We rarely have an afternoon trip, but todays charter was'nt scheduled to leave the dock until 1pm
. Hey I like this, I get to sleep in
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I had all the tackle ready and we slipped out to calm conditions and headed south to the eastern shore side of the bay. The water was so calm, we could see bait everywhere. We kept a close eye on both the fishfinder and on the horizon looking for birds.
Birds were flying but not concentrated in any area. We dropped lines on some nice marks near the CP bouy. We picked up some nice blues, but never had more than two rods go down at once. The fish were here, but they were not concentrated either.
The party had fun seeing the air tactics of the blues. They were going in the box fairly steadily, but certainly no blitz.
We continued south and ran into a better group of blues and rock. The blues would hit both of Capt Johns spoons on a single spreader and actually take drag. Blues were 20-23 inches. Two 23 in blues give quite a fight. The rock (20-23 inches) were not as plentiful, but a nice distraction
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We never did see fish feeding, but we had enough interested in our gear to make it a good night. The rock turned on later (around 4:30 pm) and I bet they would have been even better closer to dark.
Again we ran my 7 rod spread (all spreader bars with CJ spoons). For those that have forgotten or didn't see my spread before, this is what's working for us on "Patent Pending". 6 oz out 14 bars: 6 oz out 12 bars / 10 oz out 10 bars: 10 oz out 8 bars / 16 oz out 6 bars / 20 oz out 5 bars: 20 oz out 5 bars.
We pick up most of our blues on the 6 and 10 oz spreaders, and the rock on the deeper 16 and 20 oz spreaders.
I'm typing with two fingers all taped up from one of the larger blues. He was going bezerk as I was trying to remove a lure, and his teeth just grazed my hand and when I looked down, I was bleeding like a stuck pig. I grabbed one of Capt Johns nice clean yellow specialty towels and made it look like a 70's tye dyed shirt
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We are headed out 6am Wed Morning with another charter. Guess I have to get up early that day.
5th (Marty)