And so Sunday 5/18 the season is set into motion for my fishing partner chris and I, and with a familiar tone.

Started off the morning trying to make bait in Cape Cod Bay and the macks were spotty at the east end of the canal. It ended up taking us almost 2 hours to get 50 macks.. NOT GOOD.

Not exactly a mack slam but we had a livewell full and desided to head for points west..

Got to BB just as the rips started to set up and 45 seconds after the first livey was sent in to see what was down there bingo Fish on.

I started off the day with a few just sub legal fish and then chris desided to join the party. But chris was not feeling the love and i and pretty much caught most of the fish including a respectable 34" fish. That is untill later in the afternoon when the love finally showed up for Him and in a big way. Chris had a really nice runoff and this fish was taking drag..
After a nice fight an early season cow comes to net and weighs in at 36 lbs and 45"

After a quick weigh and measure hoop sent that fat girl back to play another day.

Seems to me we started off last year like this..

Not sure how many fish we caught maybe 25 or so but 90% of them were keeper size and almost every mack that went into the water turned into a bass when it was brought back to the boat. We jammed 30 to 40 macks into the livewell and only 2 died.

A little after noon we heard the sound of a big fast boat comming and sure enough here comes and there goes, Capt Terry Nugent with Riptide at lightspeed, with that big contender cutting through the 5 foot wind against tide, white topped chop that built up in BB early in the afternoon..The contender didn't seem to mind the bumps much but those big mercs had one hell of a bark when they found a void in the H2O

Sweet ride Capt Terry

Next week is What Chris and i call Fishfest 08. We will be livelining all week, and will be standing by on 68 depending on time of day we will be fishing BB and Barnstable kinda bouncing around with the weather and tide..

Let the games begin