I met Mark and Capt. John at 6am this morning. We headed to the boat and the humidity was so thick that I had a hard time keeping the boat windshield dry. I opened the front windows for better visibility and Capt. John was freezing as he sat by the dinette. I told him it was payback for all the days I froze my butt off on the back of his 46 Markley while he sat up inside the cabin with heat
We had an incoming tide and we picked up two small keepers. It was early and you never know so two 21's went in the box. We lost our tide and I started to sweat a little. The tide turned to outgoing and we had found a bunch of bait in 40 ft. We dragged our baits and picked up a couple of nice mid 20 fish hanging around the bait balls.
Not much later, I found two big schools of fish about 100 yards apart. Each pass over them would cause the FF to lose bottom
Fish were so thick that multiple rods would go down. Only ran 5-7 rods today (no boards).
We made several passes across the schools and limited out with fish up to 30 inches.
The fish were so thick that we called two buddies over that were jigging today. They came over and the fish had moved
We had a devil of a time finding them again, and never found the big schools
We ran back to Bodkin Creek and tied up at 1pm. It was a fun day with friends. Glad we put some fish in the box as well.
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