james river fishing report from 1/28/12

well it was a rough start to the day the motor would not crank over so we grabbed a spare battery and hooked it up let it charge for about 15 minutes and were finally able to get on the water ran to a spot to get bait 3 or 4 minute soak had 35-40 cutters (big shad ) gave some to a few friends and off we went made a damn long run down river fished from 830 til noon it did not produce ran up to another spot that i had fished once before a couple years ago where my buddy Brandon caught his pb blue being 55 lbs  and we marked a couple nice fish on the bottom Hugh's rod went down tried getting tangled in rods so i was doing the dance moving rods around then he yelled chop #4 is down i throw is rods back in the holders come back on my fish and nothing  ended up landing the biggest and only fish of the day with Hugh's fish ended up going 35 lbs  it was a windy and brutal day made it hard to anchor up and just was not fun to be in i made a big pot of deer chili and brought down with me and we had a little propane stove to heat it up  boy did that hit the spot ended up getting off of the water at 630 and me and Robby headed home decided not to fish today Sunday the 29th because they were calling for the same conditions and the bite had shut off and we were drained from sitting in 30 mph hour winds allllllllllll day all in all it was fun got to see some Friends out on the water  that were trying to hunt us down for deer chili but were unsuccessful  ( CLINT ) lol   maybe next time buddy  but is always a fun time