Dynamite Bluefishing
with Capt. Steve Fallon on the Swedish Princess
(718)428-3254
August 8, 2001
Steve gave me a call a few
nights ago..."Dave, get your butt out here, we're
killing the blues." I was sarcastic, "Sure you
are." "I'm telling you the honest truth,"
he said. "Well," I said, "Let's hook up
and put the proof to the pudding."
I got up and it was 5 o'clock
and 88 degrees outside. Talk about hot...this is ridiculous.
I headed out to the truck and loaded up. Picked up Tommy
Gunn and off we went.
The sound was like glass.
The sky orange and hazey. The boat cut through the water
like a hot knife through butter.
A few boats were already
in our spot, but no one was on. This was not a good thing
to see. Steve said, "just wait the blues will be
here."
All of a sudden I heard rain
on the water, coming our way. One problem, it wasn't raining,
the sun was just below the horizon, so we couldn't see
that far out. The water exploded around us with bunker
making a mad dash for it. My heart lit up...we had four
lines out with fresh bunker. They all went off at once.
Bluefish fire drill. We got three out of the four and
dropped one. This was just the start of an incredible
morning.
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