Lipyourown
04-23-2007, 05:43 PM
Met my Pop at Buzz's on Sunday around 10 AM and set out on the first boat trip of the year. About a mile due east of the lighthouse we dropped 8 lines. Slowly approaching the mass of boats around B72, the deep rod on the transom goes off. I was worried because this is a rod from a friend with questionable rig preferences:p
Anyway, it hit a 20 ounce mojo with 12" inch green shad trolled close to the bottom. Around 40" but we didn't measure it, just let it go...always let the first one go... Good karma, after we got through the maze of boats in the main channel, our long line goes off (2 ounce white bucktail, 6" inch white shad)...Pops turn, he horses the fish in and it was about 30". Too pretty to keep he says, we continued on. That long line bucktail gets nailed 3 more times (west of buoy 70 about 80 feet of water in the top 10-15' of the water column). We kept one right under 35". Nary a nibble on the 4 umbrellas (green), the 8 ounce mojo(white) or other 2 ounce bt/shad (white).
Good amount of bait in the water and many gannents cruising and diving. Gannents never used to frequent this far north in the bay. They started appearing in ones and twos about 3 years ago. There were hundreds yesterday, scattered. Water was a bit stained but not too bad. Not many winter jellies.
Guys at the marina said there was over a hundred fish brought to the marina on opening day (out of 40 boats) but only a couple dozen on Sunday (out of 40 boats). I think the boat traffic gave em lockjaw although we did well. All fish appeared healthy, had sea lice and the one we kept hadn't spawned yet...looked like a male, wasn't. Empty stomach. No nets, all hand landed, my hands look bad today cause I tied my mono leader too short and the braid worked me over bad. Saw a few familar boats out there and many new ones. Those that used planer boards kept them at a respectable length and didn't cause problems. Lot of container ships to deal with though.
Anyway, it hit a 20 ounce mojo with 12" inch green shad trolled close to the bottom. Around 40" but we didn't measure it, just let it go...always let the first one go... Good karma, after we got through the maze of boats in the main channel, our long line goes off (2 ounce white bucktail, 6" inch white shad)...Pops turn, he horses the fish in and it was about 30". Too pretty to keep he says, we continued on. That long line bucktail gets nailed 3 more times (west of buoy 70 about 80 feet of water in the top 10-15' of the water column). We kept one right under 35". Nary a nibble on the 4 umbrellas (green), the 8 ounce mojo(white) or other 2 ounce bt/shad (white).
Good amount of bait in the water and many gannents cruising and diving. Gannents never used to frequent this far north in the bay. They started appearing in ones and twos about 3 years ago. There were hundreds yesterday, scattered. Water was a bit stained but not too bad. Not many winter jellies.
Guys at the marina said there was over a hundred fish brought to the marina on opening day (out of 40 boats) but only a couple dozen on Sunday (out of 40 boats). I think the boat traffic gave em lockjaw although we did well. All fish appeared healthy, had sea lice and the one we kept hadn't spawned yet...looked like a male, wasn't. Empty stomach. No nets, all hand landed, my hands look bad today cause I tied my mono leader too short and the braid worked me over bad. Saw a few familar boats out there and many new ones. Those that used planer boards kept them at a respectable length and didn't cause problems. Lot of container ships to deal with though.