I had my good friend Brandon and his two boys Sage and Asher come up for the day. We had a later start than we hoped for but finally got off the dock in Mitch’s boat and headed to the NNK reef. Buddy and Todd were on our tail and they headed to 63a where Vince and Dave were already fishing. We saw nothing at the reef so we joined the fleet near Smith Point Lighthouse. It was slow going for a good bit of the day but we finally hooked one. Sage got it because he had just won a deciding game of rock paper scissors. Turned out it was a nice fish but not legal so we tossed him back. Got a big hit on the outside rig and it was Asher’s turn, he fought it into the boat just fine and Brandon netted him. This was a really fat 23 inch fish, they named him Fill short for Fillet. Got another short but followed that up with a 22 inch on a back rod. They had to work as a team to get that long line big weight and fish in the boat but yep he came in as well.
This is the best part of fishing for our group, we love taking kids out. These two were just great to have onboard. Very intrested in learning every aspect of how we fish and jumped in to help each other. They carried on a good conversation with two old men and Mitch and I really enjoyed the day.
One good thing they saw was how calm the water was when we left compared to how quickly the water changed and got a little rougher.
