Thanks Bill Burton

[john ronayne]

About a month ago I posted the story about my sons 443 pound Thresher caught on 6/13 out of OC on Bill$ for Bills. To crown a great memory, Dylan was mentioned in Bill Burton's next to last article on 6/28. In Bill's unique way, he turned the story into a metaphor about life. (I am on my work computer and cannot cut and paste, so if someone could post the article or link that would be great.)

I have been slow to thank Bill, but I cannot express how happy and proud I was that he wanted to write about it. Bill actually apologized that he didnt include a picture, because they were using a pic of a new state record that had been caught the same week. His story is something that Dylan will keep and re-read for the rest of his life, we have the pics!

I also just found out that Dylan made this weeks cover of The Fisherman Mid Atlantic Edition! Now the boy is talking smack like "How big is YOUR biggest fish Dad"! Been on the cover of any magazines?

Thanks Bill, and the editors of The Capital, The Fisherman magazine, and Coastal Fisherman magazine. And thanks again to Capt. Mike Connor for a great trip that made everything that followed possible.

John Ronayne

[LECTRICFISHRMAN]

Congratz Dad ! ;-) Good luck when you go :fishing2: again ..........;-)

[mdsportsman]

John, Here is the article less picture,

Pity Dylan Ronayne, a budding fisherman of Kent Island, whose share of the limelight in big game fishing circles was short lived last week because in the same week both new Maryland thresher and mako shark records were set off Ocean City. Dylan learned that a fish big as it is can be can be bested by another at any time - and that's what fishing is all about.
Dylan, in a 2 1/2-hour battle, reeled in a 443-pound thresher shark of 15 feet with no help from anyone at the Fingers off Ocean City aboard Capt. Mike O'Connor's Bill$ 4Bills. That's quite an accomplishment for an angler of any age, but at 13 Dylan is already a seasoned fisherman with hundreds of hours on the water to his credit. He got his captain's license when 10.
But along comes Russell Applegite of Colorado who also fished the Fingers with 40-pound test line and landed a state record 642-pound thresher whose tail alone measured 7 1/2 feet. And, as if that isn't enough, Jim Hughes of Ocean City landed a record 876-pound mako shark in 500 fathoms between Poorman's and Washington Canyons.
Cheer up Dylan Ronayne you have made your mark - and keep in mind those two records were made just to be broken. You have many, many years ahead to try and do just that.

Outdoors: Easy come, easy go for record catches • Sports - Outdoors (www.HometownAnnapolis.com - The Capital) (http://www.hometownannapolis.com/news/out/2009/06/28-19/form_weddings.html)

Mike