WOW!!! by Dave Spendiff

Posted on December 8, 2015 by VHFC

Bill Dabney, myself and two of my friends, Bob and George, joined Capt. Steve Purul aboard the Reel Fantasea for a day of striper fishing. Little did we know when we left the dock Dec. 4th, that this would be the best fishing day any of us would have had in our lives. The picture of the fish finder screen is worth a thousand words. This is the way it looked every time we pulled up on a new spot close into the beach along IBSP. Acres and acres of bass with a few gator bluefish thrown in for variety. The bait they were feeding on were small bunker and herring so we were using white swim shads and BKD’s. It was not uncommon to have 3 of us hooked up at the same time, hardly ever was only one person hooked up alone and on a couple occasions, all four of us were fighting fish together. This was truly a phenomenal day of fishing with catches too numerous to keep

George

Bill and Bob

track of but clearly over 100 fish for the boat. Kudos to Capt. Steve Purul for a FANTASTIC day of catching that he worked incredibly hard to make happen. A fishing day none of us will ever forget.

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