Reel Class
08-15-2013, 05:13 PM
Had the guys from the SWABC on board today for one of their annual charters. Great group of guys as usual led by Dennis and Frank.
Ran back to where we've been catching, and found shorts and still a 1 knot drift early. Bounced around, finally got our first keeper when we went offshore around 8 and got a couple more.
By 930 the wind laid down enough for us to work off a bit more on some rough stuff, and the first piece we hit had good life when we had a drift where we picked a good amount of shorts and some nice keepers.
Second spot was dead, third was loaded with shorts, and the fourth offshore had a few shorts and 1 keeper.
We then shot back inshore to finish up the day and got a couple more keepers and a couple more shorts.
Overall, it was a tough day. Lots of short fluke, some keepers, and just another grinder of a day where we had to hunt and peck to scratch up a catch. We wound up with 10 in the box - biggest went 5# by Dennis Jr. All but one of those keepers was over 20", so we did have some quality fish but just not enough of them.
Back at it tomorrow, gonna do some prospecting for greener pastures :)
Ran back to where we've been catching, and found shorts and still a 1 knot drift early. Bounced around, finally got our first keeper when we went offshore around 8 and got a couple more.
By 930 the wind laid down enough for us to work off a bit more on some rough stuff, and the first piece we hit had good life when we had a drift where we picked a good amount of shorts and some nice keepers.
Second spot was dead, third was loaded with shorts, and the fourth offshore had a few shorts and 1 keeper.
We then shot back inshore to finish up the day and got a couple more keepers and a couple more shorts.
Overall, it was a tough day. Lots of short fluke, some keepers, and just another grinder of a day where we had to hunt and peck to scratch up a catch. We wound up with 10 in the box - biggest went 5# by Dennis Jr. All but one of those keepers was over 20", so we did have some quality fish but just not enough of them.
Back at it tomorrow, gonna do some prospecting for greener pastures :)