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headed way out to the Eastern end of Long Island yesterday to join TheTinMan in our first,[early], fall bass trip. We were drifting eels in the rips off an area called Hortons Point. On the water at 3pm, last 3hrs. of the flood. Sort of a wind against tide thing going on.... managed a few run-offs, no hook-ups. Tide slacked and turned quickly around.Wind was light and now going w/ the tide. TinMan has many run-offs,and lost what appeared to be a nice fish. Phester has nada. Tin brings up a 38' 20something pounder, nice fish.Then Tin brings up a small porgy.Tide picks up, I've got a nice eel and 10 ounces of lead and send him to the bottom. We're in this about four and a half hours and Phester needs a fish.BAD. Finally I hook up, nice fight, only two runs, but pulled like a freight train. Tin gets him in the net. I take out my K-mart digital scale/tape measure......solid 42" and 29.85 lbs. Not a trophy, but a nice way to start the fall season

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Nice Phes, hoping to do the weakie thing tommorow. Tell Tin I sais hi.

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good luck on the weaks, young Will.

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Man I wish I were fishing, or sleeping, or drinking, or anything but working.

Nice job phes. But you know hammer wont let you slide w/ no pics.

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Good start there phes. Tell TinMan I miss him. ;)

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randle, yes I am the king of slackers when it comes to posting pics......TinMan has got three pics in his camera[I didn't have mine w/ me]. I'll see if he'll post them up for me. Forgot to mention that Tin also caught a decent bluefish.....we were calling his catch "a Hortons Point grand slam".....a bass, a blue, and the porgy. And yes Chum, I will tell Tin that you [and Willy] were asking for him. He'll often ask me how you are doing.

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30 lbs, thats a good fish in my book. Nice job!

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sounds like a fun day to me :)

Yeah, what happened to TinMan?

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my "canned" response to that, Bass, is TheTinMan is just old and crusty, and sometimes prefers to be a hermit.....but he will always go fishing. We [myself and another friend] gave it a shot last evening/night. Anchored up w/ bunker chunks and fish finder rigs in one of our favorite, rocky bass locations. Conditions were there....a little drop in temp, outgoing tide, a bit overcast sky and loosing daylight.....at least it looked fishy :-/, Nothing to show for it but some pretty big sand sharks/dogfish.

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Hey!!! I resemble that remark!

Hi all!

It's been awhile, huh?

Computer was down for months, busy with work, blah, blah, blah....

Anyway....here is Phester's fish.

hmmm....can't remember photobucket's username/password...waiting for them to email me back, will post pic soon!

The fall run is here!!! Go Get Em!

Here she is;

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...2987Medium.jpg