Mr. Kav, I heard your hail for SB members as I was cranking my boat onto the trailer. By the time I parked my boat to prep for my trip home, I decided not to hail you. I had very little to report and I fished only inside the harbor. Sorry.
Saturday was again very slow. I started off by hitting my favorite rip in Dorchester Bay at first light and hit 3 decent schoolies in 4 or 5 casts. My usual 6" smoke jerkbait. Its pretty shallow water and some poor boat handling and wind put me right onto the spot. Trolling motors are quiet, but in 3 feet of water, they'll still spook the fish when you're on top of them
I probably could have stuck it out, but some surface activity in the bay pulled me out. Lots of birds, fast moving fish. I had on touch, but its was tough to keep up with the fish and I never hooked up. Then this big boat with some lady tossin' a popper and teaser rig came in and screwed up everything
Kidding, bumped into FW. Ran over to the airport and we had one really nice blitz with fish boiling are around... had hits on 4-5 straight casts, but never hooked up. Later when checking my bait, it was nearly sliced thru, so there were some blues in there. Thought I heard some snapping jaws as well. I talked to FW later on and she confirmed she saw some blues in with the bass.
Things broke up, so I decided to run up into one of the rivers despite being almost low tide. I almost turned around while I idled up, but headed up anyway. Good plan, 'cause I nailed 5 or 6 in a row in some really skinny water as the water dumped off the mud flats. They were pretty small. Then in a little eddy behind a hump in about 18" of water, I nailed a 25" and then a 22" fish on back to back casts. Both fish came out of the water... funny when bass come up, its like an accident. They looked like someone threw them out and they don't know what to do when airborn. Shake or tail-walk, do something. Anyway, those fish came on a new color combo I picked up from Got Stripers... pearl with clear belly 4 1/2" split tail. It really shows well in the stained water in the rivers and is perfect size for schoolies.
I ran out of water, but had a good 45 minutes of action. Those two decent fish in shallow water made my day... very nice fights.
Headed back out and messed around a bit, but that was about it. Tried alot to get down to marked fish. Marked fish and bait just about everywhere I went... airport, dorch bay, fore river. Tried shads, large grubs, even vertical jigged small plastics. And I tried trolling... no idea what I'm doing, but I was down there and trolled as slow as she goes.
Set the alarm sat night, but made an executive decision at 3:30am and shut it off. Decided to hit the evening tide at my favorite river and wade the flats at dusk. Tides are perfect for that. I hit one fish on a popper and had some boils till the tide had dumped enough to get out on the flat. This flat has some humps and mussel beds, etc. I like to fish weightless jerkbaits on top and had a nice hour and a half till dark, catching 10 and dropping about 4 more. Had some great strikes and most fish were 16-20", with one keeper size that came off as I grabbed the leader. Fish were boiling around me on the flat, so it was a cool evening. Might do it again tonight.
Other than that, I took my daughter to see Scooby Doo... for those that grew up with Scoob and Shag, it was pretty funny. Don't expect any academy awards, but if you just go in to have a good time with your kids, I think you'll like it. My daughter was howlin' the whole movie. It was fun and we topped it off with dinner at Friendly's and a sundae.