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Got a chance to take my grandad out for a fishing trip as well as a few buddies that I dont always get to fish with. Everyone kinda wanted to do different things arties, bait, gold, wade. drift east, wade west etc. My buddy that fishes lower west bay & xmas exclusively was hardcore on wading down there. I mentioned the idea to my papa (he's 80) and he said "he would bring his waders" 
I forwarded that to my buddy and he came apart with laughter and he made the notion to just stay in the boat 
After the parking lot that was east bay last Friday, I figured we would just go to the next best parkin lot that is the rocks. Tossed the bean bag in the boat loaded up the papa and buddies and rolled out at 530 from Tiki. Quick stop to get some potlickin goods then back to traveling. The weak tidal flow made for an interesting bite for trip. It would be hot for 5-10 minutes and then back to smacks for 30. The Major was the productive period of day no doubt. Pics tell a good story but we landed and released several bulls. Fish were caught on gulp peeler crabs and shrimp. I might add, those crabs are the deal Ive never used them before but they sure work. I must have caught 4 dozen smacks on silver sprites. Kept a few for my buddy to try his hand in the kitchen with and he also used his tag on an edible sized bull.
All in all great trip lots of fish were caught and hilarious things were said by my gramps. The guys really enjoyed his lack of a filter as did I. He informed me upon gettin back to tiki that he had just had the best ride back from the jetties ever ( he slept in the bean bag the whole way )
I forwarded that to my buddy and he came apart with laughter and he made the notion to just stay in the boat After the parking lot that was east bay last Friday, I figured we would just go to the next best parkin lot that is the rocks. Tossed the bean bag in the boat loaded up the papa and buddies and rolled out at 530 from Tiki. Quick stop to get some potlickin goods then back to traveling. The weak tidal flow made for an interesting bite for trip. It would be hot for 5-10 minutes and then back to smacks for 30. The Major was the productive period of day no doubt. Pics tell a good story but we landed and released several bulls. Fish were caught on gulp peeler crabs and shrimp. I might add, those crabs are the deal Ive never used them before but they sure work. I must have caught 4 dozen smacks on silver sprites. Kept a few for my buddy to try his hand in the kitchen with and he also used his tag on an edible sized bull.
All in all great trip lots of fish were caught and hilarious things were said by my gramps. The guys really enjoyed his lack of a filter as did I. He informed me upon gettin back to tiki that he had just had the best ride back from the jetties ever ( he slept in the bean bag the whole way
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