05/19/2010 It was a very fishy day as we pushed off from the dock today. A Fall season sky with partial cloud cover, air temps 64, water temps 56 and light offshore winds. We started off by running to a time tested spring time basin looking for some topwater action and it didn't take long before we had our first bass crash our plug. This 24" speed demon had the reel drag singing as he made his way off the flat in record speed and a few minutes later we had him boatside posing for a photo. We got ourselves back into position to repeat the process raising 3 more Bass but could not hook them up. The Bass bite turned into a Bluefish bite as a pack of 3-5 lb’ers moved in taking over the area resulting in 3 boatside fish and missing 4 others. As the trip progressed we did a mix of hit and run and stake out tactics, all of which produced good action but had a hard time keeping Bass hooked as they gave us big thumping strikes but very fast and one opportunity, one and done, then the Blues would move in. We ended our trip by running further into the back country hoping to find some tailing Bass rooting for shrimp and once we arrived at our location it took all of 10 minutes before we saw our first Bass tail and roll followed by another a few minutes later. These Bass were tracking very erratically and hard to get in front of but we did have a few opportunities that delivered great strikes but no hook ups with Bass. The pattern continued with Bass opportunity followed by Bluefish moving in and taking over as we ended our trip with another nice 6 lb'er.