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Today is why I love fishing! After the last couple of trips I felt pretty confident that I had the deep bite pretty well figured out…..WRONG!!

On the water at opening. It was a very crisp 35 degrees when I launched. After a very cold run I started out throwing an A rig while I was waiting for the sun to pop up before I started on the deep fish. No love on the rig. Sun popped over the hills and I went out deep. Located plenty of fish but no one wanted to play. Finally did get one from 37ft but that was the only bite I got for a couple of hours. Decided to head shallow just to keep the fish honest and ended up getting 4 in less than half an hour. I saw all four I caught and I had to make more than one cast to only one of the four, and that took only two casts. Was tossing a dropshot at them and they weren’t hesitant about eating it. Gave the deep fish one more shot before heading out and managed one more from 45ft. Ended the day with 6 fish.

Biggest fish was 3.90 (from about 4ft deep) and best 5 went 13.97. Not the numbers I had Thu but the size was much better overall.

Good job, you never give up! And you gotta love SD weather…from a frigid 35° to wife-beater T weather all in one session!

Well I am from Lakeside so……..gotta go to the tank top!

Nice! Was out there on Sunday with my son and scratched out 6 fish as well all on dropshot. The sweet spot for me was around 30-40 ft. Weather was good and there were only two wahoos surfing. Had to fizz a couple fish before releasing.

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Nice work! Looks like you got a solid hook set on that first one haha

lol! The rod actually broke as I was unhooking the fish