Headed out of the W river this morning around 7:15, headed S. Stopped for a few dinks near Poplar Il. and then kept going. All jigging today. We put several nice fish in the box up to 30" in short order and caught some more after we arrived to some feeding fish. Could have kept a limit but held out and like usual that was the wrong move or maybe the right one
. We had to fight many, trollers both charters and hook and line guys and could only stand it for so long! We threw back a few low 20" fish before we decided to high tail it back N.
Now for the but part, we rode back up the eastern side through the back side of Poplar down past the snooze in the EB up the eastern shore almost to Matapeake and then over to Tollies and back down to Thomas Point and the W. river and only saw dinks and small terns working (except for 1 keeper in the EB and 1 at TP) so in all that traveling we only saw one slug of quality fish and they were getting HAMMERED!. Hopefully that is not a sign of the rest of the fall season, we shall see
I don't want to be too pesamistic but there were many more pods of quality fish around last year at this time!