I have been in the market for a year now for a new boat. Last month my friend chuck and I put a deposit on this 31 BERTRAM

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Yesterday I meet the old owner at the new boat at 0730 signed the pink. Handed him the cash and by 0750 my buddy Curtis and I were underway. The plan was to run the boat for a bit and fish for the Cudas that had moved in off Long Beach. We had canceled the plans to fish the island on my Blackman due to weather

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Shortly after 8 we cleared the harbor entrance and the weather was beautiful. We both looked at each other and said F-IT lets go to Catalina. I hit the throttles and we were off to the Island! Now for the good part!! This boat only has a VHF radio and that is it. I had my cell phone and handheld GPS but never turned it on. We knew there were fish biting at the island we just had to find them! Once we rounded the east end we knew where the fish had bit. There were 10-15 boats trying to fish the same spot. We bummed some squid off a friend and looked around the fleet but the current was the wrong direction for that spot. It still amazes me that all those people will sit in one spot without the right conditions. We both had the same Idea of where we wanted to fish given the conditions we had. We arrived at the spot with not a boat within a mile of us. We set the anchor (with its 5 feet of rubber coated chain) and within 15mins and 5 baits we had our first limits on the new boat. Just amazing, started the boat pulled the hook and cruised home at 20knts. Put my new toy in its slip with a huge smile on both our faces. What an F-ING AMAZING DAY!!! Just wait for Part 2 TO BE CONTINUED!!!

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