Went to Newport Bay to fish from shore with my friend Mike Nguyen. We got there about noon and started out throwing some reaction baits. It didnt take long to see that the fish werent in the mood to chase something fast due to the seemingly lack of good current flow.
We switched to texas rigging the Assalt 5" Ringer Worms with a slower presentation and proceded to whack the Spotties. We used the Smoke/Red Flake and Pumpkin. 3/16 oz bullet weights on a 2/0 Owner Offset Wide Gap with 12 lb line on 7 foot rods. We caught and released close to 20 Spotties on the Ringers, a couple of which were absolute PIGS!!! The fish were hitting the baits VERY hard today. We lost a couple big fish to the Dock pilings, as we were pitching the baits to the pilings and down the dock rows. Caught fish pitching to pilings in as shallow as 3' of water.
Hot weather, beautiful afternoon, hard hitting, and hard pulling fish. Cant ask for much more than that!!!!

John Strenk

PUT THE WOOD TO EM!!!