30 Fish, 2 Keepers
On board today, I had repeat client, Chris Barry, and friends Jack Devereaux and Steve Cannavo, for light tackle striped bass.
At first light, the bay was near calm and it stayed flat all morning. Really nice fishing weather! Scattered baitfish around the bay, but nothing balled up. Small schools of bass were running and gunning the baits and driving them to the surface in ten second blitzes. Sometimes the blitz would last several minutes. Then, back down and back up a hundred or more yards away or not at all.
We looped around the bay twice today and ended where we started. A lot of small bass were over the eel grass beds.
Then, we met up with my friend “Spook” who is an expert rower and angler that fishes a Zara Spook from his shell, all over the bay. We were fishing side by side when he spotted a big blitz about a half-mile way. “Capt Dave – looks like a good blitz over there!” I agreed and said he would probably beat me rowing over in his shell. He goes that fast! I fired up the outboard and my crew and I zipped right over, set a drift in birds and breaking fish and WHAM! – triple hook-ups!!! One of the fish was another small schoolie but the other two were screaming drags and pulling the boat. Steve landed his first, a fat 29 1/2 keeper. About ten minutes past the Jack hauled in a 40″ incher that weighed 25lbs on the BOGA!
All fish today were landed on basic rubber crank baits in pearl. We use the Baymen Bounce technique that is nothing more than putting a twitch into the lure as you retrieve it.
Total catch and release today: 30 fish, 2 keepers. A great day on the bay!
Stay posted: Fall run is just getting going…
Capt. Dave, BAYMEN, www.baymenlife.com