Even the Best Have A Slow Day by Ed Valitutto

Posted on June 20, 2023 by VHFC

A charter with Brett Taylor Reel Reaction usually is a guarantee you will bring home filets for dinner. Unfortunately, our Monday morning charter with Bob Dodds, Caesar Pesarini and I did not end up as planned.

Conditions were near ideal with decent winds, clear water and 68 degree water temps. We even had two hours incoming and two ours outgoing. Brett started at Sedge Island then brought us to High Bar followed by off shoots of OCC and DCC. All we caught were a handful of shorts and two keepers. Brett even kept us out for an extra hour of fishing. All to no avail. His worst day for 2023 had been 4 keepers. We shattered that record!

Still a great day fishing with friends!

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