14 May lesson learned

Today was just one of those days… I was excited to fish the mouth with my clients Ken and Tom, there wasn’t supposed to be much wind and the rain was ending. There were only a hendful of other boats out so there was plenty of room to move around. We had the last of the outgoind tide and were marking fish on the side imaging in the usual spots. For whatever reason, they just refused to eat anything we threw at them today. We tried just about every lure in the box. I even tried downsizing. Normally that means going from 9″ lures down to 6″ lures… Still nothing. In an act of desperation, I downsized further to a 4″ Revolution Shad and almost immediately, we had our first fish in the boat. We were limited in how far we could cast the little lures on big gear but we finally found something they would eat. Over the last 1/2 hour of the trip the guys had several more hits but we never did hook up again. Next time I won’t wait so long to go small….