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As we all deal with this crappy weather I was surprised to get a picture with text entitled who is this guy. from good friend Carlos Bastos aka seabass7 on njfishing that put a smile on my face and warmed me up. Carlos use to write some of the best articles for the Fisherman magazine. Picture he sent me is from one of those articles. I am thinking article was from the 90's. Hopefully he will read this and respond back with year.

It bought back some great memories as looking back I can thank/blame Carlos and his 17 ft proline " Bottoms Up" for this fishing addiction especially blackfishing. I learned a lot from him fishing on his boat not to mention blackfish road trips to Buzzards Bay and VA where I caught my first DD tog.
No digital cameras back then so all pictures I have are in a photo album. Boy did we catch a ton of fish on that Proline. He really knows his bottom fishing and could anchor boat on piece the size of a Volkswagon. Now that he is in Fla he is picky up right where he left of in Jersey and has been putting some impressive catches together. The only difference now instead of seabass, blackfish, stripers, fluke the target is now Grouper, Snapper, Amberjack. Can not wait to get down again this year and do some damage on some southern bottom dwellars like we did last year with my two brothers from another mother. Carlos(seabass7)and Rob (Fishguts)

Amazing that this hobby we call fishing has blessed me with 2 of my best friends who just happen to be some of the best bottom fisherman and Capt's I know.