On board today, regulars Gary Condon, Matt Daily and Greg Powers for light tackle striped bass.

First stop of the morning – ghost town! All those fish from this past week – gone… Started heading to our second spot of the morning and on a lark, decided to shut down and glass the bay for birds, even though we have not seen hardly any birds working fish this year. To my surprise and our delight, I spotted maybe a dozen or so gulls about two miles distant. We decided to go have a look…

For the next three hours it was non-stop fish action on medium and big fish! A school of big fish about three hundred yards long were working bait in 24 fow. Every once in a while there would be a an expolosion on topwater, but for the most part it was all electronics fishing for the first half of the trip.

We set numberous drifts and started to rack up numbers and a couple of keepers. Then Greg Powers’ rod doubled over and didn’t come back up. Heavy fish hugging the bottom, that slammed a Baymen Jig! Greg has fished with Gary & crew for many years and he is a good angler. We were using light tackle, light rods and light braided line on light leaders. Greg fought the big fish for fifteen minutes before we saw it. Everyone was guessing how big it was. At first, I said a 36, then I said a 38, then I said a 40… When I finally saw it I said “A Forty-Five!” The fish made a couple of circles and Greg led it into my waiting net. On the Boga the fished weighed 29+ pounds and taped out to a whopping 44″ inches! What a great light tackle cow and our best fish this season so far.

Later in the morning Gary and Matt both landed keepers, bringing our total catch and relase to 95 fish, 5 keepers, all on light tackle. Top lures were my Baymen Jigs and rubber crankbaits. We ended the trip throwing poppers to fish along the flats around the bay. What an amazing morning with big fish in the bay!

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Capt. Dave
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