After hearing the Friday reports Steve and I decided to skip the tournament and go fish up river. We fished the Big Saluda and got three shorts. Bait everywhere but didn’t mark many fish. Steve wanted to be home at 12:30 so I dropped him off and launched from his dock (Hallmark Shores) to check things out for myself. Didn’t find anything where we usually do. Was checking points in Beaverdam and the FF light up. Caught 10 shorts and 2 keepers in an hour and they vanished. Marked some on the way back but didn’t fish for them. Shorts were fat, but the keepers seemed skinny.