29 May A keeper every 7 minutes for 5 hours

I thought for sure that the lower river would be a zoo all weekend long but I got a text from Josh saying that the ramp parking lot was full but no one was out on the flats…  It took me just a few minutes to get my stuff together and make a phone call. Mike met me at the house at 3:30 and we headed south.

The wind was cranking when we got to the flats. We had a couple more hours left in the outgoing tide and with the wind out of the southeast, there was a good chop going. We slowed down just after the first rockpile to take a look at the Side Imaging. I couldn’t believe how many fish were there! Mike hooked up on his first cast and it never stopped for the next 5 hours…

Over the next 5 hours, we boated 41 keepers. Nearly all of them were caught on big Super Spooks. As well as they were working, we tried other lures just to see what they would hit. We caught a couple on Houdini’sbut they were totally keyed in on the spooks. There were stretches were we went 10 consecutive casts with either a hook up or a hit. Eventually, I put the rod down for almost an hour so that I could get some video of the action. We could have easily done over 50 fish… I’ve never seen anything like it. The bite lasted through the outgoing, slack and well into the incoming tide. Normally the fish transition as the water flow changes but we never moved more than 1000 feet the entire trip. We just moved back and forth along the break on the trolling motor and kept casting.

As it got darker, I tied on a 7″ Revolution Shad to see if maybe we could get them to hit something different. In the hour, I had boatedanother 6 keepers on it. Normally, I work them eratically, twitching them and snapping them in between quick retrieves. Today, a steady retrieve was what the wanted. I reeled them just fast enough that the lure would create a slight wake but not break the surface. Some of the hits were spectacular. One fish came out of the water about 3 feet way from the lure and landed on it…