Today we did not catch limit, did not put one keeper in the boat. I am going to stay short of calling it a skunk because we caught 25 unders. Some of those were so close that if we had any guts (which I don’t) we could have argued with the game commission they were legal. Do you ever win that argument? Not enough times to risk the fine for me and we are not out meat hunting anyway. There is no fish more expensive than the one you catch as the saying goes so if you don’t go for fun and sportsmanship you are far better off not going.
Started the day off at about 7:30 on my dock and had the greatest of aspirations on filling the boat with 28s and above. Dreams diminished pretty quickly as there was just not a life on our sounder. We tried at our traditional spots and got a call that down at the disposal grounds there was a lot of activity. Well we did catch 25 and that is 25 more than most any boat in the parking lot so we have that. We had 4 friends out fishing in their boat and neither caught any. We do have our Purple Passion bait that catches 90% of our fish so if they didn’t have that and they didn’t have any fish just that simple. I don’t always know why some colors just turn them on some years but we have that one that I should just call reliable.
We had about 10 captains boats around us all day and I am sure they either did not catch limit or they were way later than normal. I saw a few of them heading back at 3:00 which for them is just unheard of so I am not so underwhelmed with our performance.
Finally, I know it was a late bite, our friend Shoddy did not catch hardly anything until about 4:00 and he said the whole bay came alive at one time and he ended up with 4 nice keepers.