Yesterday I took my 11 year old Grand Son fishing on a party boat out of the east end of the North Fork of Long Island right near Plum Island where the Government did experiments on animals giving us ticks that carry Limes disease and probably two headed goats.
WE woke up early and he wanted a hard boiled egg which my wife made the night before. I peeled a hard boiled egg for him and put it in the microwave for 10 seconds.
At about 8 seconds, I hear this big explosion and being a combat Veteran, I hit the deck.
Then I realized the egg exploded, causing the microwave door to crash open and depositing pieced of egg all over the kitchen. I mean I didn't think there was so much egg in an "egg".
Thank God my cleaning fanatic wife wasn't up.
I cleaned much of it up with a hand vac which I had to then take apart to wash and wiped up all the rest of egg on the stove, wall and floor so Teddy didn't get to eat his egg.
Because of all the time I wasted cleaning up egg I only had one cup of coffee where I normally have 3 before I leave. Now I know what it means to go out with egg on your face.
We went downstairs where my friend Richie was waiting as he came with us .
WE drove about 35 minutes to the boat, The "Peconic Star IV" and we were the first "fishermen" there.
There was Captain Paul and Captain Rachelle" (I think). I introduced us as Captain Paul and Captain Richie because we are both Captains.
Soon other fishermen came aboard and 3 of them were young girls about 20 with their boyfriends, or bodyguards.
We left the dock and headed out. There are lighthouses all over the east end of Long Island in various stages of disintegration as some of them are 200 years old. This one is pretty good.
We got to the first spot and dropped out lines. Teddy almost immediately caught a tiny sea bass, which we threw back.
In a few minutes we all started catching fish, mostly porgies as that is what we were going for. Porgies are normally not that big but they have to be at least 11" to keep so we threw back the smaller ones. We did catch some fluke and sea bass but those were all to small.
Teddy, who was fishing about 10' from me yells "Hey Pop Pop, what's that?"
I look out and say thats a buoy. The Captain looks out and says, no, Thats a "Great White Shark".
I looked closer to the boat and saw this fin sticking out of the water about a foot and a half and he was heading for our boat. Of course I immediately yelled out "We are going to need a Bigger boat".
The thing was about 10 or 12' long and swam under out 60' boat without eating any of us. They normally go for accountants, and I don't think we had any on board.
We also didn't have any lawyers which is a good thing because I may have been tempted to throw one over which would have given the shark indigestion.
In a while, Teddy caught his first porgy. This is the Captain holding it.
Between the three of us we caught about 18 porgy keepers. This is one of 3 5-gallon buckets of them.
Richie also caught a small sand shark which of course we threw back.
Captain Rachelle cleaned the fish and my best friend Richie caught the biggest porgy at 15" and he won the pot of $75.00 which the 3 of us split.
At home I cooked the fish and we had a feast. It was a very good day.
