32.   The Recreational Groundfish Summer Fishery 2011 was a great success for the Shed-Headz Crew, and ran from July 23 to August 14, 2011. We managed quite a few trips over the three weeks in French's 18' Fibreglass boat, some evenings were perfectly calm and an absolute joy to be on the water.

31.   This year we did a little pre season work on French's boat, installing a new Stereo with Marine Speakers and a wired remote control, new LED floor lighting, water proofing the storage compartments, and some general maintenance on the motor and battery box.

30.   Most of our trips were successful either reaching our quota, or coming close. Maffer, French and I had a couple great Evening trips on the water, managing to squeeze in as many days as weather would allow.

29.   One Saturday morning French and I took out the Pollard family for a day on the bay, the weather was absolutely perfect with not a draft of wind.

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1.   The fall fishery occurred while I was away on a honeymoon Caribbean cruise with my wife. Mark and the crew got out a few times for the one week fishery, but like the weather, catches were very poor.

Cheers, MIKE

Copyright © 2011 Michael Smith