April Fools Day, Skunked!

Ty one on · Post by **Ty one on** » April 2nd, 2007, 9:01 pm

April's Teamseatrout Tournament was held Sunday. The results were not very good. Us and several others cought no fish to weigh for the tournament. This comes after most everyone had a great Saturday.

On my boat Saturday we had a 23"er, 22"er, and three others which were over 19". We did not weigh these fish but I feel we had at lease 14lbs. Also on Saturday we put in at the St. Marks Fort and ran to Rock Island and fished back with the S.E. wind. We covered 54 miles round trip.

Sunday morning, The wind was blowing extra hard (S.E.) and had been blowing since 3am. We decide to put in at the Econfina instead of the Fort since most of our fish came from Rock Island the day before. Did catch two right at 15" and through them back. It was some hard fishing. At the tournament weigh-in only one boat out of 20 something weighed 5 fish. It was slow for everybody.

Today I talked with some Comercial Fishermen who said the full moon with the hard south wind will run the fish offshore. of course we stayed in close because that is where we would rather fish.

It is amazing how much one can learn from a day where no fish is caught compared to a banner day of fishing.

Post by **birddog** » April 2nd, 2007, 9:13 pm

It was a wild windy weekend. Maybe it'll settle some this week. Good report Ty.

Post by **tin can** » April 2nd, 2007, 9:13 pm

We didn't do much better, Ty. We weighed in 2 trout. It was a tough day, for sure.

Post by **Barhopr** » April 2nd, 2007, 9:14 pm

I would hardly call that day a failure, but I know I learn more from the bad days than the good ones.

Post by **Chalk** » April 2nd, 2007, 10:10 pm

Barhopr wrote:I would hardly call that day a failure, but I know I learn more from the bad days than the good ones.

Amen

Post by **Eerman** » April 3rd, 2007, 12:00 am

Sounds like a tough day Ty. I have a feeling you'll bounce back without too much trouble.

Post by **devans850** » April 3rd, 2007, 6:07 am

Tough day Ty, just keep it up

Post by **jsuber** » April 3rd, 2007, 6:52 am

With the full moon dead overhead at night the fish were probably feeding then and were not to hungry during the day when some were outlooking. I didn't even wet the hook.

Ty one on · Post by **Ty one on** » April 3rd, 2007, 8:43 am

Here is a strange fact.

Only one other time has only one team brought in five fish to weigh. It was in November of 2002 out of the Econfina. On Friday and Saturday the fishing was on fire. I caught two Trout over 25"s in about 20 minutes a part, everybody was catching fish. Then sometime Saturday night the cold front moved in and by blast off it was blowing about 25 to 30 out of the north. It was cold, cloudy and very windy. We had only two Trout that day that were only 16".

Fish shut off on both days, one day strong wind out of the north and April 1, 2007 strong wind out of the south. Of course if not for the tournament I would not have gone fishing anyway.

Post by **Reel Cowboy** » April 3rd, 2007, 8:51 am

I guess you'll just have to keep fishing

Glad you got out there.

Post by **snatch-n-reel** » April 13th, 2007, 2:08 pm

I GUESS IT DOES HAPPEN TO SOME OF THE BEST. I DON'T FEEL SO BAD NOW