ST:
I think that this was more of an impulsively motivated outing than a tournament. With good weather why not? It motivated me to get out fishing on a busy weeknight, which I am greatful, because my days have been booked solid all during February. I never did follow up the next day to see if there was a bigger fish caught on Thursday night. But it seemed to be pretty slow on Thursday night. More details will probably be covered at the next scheduled meeting.
Thursday Report: We went 1 for 2 and heard another fish jumping somewhere in the darkness on the up-drift side of the boat. The VHF seemed pretty quiet most of the evening, with the exception of some boat being hooked up for a few hours with no follow-up ever noticed.
We had a consistent supply of Tinkers around the boat for most of the evening, starting at sundown. We stocked up with about 4 dozen, to have some for the upcoming Tinkerless nights ahead.
We had a diversified spread of tinkers and squid. Still, we had no action until close to moonset around 9:30. In short order the wind shifted from SE to SW and we had another strike but the line went slack after a couple minutes. We called it a night around 11:15 p.m.
Overall, it seems like the bite has been generally depressed. But even in March it seemed like a typical calm summer evening (without the heat index and no lightning
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