First bass outing

I fished the port again with my good friend Brian Wilson. We all call him beach boy, more people recently are thinking about san fran's pitcher though when his name comes up. His 18th birthday was Wednesday and I thought his fishing license would be a great birthday present for him. Now that he is legal it was off to the port in search of some fish. We start off around 1100 and put the swimbaits out for some stripers. We troll right a long my two best lanes without a single bite. Ever since this weather has warmed up the striper action has died off for me. Fish are deeper and or are just not biting.

With the stripers not wanting to bite we get up close to the banks to try for some bass. I start off throwing a white fluke and I rig up brian with a carolina rigged robo worm. We go along a couple of banks trying to cast, but the wind was howling up a storm yesterday and there was just no way I could keep the toon straight enough for us to effectively fish the banks. I find a bank protected by the wind and we start fishing it. Brian wasn't feeling the robo worm so he put that rod down and grabbed the ultralight rod with a shad grub on it and started casting it. He said he was gonna try for bluegill or crappie. Then he asked me "You think bass would hit this?" I told him yea they probably would but I doubt you'll get anything big.

Going a long the bank I manage one bite on my fluke but it felt just small and couldn't get hook in its mouth. We come around a corner and I see Brian slam the hook and says fish on! I'm watching him fight this fish and I was thinking ok lets see this bluegill you got. As I'm watching him though I see a decent bend in his rod and I look down, and he pulls a bass out of the water!



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Fish wasn't legal size but it was bigger then what I thought he would have caught. I was thinking, ok he got lucky once no way he can pull it off again. I toss my fluke in and the second after it hit the water, I feel that "thunk" set the hook and I get my bass, and mine is legal!!!



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Nice way to get the skunk off for me.

We keep moving a long and Brian manages 2 more on his shad grub!



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You know they weren't monsters, but the fact that he was hooking up as consistantly as he was just had me baffeled. We try another shoreline protected by the wind and Brian ended up losing one more that started singing drag and Brian was just horsing it too much and it ended up popping off before we could see it.

First successful bassing trip of the year for me, very happy about that. Hoping next time it wont be as windy so I can fish more area's

Till next time guys
Mark