Prospecting trip yields nice limit 6/8

[Capt. Charlie]

We are out looking for nice fish for the DU Ladies Tourney on Sun. We are in it every year, with Willies' daughters' crew of lovely, lady anglers
We have won this three times, once with a 52" fish
Anyhow.... we started on the east side this am and gradually moved west to finish up with a nice 10 fish limit to 29". There is a TON of bait but no schools of rock and no birds working either When we passed the bait we got hit, but NEVER more than 1 rod and lots of shorts
We are going to another area tomorrow to try and find some bigger fish so maybe we will repeat on Sunday.
All bigger fish were caught on swim baits/bars. The smaller fish and throwbacks were hitting 17 Tony's and became a real pain in the ass
We can't understand why. with all the bait, there aren't any birds/breakers around ??

[Spot77]

Might have just been "one of those days" where nothing makes sense. We've been seeing a lot of bait too, but only once in the past month have we seen the surface on fire. And no bird action north of the bridge yet.

That's a great pic of you Charlie.....a shame the fool that took it didn't do a better job of getting the entire monster fish in the photo.

[drichitt]

I have heard some of that bait is still pretty big. I wonder if some larger spoons might be the ticket?

[Capt. Charlie]

Dritchett......15 and 17 Tonys were all we had in addition to Johns Spoon rig which is the same size as a 17. There are tons of bay anchovies and the little rock seem to key on those so the spoons attract them while the larger rock go for the swim-baits.