With no takers for the Open Boat, decided to have a fun trip. Made some quick calls and my good buddy Hollywood Mike joined me. Figured the Bay would be fishable so decided to poke our nose out on Sunday and found that it was in indeed very fishable. With no clams to be found, just went with Eels for bait. More fun anyway.
Got a call from a network boat that the conditions were not terrible (pic included) and so we shoved off to stiff Northerly winds and a 35 degree air temp. Covered the same Eel drops from Saturday with Hollywood grabbing the first two fish and nothing else coming from them. Tried a few other Spots and I dropped a nice fish and then came back later to try again and after a few runs broke off a good fish in a 4 knot current with 14oz of Lead on.
Returned to where we started the day and I finally boated two and Mike added another which we used a bonus tag on. Had to work really hard today for our two man limit and threw a fair amount of spray but nonethelss, still had a good time doing it and never left the bay. Ok, so I lied I was misearble from the point I broke off the second fish until I caught my two and then forgot all about it... :rolleyes: While Mike caught more Stripers than I, my fish were still bigger.
BTW Mike forgot to set his clock back so he lost an hour of sleep, cough, cough, cough... :eek:
The fish that had anything in their stomachs had either Mantis Shrimp or Multiple Eels.
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