Firenailer said:
I went out yesterday in spite of myself knowing how holiday weekends are. I'm usually a mid weeker when things are nice and peaceful.
A couple of buddies wanted to go Fluking so we went out for a few hours. I swear it gets worse every year. First big weekend, and every clown who never took a boating class is out and apparently well "lubricated".
It's sad because most of my buddies still work and weekends are the time they can go, but I can't stand the nuttiness of weekend boating. We had a good time out there and it's nice to share the boat with friends, but I think I'll stick to weekdays.
Its going to be like that, especially starting July. Its what some think boating is, hop on the boat, motor to an island or sandbar, grill, get drunk motor home. Same with other things like some wanna-be bikers, ride to the bar, pose, talk about riding and bikes without actually riding, get drunk, then go home.
Basically its taking what they think they like in life and wrapping it around getting drunk (the hidden priority). Damned shame.
I'll take the weekdays when the water is quieter and the folks that enjoy boating and fishing, just boating and fishing are out.
Speaking of which how'd you do on fluke?
We went out last week for them and saw none. May be too early. We caught 3 skate and a bluefish. There were schools of bunker and I snagged a couple 12"ers for livelining but no stripers would bite for us. By the way the new livewell system worked great. We ended up chunking the bunker and caught 5 huge dogfish. Ya I know dogfish but they saved the day being a blast doubling the lighter fluke rods and burning drag. Got looks from other other boats that were otherwise fishless. We didn't have fish for the cooler but it was fun!
We even had a west wind laying the seas flat. :mrgreen:
Mike.
