Had a great fish Sunday with my son.

Lures of choice, anything large and white, top waters was most fun!

Species: strippers, large great than slot strippers.

Area: Deer island / main channel

Slept on boat Saturday night.

Picked son up at HYC dock at 6am, cruised out though mooring field, saw lots of small balls of pogies.

Headed out to deer island, quickly found boats and after slowly motoring around found some fish going off.

Highlight: caught 5 or so of these bad boys in a couple of hours.

Low lights: had most light weight spins onboard, that were really up to the task of throwing the large heavy lures or fighting this class of fish.

The one heavy rod we did have was a shorty and for some reason kept having problems.

At one point we had to run a rescue mission for a large bone colored floating plug that broke its leader. Yes the knot was still on the lure and yes the leader was new. I think it was just under weight, maybe at 20lbs and / or just old!

Net net: we had fun and all the fish realized healthy.

To that end, I removed ALL trebles, switched to single barbless hooks for all lures. Yes we missed a few bites, but still got the excitement of seeing some amazing and very explosive top water hits and the bonus that release were easy for us and quicker for the fish

A friend out also saw and took video of one of these: