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Cub Scouts Fishing Trip

My younger son is in the Cub Scouts and they had a fishing trip planned 2 weekends ago. It wasn’t a freshwater fishing trip though.

We actually went over to the Somers Point bay just outside of Ocean City, NJ. The group had chartered the “Duke of Fluke” for the afternoon and the guys were all excited to be going!

It was fairly windy and being a large pontoon boat, the captain decided to stay and fish in the bay area only. There were 41 people fishing in the group and after receiving the usual instructions we were off.

As you can tell by the title of this blog, I’m NOT a big saltwater fishing fan. The last saltwater fishing party boat that I was on was back in the 1970s! But I believe everyone should try it at least once, so I allowed my son his first ever fishing party boat experience.

We fished for 4 hours and out of 41 people only 4 fish were caught. Three adults caught 2 fluke (that’s flounder in case you were wondering) and 1 bluefish. But the big catch of the day went to one of the cub scouts! He caught a nice striper – about 8 lbs and around 30 inches long.

Even though it was windy, the weather was nice and the sun was out the whole afternoon. I enjoyed myself even though I didn’t catch anything. But my son’s thoughts on the experience – “that was lame Dad!” Seems he’s used to catching fish when we go fishing. 🙂 I explained why we didn’t really catch that much on the boat and told him it was nice spending some time together – but that didn’t seem to matter much to him. Kids just want to catch fish!

And in fact, when I went party boat fishing with my dad back in the 70’s, I did catch some porgies. Since it was early in the season, perhaps I’ll take him again, once the fishing season heats up.

Oh, I almost forgot. Do you remember watching cartoons where someone catches a boot while fishing? Well it actually happened on this trip! A man caught a black and yellow fisherman’s boot! LOL – I always wondered why they showed that in the cartoons!

I hope you have a great fishing season this summer!

Catch you later.

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What To Wear When Freshwater Fishing?

Have you given much thought as to what you should wear when you go freshwater fishing?

OK – so I got an e-mail from Joseph at Ap3xpr3dator.com asking me to review his line of products for him. Joseph seems like a nice guy and has made a few comments at the blog so I agree to a review (plus I get to keep the “product” – good deal, huh?)

So what does Ap3xPr3dator have to offer – why fishing shirts and other fishing related clothing of course. Hence the topic for this post.

I don’t know about you, but when I go freshwater fishing I like to wear darker colored clothing so that when fishing from the shoreline, my clothing won’t scare any potential catches from taking my offering. Of course if you’re fishing in a very deep lake, the color won’t matter much, but instead you’ll want something to protect you from the sun.

I told Joseph that I preferred darker colors when fishing and he sent me 2 very nice shirts to try out. My favorite and my wife’s favorite also, was a black short sleeved shirt with a cool big mouth bass on the back. You can see the design here: Cool Bass Design

I also received a dark maroon shirt with a trout slayer design on the back – very unique! And since I like wearing shirts with unique designs, I even wore it to a band practice that night! Lots of nice comments on the shirt from the guys!

I waited until I washed the shirts before doing a review, because so many shirt’s designs crack and peel after going through the washer and dryer, but not these. These are nice high quality shirts – no problems with cracking, fading or peeling.

So I’m very impressed with the overall quality and wearability of the Ap3xPr3dator line of shirts. I also noticed as I browsing Joseph’s site that he has lighter weight long sleeve shirts available to help give maximum uv protection while we’re out having fun catching fish.

So if you’re looking for some nice quality shirts for fishing, go check out the shirts at Ap3xPr3dator.com – I’m sure you’ll find something that you’ll like as well.

PS – the prices are good too! $12 – $19 with free shipping if you buy 2 or more!

Catch you later!