If you talk to any of these anglers, they'll tell you how important it is to catch the tide "right."
"High is wrong," Aaron Martens said yesterday. "Out-going low is phenomenal. I actually did pretty good then."
Brett Hite said he caught his limit early this morning when he got a few hours of tide "switch" – from out-going to in-coming. In other words most of the day has been a rising tide, not optimum fish-catching conditions.
Hite thought he had one big bass located. It knocked the heck out of a ChatterBait, so Hite followed it up with a plastic worm, which the fish tore off the hook. Then Hite made another cast with a worm and set the hook.
"It looked brown. I thought it was a smallmouth at first," Hite said.
But it looked like what it was as Hite fought it closer to the boat – a 3 1/2-pound snakehead. The worm was so far down its throat that Hite cut his line without getting the worm back, hoping the deep hook-set finished off the invasive species.
It's always an adventure out here.