01/17/15

We got an invite to the morning party but wrestled with obstacles and squandered the opportunity. More than a little contrary fortune hampered the effort also, stumbling over our own "____'s", as we like to say, but that is the nature of fishing. Mathematics alone dictate that one will not be in the right place, at the right time, with the right mojo, one hundred percent of the time. And excuses and nonsense aside this morning was our turn in the barrel. It happens.

Suffice it to say that this is not our first rodeo. Twenty five years of running voyages in this zone have a way of familiarizing one with the facts and odds. Though coming out with a losing hand grates there is no time to waste lamenting. The show does not stop. So we took our licking and kept at it salvaging the day through trial and effort. All day long a little here, and a little there added up to a respectable score. And a few highlights kept everyone's head in the game.

Perhaps best of all is the passing of this stretch of inclement weather. While none of the slop affected our ability to work such conditions do have an effect on overall morale. Calm conditions today, following heavy morning squalls, found one and all outside, fishing, laughing, and soaking up the missing sun; morale instantly restored.

Photo today features Royal Star master angler Tony Vultaggio moments after triumphing over this dandy 185.

Tim Ekstrom

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