on all these hard core salt guys on this site to back us up
Curiosity killed the cat! I had to look so, here it is: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Fenwick&hl=en&ll=41.270904,-72.35364&spn=0.047931,0.111151&sll=41.500765,-72.757507&sspn=1.528359,3.556824&t=h&hnear=Fenwick,+Old+Saybrook,+Middlesex,+Connecticut&z=14
Where the heck is "fenwick'??? if it's any where near New London you will have a good tide for early morning fishing.
Nice going u 2 .....did Carpy have on his lucky golf shorts again???
And where were you??? Your priorities are obviously becoming distorted.
No no shorts but he did sacrifice his sunglasses to join your torium outfit at the bottom of the ocean. At the rate you guys are going there is going to be a hell of a junk pile in that area
Nope no golf shorts,rain gear turned out to be the uniform of the day............Met the Captain in front of his place at 5:00am,in the boat and headed to the grounds by 6:30. Lung starts hooking up immediately,he gets 3 or 4 before I figure out the bite. Never caught Tog before and it's a little different. Doesn't take long before I start swinging them over the side. The action is steady,starting to get a few keepers then I think we got blown off the spot. Steady wind and rain most of the day,a little bit of wave action. So we set anchor again and it was lock and load for the rest of the day, literally non-stop action. Then I get a hit,line starts screaming off of my reel as the fish heads for the bow, walking me down the side of the boat in the process, I had to keep it out of the anchor line so I crank down the drag. After a short hard-fought battle we can see the fish coming to the net. I'm half expecting to see a large striper thinking that that's what must have ate my crab. But no, turns out to be a pretty damned big Tog. It's pretty unbelievable how strong these fish are and I think I've found another species that I enjoy the hell out of catching................Long story short, we had our limit in the boat by 9:30. From there on out it was strictly catch and release. Lung couldn't believe the fishing was so good that we were throwing back 20 inchers left and right. I have no idea how many we boated. My best guess is probably close to sixty. Many keepers went back in the water, five of which were 20 inches or more. We left them biting at 12:30.............When a fisherman looks back on all his days on the water there are sure to be a few that stick out and are pleasant to remember. This was one of those days. We were just shaking our heads and laughing the whole time. The fishing was that ridiculous. Mr. Lung thank you for everything and as always the pleasure was all mine!
Good stuff...I'm glad the weather gave us the break we needed in the morning, because it was getting ugly pretty quick just after 12.
Hope that your reel survived the work out, it took quite a beating against those togs, especially big Bertha.
Definitely an awesome day in the catching dept. we did make a couple adjustments with the boat and then it was just lock n load.
Catch a few, kick back drink a beer, catch a few, kick back drink a beer....you get the picture.
I'm a little worried though Carp, that being your first tog trip...TRUST me, they don't ALL go that way.
Glad you could be a part of it.
Hope that your reel survived the work out, it took quite a beating against those togs, especially big Bertha.
Definitely an awesome day in the catching dept. we did make a couple adjustments with the boat and then it was just lock n load.
Catch a few, kick back drink a beer, catch a few, kick back drink a beer....you get the picture.
I'm a little worried though Carp, that being your first tog trip...TRUST me, they don't ALL go that way.
Glad you could be a part of it.