My 2012 season!

[rdebadts]

What a good year. I started late so I missed the early season brown bite. However, starting with basically my first trip we had hands down the best spring king bite I have ever seen! I easily caught way more salmon in april and May than I did in August, without even trying. We never really got the steelie bite going in June this year, which was fine because the kings stayed hot. Also, we had some absurd days on lakers to fill in the gaps. In July, my boat finally placed in the sodus proam (open) and won a nice paycheck for sunday! For some reason I never really got the late summer kings figured out this year, and my biggest fish was only about 25 lbs...

Perhaps the best part of the year was the number of first time fisherman I got out, including a bunch of kids. I LOVE seeing how excited they get! My catch percentage was WAAAAAAAAAAY down this year (only ~60%) as a result but well worth it.

My brother also got the bug bad and I think I have a new first mate! It is really nice seeing him as much as I do now!

A trip with my brothers

Pretty fall brownie

Nice offshore steelies and an immature

Nice laker

Another spring king

A banner day- this was april 28th!!!!

We got blown off by 9:30 am...

Spring king, yet again

My brother with a good one

The two big ones were 24+ lbs, the weekend before the proam...

Little man is 10 years old- his first king

His 2nd king.... He can barely hold this one up.... lol

Sodus Proam- good for 3rd place

My wife's cousins- neither had ever been out

My nurse friend from work

She sure was a trooper, out 9 miles this day.

Jake put a hurtin on them

Probably my best day in August....

Nice spawner

Beautiful atlantic!

[GAMBLER]

[LongLine]

Great season

Tom B.

(LongLine)

[orangediablo]

[alex1young]

Nice Atlantic

[reelintense]

Awesome!

[FX]

Thanks for sharing!

Shawn

[33canuck]

[Skippers Trophy 01]

Good job and thanks for the tips this year, Abe.

Hope to see you sometime up there.