Went over to the ramp about 4am and caught plenty of bait pretty quickly, then waited around bs’ing for a while till my son and friend showed up about 5:15 and we headed off.
Marked plenty of fish on and off through out the day, but had a hard time getting them to eat. Didn’t have our first keeper until 11:15 and the 2nd about 1 and that was it for us. Both after we switched over to cut bait. Many people did much better.
We were a little late getting to the weight in, so I missed most of it. I talked to friends I had fishing though on 4 other boats and they had 5,4,4, and 3. All fishing live bait.
The one that had 5 caught every one of them fishing just off the bottom in 90’ of water!! Also heard a couple of guys on the radio say they found some fish in the same depth range.
Hated my youngest son couldn’t get up from Charleston to join us, but all in all we had a great day on the water. The boat traffic wasn’t as bad I was expecting and the weather was perfect. I didn’t even put the bimini up until about noon.
Richard had some great door prizes and we walked away with some nice raffle booty. Had 2 winning tickets and brought home a Budweiser cooler, bag of about 50 egg sinkers, 2300 yds of Trilene and 4 topwater plugs. He also raffled off some rod/reel combos, rods, lures and even a 15 gal bait tank.
I believe the biggest 5 fish creel was somewhere about 40 lbs. They also had the biggest fish (upper teens I think), but didn’t enter the $25 biggest fish pot. So they missed out on the $600, but still walked away with about $1,400.00. Not sure what the 2nd biggest was, but they took home the big fish $.
'07 198 DLX Carolina Skiff
FS90 Suzuki