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Made it out really late (for me) and apparently everyone else had the same idea. When I got to the landing, it looked like a slow weekend, with many boats already out. I took my time getting ready and launched. I agreed with myself to.... WOW, the whole armada was right at the mouth. OK, I'll get ready and fish for an hour, and if no luck I scoot over to Gary Light. Well, it didn't take too long and I had one in the box after I caught my second I had fine-tuned my troll to 24-29 fow at 2.3-2.5 sog running 2 flat and 1 rigger, I had a d/f on the main line and a spoon for the slider, the ball was 19 down. I can't remember how many I lost and I had 2-3 shorts but all of the losses were coming off the slider, I never had a hit on the d/f. I did catch on the slider but I had to be quick, so after the umpteeth miss I put the spoon on the main line and dropped it 9 down, which fixed the missing problem. It also fixed the fish caught problem I didn't get another hit. Fortunately, my flat lines were still hitting. From what I could tell the fish were shallow and in the main mud flowing out of the river, that's where I caught most of my fish.
Sorry so long- recap....
2.3-2.5 sog
24-29 fow
43-44 degrees
rigger 19' down w/slider
crossing through the mudline, best
lures that caught
 

Nice job thanks for the report. That is the same thing we seen Saturday (the mud line).

Nice job thanks for the report. That is the same thing we seen Saturday (the mud line).

That's awesome! It seems a lot of people are having missed hookups. I think they are small fish. We experienced this same thing a couple years ago out in 140 fow. We had 27 hits and boat something like 12 and 2 were really small. Add a stinger hook and you'll find out.

Like the homemade fish board hanging from bow rails too, may have to make myself one of those!