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Well, I was hoping I hadn't used up all my luck on the previous 2 days of scouting. With the 29 5/8" trout my Dad picked up on Thursday and the solid 25"+ I caught on Friday, I was encouraged that we could get on some fish to make my clients smile. Once again, Baffin did not disappoint.
Decided to hit the sack early in anticipation of the next days events. Wes Reed showed up at the trailer around 1:30am hoping to hook up with the hottest fisherman the last few months....... my Dad! Wes had his fast new Majek Extreme and was counting on my Dad to put him on fish. I guess if Dad gets his guide license, I'll be out of business LOL.
I piled out of bed at 4:30am to the smell of coffee and headed for the kitchen to get the breakfast tacos going. Went to check on my boat and heard a diesel motor idling behind the trailer. It turned out to be half of my days charter all sprawled out in the front and back seat of Bert Schoonover's truck.
BertS and Billy (BayRat) were a little bleary eyed but after I ushered them into the trailer for some coffee and tacos, they perked right up. In short order we were at the ramp to meet the rest of the crew. CJ and his son Paul were waiting and ready to hit the water and we were away from the ramp in the dark shortly after 6:00am
I had the opportunity to show off one of my favorite Baffin Bay traits when I doused the lights on the boat so everyone could see the eerie phosphorescent glow around the Don Coyote while we were on plane. Looked like the ground effects lighting on a lowrider LOL.
We eased the anchor out at our first stop of the day and after a little quick instruction about the area we were about to wade, we spread out to see what the day had in store for us.
I again drew first blood about 5 minutes into the wade with a rootbeer/red glitter assassin when I stuck a rambunctious and aerobatic 23 1/2" beauty. Gotta love it when a morning wade starts out like that.
The bite was steady albeit unspectacular as we caught several dinks interspersed with some really nice solid fish. I eased over to check on the Father - Son team just in time to witness them double up on 20"+ trout. CJ's fish was obviously a good one so I stayed out of the way until he had it safely in hand. It turned out to be the biggest trout of the day also caught on a rootbeer/red glitter assassin at 25 1/2" WTG CJ!
Decided to hit the sack early in anticipation of the next days events. Wes Reed showed up at the trailer around 1:30am hoping to hook up with the hottest fisherman the last few months....... my Dad! Wes had his fast new Majek Extreme and was counting on my Dad to put him on fish. I guess if Dad gets his guide license, I'll be out of business LOL.
I piled out of bed at 4:30am to the smell of coffee and headed for the kitchen to get the breakfast tacos going. Went to check on my boat and heard a diesel motor idling behind the trailer. It turned out to be half of my days charter all sprawled out in the front and back seat of Bert Schoonover's truck.
BertS and Billy (BayRat) were a little bleary eyed but after I ushered them into the trailer for some coffee and tacos, they perked right up. In short order we were at the ramp to meet the rest of the crew. CJ and his son Paul were waiting and ready to hit the water and we were away from the ramp in the dark shortly after 6:00am
I had the opportunity to show off one of my favorite Baffin Bay traits when I doused the lights on the boat so everyone could see the eerie phosphorescent glow around the Don Coyote while we were on plane. Looked like the ground effects lighting on a lowrider LOL.
We eased the anchor out at our first stop of the day and after a little quick instruction about the area we were about to wade, we spread out to see what the day had in store for us.
I again drew first blood about 5 minutes into the wade with a rootbeer/red glitter assassin when I stuck a rambunctious and aerobatic 23 1/2" beauty. Gotta love it when a morning wade starts out like that.
The bite was steady albeit unspectacular as we caught several dinks interspersed with some really nice solid fish. I eased over to check on the Father - Son team just in time to witness them double up on 20"+ trout. CJ's fish was obviously a good one so I stayed out of the way until he had it safely in hand. It turned out to be the biggest trout of the day also caught on a rootbeer/red glitter assassin at 25 1/2" WTG CJ!
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