Even though it was 7:30am when the boat launched, my competitive self still heard that there was a competition to see who could catch the biggest fish. I've only been fishing one other time (from the side of a stocked pond), but I was going to win that bounty. Captain Joe Sr. even confirmed it before we left to fish in the Delaware Bay.
Well, I ended up with a 14" flounder and threw it back because it was out of flounder season and you need to catch those suckers when they are larger than 18" or something ridiculous like that. Needless to say, I didn't even have anything to compete with. Other than that, I just enjoyed watching the bf catch 3 good ones (which were amazingly delicious for dinner), his brother catch one that looked like it had wings (Super Mario Bros. was closer to reality than I ever realized), people watching the other fishermen on the boat, and the awesome crew that moved the boat when we weren't catching stuff, ran over to help get the big fish on the boat and fileted a beautiful piece. read more