All in all not really a bad day. I had 3 keepers as did Theresa. We even had a 4# 5oz as our best fish.
Was sporadic bite. Had some shorts on the straight bucktail(1oz&3/4oz chartreuse spro tipped with gulp grub in white) and saw quite a few of them just yakking up loads of grass shrimp. Quickly tied in a dropper loop above the jig, slipped on a hook and tipped it with a 2" gulp shrimp. As soon as it hit the bottom it got slammed. First keeper of the day on the teaser. Told T to throw one on and she quickly tied the dropper and slipped on her teaser. Keeper for her on the teaser. I think I have it figured out but bite stopped.
Went back to the solo bucktail and switching up the Gulp. Figured a small strip of nice Sea Hawk squid would sweeten the deal and it did. Nice fish, possible pool contender slips into the net. T asked for her first keeper to be filleted so she could get some strips and dragged a salt-n-pepper strip combo to hook her nice fish.
Caught another keeper on the squid sweetend bucktail and T got her final keeper on her ultra pink spro/gulp combo. Had a good bucktail bite going on last two drifts, though mostly shorts and two of the biggest sea robins I've seen. Loaded with eggs. Capt Mike made me safely release them...I did think about wringing their pointy little necks but did the right thing.
High hook was a few guys with 5. Couple of regulars and some newbies managed 4 each. I guesstimated about 80-85 keepers for the boat. Pool fish had a few 4# class fluke vying for the win. T and mine at 4# 5oz, another one at 4# 3oz, another at 4.5#.
A slow pick for me but some good drifts throughout the day. Power drifting on a hot day and fishing the stern can be tough.
Air conditioned cabin...do I need to say more?
