Here I go...

Hey fellow bloggers!
   This is my first blog / post so bear with me. My wife is a hourly blogger and kept telling me I should make a blog about my love for fishing! Honestly I think she just doesn't want to hear me talk about fishing spots , hook sizes, reviews on reels/rods etc. and that if I type it on my blog she won't have to listen. She will still get an ear full ;) 

So I think I should start my first post with my success of last year and then we can talk about the up coming year fresh and salt. Two months to go till we can fish again here and I've toyed with building lures, researching reels/rods and what the pros use and when do they use it.

My goal this year is a 40 pound striper ( onshore, not in a boat)  my personal best is a 44 1/2 inch 28.1 lb. striper and a 4.26 lb. largemouth bass. I look to improve both numbers in 2013!!!

Let me share some pictures so you see I'm not full of typical fisherman lies, before we talk about gear, secret fishing holes, techniques and of course our stories of the one that got away! ( I have a story already to tell, it must have been a loch ness monster)

Pops and I with canal cow

24,25 and 28 lb cow from canal  3 days in a row.... 

Dighton Rock 11 lb 30 inch keeper (first of year)

25 lb canal cow in Oct 2012

My biggest worry is that my wife (when I'm dead) will sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it.  ~Koos Brandt