OK, I haven’t read today’s reports yet and may well embarrass myself, but it was tough for us today. What a total change from two days ago. My son James and I had lines in the water at 6:45, working jigs and expecting a bite which for us, never came. James had one bump, me, nothing. Saw trollers getting fish, not a huge number of nets out but enough for me to scrabble around the boat looking for something to troll with. Because we did SO well on Saturday, in my sin of Pride I figured, “naw, leave the flashers at home”. Hah! Well, I did have my riggers and found (one!) dodger and a Kone Zone so got those in the water with pink hoochies. We trolled 2 hrs, long distance lost one and had a leader failure at the net, ouch. Went back to jigging in shallow, out deep, didn’t matter. Tried different gear, buzz bombs, didn’t matter.

To my eyes it looked like a lot of anglers had it tough, and I’m sure some did well. The conditions were not as nice today. More wind, waves, and cooler. Maybe that had something to do with our poor luck. Definitely a disappointment but James didn’t seem to care that much. He even brought his guitar along and got some scales practice in while we were trolling – that’s time management for ya!

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