Thanks to some of my friends, I've been able to get on the water even though my gas tank problem still has me boatless. Today, we hit the water at 5am and headed to Bloody Point. We dropped a 6 rod spread (no it's not PSCR) with 5 #15 tonys and one small cripple alwives. Ran 4 rods deep and two mid depth. Picked up 3 fish (20-24 in) in 35 ft or less of water off the deep rods. The 4th fish was one of the mid depth rods and appeared to be a better grade fish. Half way to the boat, the fish got off. We reset the rod and continued to troll. At 9:15 it got hot so with 3 in the box we picked up the rods and found the mid depth rod had the tony, but no hook. No wonder the fish got off, it broke the hook.
I picked up some things from Jim at Marty's the other day and in passing, we were talking about how poor quality the tony hooks had become. I had several bent by fish last week. Jim was kind enough to GIVE me a couple replacement hooks for the tonys. They are much better quality. Unfortunately, I fiqured I would use the stock hook until it bent, then replace with a new hook. Looks like that thinking lost us a nice fish. Stop in to see Jim and get some replacement hooks before fall trolling gets started.
I'm going to see if Tony Acetta has a website and has a place for feedback. It's a shame to see such a good lure go to hell for the sake of a few penny's needed to upgrade the hook.
Four hookups isn't much, but we just needed to get on the water and wet some lines. On the way back in; I saw Mark Lagano out on the water; so I'm publicly calling him out to make a post
. Come on Mark; just the basics, no spot burning, how did you do?
A special thanks to all my buddies for helping me get through this fishing withdrawl. I owe so many reciprical rides on my boat when I get it back, I'll be booked until Dec.
5th (Marty)
p.s. MartinM (TF)/Joe Dirt(CBA) always posts for HO's that are not "know it all assholes" so I haven't been on his new boat yet
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