Day Three of Four with Garren, Roger, and Mark 5/7/15

[Capt Juls]

We did go out yesterday, but it was thick fog, and only caught two in the 4 hours we did stay out. The wind was blowing out of the NE and our spot at the lighthouse was limited with a ferry blowing it's ghostly horn from the west of us, and a big tanker ship blowing it's fog horn to the east of us. We couldn't see more than 15 yards in any direction, so we just worked a very small area that I knew wasn't in any traffic lanes for vessels that could crush us. lol

So, while yesterday was cut short by two hours, today's trip and tomorrow's trip were each extended by one hour.

I picked up my crew at their hotel at 5:30am and we went to Ala Carte for breakfast this time. After forgetting to stop and get ice for the fish cooler...(D'Oh!) we launched at Catawba at 6:30. (the fish would just have to stay in the livewell today).
We headed to the west side of Green Island, in 31' of water, where we set up using crawler harnesses behind #2 Tadpoles and 1oz inline sinkers. The program was the same.. #2 Tads at 21, 23, 25, and 27 back...1oz inlines 31 & 41 back... speed was 1.0-1.1mph.

The morning bite was better on the copper backed #6 Colorado blades, and the late morning/early afternoon bite was better on the blades with an antifreeze back.


We caught 14 out of the 18 bites that pulled the Off Shore boards back, with 5 fish that were "Fish-O's". Woot! Woot!

There were only a few white bass, and one sheephead today, so the "junk fish" bite still isn't that bad.

The weather today was beautiful and it warmed up nicely around 10:30-11am. It was sunny, with light east winds, and NO FOG! whew!

We will be out again tomorrow, and the weather should be even a little bit nicer, with a new wind direction, so I'm hoping the bite is a little bit faster tomorrow.

Stay tuned....

Capt Juls