Sunrise Fishing Surprise - Coast Guard Dawn Patrol!

I'm John Skinner and I'm just heading out early in the morning his sons not quite breaking over the horizon yet and heading out for some fluke fishing also called summer flounder you see me messing with my electronics there I'm looking at my plotter all that red stuff those are drift lines trying to learn a relatively new area and these are I've made about five trips here and those are previous trips previous drifts and I've got some GPS marks there were a mark fish but that's really not the point of this video I'm just getting set up it's yeah the Sun just starting to come over the horizon and this is like one other boat out on the water there he goes and yeah and then uh at the beginning of the second drift I was pretty surprised we'll look over my shoulder and see the coastguard coming at me at this hour of the morning morning guys not uh not on my boat no I haven't been boy you guys are out here early sure Oh do you mind if I keep my camera on all right all right thank you now boy you know it's so early I often wonder about these Floop when you come out real early in the morning like this oh you guys got a full crew today huh how you doing all right so you know who I am okay guess he won a Reggie Vick you guys uh over there go Pont 16 44 years old the boat I wish I was that young 1974 yeah well you know it's got a bilge pump so we're all good sure and so what about cushions I mean I always have one for each person but mostly cuz if somebody wants to sit on them but right so is that um are they required all right well I you know I we've got like three of them on there so I've got one here I actually have I always keep one underneath here also I've got a vest so it's closer to the console I probably have some others up they were obviously I've got that well I'm not in enclosed boat right so I don't need a fire extinguisher or I'm not sure putting that on my kayak you know Rob bounces back and forth yeah so yeah I even have flares you know what I might not have all this entirely possible okay or there could be a whistle with the first-aid kit yeah they're up here No now first drift three see Robins you know and yeah it's been a slow pick anyway yeah nice red nine pound 13 ounce two mornings ago over here yeah so it was nice yep I'm gonna die there so I'm never moving again and I like this Starcraft here's a registration pack so your that was that was fun yeah yeah we thought we had it all the way you know even we got online and and it's like 10 minutes left and the guys coming off from the way thing and he's carrying a decent fluked and I said you know what's what's winning there's this one I look at that I go oh my god no we got to better than that you know and it turns out the next guy getting weighed was yeah he hit quarters were pound heavier so you know we weren't that close yeah oh these are metal sharks that's interesting a friend of mine Rick's got a beautiful blue metal shark center console over in Sterling an effect will be out she's not out already no only when to hand it to other people okay it's just a date time and all your boats information your information where we boarded you everything I checked has an X next to it okay you think any violations you had everything you needed this is station Montauk the phone number and my name if you have any questions at all keep that onboard with your registration yep thanks for checking have a safe day looks like you got a beauty huh [Music] okay so that took a grand total of five minutes that boarding and that yellow piece of paper he gave me here's part of it which goes through things that they look for and you know a lot of this depends on the size and type of the boat and also you saw you know I've got a 16 foot open boat fire extinguisher was not required there and you know they're looking for you registration they want to see you have lifejackets throwable device whistle I guess flares I had those with me so well alright if you like these videos please subscribe to my channel

Channel: John Skinner Fishing

Views: 898,239

Rating: 4.772326 out of 5

Keywords: flounder fishing, fluke fishing, coast guard boarding, police, law enforcement, safe boating, 4th ammendment, fourth ammendment, illegal search, constitutional violation

Id: z9AjGm3Z6qE

Length: 7min 39sec (459 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 11 2018