Decided to head out this morning and see what it was like to get the balls frozen off of my brass monkey.
Hit the water @ 7am. Headed to Turner's w/about 10 other boats. Only saw one flock of birds working, and that broke up after about 10 minutes (and 3 boats).
Ended up putting 2 17-18" trout in the boat by 9am on plastics. Was double rigging and both hit an unnamed pearl / glitter 4" saltwater assassin w/chartreuse tail vs. chartreuse sparkle beetle and gulp molting shrimp.
Wind picked up a good bit, so I went and ran around in the back water for a bit.
Returned to Turner's around 2pm after running south a bit to see how nasty the water was (texaco cut area was pretty funky). Ended up putting 1 more 19" in the boat on a gulp new penny shrimp.
Hard fishing, for me anyway.
Didn't really see anyone else tearing 'em up either. Live bait or not. (cue the "everyone but you limited by 6:45am" reports....)