Father and Son

Today was one of those days… Everything fell into place. Larry brought his 10 year old son, Luke out for some big stripers today. It didn’t take long to find what we were looking for. Larry hooked up with the first two fish. The first was nothing special, but the second fish was a huge 47″ inch beast that was over 40 pounds. I got a lot of video today, including Larry’s big one. I should have some time over the weekend to get the video up. Larry had his hands full and his excitement was quite evident!

If I remember correctly, it was only our third drift of the morning when Luke hooked up next. This was also a big fish. We put him up on the bow and coached him through the fight, he did great! I can’t wait to see the video of this one…  This one was 45″. I don’t know who was more proud, dad or young Luke.

We had a couple more fish before the tide slowed, they were all right around the 40″ mark. Once the water got slow, we went deep to kill some time while we waited for the tide change. On the first drop in 70 feet of water, the guys doubled up. As usual, they were smaller fish in the deep spot, but the guys were thrilled to have a double.

We were getting low on bait, so we used the slack to run in and get a few more for the last part of the trip. Once we had what we needed, I made the decision to move to a new spot a few miles away. It was more of the same. First drop we got pounded but lost the first two we had on. Luke managed one more  fish another opne that was just over 40″

He declared that he was just too tired to fish anymore and handed the rod off to me. Larry and I teamed up for 3 more bass before we called it quits. We ended up with 6 fish over 40″ on the day and 2 were over 40 pounds…. Great job guys!