Schoolies moving out.. Herring and bigger fish moving in.

 Planned all week on going out with Larry Friday evening into Friday night but started to wonder after those heavy rains if we would have to cancel or not. Well at about 1 pm yesterday we got the call from Rich Z saying it was running fast and dirty but the fish were still chewin. We were on the water for 5 pm and Larry had a bad luck curse begin immediately.. ( the first cast fish ). Then we had nothing for a while. Went a ways down river never marking a single fish. Strange that just 4 days ago all these spots were still loaded with schoolies. Hmmm. Kept heading down to some good spring time spots and threw spooks on top and bam.. Started getting blasted by good sized fish. I lost a fish that looked between 35-38 inches as it rubbed it's face into the bottom.. tail out splashing every where and threw the hook. Few cast later I have another fish on and after a few seconds it broke one of my hooks.. Larry had a few great blow ups here too. I took one long cast into maybe a foot of water and hooked up with a nice 29 incher and i was on the board.

 We hit another flat down river and again blow ups like crazy! I got another 29 incher and Larry had a big fish completely smash his spook but again no hook up. If we learned one thing today it is spooks come with garbage hooks! The amount of fish lost and not hooked was crazy and both of us had fish break or straighten a hook. Larry got back on the board with 3 good sized schoolies and I caught a couple more schoolies before it got dark on a mag fluke weighless.  Once it was dark the top water and sub surface bite was over. We ran down all the way to Devon and fished a flat that has been great past few weeks. Again marking no fish but we were seeing plenty of herring so fish couldn't be too far. We made 3 or 4 drifts here throwing black bombers and we caught another dozen fish but no more keepers.  By the end of the trip we probably only caught about 20 fish but most between 22-26 inches with the two keepers mixed in but we saw some big fish, lost some big fish, saw some herring and schoolies seemed like they made the move out of the river. Things are about to get really goood. No more 200 or even 100 fish days. Now it's 2-30 fish days but much better quality. Thanks Larry for another great trip!  Ps always have jumper cables people. Saved our night last night by having them.