Ok here is my take on Thursday. ---LOL---

I took two days off this week so I could take advantage of some calm good weather because it seems that the weekends are starting to mess with me again by the gale force winds and storms. So I contacted Frank and told him to hurry up and get his homework done because I was coming out that morning. He said he will call when he is done.

So I got on the water at 9:00 am and went to the area that I have been reading about from Lip, Frank and Paul reports. So I found that big flock of water turkeys and there were no fish at all. About that time Frank texted me and I just called back because I am not very good at texting. As I was talking to him slow motoring back towards chandlers I marked some fish and told him to call when he was ready. so I started calling them up and had 15 in the live well 14 inches and bigger when Frank called.

So I pulled up and went to pick Frank up and we ate lunch at Franks bar and grill at Harbor bay --LOL--. I love your slip and the way it is set up. I felt like I was on the coast or something dining out

We head out to the spot where I had marked them earlier and found them still in the area. With in 10 minutes Frank unleashed a fury on the fish and had 5 more BIG ones in the live well. The wind was perfect and it was easy to stay in the area with the trolling motor. WE WORE THEM OUT!!! and caught over 100 in the next 3 to 4 hours and were culling good sized sandies only keeping the hogs. The wind was kind of drifting us slowly and I kept the fish under us for about 300 yards and it was quick steady catching the whole time until we drifted int the river channel and I got hung up. So we went back to the marker and started over and were STILL CATCHING THEM WOW!!

I had a rod holder with a 4 inch fluke on it and they were just hammering it all day I ended up catching approximately 10 to 15 just letting that thing soak. Frank was laughing at me because since I have never done that fluke thing before I would get so excited and start hollering when I caught one No Hybrids for us but we tried.

When we finally got two limits ( by the way this time we using the counter so we wouldn't have to guess --LOL--) so we decided to head in and went right by chandlers and the birds were going crazy so we stopped to try and see if there were any hibbies there. So we tied on some 2 ounce god fathers and my ole trusty fluke set up and caught 20 to 30 big sandies in about 30 minutes. It was crazy how the fish were hitting the slabs any way you wanted to throw it moving it or not. They were wearing out the fluke and I got four big ones on it. I would put my slab pole down and would be reeling the fluke in and BAM!! they would hit the 2 ounce slab just dangling there . Three times I almost lost my rod form being dragged off the boat. So the fourth time I put my foot on it and sure enough it hooked another fat sandy. So four times in that last 30 minutes I had two poles with two fish on them just like the picture of Worm on Pauls post. We threw all those big sandies back because we had our fifty. It was heartbreaking to do but we followed the rules.

After that we went in to clean the fish and got to eat some chilly at Franks Bar and grill. Didn't get home til 11:00 PM or so because Frank is very popular at Harbor bay and everyone stopped by to say hey.

Any way it was a fantastic day out there and Frank Thanks for the great company. Glad I took off work because the weather is going to be bad fri and sat.

Here are a few pictures :

Nice trip guys! Did the sandbass have eggs? This warmR weather sure has the fish going nuts! That sounds like mid march stuff??

Sounds like you pick the right day to take off. Congrats to you and Frank for having one of those holy cow days. Good report!!!

Yes MOE they were ready to burst. Frank said that everything is a month early this year because his fishing log says the same thing Mid March. I don't know what is going on it has been out of this world this winter.

Thanks Jeff wish you could have been there it was some day of fishing

The weekend looks pretty crappy, so its good ya'll got em yesterday

Great Report Keith" ...

.. Thanks for sharing !!!!

Keith I love reading your reports! Man you just wish you could bottle days like that up and open one up any time you needed it. Come to think of it that is pretty much what this winter has been like. Guess we have a 12-pack bottled up because every time out we've caught fish this winter. That dock is like my 2nd home down there. I guess you could call it my fish cave! I don't golf or hunt much so hanging out down there is my respite. Some more guys stopped by after you left! My arm and shoulder is like Jello again. Between Monday with Matt the fish whisperer and now yesterday I'd say this was a blessed week and it was. Like I was saying on the boat yesterday I never take a single day for granted. We just never know what tomorrow holds. The only thing we lacked was a Hibbie for your Mom to grill. Paul got on them and I didn't see his text until we had already gone in. Paul called me on the way home and said he would have contributed to the Mom fund had he known! You know what's amazing is this is more than fishing. We've all become good friends. This is a fraternity and everyone is welcome. Thanks for a great day. It truly was a blast. We were laughing like a couple school girls catching all those fish. I think I heard your laugh in my sleep LOL! Happy Fishing.

Thanks Bob.

Well said Frank

Also Frank I (we) forgot to mention that every time I bumped the trolling motor you got a bite. LOL it was pretty cool and don't have a clue why that was happening. But it was working.

What an incredible daya of fishing! Congrats.

Sounds like alittle slice of heaven.I heard its all in the foot work on catching those Hybrid,

lipripper it was for sure a slice of heaven. We were doing so good and catching so many fish we just couldn't leave and do the foot work to find those hibbies. lol.

Just got my chieftain slabs in from MOE's tackle shop and they are AWESOME!! They glow in the dark and that will be the key killer thing on these slabs.

Hey great report, Keith!! Congrats

Thanks Todd, Looks like y'all had a HECK of a day also

Nice mess of fish and a super report. Thanks for sharing.