Mirage 2 Day

2 DAY On The MIRAGE

While all of  the GCLA gals were whooping it up at  Anneye's house.    I was watching the sun go down over Santa Rosa Island.  WE were ending the first day of a 2 day fishing trip on the Mirage,  I say we there were 17 of us plus the crew and Andrew brought his wife - Cynthia to help prepare and serve
meals.

We left on Monday night  and fished  Tuesday morning for the White SeaBass that have been sporadically showing up - but not for us on this day.  So with the weather looking good and the Navy out of the way Captain Tucker took us out to "Jurassic Park"  and we got the nicest ling I have seen since I was there 4 years ago.

After we got our limits on the Lings we went to another spot in the area and pulled up the biggest reds I have ever seen.

This is Daniel , age 12, already a pro fisherman and a veteran of the 2-day plus- and a heck of a nice young man.

Well no good fishing trip is really complete without the Stussman on board.  Jerry managed to break 2 poles on this trip and all the records for the amount of bull *(%# a man can come up with.

Also on this trip was Scott from the VSC and we squared off in preparation for the  competition at the end of the month.  I was trying to put on a stern face but everyone kept busting me up.

So I tried another approach- Andrew handed me the bat and I contemplated knocking our competition out.

Scott is OK - I didn't do it, but I have to say fishing with Scott and  Gary L for 2 days they are pretty good.  I think we just have to rely on the fact that the fish like us better.

Go GCLA !!!!