I talked the wife into all 5 of us going... very nice for a change. This was the first trip on the boat for the littlest guy! We tubed and swam for the first half, then downlined 1 dozen BBs the second half, with decent results for just that much bait. I do believe we had a few extra baits, though. First fish was an 8.2 pound striper, and was caught within 10 minutes (especiall good for trips with kids). Then a little spot, then a 6 pound stripe, all pretty quick. Then back home. All fish came from the same place. The 6 pounder wouldn't go back down, so it came home with us, but, the other 2 were released and didn't float. I almost got away without cleaning fish today

Beautiful day, today, and we all had a fun time. It wasn't quite as crowded as I thought it would be, but plenty crowded of course. Water was 84-ish, and very clear.

A few pics (in order):

This little guy steers like a pro (alcoholic).




The 8.2




The 6

Way to go Charles. No stripes on bait for us today; all lead and downrigged jigs.

Awesome day Charles: A day out with the entire family and some stripes to boot! How can it get any better. You did a great job at getting them with todays traffic.

Nice report Charles....it took me a while to get it down, but if you're attentive, you can troll umbrellas and leadcore while pulling the kids on the tube.

Lots of smiles on your boat Charles. Great to see. Definitely a great day for the family. Congrats.

Great day Charles. You need to log on to getkidsfishing.org and put the pictures on Kids Of August photos. Thanks getkidsfishing

Very good pictures and better memories!

Thanks, guys. I failed to mention a funny mishap, because I
wanted a little video to go along with it first...

A funny 7 second video:


I forgot to tell them the fish should be IN the net, and the rod should stay OUT of the water. LOL Kids... you have to tell them everything!

As best I can tell, that fish took both baits, and the fish plus my daughter pulled a rod out of my wife's hands. There's a memory we won't soon forget. We did get both the fish and the rod landed safely.

Good luck out there, folks, and have fun with it!

Hey Charles, your video will not play, it is listed as private when you click on it.

Ok... I've made it public now. Sorry about that. Next time, if I grab the camera, I'll hang it around my wife's neck while I attend to the goings on. I actually did LOL while this was all happening... until I realized I had a rod underwater I didn't see everything unfold, because I had tunnel-vision from getting video.