12/4 Trolling Thomas Pt - Bloody Pt

Same report you have heard from others though I'm slowly bringing myself back to posting reports so here goes!

Crew today was a good one...Marty (5th Tuition), Slayer (Keith), Alan (Just Chillin) and Tim (Remedy), all of whom I've fished with before. I particularly owed Alan a trip since he put my on my biggest fish to date a week or so ago. It was a complex mess of a setup to meet up since I had the boat on the lift in Pasadena but needed it on the trailer in Annapolis. Keith was kind enough to pick up my trailer on the way in and Marty and Alan picked up Tim so we could lal meet at SPSP by 7:15.

met the crew, threw a coat in to Don's truck so he would never be wet again and were on our way. We blew down just south of 88 and dropped lines. Well we just didn't mark anything anywhere, but we saw nets, after nets, after nets...we avoided nets for an hour barely marking fish and decided to turn back north to where Marty had caught some fish last week. Well more north = less bait. I''m convinced that those nets are catching all the fish and bait heading north. About an hour and a half into the trip I got a call from Steve (goinsfishing). Joe told him to call me and tell me that they were on the fish. I made a pretty unpopular call (at the time) and told the crew to pull in all the lines, we were blowing south. Grumble, grumble, grumble They were great about it, rods all over the deck, planers in the boat we left...

about halfway to where we were going south of bloody point we started marking bait and fish we had been looking for and decided to drop the spread. Got almost everything out and as Tim was putting the last rod out, a stormbrella with 16 oz of weigtht, it gets hit just as it hits the bottom. He reels in a feisty and FAT 27 inch fish. Good way to start with an under. Bait gets thicker, few minutes later same rod goes down again. Feisty 25 incher. Like those unders. At this point it is just us and another center console fishing the general area and we are both circling the bait hard. On our north pass a planer line goes off, 6 oz black and yellow head 80 feet back gets slammed...drag puller and keith starts to reel...then a deep umbrella goes off, finally Alan gets his chance at redemption because this ones pulling drag...then the same old strormbrella gets hit and I'm fighting in the midst of a triple header. Alan gets his to the boat first and it is HUGE....no exaggeration, but it's a huge fish. At least the size of the one he put me on last week and I feel good about it....Marty is out on the bracket trying to net the beast and it is a little too big for the net...3 or four tries and I see the line go slack, finally marty has it in the net...NOPE, 50 lb braid broke off at the tip...probably had a nick or something and the nice fish swims off with my favorite lure...oh well, at least Alan got to fight a big one. Got mine in the boat next, a fat 40 incher, and Keiths a fat 38 incher....another pass 2 more fish...I lost count of fish but tide started going slack, bait started breaking up and we decided it was almost time to go in...we are talking to our friends in the center console, they are doing great too...they forgot their planer line at home and were still killin' 'em on the boat rods....we decided the bite was dead there and headed south and found another good pod of bait and hooked up two more...we had our limit of overs at this point, didnt want to risk any fish getting gut hooked and started to pull in lines. Don't know the total count but it was a great day with a good number of big fish.....

we had a great day, with a good bit of crap talking, and good friends..looking forward to the next outing. Great talking to Drichett, MLAG, goinsfishing, and all the others out there today. Thanks guys for staying in contact and all the advice and help out there. See you on the water Sunday I hope!

Mark
PS I think Tim and Marty at least took a few pics, hopefully they'll post them soon (that is if Marty can figure it out)