Swan Pt 4/1/2012

[PhilK999]

Did a quick shake down cruise today and hit Swan PT. Left the peir about 1 and pulled our lines out of the water about 4:30.

We had a 6 rod spread out, 3 on the board, two high off the boat and I did my experiments with the new to me down-rigger set about 25 feet deep.

Water was probably the cleanest I have seen it this time of the year in I can't count how long. Thought that would have been the trick to catch some fish and had 0 fish to show for our efforts. We were fishing at the change of tides, so thats my excuse and I'm sticking to it. It is better to go fishing at bad times and do poorly than not go fishing at all.

On positive notes, the downrigger test went well, decided which side of the boat to run it on, the boat ran well, no one fell overboard, no one died, the boat did not sink and the 3 of us got some much needed R&R outside on a day that turned out much better than the weatherman was predictng.

Can't wait until Thursday when I can make longer trip, plan it around some moving water and hopefully some catching not just fishing like we did today.