Bottom fishing - Pics and stories

[DarkSkies]

Pool winning fish - around 13#

This is Greg.


He got the pool winner early in the night, around 13#. He gave me the head and rack, which I used to make codfishhead soup. More on that in another thread.
Nice to meet ya, Greg, and thanks!

[DarkSkies]

Fast Eddie the Miracle Man!

He's been in and out of hospitals 60 times since 1996! He got discharged from his latest hospital visit 3 weeks before he came out with us that night.

He's been to death's door and back again many times, and he always manages to pull through. He was an inspiration to us and others on board. We became fast friends as he told me stories of growing up fishing and his daily commutes from the Bronx to Two Guys in NJ, one of the places he worked.

He's a regular on the IC and Celtic Quest trips. He and his buddies had IC hats and hoodies. Hardcore rail yams, they are, with some great stories to tell of last year's fishin for all species.

Great meetin ya, Eddie, and God bless.

Here he is with one of the cod that were caught earlier in the night. WTG.

[DarkSkies]

This is what they were feeding on, herring about 4-6".

[DarkSkies]

Cod in the cooler...

[DarkSkies]

We heard some sad stories of guys from other countries who come on there regularly, have the mates cut up a couple dozen fish for them, and can't be bothered to throw a few dollars their way. We found the IC crew to be all hard-working guys, and they deserved every dollar they made on that trip.... Capt James, Mike, Tommy, Chris, Shaun, and another guy, they all worked their azzes off to make sure we had a great trip.

to them all, here Mike fillets one of hundreds of cod that trip.

[dogfish]

Good stories. Liked the one about fasteddie. Fish on, brother.

[DarkSkies]

Fast Eddie is a character, Dogfish. full of great stories.





Some pics of the Voyager (Point pleasant) trip last week of Feb. Sent in by Finchaser, thanks!

[DarkSkies]

Some pics of the Gambler (NJ) trip, Feb 26. Sent in by Finchaser, thanks!