I try to post often in order to help keep this site interesting. I hate coming to the site and not seeing something new to read, and possibly gleen some information. I have been told in the past that "this isn't my personal facebook page".
Those of you who have followed my posts know I like to post the great trips along with the bad ones (can you really have a bad trip if you get back to the dock safely?) Anyway; todays trip resulted in a skunk
Information:
Today we essentially worked the same area that we worked on Monday on Bruce's boat. We started out with the same spread as well. I had a tandem out 8 bars, a sixpack out 7 bars, and another tandem out 5 bars. We duplicated it on the other side as well
My thought was that because we were leaving the dock late (1 pm) the sun would be high and the fish would be in the upper few ft of the water.
John's boards pull so strong, that I could have run everything off on board and made a better representation of a school of fish, but we didn't need that on Monday
Good news is no jellies found on lures. Good news, gannets diving (not concentrated in one area
). Good news, some bait balls in the top area of the water.
I did change things around for a short time and ran the two six packs deep with 20 oz. of weight trying to produce a bite. Still no takers
We pulled lines around 6 and ran home.
Thoughts:
This is only a guess, so take it for what it's worth. I think some fish are coming in small pods. Monday, we had fish in the CB area as well as north. Friends of mine did well the last couple of days in this area.
As the pod moves north (to spawn), we have to hope that another pod from further south fills the area we fished the two days before
If this doesn't happen, you then wind up fishing a dry spot.
Now, it just may be that the fish were there, but didn't bite. Whatever the reason, we hit a dry spell tonight.
Soooo; take the report for what it's worth. We will be back out again soon and I will post how we do.
Once the trophy season starts, I will not be posting very often. We are booked with a lot of trips and when I get home, I eat, watch a bit of TV, and hit the sack. I am normally standing on the boat at 5am putting out rods and tackle. The party arrives around 5:45, and we pull away from the slip at 6.
Best of luck to everyone this year. I will freely give out any information I can to help make your trip a success. I know there are several guys on the board who also post accurate and helpful information. This whole board has a different feeling than TF. I constantly get info from friends to help make our charters a success, and to those friends, I thank you in advance of this season.
5th (Marty)