What a difference a day makes. After all that rain yesterday the seas calmed down nicely for a decent ride around the tip. Lt Willy and I filled the bucket with snakes and had the hook pretty much to ourselves. Saw a couple of the usual charter suspects pullin gear near the sticks. We planned the drift with snakes and it was a good call. First drop 9:15 on the outgoing light weight through the bumpy stuff
fish on! 32" is decked. I'm grinning. Schultz and I have not been out for sometime. He's been working his tail off and things just weren't lining up. Rerun the route..... the Lt puts the cuffs on a sweet fish that measured just shy of 36". Now he's the cats meow!!! He's fairly certain it's his PB. Don't matter. We're both onto it. My snakes getting jiggy. Lines peeling, clickers tapping out music we all hear and dream about. Hooks pinned. Another quality fish at 34". We're not marking many fish but these suckers are there. Rerun. Turn it north and let it fly. More run offs. A couple of missed fish. Getting trigger happy. Relax. Feed it back. Do you think she's still there> runs through my head. Sure enough bait is jumped again. Can't keep my trigger under control.. miss again.
We take another pass on the same track... Snakes come alive one more time. This one is not feeling like a good set but I've got a fight on till the net comes out. This round doesn't go my way and someone swims for another meal. This game played out for another scenario but I wasn't getting beat at it again. Got tight on one more decent fish and managed to put it to the box with its bretheren. We had very good action for about almost two hours then the feed bag came off. Turned out to be a great day all around. Good company, good weather despite an occassional swell. Plenty of fillets for the table. Sounds like Striper Cakes for dinner tonight.
Tally 4 boxed 32 to shy of 36"
A couple of decent runoffs
1 shook at net
1 Tastee sub
Courtesy of Capt D Jr
