Each day and night of fishing provides participants in the derby with choices — not only of baits and lures and lines, but favorite fishing spots that become secrets only when competitive fish are landed there. Whether watching the sunset at Lobsterville or the sunrise at South Beach, whether casting into the rip at Wasque or bobbing over the waters of Middle Ground in a Boston Whaler, fishermen know that the search for their finny friends is a competition that, more than anything else, brings them together in a spirit of camaraderie and gives them yet another excuse to celebrate the matchless joys of our Island.