We laid out a plan on the way down the river and struck an 18" speckled trout on cast number 5
. A couple of more casts and we made a move to deeper water. Brett stuck one close to the boat and we had 2 in the box before 8:00. I was pretty pumped about the way our inaugural excursion 
. We drifted that area for another 30 minutes and moved further east. We came across a deeper channel with 3'-4' of drop off and plenty of spotty bottom all around it. We set up a drift and hung into the biggest lizard fish I've ever seen, easily 16"-18" long and there were a lot of them 
. Every cast over the edge produced small rock bass and big arse lizards. Brett cast a GULP! jig head into the grass and had the water erupted and drag screamed. We were thinking something really cool was hooked. Dang bluefish 
. We finished the drift up with another trout in the box. We had 3 decent fish before the bottom of the tide.Another move to a deep hole and Brett landed a 17" Gag grouper in 7' of water
. I landed a pink mouth grunt . Those fish had to be lost. A few more short rock bass and it was time to move again. Our last drift got us 3 more keepers in the box.Back at the weigh in there were plenty of nice fish. 7# and change wasn't bad in my book.
CC and Pat ran another great tournament, thanks guys. Congrats to the winners, they sure had a some great stringers. I'm looking forward to the next one already.
