Written by Capt.Allen  Â

Thursday, 26 May 2011 05:20

Derial Sanders was on for with his son Brian and brother John for a quick shot at the bass "after work."  Making bait was easy, so we set up and by 4:30 were fishing live bunkers in the pods.  Bites were few and far between early, until we took a little ride offshore and found some bass on top.  What would happen thereafter was a slowish bite - we'd get a couple of runoffs, hook a couple, drop a couple, and land a handful.  By 7PM, the bite slowed to a halt, so we kept looking.  By 7:45, we got the word of a bite a few miles north, raced up there, but unfortunately missed it as we only had a couple more runoffs.  We missed A LOT of fish tonight, I'd say our hook up ratio was in the 30% range, if not lower as we had roughly 15 solid runoffs.  Brian was able to get his largest fish ever, a nice fat bass of around 44" and weighed an even 30#.  The guys were able to go home with some nice big bags of fillets but it was frustrating to miss so many fish.  We will be back at it over the weekend if the weather allows!