Greetings from Capt. Dave & BAYMEN!

On the bay at first light for final RECON. Charter season begins in earnest tomorrow. 

THE FISHING:  Air temps 41 degrees, water temps 55. Seas calm. A handful of fish in the bay this am. Found a couple small schools on micro minnows 1″ – 1.5″ inches long, slender, olive and white, moving in small schools. Marked one or two clouds of them but the bass were breaking them up. Most fish were in 1-4 fow and I was bumping bottom several times.

The bass were ULTRA finicky today. Really bad and hard to get hits. You would go right through them with fly and LT and not a bump. It took a lot of patience. We managed 7 fish total, 3 of them keepers 28, 29, 30. Saw two fish that were quite big for a split second and never saw them again. I fished a tiny white albie fly that would eventually get hit when stripped very slow on floating or intermediate lines.

A few seals with the bass, a few flocks of cormorant around, and some of the bigger jelly fish are in the bay. No sign of any big baits where I was fishing today. I ran the bay in search of other fish but there were none, surprisingly. So, some fish are. The big spring blitz fish have not yet arrived… Stay posted:

Capt. David Bitters, BAYMEN, baymenlife.com 32 years guiding the bay. Still in love.

Solid Deo Gloria!