I would say that today had to be the best fishing day of the year thus far and it topped off a great week of vacation and 4 seperate chances to get the fish on. I was out at sunrise this morning and fished till around 11:00AM and caught mostly the falling tide, luckily it was not as cold as forcast but the wind made up for it. I was dressed appropriately and the fish really didn't mind and after a nice paddle S under the Beach bridge and to my only spot of the day, I settled in. It all started with a nice 19 in red but before it was all done the tally was somewhere in the neighborhood of 22 or so rats, 2- 19 in reds, a 22 inch & fat 25 inch red, 3 trout all in the slot (16, 17 & 18"), 3 flatties (11, 14, 20") and a couple of skates (all on muds and live shrimp on jig heads). I figured that was around 40 feet of fish and a nice 63" slam in just under 4 hours (and dinner for the wife).

It is early in the year but this might be hard to top, I guess I will just have to get afetr it!

Happy New Year all and happy fishing!

Now that's how you kick off the new year!

Sent from my Thunderbolt.

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Take the rest of the year off! Nice!

Wow! That's a heck of a slam! Great Job!

Arun.

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Great start to the new year! Glad to see you didn't let the elements get in your way of finding the fish

Awesome Slam!

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What a day! I hope that's the start of a great year of fishing.

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