There’s no ‘I’ in TEAM, especially when comes to getting on the MEAT!
“So how many have you caught,” my buddy Bryan asked from the opposite gunnel, knowing full well that I had only one of our four keepers in the box. That was something which he was quick to remind me, and often. “I know I have three, but hey, who’s counting,” he said with a laugh.
I love fishing with good friends when the barbs, jabs and cutups begin. What happens on the boat when there are two or three buddies fishing together always amounts to keeping count and trying to outdo one another. Once we’re ashore of course, things are a little different. “How’d you guys do,” Bryan’s wife shouts from the dock as we tie off for the day. “We limited out,” comes Bryan’s reply.
Yes, “we.” It’s all about teamwork, a crew putting together a full catch, working as one unit. At the end of any trip, good or bad, it’s all about the crew;. The more the merrier; but hey, who’s counting?
Capt. Steve from Hook and Fin Fishing Charters out of Monmouth Cove Marina sent this shot from the spring run around Sandy Hook with happy family of fishermen.Fishing buddies Andre Mollock and Lamar Meekins caught these keeper sheepshead and a keeper tog from the Indian River Inlet jetty rocks in Delaware in September using sand fleas on Bottom Sweeper Jigs.Martin and Abie Mizrahi show off the 8.4-pound fluke caught at the Shrewsbury Rocks in August. Who caught it? The Mizrahi crew of course, a quality team effort! Photo courtesy of Harry Mizrahi.The crew of Irish Twin with a wolf pack of bigeye caught while fishing the Manasquan Offshore Tournament this summer, the crew going 11 for 16 fish up to 197 pounds including six at one time. Photo courtesy of Chris linane.Coleen Boyle (angler) fished Raritan Bay with husband Andy (photographer) and their border collie Taz (photo bomber) during the “dog days” of summer for fluke up to 22-1/2 inches!
