20.   The 2007 Recreational Food Fishery took place from July 30 to August 19, 2007 following the same rules set in place last year with a personal limit of 5 groudfish per day, 15 per boat.

19.   This promised to be an exciting year as the French's purchased a new fibreglass boat earlier this year, a new 18' Ocean Fisher with a 90hp Yamaha outboard. This is a huge upgrade over the not so seaworthy 14" aluminum boat they recently sold.

18.   Also, we brought Sandra's Father's 21' Seabreeze open boat to my Dad's summer house in Bay Roberts where we made a bunch of repairs and got it ready for the food fishery.

17.   We replaced the broken steering cable, replaced stiff throttle cables, rebuilt the wheel house, painted the inside of the boat, installed new grab rails, tuned up the 60hp Mariner 2-stroke outboard, and had the damaged prop professionally repaired.

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9.   That summer we made quite a few trips on Conception Bay leaving from Bay Roberts in Sandra's Fathers Boat. On the first day, Sandra, Dad and I got out and I caught the first and largest Cod Fish of the season! We managed to catch our quota that day and as well as most days we went out.

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1.   French really enjoyed their new boat logging lots of hours and catching plenty of fish, some say he even learned how to count that summer!

Cheers, MIKE