The summer of 2011 was an amazing year for us. The Bass moved into the fishing grounds in late May and stayed throughout the whole summer. However fishing for them was different from any other year. During the 2011 season we had to change our usual tactics and start going back to the early years when diamond jigging was the norm. The fish seemed to stay in the same area and seemed to only like to eat in the early morning or late afternoon. The mornings would start early with leaving the dock at 5 am, with a 22 minute ride to the fishing grounds we would be one of the first boats there. Upon arriving we would take out the jigging rods and send the jig to the bottom. Once the jig hit the bottom we would start to reel as fast as we could and BANG a fish would hit. This type of fishing would last all morning as long as you stayed with the fish. After a couple hours of fishing like this the box would be full.

Also 2011 also was a good year for shark fishing. The sharks showed up around the second week of June and stayed pretty much all summer. Shark fishing this year was very good and we fished them hard. On an average day we would catch 8-10 blue sharks. We fished hard for the Makos and Threshers, only seeing a few we were never blessed to have one take the hook. Also this season we started to do something exciting. We started fishing sharks with light tackle spinning rods. Once we had the sharks in the slick we would rig up a spinning rod and cast to them. Most of the time, they would take the bait. Those who wanted to try this type of fishing found it to be a lot of tiring fun. I would highly recommend this to anyone. While we were having a good run with fish, during the month of August the water temps jumped and it seemed harder to find them. During the last two weeks of August we started to have some big storms moving up the coast and the shark fishing died off.