Island White (Cherry Beach), 2-5-13

[Amish Ed]

Landwhale and I launched at 6am and headed straight for the island. Air was cool, no wind, lots of low clouds. Water was 57º with lots of trash floating around. Got to the island and started working the areas around the docks. I was using a T-rigged pearl Swimmin' Senko. After a little bit it got nailed. After a nice hard fight I landed my Cherry beach PB, a sand bass about 2.5-3lbs. Since that fish destroyed the bait I switched to a 4" Keitech Swing Impact in Sight Flash. This turned out to be the bait for the day. I end up with 7 more fish all on that bait.

I think all my fish came in 20' or deeper, and they wanted it pretty slow. Unfortunately, I missed way more fish than I caught, including multiple releases halfway up. The docks were very busy today with lots of shore boats and 3 barges. We actually fished the whole island this time, but the dock area was where most of the fish were. A cold NW wind turned on about 7:30 and was off and on for the rest of the morning. In fact when we got out of the water at 11:00 the wind kicked up and didn't stop. This had my teath chattering until I got into dry clothes. Over all it was a fun day and after 1.5 months off the water it was much needed.