Unfrigginbelievable
. Towed the boat south and went out of Ches. Beach and hit our "normal" area. Bait and fish stacked up everywhere.
We had a high tide at CB at 5:19 this morning and we launched at 6am and watched the charter boats just sneek under the bridge. We cleared with no problem
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With the full moon and water near the tops of the piers; we figured we would have to wait until around 8:30 for the tide to be moving south.
Just about 8:30, the tide and the fish started. We had our limit by 10:30 and played CR for a couple more fish.
Bait and fish took up 1/3 to 1/2 the screen on some occaissions. We decided to rack the trolling rods and break out the jigging rods. We drifted some nice water and watched piles of bait slip under the transducer. After about a half hour, Lou says "Man I'm glad I don't do this all day". Which meant, I am ready to call it a day.
Ran back to CB to clean the fish and just walked in the door at 2:30 pm.
What a difference 20 or 25 miles makes for fishing (Bodkin Creeek to CB). We would have had our fish earlier, except Lou had a hard time with the HDS 7 gps. I run mine in "North Up" configuration and he kept running us into shallow water and we hung up rods three times
. I switched it over to "Heads Up" and then he figured out which way to turn the boat for deeper water
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All in all, a great day on the water; especially for a Saturday. When we came back in; a State Medivack Copter had landed in the park next to the CB waterslide. I hope it was'nt a boater in distress that got flown out.
Later;
5th (Marty)