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4/26
Two fishing buddies and I headed out of Albany Sunday morning at around 7:30am got to the boat ramp at 10:00 am Went out to the river mouth headed east about 3 miles set up a drift caught 3 18 inch trout off the bat and the several shorts along with a few sail cats and 2 or 3 snot cats 15 to 20 dookie fish . Moved to a little deeper water trying to get into some salty water but decided to stop while we were ahead because the moderate chop was a little rough on the 16 bass tracker.Set up another drift aqnd caught 3 more keeper trout and a few blues.My partners were using gulp natural and new penny.I was using saltwater assassin rootbeer sea shads with a chartreuse tail.They did catch a few more fish than I did but,Their hands still smell like rotten sardines (mine don't). 3:00 pm took one of the guys back to the boat ramp so he could go home ..Me and Jeff decided to stay and try the afternoon bite and it payed off ..We went out to the bird rack and started throwing topwater and had a blast I caught a good sized blue and several trout and he caught a nice 23 inch trout on topwater. Saw something tearing up some bait fish, threw to it and as soon as it hit the water BAMMM!!!!.a Jack was on the other side of the hook. All and all had a ball..headed back in around dark on a low low tide which was ok we were going to creep back in and were staying at the park ..But it was even better for the folks in the pontoon boat with a blown motor in the mouth of the river we towed them back in that is another story all together.I might post on it in the boating section later. Anyway we got back to the ramp at about 11:00 pm loaded up and went to bed.

total for the day
11 keeper trout (several shorts) all keepers were from 16 to 23 inches
5 snot cats
5 sail cats
4 blues
too many lady fish
1 hard fighting Jack Cravelle

4/27

Jeff's dad met us at the river at 5:00 am .Ate breakfast Put in at 7:00 am ran out a mile from the tripod NOTHING. Moved out deeper caught a few shorts and one or two keepers.Moved out deeper by now we are getting beat up pretty good the wind is pushing us 1.4 mph and as fast as 1.9 mph at times acording to the GPS.We catch a few here and there a lot i mean a lot of shorts .We put seven in the boat barely legal maybe 15 1/2 inches was the biggest fished until 1:00 pm and decided to go after some reds.We went back to the mouth of the river and fished the grassy point to the east and 3rd cast Jeff gets hooked up on a 19 inch red using gulp new penny,wind is still blowing.We make another pass by the point again and Wham Jeffs dad picks up a 22 inch red.We make another pass by the same point and I pick up a 24 inch red.We head in at about 2:30 pm load up the boat take a shower and head on to the house.


total for the day
7 barely legal trout
several more dookie fish
30 or so short trout
3 reds
2 sail cats
a few pinfish we tried to use for bait but no takers.

The pictures are not the best but we were working for fish and did not have time to take many.

hard fighting jack on light tackle

blue

the cooler


Heading in

Good report GAJOEY. Sure sounds like a good time. Got a question for you. When you say

We went out to the bird rack and started throwing topwater

Do you mean the tripod or birdrack. I haven't been out of the econ for a good while but the last I did, the birdrack immediately south of the river was gone due to the storm a few years ago. Pieces of it was moving around a bit but mostly gone. Which location was your topwater afternoon bite ?

I guess I am at a loss I assumed the tripod was at the mouth of the river with the light on top of it and the bird rack was south east and about five or six miles from the tripod..I am sure I could be wrong the structure I was out at with the topwater bite was six miles south east of what I called the tripod with the light on it at the mouth of the river..We assumed that was the bird rack or a bird rack of some kind..it was a platform of some sorts we were about 700 yards from it. I had never been to it before I just assumed that was where it was.It looked like some type of wildlife doohickie. We usually just go out pretty much south and never see any structure.

Sounds like a good weekend.

Sir reel wrote:Good report GAJOEY. Sure sounds like a good time. Got a question for you. When you say

We went out to the bird rack and started throwing topwater

Do you mean the tripod or birdrack. I haven't been out of the econ for a good while but the last I did, the birdrack immediately south of the river was gone due to the storm a few years ago. Pieces of it was moving around a bit but mostly gone. Which location was your topwater afternoon bite ?

They built a bunch of new bird racks. They are a little further out than the old ones were.

Dubble

Thanks for the response....