Cheapy slam on the fly rod

[CapeMayRay]

Sunday night left the dock at 5:30 p.m. It was hot and humid at the dock with the water 74 in the marina. Felt like air conditioning by the time we got to the beach front. Water there was 64 degrees. Another perfect night for fishing except there was a little more swell action preventing me from getting in as close to the beach as I would of liked.

Pretty much the same as the night before except got a cheap inshore slam. Croakers, small keeper weakies. (one 15 incher we kept in the live well hoping to get another one or two bigger for a dinner.) We didn't so we released it later. Had three fluke on the night with the biggest 1/4 of an inch too short. Pink/white small clousers did the trick again. Half way to a slam.

Charter had to be in early so we only worked the rocks inside the jetty for about 3/4 of an hour. Water was 59 degrees. We saw no bait and had one small hit.

Since it was such a nice night, I dropped my charter off at the dock and headed out to work the bridge light line for awhile. Got there and found schoolies size bass swimming in the lights. About the third cast with a pink/while bucktail deceiver I landed an 22 inch bass and was thinking oh what a night this is going to be.

Well the fish had lock jaw. There was tons of bait swimming in the lights. I spent the rest of the night trying to find a fly that they would take with gusto. Never found it. Got another on a black/purple clouser and another on a small surf candy. Completed the slam with a 10 inch blue on a 1 inch fly that sometimes works on the bass under the lights. Water temp there was 62degrees.

It was very frustrating to see fish coming up an hitting bait once in a while and knowing they were there. I tried side presentation, down current and up current floating, intermediate and sinking line. Just could not find anything that would click. Only had the 4 fish in 2 1/2 hours of working the light line. They usually aren't that difficult. Didn't see any worms there at all, as there had been a worm hatch last week and that can effect things, but there was a ton of baitfish. Maybe there was just too much bait and they were just picking at it here and there.

Don't like it when the fish play hard to get!

[WAHOONBOX]

ANOTHER SWEET DAY THERE CAPITANO!! YOU GOTTA LOVE IT AS I DO! AWESOME REPORT AS USUAL