On Monday the 20th of October, I woke up to a beautiful windless morning with ice on the deck, the dock, the boat…let’s go fishing! The lagoon water temp. was 51 degrees. I headed south to the middle grounds area and started throwing BKD’s on 1/8oz. and 1/4oz. jig heads. I saw a, worse for the ware, huge (45lb+) black drum that was having great difficulty getting around. After hours of drifting and casting I finally got a nice hard hit. Turned out to be the only fish of the day, a 24″ striper. The wind picked up, the air warmed and the bay water temp. moved up to 56 degrees as I headed home about 2PM. With all of the bait in the bay this year, I hope we have another bay striper season like we had in 2010!
Dave spendiff
Ice in the morning
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