OI Report - 8.4.07

[Reel-Kid]

Called up a college buddy of mine who I promised to take fishing this week and decided to shoot for Saturday. Had lines in the water around 6:30 at the 850. As soon as we set the spread we noticed a big mat of grass with Mahi's boiling. Spent the next hour LTJ'ing Dolphins.

Set the spread back out and trolled around with only a mystery knockdown. Around 3, We decided to run and gun the grass mats on our way in with Bass Assassins. We managed to pick off a few stragglers till we hit the mother load. One patch had gaffers as far as the eye could see and they were hitting everything.

As we were fighting fish, I noticed a torpedo dart through the water...a monster bull mahi went right for my ole man's bass assassin and in a flash he was spooled...too bad, he even had a cow with him and both were about 40lbs! We continued fighting mahi's when another big bull and cow coming crashing in on my BA. I managed to hook the bull, stop the run and chase the fish but it was too powerful for a 2000 Stradic. After about a 15 minute battle and too circles through the grass mat, he broke!

Thinking we just screwed up the bite, we made another pass around the now mangled grass patch and to our surprise they were still there and still feeding.

[flatlander]

Whats a Bass Assassin ?

[Reel-Kid]

It's a soft plastic lure...