Friday - September 8th, 2006

Dewey and I were able to carve out a couple hours fishing on Friday Morning. It really is different fishing on the Weekend vs fishing on Monday thru Thursday. Many more boats - and few more novices also. We had a guy try and anchor up his boat next to us three times on the left - twice on the right. Never got anchored but almost drifted into our boat twice! (grin) Gotta love the weekenders.

We fished toward the end of the Jetty - Moon was in it Full Phase - water was 79.3 - wind was ENE at about 12 mph. Water clarity was average.

One the day we picked up 4 Bull Reds in about a 45 minute span. Then the bite died with the tide slacking. Even though the bite died, there were many fish on the fish finder swimming through on the bottom. We saw several boats around us catching Reds also - but no one really tearing them up.

We fished with cut shad on the bottom.

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