08-18-2023, 11:22 PM
Me and Obi got my old friend Kelly out with us today. We went out of the North marina and went most of the way to the south west corner before starting. Trolled cranks for a while with no luck. Switched over to fligs for a while. Trolled all the back to freeway bay. And went back to cranks. Still no luck. At around 1 pm we had decided to give up. Kelly was one of the ones that had gave up on Willard because of skunks. So me and Shawn really wanted to get him some. But we brought all the geer in and the last pole out, on a side planner, hit. The side planner went under and I grabbed it and at first I thought I was hung up on bottom. I was holding on hard waiting for the line to break. And up popped the side planner and the fight was on. A nice 24 inch cat. When we got the side planner off, I was still out 80 feet, we made Kelly real it in. And we sent him home with the filet. We got it on a green fire tiger flicker shad. No skunk today.