Got a late start this morning 'cause dummy me forgot to call the marina and have
the boat put in the water. Oh well.

Left Deale, MD, about 8 AM, got out to marker #83 and put the lines out. We ran
4 tandem parachute rigs and two umbrellas. After about two hours of nothing, my
good friend OldFart decided we needed to check and clean the lures. Sure enough,
most were dirty.

Put everything back in the water and within about 15 minutes had our first
strike of the day. Rich (Gimp) pulled in a 40 1/2 "er, which set a new boat
record for the Poco Loco. It was caught on a bucktail with a 9" Bass Assassin
attached. (We had lost one of the parachute rigs on a log or something a little
earlier. Actually, we lost an umbrella at about the same time, on the same log I
expect.)

About a half hour later, around noon, the line sings again and OldFart pulled in
a 38"er. Just those two about filled the cooler! The second one was caught on
one of OldFart's hand made bucktails with a 6" sassy shad (white). Both of these
were caught almost directly east of North Beach in about 42 feet of water,
trolling at about 3.2 mph.

The weather was perfect, the company was spectacular, and the cooler was pretty
full. We played around another hour or so and called it a day. What a great day
it was.
--
John H

"All decisions are the result of binary thinking."