06/09/2010 I love these types of mornings when a plan comes together. Hitting the weather window is a wonderful thing, with 53 degrees air temps, the water dropping back down to 60 and a low pressure system getting ready to pass through, we had calm winds and smooth water, when it was predicted to blow 20-30 knts. We stayed in front of Bass nearly the entire trip today, spending much of the trip sight fishing Bass rolling on grass shrimp. The best Bass of the trip today came on top water when I spotted the pulsing water of this Bass layed up in a small pocket in a larger basin and a perfect cast brought the lure across his nose. In no time he turned and grabbed it and a few minutes later we had this nice 23" Bass boat side. Our first stop of the day gave us 4 Bass and raised a 1/2 dozen more, as well as a decent amount of Blues in the 4 lb class. We decided to make a run, and a short skiff ride later we were sitting once again on a gin clear flat looking for Bass stemming the tide, waiting to ambush bait as it flows off the flat. Our action remained strong but our luck didn't follow on the fly or spinning tackle. My client put a perfect cast with the fly up current and it swung directly in front of a layed up beast of a Bass, followed by a THUMP, game on, as the Bass sped off to the shallows before reverting coarse and coming mock speed directly at us. Reeling as fast as possible a second later he had broken off as he caught a mussel shell in the shallows. A few casts later as I was tying on a new fly my light tackle client hooks up and nearly the same battle occurred as the Bass ran to deeper waters and broke us off in the shells. Once the action faded and the winds started kicking up we did some hit and runs for the remaining 45 minutes of our trip, which resulted a few strikes but no more boated.