Took a coworker for his first fishing trip on a boat. Pushed off at about 1:30pm for a short afternoon trip. Headed to the reach and took a few drifts, he pulled a bunch of shorts with one keeper at 19". Seeing as we were headed out with our better halves later that evening, the keeper went back in the drink and is waiting for one of you to catch him again. Took a ride to the highlands for food at the clamhut and to show him the back bays of the Shrewsbury/Navesink river and then headed back in. Was greeted by a CG auxiliary who was offering vessel checks, so I took him up on the offer and passed with flying colors and earned my inspection sticker.
Meanwhile, watched one trashed guy smash into another boat trying to park in the Bluerock transients. I mean SMASHED into it and nearly fell out of his boat trying to tie up. Then watched some yahoo come under the bridge and proceed to gun it WOT while doing fishtails and 360's right at the bridge, pretty much waking everything in sight and acting like an all around ass. Unfortunately the auxiliary guy couldn't or didn't do anything about either of them, but my day was done and we headed to Tiki in PP for some celebratory drinks. Definitely a great day on the water and introduced a new fan for life.
