What's worse?

[5th Tuition]

Snot or Slot?

Out this am with my friend Alan on his 23 Proline Express. Banged a nice slot fish (38) after about 20 minutes of trolling Figured it was looking like a banner day; until we pulled lines at 11:30 with that single fish to show for or efforts
Deep lines were full of snot. we pulled and redeployed the whole spread twice and kept at the deeper boat rods all morning. Singles off the boards stayed pretty clean back 6 or 5 bars. Heavier tandems back the same distance collected snot.

I got a call from Capt. John's mate (Doug) around 9:30. Capt. John had to tend to an emergency back on shore, and they had a second trip scheduled for the afternoon. They wanted to know if I could get to Deale in time for the second trip? Allan was kind enough to cut our trip short so I could help John out.

Doug and I fished out front of CB and picked up 3 keeper fish. Once again we tried to keep the board lines short. Half of them would get "snotted up"; so you were always fishing with half your baits, even while constantly cleaning.

I can't wait for the jellies to get out of here!!

Good luck tomorrow. I'm resting
5th

[Skip]

I'd rather reel in a fish and release ( slot ) then reel in snotted lures any day.

[Chessie27]

Hasn't been an issue for me above the bridge but I didn't get out this weekend. Might try a quick trip Wed morning.....

[cletus9000]

Fished south of the bridge Sunday. Reset the entire spread 4 times between 6:30 and 1 PM. Deep lines early on were absolutely covered in jellies, but all lures were getting snot. Got better as the day wore on, and western side for me was less bad, but man I feel like I was fishing with half a spread presented effectively the entire day, at best. Managed two slot fish. Talking to folks at SPSP sounded like that was fairly typical, with most getting 1-2 tops (at least who I spoke with) and dealing with the jellies non-stop.