Sat 7/23:   Had Ryan Brian and Kenny on w me today for the PP elks tourney. Ran to some nasty stuff NE of our inlet in 60-75'. First drift - 5 quick keepers, all quality fish over 20 inches. We had similar action until around 9 when it slowed a bit - we had some awesome spurts where it was "drop and reel" and had some short lulls in the initial 2 hours when the fishing was GOOD. We pretty much pounded this area all day and caught fish in spurts - 2 here, 4 here, etc w some lulls.  We stuck it out in this general area waiting for that $$ fish but the best we could do was 7# (not too shabby!)

Brian bagged 2 nice fish early, one @ 7# and one over 6#. By 1130 we had our boat limit and kept that 1 slot open for a big one, but we never found that money winning slob.  Kenny had his double limit, I had 12 keepers, Brian had his limit an Ryan had 5 nice ones. Every fish in our cooler was over 19", and we had a load of those "cookie cutter" 3-5#ers. We wound up with 41 keepers keeping only our limit of 32 - great day by any standards!!  All fish were taken on Mai Tai bucktails tipped with a strip w/ a gulp or other softbait teaser.  Keeper wise, this is the best day we've ever had on Reel Class! 

Fri 7/22:  Had "Spoonman" Scott A, Tom K, Fred M, Al,Erin, and Bill aboard for a ftyp trip. Ran north and off a bit to fish some snags in 60-75 feet. First few drifts were horrible as we had a tight se swell and no movement. After the first few drifts we got some movement going and a slow pick ensued. Wqe had a couple nice seabass come up as well as 1 keeper fluke.

After that area dried up we moved further north and found a couple more keepers and some shorts. We then made short move south to fish some real nasty bottom and got a very slow pick going with mostly keeper fluke. We hammered this area till 2pm and pulled several nice fish out topped by fred's 7#er. We also had a few in the 3-5 # rane plus one abt 6#. After the conditions changed, we moved further s and picked some more shorts before calling it a day.

We wound up boxing 20 keepers to 7# and 2 seabaSs. It was a real nice day on the water w a great crew - the bite was a grind but the guys came away w nice bags of fillets. Fred was on fire boxing his limit to 7#, and Tom also boxed 5 nice ones. Thanks for coming down guys!