15 Fish
On board today, I had regular, Billy Tedeschi for light tackle striped bass. This was a shorter trip than normal, as Billy had meetings later in the morning.
The bay was near calm with a light West wind. A perfect sunrise as we headed out. Our first two spots of the morning had not turned on, so we decided to hit yesterday’s spot. Bingo! Lots of birds, bait and BIG bass mixed together! The fish were not as thick as yesterday, I’d say only about third of the fish were there. But plenty of action and constant hook-ups on big schoolies and small keepers. I did mark a few absolute cows holding bottom.
Top tackle today: The Yo-Billy popper, aka Popper Billy which is really a Yo-zuri topwater lure. Billy has this lure down to a science and rarely changes up because he doesn’t have to. He gets a lot of fish on it and I kidded him that I was goinng to give him a new nickname! The bass were also hitting my Baymen Jig by Jeck’s Bucktails, right on the bottom.
Well, meetings were waiting so we had to drive away from breaking fish and headed in. Total catch and release about 15 fish with a couple small keepers. We saw some big fish in the mix on top and I marked one or two fish that were absolute giants, bellies on the bottom.
Back at it and wishing everyone a great Indepdendence Day celebration!
Capt. Dave
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