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chris
08-10-2008, 10:47 PM
Well after lots of looking and waiting til the next season I finally bought a center console boat. It's a 96 hydrasport with a 150 Johnson outboard. After calling hundreds of adds and driving at least a thousand miles to look at boats, usually scheduled after fishing trips, I found a boat that would suit my needs. I had to haggle they guy and got 1500 of the price before i even drove it. He said it was worthy of running to the local banks when the weather was decent and offered to take me fishing at the nine mile bank.
The boat ran decent in the slop and we got a few doritos and my personal best dorado
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With all the reports from local water I couldn't resist the saturday invite to buddy boat, shoulda since i don't have to work on wednedays and there's way less traffic on the water, but any day on the water is a good day. The line for bait was crazy at least 35 minutes long which was scary trying to keep the boat in line with all the yachts around me but I did it and there was no problems. After getting a scoop of jumbo sardines i decided to only baitwell 3/4 and could have gotten away with a half a scoop since we still had bait at the end of the day.
After leaving the harbor we headed south and hit paddy's after about 20 minutes of motoring. I wish I had payed better attention to HESBROS about th 3-4 inch mackerals because my sabiki's were to big for the mini macks which is what the dodo's were keyed in on. I made the best of it and hooked 2 landed 1 and the other got knocked off by a newb gaff move. We saw tons of fish on the way to the 14 mile bank but none would bite. The 14 mile bank was full of boats but no biters, so we left and hit paddy's back to Dana and got a bunch of bonita on our left over bait. I can't wait to get back out there.
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camrydad
08-10-2008, 10:53 PM
Congrats Chris on the boat and on the fishing.

lizzay
08-10-2008, 11:27 PM
Congrats on the boat Chris, pm me if you ever need a fishing bud, I'll pay for gas and food.

steve092
08-11-2008, 03:19 PM
Way to break in the new boat!

HESBROS
08-11-2008, 08:33 PM
Nice report Chris, and one is better than none, after all, it was a water trial, not a fishing trip! Looks like a nice ride, we will have to get together and dod some buddy boating.

Eddie

troutdog
08-11-2008, 08:51 PM
Congrats on the boat and fish Chris! Look forward to many reports in the near future from ya.


TD

JapanRon
08-11-2008, 09:05 PM
Hi chris,

Congrats on the new boat !! and .......... the catch !!

thanks,

JapanRon

supasportkid
08-11-2008, 09:13 PM
nice boat, nice pics

chris
08-11-2008, 10:35 PM
Nice report Chris, and one is better than none, after all, it was a water trial, not a fishing trip! Looks like a nice ride, we will have to get together and dod some buddy boating.

Eddie

yeah i would love to you know a lot that i would like to learn. and i owe you some bait from lobster season still

chris
08-11-2008, 10:36 PM
Congrats on the boat and fish Chris! Look forward to many reports in the near future from ya.


TD

hopefully i'll get a new camera before to long and i can get some on the water reports

chris
08-11-2008, 10:37 PM
Hi chris,

Congrats on the new boat !! and .......... the catch !!

thanks,

JapanRon

thanks ron. i'd still like to share the rail on a sport boat with you and your club one of these days. i'll have some great plastic trips on the new boat real soon