[swartj]

The crew today was Ira and Paul (onefishinfool). Paul and his wife ML fished with me in the early summer and we only caught one fish. My goal was to have this be a better trip.

We left the dock at 8:00 and went out just east of 85A in 45’ of water and dropped lines. Since the MSSA tournament was going on and I though there would be a lot of boat traffic I decided to use the port side board only. I put four lines off the board, 2 deep boat rods with large umbrellas, 2 small umbrellas about mid depth and a wwfb line.

We got our first hit in 60’ of water on the deep rod with a chartreuse umbrella. Ira grabbed the rod but the fish came unbuttoned. We started to work our way south and got one more knockdown. We rounded the CR buoy and saw Lone Ranger and talked to him for a bit. Finally Paul got a fish on the chartreuse umbrella but it was a short so back it went. That was if for fish for the day.

We did have an adventure. In 70’ of water I looked at the bow just in time to see one of the crab line flags go down the port side of the boat. Words came out of my mouth as we all watched to see what the damage was going to be. The planer board lines made it as well as the deep lines and the wwfb. Both intermediate lines got hung on it. They were only small umbrellas so I decided to lock down the drags and break ‘em off. Paul was pulling on one rod and I on the other. The buoy went down and all of a sudden both came undone. We reeled them in to check for damage and we only lost one shad. God must have said “You got your rigs back, so no fish for you.”

Talked to Old Bird who had his own adventure, JohnnyO and Power Play. Heard Calpn Trayt out there looking for feesh.

One time Paul and I are going to go out and catch more than one fish.