1st Live Lining Trip

[5th Tuition]

I haven't been fishing for rock in about 2 weeks In my spare time, I have been picking up some small spot and I finally built my numbers up to about 35

Mlag called last night and said he was planing to hit the water today. I quickly convinced him to jump on my boat and try the small spot at the bridge. We left the pier at 6 and started setting up close to 7am.
I am extra careful when piling fishing. I have a 13 pound anchor and holding can be a problem (I'll look for something in the 20 pound range). It took me a couple of tries to get comfortable, but with Mark's help, we began jumping from one concrete danger zone to another

Mark and Lou picked up four smaller (lower 20's) fish while I stayed at the wheel like a "nervous Nellie". We lost our tide, but tried drifting a few pilings in the light breeze.
The earlier fog had lifted, and with the sun out, it was getting warmer. We decided to call it a day with only 4 in the box. I was OK with this because my main purpose was to pick Mark's brain all morning

We headed for the barn. While we were in the area, we decided to check out one last spot that has produced for us in the past. As we approached, someone Mark knew was sitting right "On My Numbers" Mark asked if he had done any good? He held up a 30 inch fish and said he had just caught 5 in the last couple of minutes. Well, I did what anyone of us would do; I pulled up as close as possible to him and anchored so that our three spot would put more attraction in the water and steal his fish away from him After all, they were my numbers!!

No, seriously, he said he was about to leave and for us to drop anchor right in front of him. He even passed over the spot he had left over!! Anchoring without seeing a concrete wall was easy. No sooner did Mark have a spot out then we heard his line singing. Nice fish!! So nice, even I threw my rod out. I turned around to get a Mountain Dew and my line sang. Finished off our limit with two upper 20 inch fish
Lou felt left out. Because we were lip hooking the rock, we let Lou throw one more spot out. In no time at all, Lou had a nice fish close to the boat. It was released, and we pulled anchor to run home and clean fish (and the boat).

Mark had my boat full of mud (from anchor) and bird poop (from the bridge). But it was worth it.

Thanks for the refresher course Mark. Fun day!!
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