It was a strange drive, I never pull the boat with my truck down, I pull it to meet Bobby and he pulls it, so it was a bit of a strange drive or maybe it was because I looked at the radar and we actually had a serious discussion in his driveway about whether it was worth going.
But we decided we could handle the rain as long as the lightning stayed offshore. Turns out the borrowed boat ran good, the rain wasn't that bad and while the plan was to chase Spanish, the first stop netted a keeper trout on the first cast so we had high hopes.
Our team dynamic was a bit off though as our roles were reversed for this trip.
But, after the excitement of several large bluefish, I caught our lone Spanish of the day.
However, we never found another Spanish the rest of the day, found the one and the blues in 5ft, we tried all the way out past the stake line out to 12ft and even tried trolling spoons near the stake line. We spent too much time chasing Spanish for the smoker. We still ended up with a nice mixed bag with 5 keeper trout, one Spanish, 4 blues and a very nice seabass. We caught almost everything in 4-5ft in the rock garden, one trout did come from 3 ft but it was a fluke. The margherita lime chicken and iguana daiquiri trout tricks were the preferred color as usual. Topwaters poppers in chartreuse bones and pink bones were not very strong even with the overcast sky. A newpenny chatterbait was solid as well, as was a purple death broke back corky.
