We'll I love it when a plan comes together... and I hate it when it doesn't. Especially on a charter. I got a call Tuesday from a doctor who wanted to take his 2 young sons 14 & 12 out for some fishing.
So, with the great topwater bite I have had for 3 weeks in the CT River it seemed like a sure thing to get the young ones on some amazing blow-ups with lots of action. I had them meet me extra early at 4:30am so we would be able to pound them before the sun got to high.
Wouldn't you know it.... nada....
The 1st 2 hours yielded exactly zero fish no matter how many of my hot spots I hit, including where I hammered them on Monday....
Ok so you know I don't go ANYWHERE without my T&W arsenal and all I can say is thank god for the tubes!!!
I finally located a pile of fish in 12-14ft of water and we ended up with about 20 schoolies to 27" and some pretty big bluefish to yank the boys around the boat a bit. It was disapointing to not get them a keeper bass but both kids caught their 1st stripers ever and before the morning was done I had a couple of new buddies laughing and enjoying the fast action on the tubes. My new orange tube was very hot today and even though it's not the tube pictured, it caught most of the fish.
Anyway.... you just never really have a sure thing. But for me, the T&W is the closest thing.
