Having gotten on the water later than I wanted, I had a very narrow window in which to try getting a topwater bite going this morning. I was armed with the froggin' rod Wayne had loaned me, so I went straight to the hollow-body frog again. On about my fifth cast, I was working the frog about 2 feet in front of a stick up when a fish blew up on the bait, but I pulled the string too early and yanked the bait away from the fish. As a result, I'm still batting .000. I may never "master" the fundamentals to become a proficient frogger, but I'm dead set on becoming good enough to at least catch an occasional fish with the hollow-body frog.
My only productive lure today was once again a white spinnerbait. I also fished the Johnson Silver Minnow, an extra shallow-running crankbait, and a Ribbit-style frog without eliciting a single strike.
In a conversation I had with Jim while we were cleaning up our boats this afternoon, I learned he basically had repeated his results of Wednesday. He boated two crappie and a striper and had a bass hooked up until it decided to dive under the boat, at which point it pulled off. The 1-8 I boated managed to first wrap around my trolling motor, but as I lifted the motor from the water, the fish unwound itself, and I swung it over the side.
With the holiday upon us, neither Jim nor I have any plans to venture out in our boats this weekend. Business at West Neck already was picking up throughout the afternoon, so I can well imagine what it'll be like out there all the way through Monday. Besides, I have a date to hold down a friend's backseat on Back Bay Monday morning, so I'll have to put together a small box for that trip. That, a couple of rods, my lifejacket, and some bottled water probably should do the trick. It's been a lot of years since I was out there, so I'm truly looking forward to this outing.
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