First time out 5/1/24

My wife and I headed out of a muddy Sandusky bay, as predicted (thanks Juls) towards the dumping grounds. It was still fairly dirty water but we tried a quick troll anyway. Marked some but got nothing. Headed NW up around Kelly's and made a couple stop and checks on the west side, as am cannot get a decent read while moving fast with my electronics or my abilities. Not sure which. Didn't see much until I got on the north side of Kelly's. Boats galore. As we approached we started marking fish so we set up and just kept going back and forth. We caught eight but kept six nice fish. Largest being 26 inches. Got them all on bandits, Sunburst and Monkey puke orange between 60 and 75 feet back on offshore boards maintaining about 2 mph. We tried other bandits but nothing else worked. They cut off around 10-10:30 and decided to head back as the wind was picking up. Overall, we were pleased to get anything.

Our 5/1 report... Looks to me like the shallow water jig bite is done. A few boats were shallow in front of Fenwick but we didn't mark anything there. So we went out 8 miles to 30 fow and marked hundreds, non-stop. They wouldn't bite our jigs at all but we did get 4 trolling bandits for a couple hours before the wind kicked up 5' waves and chased our tiny boat home.

Great job...it wasn't a stellar bite yesterday. We were north of Kelley's too...:)

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Originally Posted by Capt Juls

Great job...it wasn't a stellar bite yesterday. We were north of Kelley's too...:)

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We picked up our last 2 fish, right after you trolled by us, about 11am.