We made it out on 1/25 but it wasn't until 2pm and not very eventful either. Didn't mark anything hardly before having to come back in before dark.
On 1/26 - yesterday - we got the boat in by 6:30 (at the ramp by 5:50am) and by 7:30am we were 28 miles south of Rudee and ended up about 35 miles south with about 1000 other boats. The bite was scattered but there. Had we not lost 4 fish we would have ended the day 1 fish shy of our 4 person limit before 11am. The 3 fish that stuck were 2 - 22lbs and a 20 lber. After 11am the catching completely died off for us and it was just a boat ride at that point.
I'm in the car heading home right now. I'll post up a good report either tonight or tomorrow.
Thanks for all the helpful tips - especially about the ramp getting backed up in the am. That saved our butts. The other 2 boats that fished with us got the big fat donut yesterday. They got to the ramp just a little after 6am at owl creek and it was backed up so far that they just went back to the room until 9am and it had cleared out some.
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