10-17-2009, 01:54 PM
No, it has never seen saltwater. Just something I didn't want to subject the boat to. Funny you ask because actually I'm about 5 minutes from the bay and 10 minutes from the ocean. I live in south jersey near Long Beach Island and the bay is Barnegat Bay. I generally fish in a lake also about 5 minutes from my home. Some nice largemouth bass in there. My best is 6lbs. but I know someone who has caught a 10lb. 6oz. in there, just shy of the state record of 10lb.14oz. I do enjoy crabbing in the Barnegat Bay. Just a dozen crabs and I'm able to get enough meat out of them that my wife can make 7 crab cakes. Back in 1976 I crabbed there with my parents one night and caught (believe it or not) 144 crabs off the dock. The only reason we stopped was because we had two bushels and they were filled to the top. We had nowhere else to put them so we had to call it quits. It has never been like that since. Also that same year I caught an "electric eel". Yup, thats no BS. I scooped him up swimming along side the boat launch and stupid me I held him up over the water to show my parents and he lid up blue, a spark shot out and he slithered out of the net and back into the water. True story, believe it or not.
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