hopedale 12-31 good way to end year

[fishinpox]

fished hopedale today i had my friends step son with me in my boat . in another boat was brad and his kid and in the other boat was frtiz and med /heavy. fritz and med/heavy went to a spot and brad followed me to another spot. the first spot produce 5 fish for me and brads step son. by 945-10:00 i had 20 fish in my boat . around that time the tide really slowed down ( go figure the day i have a drift sock in the boat) once the tide slowed the fish did as well we fished till 130- 200 the kid and i managed to pick up 4 more ending the day with 24 brads boat had 16 which is great cuz he normally whipps my arse so he went home . the water temp really warmed up from last monday it read 48.00degrees today i had around 54 degrees .