great pics! Nothing better then spending time with the boys no matter how or where! Love the comment etched into memory! reminds me of that Flip Pallot guy from ESPN walkers Cay chronicles morning fishing show.
Was the surface temp really 78 degrees on the ocean? That's what it's been on the lakes but I would have thought much cooler on the ocean.
Nice Job Kate & Gage! Good Man getting them out and on the fish Dispy. I met Katelyn, her niece and Gage at the Ice Shanty Get Together this past March. Katelyn won the portable ice shack we raffled off. It was too big to fit in her car so I offered to deliver it for her. Very nice woman and Great kids. Hopefully they will get some good use out of it this winter. Glad to see everyone had a good day out there.
Here is a good link for ocean temps JoeGG ......keep in mind I reported surface temps and did not drop a fishhawk to monitor the depths. Our home lake is 89*f (on the hottest of days) on the surface with a good thermocline set up at 45 f.o.w. https://marine.rutgers.edu/cool/sat_data/show/?file=../../regions/bigbight/sst/noaa/2016/img/160821.234.1842.n19.jpg
I know the link and realize you were talking surface temp as my post states. 78 degrees just seems too warm unless you're out in the gulfstream.
JoeGG if you clicked on the link you'd clearly see the color yellow denoting 74*f surface water temps on our NH coastline at that particular time of the day. It is not impossible to find warmer surface temps during the sun's highest point in the day on flat seas.....do those temps stay that way all day, of course not..many differing factors to the equation
I don't know about "clearly" Tom. Even 74 is pushing it with the blues, greens, and faint yellows I'm looking at. Although I don't really know how far out you went. Let's hope those surface temps don't get any warmer the way the tropics are starting to heat up. On another note, have you ever fished the Deer Island Rip in Boston Harbor. I can give you some very good first hand info if you and the boys want to try it.