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The weather was going to be nasty south side of the cape today and a buddy has his seacraft in Winthrop which is off the side of Logan airport in Boston Harbor so we launched out of green harbor in Marshfield so I wouldn't need to trailer through Boston Traffic and met up with him and fished around the Harbor.

We didn't find many of the Large schools of pogies which were supposed to be in the harbor so my buddy went outside and loaded up a livewell with Macs and we went into the inner harbor near downtown looking for life. We ended up finding the channel near south boston loaded up and we jigged up a few gator blues and called my buddy in. He was incredibly generous and gave us 25+ macs which we were able to convert them into a mix of 15 blues and bass. All of the bass were over the slot limit.

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On the way home we ran into a Mola, we saw it breach and crash into the water then we slowly motored over to it and put the boat into neutral. It sounded and then a couple min later came up and checked us out.
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Looks like you had a good day on the water. Blew out of the North down here today. Makes for a sloppy day on the ocean.

To me one of the benefits of the 25 over the 31 is trailerability as we got a trip in yesterday that we would have passed on if it were just south side weather. it was nasty on the south side 25kt winds so we trailered to the north side to get away from the wind. Windy.com showed the front heading out over cape cod bay and wind dropping out at 4am. We got to the ramp for 6am for the roughly 30 miles run from green harbor in Marshfield into Boston harbor over water. the way there was pea-soup fog and we probably missed any life along the way as it only cleared up near the entrance to the Hull gut.

the other positive of that trip is that I hadn't gone out of green harbor in quite some time and wanted a tune-up trip, it is only @20 miles to get to the western side of stellwagon bank so if the smaller tuna show up, it would be a shorter run for tuna going out of that harbor.

I have never been on a 25 but I have heard great things about the ride. There I times I think, a boat on a trailer with outboards would be an asset. Heck, if there is ever another late striper season, you can drop the boat in on a nice day around Christmas and pull it yourself and not worry about all the prep for cold weather you need to do to inboards or finding a marina to take it out.