A couple of my friends who hadn't done any rockfishing before wanted to give it a try today. We started up around the freshwater line and landed one small fish and that was all. Moved out to the route 3 bridge and managed to jig up another small one and that was all for there. We then decided to run out to the mouth and see what it was looking like around Gwynns Island. When we got around Stove point we noticed a good amount of birds working out from Jackson Creek about a mile or so. We ran over and put some tandem bucktails out on medium spinning rods. Rigs were 3 - 4 ounce bucktail up front with small quarter ounces trailing with chartruse shad and twister tails. First pass around the birds we picked up a couple fish at 20 and 22 inches kept working around the birds and picked up a total of 18 fish and kept our 6 from 19 to 24 inches. The fish looked to be schooling up good on the fishsinder, nice arches stacked up on top of each other and bunched together nicely. At one point the entire screen was covered by fish with small pods of bait scattered throughout.
--John
--John