NFGFC Tourney 7/10 Enter the skunk
Posted: July 12th, 2010, 8:49 am
My finace Nina and I launced at Oyster Bay after registering at Jerrys. We had been in a state of high anticipation all week long for that early morning topwater bite. I hadn't been doing much inshore fishing lately due to the low seas and had been focusing most of my time taking the boat out for Snapper and Kings so I figured that we would stick with areas that have produced during past Summers. Turns out I need to do some more figuring.
By 8:00am we hadn't had a strike on topwater.....nothing! This wasn't looking too good and it was already begining to heat up. Temp wize that is. We made a move to a bar that has some deeper water around it and I hooked up on a good Red. After a couple minute fight we released the 28"er.
We made a move East to try mainly for reds as I felt we missed our opportunity for trout given the heat. Got East and the tide had already pumped in a bit more than I had predicted and grass was all over the surface. Caught some pins and floated them for about an hour with nothing, nothing, nothing.
By this time it was about 10:30am and we decided that we would call it a day. Not one to put my tail between my legs but it was placed firmly on Saturday.
Glad to hear that fish were caught and some nice ones at that.

By 8:00am we hadn't had a strike on topwater.....nothing! This wasn't looking too good and it was already begining to heat up. Temp wize that is. We made a move to a bar that has some deeper water around it and I hooked up on a good Red. After a couple minute fight we released the 28"er.
We made a move East to try mainly for reds as I felt we missed our opportunity for trout given the heat. Got East and the tide had already pumped in a bit more than I had predicted and grass was all over the surface. Caught some pins and floated them for about an hour with nothing, nothing, nothing.
By this time it was about 10:30am and we decided that we would call it a day. Not one to put my tail between my legs but it was placed firmly on Saturday.
Glad to hear that fish were caught and some nice ones at that.