Day 1 of 5

And so begins another busy week of charters… Today I had Larry for the first of 5 straight days. Larry has been out with me several times in the past, today he brought his friends Tom and Dave with him. Neither had caught a striper much over 20 pounds before. My mission was clear, personal bests for both.

Things started off pretty slow, I was getting concerned when by 6:30 we still hadn’t boated a fish. We dropped a fish that was well over 30 pounds right at the boat but never did get it leadered. We decided to move a couple of miles and try some deeper water. That was the ticket… The guys dropped down into 60 feet of water and almost instantly doubled up. Nothing huge, but the skunk was out of the boat.

We stayed out there for a while and kept catching but the fleet finally closed in on us and we decided to move on to another rock pile that wasn’t so crowded. The tide really wan’t doing much at the new spot so we made a couple of long drifts to give the tide some time to move again. It didn’t take long… In one drift we went from .5 to 1.2 MPH. That was all it took, they were feeding again.

We did well right up until we had to leave. Here are a few pics of some of the better fish on the day: