skimmer > Date Caught: 11/21/09

Location: ocean east of lighthouse

Went out today found the fish in 35' of water east of the lighthouse boated 17 bass from 14lbs to 38lbs and bluefish to 12lbs all fish caught on a27 yellow and green tubes  i weighed this fish in at saltwaters tackle in westislip 37.19
skimmer > The end of a dive.
skimmer > 3/22/2005

I fished on Scott Leonard's new Regulator 26 today.  Scott is the proprietor of Augie's Custom Tackle in Babylon and needless to say we had the best in fine worms and chum.  We gave the flounder a shot on a nice warm spring day.  Too bad the flounder didn't know that it was so nice.  They dodged us pretty well.  We didn't have a bite for 3 hours of fishing.  The good news was the water got up to 45 degrees so they can't be far behind.  I think a few more days sould do it and then there should be some action.  The 26 Regulator is pretty awesome.  It was fun to wet a line in northern waters once again.  It is hard to imagine that last week I was catching 40 pound permit out of Marco Island, Florida.

I am getting geared up for the upcoming season.  The water is nice and clean and the bass should be here in a few weeks.  If you want to book a charter, now is the time to set it up.  Prime dates are already going fast.

Captain Al Lorenzetti
skimmer > One of the best things about the Miami Boat show is the 
selection of products.

We will be updating and re-outfitting the camera boat this spring so I have been looking to replace my leaning post seat. We ran in to a fabricator “Smitty’s” that has the largest selection and options of leaning posts I have ever seen.
skimmer > The Miami Boat Show is one of the largest in the world.  This is the view from the Skywalk and it is only one small part of the show.  Every boat imaginable was on display at the Miami Convention Center.  There were also two other venues of in water boats, one for power and one for sail.  There were vessels up to 165 feet and worth $25 million that were open for viewing.
skimmer > This is a shot of Espanola Way which is just a couple of blocks from our hotel.  It is very pretty and quaint with excellent restaurants.  It is a real get-away from the busy streets of the city of Miami.  You can have an excellent meal or just sit back and relax with a cocktail or glass of wine and do some people watching.
skimmer > What is really great about the show is that you can talk directly to the manufacturers and/or owners of the company.  The upper left image is me with Cathy Johnson the owner of  StowMate.  This company manufactures various storage units that can attach to t-tops or other such places on a boat.  

The upper right and lower left images were taken at the Lowrance booth.  I was talking to Kent who is an engineer that works at the company headquarters.  He was explaining to me all of the incredible new features of the NMEA 2000 technology for networking data for display on the new generation of Lowrance machines.  Especially interesting is the new LCX-111c HD sonar/chartplotter.  This machine has a 20GB built in hard drive.  This allows for extremely detailed cartography.

On the lower right I am talking to Mark Ingram of Lee Fischer International about the submersible bait attracting light.  I am going to give one of these a try this coming season.  I get all my cast nets from Lee Fischer and they are excellent.
skimmer > The Miami boat show is really quite a big event.  The Convention center is huge with hundreds of boats and vendors.  This is the outside area with more boats and a tent pavillion for other vendors.  Just about every product you can think of is on display and for sale.
skimmer > After the beach, we retreated to the rooftop lounge area with a cocktail and admired the setting sun.
All in all it was a good day.  Tomorrow starts the boat show which is why we are really here!  Sure!

Captain Al Lorenzetti and Tim C. Smith
Date Caught: 11/21/09

Location: ocean east of lighthouse

Went out today found the fish in 35' of water east of the lighthouse boated 17 bass from 14lbs to 38lbs and bluefish to 12lbs all fish caught on a27 yellow and green tubes i weighed this fish in at saltwaters tackle in westislip 37.19
skimmer > Date Caught: 11/21/09

Location: ocean east of lighthouse

Went out today found the fish in 35' of water east of the lighthouse boated 17 bass from 14lbs to 38lbs and bluefish to 12lbs all fish caught on a27 yellow and green tubes  i weighed this fish in at saltwaters tackle in westislip 37.19
Date Caught: 11/21/09

Location: ocean east of lighthouse

Went out today found the fish in 35' of water east of the lighthouse boated 17 bass from 14lbs to 38lbs and bluefish to 12lbs all fish caught on a27 yellow and green tubes i weighed this fish in at saltwaters tackle in westislip 37.19
See photo in gallery

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