Still lovin' the ladies

Left the house around 7:15 this morning. The air temperature was 47 degrees.

I drove over to the secret spot first, hoping to try out a few smaller lures. I am a bit frustrated having my Gulp jigs stripped clean, so I thought putting on a smaller lure might allow me to catch a few of them. I tried a tandem love lure and a D.O.A. rootbeer shrimp to no success. I don't know what it is about the secret spot, but I always get skunked when I fish there in the morning.


Rather than press on in a non-biting environment, I decided to drive over to Coffee Pot and try my luck at the bridge there. I changed over to a Yo-zuri Crystal Minnow, and on my first cast, got a bump. Same with my second. The next few casts produced nothing, but I could see a pod of fish attacking bait fish on the other side of the bridge, so I walked over and cast out.


I proceeded to catch three ladyfish in a row, 21", 14", and 18". A dolphin came through and scared off the pod, but when the dolphin swam off, they came back and I hooked two ladyfish that self-released.


The next ladyfish I caught would undoubtedly be the largest I've ever caught. When it broke the surface and tried to toss my lure, it's mouth looked big enough to put my fist in. Unfortunately, it snapped my line and continued jumping along the seawall, my lost lure rattling in its mouth.

I tied on another lure to try to get the bite going, but either the pod had moved on or the lure wasn't of interest to the ladies.

Good action!