Fishing with Scott, Dominic, and Larry 4/1/18

I picked my guys up at 7:15 and we hit the gas station for some petrol for the Ranger.  We headed to Mazurik's and launched by 7:45. After letting the ETEC warm up, we headed north. 

It was a bit bouncy in the morning, due to the west winds, but it wasn't too bad. 

The bite was best in the early morning, and the P-10's and Bandits successfully pulled 7 nice fish in the first pass.  It was the same program as the last time out, which was P-10's with 1oz snap weights run 30/30 and 40/40, and Bandits run 75, 80, and 85 back behind the Off Shore boards.  Speed was 1.4(ish).  We dropped two fish on that first pass too...oh well...:)

We ran back up to our starting point, to make another pass on my line, but found the bite to be a bit tougher the second time around.  Our count was up to 13 though, so I decided it would be a good time to go scout another area, so we picked up and headed east, to the east side of Kelly's.

We set lines again near Airport Reef, and while there were few to no marks there, we kept trolling south.  We picked up one suicidal piggy that was our biggest fish of the day, topping the scale at 10.74 pounds (29" fatty), and a smaller 3 pound fish we let go, because it was the 15th fish. I told them that if they kept another one, we would be done for the day, so they decided to let the little one go, and keep fishing. We caught another one that went about 4 1/2 pounds, so they kept that one. The last fish never showed up, so we were one short of our 4 man limit. 

They had hit their personal bests 6 times over today with a 29 1/2, 29, 29, 28 3/4, 28, and 27 3/4s.  All 6 are going home to be hung on their walls. :)

It was a super fun day fishing the Scott, his son, Dominic, and Scott's Father in Law Larry.  We'll be hitting the water at 7:30 tomorrow to see if we can duplicate what we did today. 

The winds will be down tomorrow, so it should be an awesome day on the water!

Water temps today were 37-38 degrees.

Stay tuned...

Capt Juls