Day 2 of 5… Frustrating

The title says it all… Today was one of the most frustrating days I’ve ever had as a charter captain. I had Larry again today, this time he brought his son Drew and his friend Alex. We started off with a few good sized porgy but it was a slow pick After close to 45 minutes, we decided to head out with what we had. We fished the same spots that have been producing for over a week now and really struggled to find much of anything at all.

We were getting hits, but they weren’t real aggressive. The bass would hit the bait once and that was it. Just enough to kill it and make it useless. We had a couple of hook ups on some better fish and had one that was close to 45″ within a few yards of the boat but it popped off. We dropped another that was a bit over 40 as well. We didn’t get the first fish in the boat until 8:45. By this time we were out of bait so we had to run in and scrape up a few more porgy. This time they were a little more cooperative and we had about 15 in a half an hour. By the time we got back out, the tide had slowed to a crawl so we moved on to another reef. The tide had just turned as we got there and put a 38″ bass in the boat pretty quick. We had a couple more hits but no hook ups so we ran 11 miles back to the first spot in hopes that the change of tide would help.

More of the same… Short hits and dead baits We managed a few more fish over 36″ and somehow lost a few other good ones. I didn’t have to work at CT Outfitters today so we even stayed out a few extra hours in hopes of finding bigger fish but it just didn’t happen. It was one of those days… Tomorrow can only get better!