Fishing was tough for us today,fished downlines and trolled leadcore for several hours..not a single bite.i was hoping the wind and clouds would fire em up.It didnt.Anyone else have any luck? Jimmy

I fished with Tom, Dan, and Jim. We did not take bait and caught fish on leadcore and downriggers.

We caught all of ours on leadcore. We were out with the Wounded Warriors group and only one boat caught fish on bait. He did however have the biggest fish a 20 lber. Overall toughest day I have had in several weeks. Those four cigarette boats drove me crazy.

Between 1 and 2 PM I hooked 4 on bait,Landed 2 and lost 2(one felt large). I got one on a leadcore jig tipped with a herring. I had those cigarette boats well within 100 feet of me twice. They had to be going at least 50 mph.I left when it looked like it was going to storm.

Those boats were going at least 70 mph and one of them almost got air and flipped. Unfortunatly they were running a race together right trough all of us trolling, VERY DANGEROUS!

You got that rigt Dan. Cigarettes are bad for your health!

Red-Dog. Go home. I didn't see how close they got to ya'll (i saw ya'll down there) but i love them "go-fast-boats" running wide open. When you have twin (possibly tripple screws) 500HP screws, you can"t wish but your hand was on the hammer. If not, you may not be American? They must have been close to make the post?

We did pretty good downlining the first hour or so after first light. Gotta love those big boats especially when they mash on loud pedal. Open em up and let em eat. If you old guys don't like the noise and speed why don't yall fish up a creek. It is public water and if they are breaking any laws get they numbers and make a call if you are concerned.

If I had a boat like that I would get on it every chance I could.The sound was awesome. The ride must be even better. What I would not do is run through a crowd of boats fishing on a saturday afternoon.They got too close for my liking.

I guess I must be one of those "old guys." I don't get the point of running the same 15-20 mile stretch of water all day long, if you've got the money to spend on a boat & fuel like that, get it out on open water. They have every right to do what they're doing, but they absolutely came too close to us. At 70+ mph a distance of 100 ft is not near enough; one mistake and you will not have time to react and there would be a tragedy.

Like I said, they have every right to run, but stay the hell away from me and mine.