first time out

[Bullet20dc]

Well I finally got to put some me time aside and get out to do some fishing
Went to the Hudson with a bud. He said he tore em up on wed with a best 5 smallies going around 27 lbs. Thats a BIG bag of smallies here in NY. One went 6.5lbs. So off we go. Everything in the boat worked after almost 5 months of layup. Wouldn't expect nothing less from a merc :)

On the second cast he gets one around 5 and man I was stoked. Well we went another 3 hours without a tap. Then all he!! breaks loose. The suckas woke up or something cause we caught a ton in about an hour.
The tide started dropping and we went to the wood. A lot of sunken 1920 barge skeletons on the river.
Small bitsy jigs with craw trailers were the answer. We started out looking for largemouth but that didn't pan out.
My best 5 probably went around 19lbs but my buds went around 22.
Temp was in the 70's no wind and no other boats cept them idiot striper fishermen drifting live bait. 6 guys in a 16 foot aluminum boat was the typical rig. they looked like they were sinking.
What a day. If the rest of the year goes like Saturday we gonna have one heck of a year.
Woke up Sunday thinking about going back and around 8 I get 2 phone calls. Customers with problems. So much for another great day. :rolleyes:

[1FASTLASER]

Gotta luv it......First time out and nail the smallies like that WOW ..........keep it up bud.

[90profx]

That's the way to do it...........:):)

[Dougw]

I checked with Delta. I'll be there 2:00 O'clock this afternoon!

Luv days like that! Glad you had one!

[Terry G.]

ya just gota love days like that, its one of them, "Hay remember that day we got all them fish", heheh

[lilmule]

I love the sunken barge pattern

[egreen024]

I to went to the Hudson Saturday for half a day, (could not make it to Connecticut) again killed them small mouth only, saw two large mouth but no takers, caught total of 10, my nephew got 2 and my brother got3 and a stripper on a 6" lizard. Twice on the Hudson this year and total of 30 fish caught (just me) they were very aggressive and was catching them in less them 3' of water, and they average 2.5 to 4.5 lbs

[Terry G.]

down here in Texas its either raining and flooding or the wind id blowing so hard ya cant stand up (ah, mind you were talking around the gulf states).

anyway congrats on the catchin, seems like a bunch of fish are now getting caught is seemingly shallow water.
hummmm

[Oldbasser]

Congrats on the catching .I hope to get the boat out for it's spring shakedown cruise and a little fishing this weekend.:D