My faithful fair weather mate and I fished the Inland Sea yesterday and in typical fashion we launched at wife o’clock (8:30 a.m. according to EST). We were NOT participating in the LCI derby but I think the 15 plus boats we saw between Cedar Island and the Sandbar were. It was as if someone posted on a forum there was a hot bite there recently and a lot of folks took the bait.
Being the late comers I didn’t want to jump into anybody’s troll line so I steered my Mistress well out into the middle and worked a line that historically pays off for me and within an hour we boated a nice fat and healthy 22” salmon. Try as I did to spin on the spot inconspicuously it was not subtle enough and two boats were onto us. I made one more pass back through and missed a hit on a diver. Instead of running back through a third time I opted to let the two other boats who most certainly were fishing the derby work that area and I continued straight into barren waters and stared at a blank screen on the fish machine for another 2 1/2 hours which was fine because it was a beautiful day and the wife was content.
The bite we did find was at 40’ and the one salmon we boated ate a chart. green and silver Speedy Shiner on a rigger 50’ off the ball.
Another excellent day on the water and kept the skunk off the boat
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Last edited by Mistress on Sun Jun 15, 2025 7:35 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Very nice post. Loved the steered clear addition! I was a Googan myself this past weekend but quite a few miles north fishing for completely different beasts. Gotta love the guys who run under a hundred yards off your stern! Keep on em
