[biggun]

Hello My SC brothers

Called a friend tuesday night.. Said Lets go try the bay... The west side reports were They are catching fish...

We meet up @ 6 AM. Launching out of ICY About 7AM. Hit the bay, turn to the north bank and wind it coming out of the NE 10-15 knots.

Waters dirty.. I said we're going to the reefs.. Half way across bay it's 3'ers, get to the pass and the tide is go out HARDDDD 4' waves @ mouth of the pass and bay.

Finally get in calmer water. And Open up Finchaser to a nice 40 MPH cruise.. Come to Caldwells reef, water wasn't that nice, so I cross in my usually spot and pointed FinChaser to the west.

Got to the spot, and the wind had a little east in it, so the reef was NOT totally calm...

Water was about a 7 out of 10.. Dropped the TM and started casting plastic. About 10 cast later a fat 18" trout hits the deck...

Well we trolled and trolled around that reef never getting on a steady bite.. We picked away at that. Everytime I say we would leave, we'd catch another one.

We fished the outgoing and incoming tide. Ended the day with about 20 nice trout. Lost about 6-8 doing the flippy thing over the side.

Did net one really nice trout 4-4.5 on a spring scale.

About 1:30-2 PM a WLF biologist boat came and dropped a 500' strike sampling net right on the west side of the reef. ( Less than 50 yds from us. Then started running around the reef and net.

Well it Killed the bite so we started up the Triton and headed back to ICY. The wind did lay down some, and switched back more North...

The water cleared a little in the bay . But we didn't see any birds diving and feeding like I had heard from other reports.

Most of the trout were females with well developed roe sacs.. Had some for dinner last night; the rest I'll fry up tonight. Dang that's great eating..