Great day on Saturday in Bay Jimmy

[MarshRat89]

Originally Posted by Visco

You know... that is a good question. I just remember saying to myself, darn... I'm late. I was unfortunately right however, because about five minutes into the bite or ten trout and the bite stopped as fast as it started for me.



Might have to try it out again this weekend.

Not trying to criticize just trying to offer a little advice. I'm not sure what type of bottom structure you were fishing but typically when a bite is fast and furious like that you can still move around and pick away at a few more. I have never had a bite go from 10 trout in a row to absolutely nothing. The bite will slow gradually and before it goes to nothing. Once again I'm
Not trying to criticize but it sounds like the school got spooked. A hatch might have slammed or something. I can usually move around to another spot and find a couple more though. Save your live shrimp next time though. When they're busting bait at day break that's the perfect time for topwater. Nothing beats a blow up on a skitterwalk.


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[Visco]

Originally Posted by MarshRat89

Not trying to criticize just trying to offer a little advice. I'm not sure what type of bottom structure you were fishing but typically when a bite is fast and furious like that you can still move around and pick away at a few more. I have never had a bite go from 10 trout in a row to absolutely nothing. The bite will slow gradually and before it goes to nothing. Once again I'm
Not trying to criticize but it sounds like the school got spooked. A hatch might have slammed or something. I can usually move around to another spot and find a couple more though. Save your live shrimp next time though. When they're busting bait at day break that's the perfect time for topwater. Nothing beats a blow up on a skitterwalk.


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Thanks for the advice, next time I will pay a little more attention to what is going on to see if I was the culprit for why the bite stopped just like that.

I do not normally use live bait, but all the reports I had been hearing about was no live bait, equals no fish. I did move around that morning but was unable to find the school again.

I did throw my she dog a few time in another spot with no luck. There was a few boats around me that was using popping corks, and I did not see them pull one fish in the boat.

Come to think about it, the last fish I caught was a, roughly 10lb black drum which really stired up the water. That must have been the turning point.

When I was at the marina cleaning the fish, I was talking to another guy that had said the bite was odd that day. He went on to say pretty much the same thing I said, it was hot and heavy for a short period of time, and just like that it stopped. He was targeting reds not trout.