Fished yesterday afternoon from about 2:30 till 5:30 around the 1st and 2nd Islands of the CBBT. Morning bite was exceptional from the people I talked with, one took 9 keepers from the 3rd anf 4th, and Craig Paige had I believe 7 keepers all between 4 and 7lbs. So with a little over 20 spot swimming around the bait tank we head off to the first tunnel complex. I wanted to go the the 3rd and 4th Islands but the ominous sky's kept me closer to home.
Was a good bay for fishing but a bad day for us catching. Settled into a nice bite just north of the 2nd island working the drop the ocean side bridge, were getting hit every drift. But only boated 3fish. One 16-17ish(didn't even measure), one 18" and some change, and one a touch over 19". My dad missed two nice fish, wasn't sure what happend had a good 10-15 second fight bringing them up from the bottom and then nothing end of the day I checked his hook and the very tip was bent at about 45°. It must have happened one of the times he got hung on the rocks. I should have checked that after he lost the first one, the 3 fish he did catch were all hooked through lip, dumb luck I guess.
The saddest part of the trip was my wife's lost fish. I've been trying to get my wife a citation flounder for 2 years now. Now I'm not sure what it was but all we were catching was flounder and she hooked a real good fish on about a 6" spot, got it a good ways up off the bottom. I'm standing there with the net in hand and she goes to pump and when she drops the rod the crank turns but the spool doesn't turn so she pumps down spool doesn't turn line goes slack for just a second and she's gone. . . first time in over a year I've seen my wife upset fishing . . . she spoke ill of my pole the rest of the day(with all the hang ups we had switched poles at some point so I could re-tie a hook or put another dropper on hers). I don't think she'll ever use the pole again even after I find out whatever happened.
Anyway long story short the flounder were still bigging good as of yesterday. We fished the last few hours of falling tide through the change. A crew with its act together wuould have had 3 or 4 keepers I figure but one fish is better than none. A point of note at least for me was the 16"ish flounder I didn't even bother to measure was caught on a 4" spot . . . anyone that could give me a location where I could catch some 6-8" spot I'd appreciate it.
Tight Lines and Catch'em Up they're out there.