George and I and our families made our annual president's day trip to a former colleague's place at Whidbey Shores. Weather turned out to be much better than predicted, but the fishing was very slow. We fished pretty much all day long and only hooked one 24 inch blackmouth and one 21 1/2. The rest were shakers - mostly around 20 inches - but there were relatively few of them. Didn't see anyone else with nets out either. Next time I want to take that young Hope kid. He seems to know a lot more about this than the rest of us do!

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