[smells like fish]

We headed down to cbbt Tuesday morning and launched at Kipto at 10 am. Fished with Charlie Trophy and my brother Jason (1st trip to cbbt).

Worked the usual areas of 9' shoal, pilings near 4th, tube etc... Winds were 10-15 out of SE and water temp was 41.6*.

Caught numerous football size fish. Biggest was 27". We found many more fish in the pilings than the last 2 trips. We had a strong incoming along with a south wind that made it dicey, but Charlie managed well at the helm.

We chatted with Ron - Onefish and Cattail throughout the morning. They were having similar results. We got a call from Ron about 30" class fish so we headed over to where they were. Ron was working the bridge, but we noticed a lot of gannets outside on the ocean side. We decided to check out the birds real quick. It ended up being the right decision.

Immediately we marked real nice marks on the finder. Jason and Charlie quickly hooked up with a double header. While I watched and didn't get a nibble. They both had real nice fish. Charlie had very little line on his reel and nearly got spooled. :bigfish:

Charlie's 47" Personal Best

Jason's 42" Personal Best

We called One Fish and Cattail at this point to tell them what we just did. Not sure if they hooked up with those fish or not?

After we regrouped, we followed the birds a little farther outside and found sweet marks again. Dropped the lines and Charlie and Jason hooked up again with a double header. Me? nadda. :helpsmilie:

They both had big fish on again.
Charlie 42" that looked real stressed...

Jason with a sweet 36"

The birds dissipated so we took a lunch break. While we ate the cold front moved in and the wind shifted to the north 15-20 and the rain started to move in. The pilings were tough to fish, the 4th marked no fish on ocean or bay side. Tube was too rough. We decided to head for the barn. After we washed down the boat we decided to head home since Wednesday was calling for 15-20 NW and gusts to 30.

We can't thank One Fish and Cattail enough for the call that made the day!!! Thank you very much! :clap::clapping2::thumbup:

 

[FishOn!]

Awesome! Congrats on those personal bests. Great fish to catch on the jig.

 

[uncle phill]

WTG!

Thanks for the great report! Nice pics too.

 

[Echo]

They sure took lessons from Jamie on how to hold a fish... Beautiful....

 

[mrobertson]

Wow nice fish!! Congrats on a good day down there. I knew those bigguns were around just waiting to feast on some assassins

 

[spynet000]

Those are some bigguns:clapping2::clapping2: Great work! I think my rod would have snapped on a few of those

 

[drewzim]

Sweet!!! Now hopefully this cold snap doesn't drive them south.

 

[Roger T]

WTG

Very nice report and pic's...Thanks

 

[Steve F]

Now they are some nice fish thanks for the report and very nice pic’s. :thumbup:

 

[hackeyfly]

Damn, I guess I left too early ...pulled off the bridge at 10 and headed to the barn. Sure looked fishy, but my truck has no dash lights at the moment and I wanted to be home before dark. Oh well ...
Pat in Joppa

 

[reeltor]

Congrat's on some big fish!

 

[one fish]

You're welcome Guys,

We first saw the gannets on the ocean side before we called you. got a few and drift took us inside the bridge, where we continued to get them.
Biggest we got about 36 inches. marks were unreal. I don't like to take time to take pics, fortunately we took one earlier and John didn't ask for any more. Rather catch more fish. Now if we got a 47, I think John would have wanted a pic.;-)

John said the turn of the tide would be the best chance, that is when it happened. also we saw the big individual marks there earlier, just was unfishable. Was rough mon and tue mornings.

Funny, big bite/some bird action/marks for 20-25 minutes, then it was over. sure not like 2-3-4 years ago. Maybe this cold will bring the biguns in, who knows. That was the only bird action we saw mon/tues.

Good thing we were in a great cat or my back would be killin me today.

Unfortunately, Chuck and BFB were already at the ramp to go home, dangit.

Pat -- what boat were you in?? I usually wave to other boats. We were in yel 24 Cat (Prowler).

Thanks to John for takin me down. I'm ready to HO again.

 

[Rick]

I hope you didn't wear out your gloves. Nice fish !!!!!!!! Rick

 

[AIK68J]

Nice Fish Good Pics congrads on the personal best

 

[Rattletrap]

Great fish guys. Congrats on the personal best.

Ron, you could have been running all over the place looking for the big ones in John's sweet boat.

 

[catman]

Jimmy- thats a great report. I wish I wasa fish'n............)

 

[hackeyfly]

Ron, that's me behind Shawn(from last year). 'Bout the only Starcraft to be seen down that way ... If Chuck and Bob were already at the ramp when you found the fish, I was long gone. They were headed for the tubes when I pulled out. Saw 1 cat yesterday, some guys in a saltwater bass boat, Chuck and BFB, and maybe 2-3 other boats total. Let's see what this arctic blast does, I'm still game.
Pat in Joppa

Pic of the mobile fishing emporium ...

 

[fletchersbay]

The Barn

Where is the Barn orthereabouts? What colors were you using? Nice pics.

Fletch

 

[RockNip]

Great Report guys and Nice Fish Ltjing!! Pics are awesome! :thumbup:

 

[smells like fish]

Where is the Barn orthereabouts? What colors were you using? Nice pics.

Fletch

The barn for us was the Kiptopeke State Park ramp.

All of our fish were caught on 1 or 1.5 oz jigheads and 7" BA's in pearl and chartreuse.

Thanks for all of the congratulatory replies guys. Wish I was one of the guys in the pics! :eek2: