| 6/10 PM Bass Explosion!!! |
| Written by Capt.Allen |
| Friday, 11 June 2010 05:22 |
 I wasn't sure what to expect for this afternoon's trip, but Mike and I were ready to both seabass fish and/or liveline bunker for bass. We were joined by Derial Sanders, his grandson Trevor, and Derial's brother John for an afternoon charter. Got some good intel as to where the bunker were by my boy Freddy G and got set up on them right away just N of our inlet. We were greeted by a hard south wind blowing close to 20 but we were able to get on the bunker (which were tight to the bottom but THICK) and get roughly 40 baits in the livewell in an hour. We then went into search mode for the bass and saw some gannets working an area about a mile and a half to our north so we got ready to set up. Upon reaching the birds, the screen LIT UP with bass marks and we got the bunkers in immediately. First drift we had 3 runoffs - no fish. We then got back to the reads, and it was GAME ON. 2-3 Fish on at a time, ridiculous fishing... But, it only gets better... As we followed this patch of fish S, the fish started BLOWING UP in every direction - cinder blocks falling from the sky kinda thing with bass showering bunker and EXPLODING seemingly everywhere.. We were blowing through bunker, landing fish, missing fish, breaking 1-2 off, etc. It was WILD!! Once we got the big patches close to us, I put on a pencil and put 3 in the boat to 25# - missing several all while we were helping the crew put more fish in the boat. We followed the patch of fish S of our inlet - the wildest moment of the trip was when we were surrounded, literally surrounded, by porpoising 20-40# bass destroying bunker pods while the sky opened up with an incredible downpour complete with a rainbow to our East, drenching us as we had 4-5 fish on -- during this explosion we ran out of live baits so we were hand-tossing dead bunker into the foray, and immediately hooking up -- It was simply ridiculous - as EPIC as it gets! We easily boated somewhere between 20-30 fish in the 20-35# range while keeping 7 fish for the table and releasing the rest. We had 40 baits, and there were 5 dead ones left over in the well when we got back, so The other 35 went to the bass. 8 Year old Trevor did a great job, landing around 5 big fish to 35# which was the biggest of the trip, with Mike and Grandpa's assistance. Simply a great trip, and this one was one for the books! |
