Friday, April 25, 2008
While I was busy working this week, two friends, who are now ex-friends of mine, went striper fishing without me and had the gall to send me the photos to prove it.
The end of April is stripped bass season around here. They run up and down the Delaware spawning and then go back into the ocean. They get massive in size.
Here’s a picture of my ex-friend Scott Summers in the white hat holding a 40" 35 pound striper his fishing partner (pictured below) caught under the Commodore Barry Bridge. That's like the size of a small first grader!
Below him is a picture of my ex-friend Mike Reimer in a baseball hat who also went with my ex-friend Scott Summers and caught a striper without me. Mike was the guy I talked about going trout fishing with in chapter 6 of Second Guessing God.One cool thing about my ex-friend Mike is that he creates Gyotaku fish prints for people. Gyotaku (pronounced GHEE-OH-TAH-KOO) is the art and technique of Japanese fish printing. They’re beautiful gifts or keepsakes to give people.
You can check out my ex-friend’s website and fishing log at http://www.michaelreimer.com/.
6 comments:
Apparently your ex-friends didn't know you went out later without them and caught your own "first grader."
Brian's catch
That's hysterical!
Brian,
Looks like the same fish to me, just flipped the around the other way to look like it'a a different fish.
Seems like a fishy story to me?
Ed
Hi all,
First of all "still my friend" Brian (and Kevin) was invited, but he was going out of town. He has been invited multiple times, but since he doesn't live like he has 30 to live, he is never avilable. Secondly if he had read the e mail I sent, it said that Mike caught the 40" fish and that my largest was 26" which I also sent a picture of. This is the same fish in both pictures. If I had only 30 days to live, the look on Mike Reimers face as well as the great day we had together was priceless.
Thanks,
Scott Summers
I'll have to say that I think Scott was just as excited as I was when we caught that fish. I say we because I never would have gotten it in the boat without Scott. He went to net it and realized it was too big for his net, dropped the net into the Delaware River and somehow hauled the fish in by hand. We were both screaming, high fiving and laughing the whole time. I took a picture of him right away as he was holding the fish when it was landed, but certainly didn't pass the opportunity for a picture with it. No intent to deceive, just a great day on the water with a friend and pictures of a fish we were both proud of.
BTW, we later went upriver (incoming tide) and retrieved Scott's net!
funny. actually it's pronounced more like "gyotahkoo" with 3 syllables not ghee-oh etc. just say it fast.
-reading you in Japan
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