FIB’ers 1st Junior Trip 2017-
Well it’s that time of year again, kids are out school, and summer is in full swing. It’s time once again for our first Junior FIB’ers trip of the year. We made some awesome changes to the trip this year, namely a change of venue, we are now charterering out of Dana Wharf Sportfishing, and day of the week. We thought that moving out Juniors trips to Fridays would help alleviate the scheduling problems and it did!
We had a full boat for our first outing, Chaperones and a few FIB’er volunteers created an amazing experience for all the kids onboard. We boarded The Sum Fun with a top knoth crew captained by Shane Manuer and we were off on time with a tank full on 7-8” sardines. We all hope for cured ‘chovies for trips like this, but were determined to scratch out a bite for the kids.
To my surprise we headed North out of the harbor, and steamed to a spot right on the beach where the crew assured us they had left the Calico’s biting the day before. We baited most of the kids up with strips of squid, assuming that would fare better than trying to force feed the Calicos large Sadrines, and we started to pluck away and small bass with some nice legals mixed in as well.
Some of the more experienced kids decides to tie on jigs , and were landing a better grade of fish that way, then Ron Wither’s just for kids flylined a hearty ‘Dine off the starbord coner of the stern towards the beach and went bent right as the bait hit the water. Soon, Dad’s chaperones, and kids alike were flylining baits and hooking and handing fish with a steady hookup ratio of about 2:1 every bait that didn’t connect at least got raked up. This brought the best quality of Calico bass for our morning half day of fishing. As we headed back to the barn it was all smiles on a every Junior’s face. We cannot thank the generous giving of out member’s and organiziations like Friends of Rollo enough for supporting us in our efforts to give this next generation a love for catching fish and being on the water.