Got out wed morning and got the skunk off the boat on our second trip out this year.
Tides were ripping hard and we only saw one other boat with a fish that day...it happened to be a friend of ours and they bonked a 20lb'er about 20 minutes before i got mine. both fish were caught towards the bottom end of the tide.
we were in about 34' of water and she slammed a silver simon with an orange/copper'ish painted front.
didn't have a scale on the boat, but we felt comfortable calling this 30lbs. the crappy cell phone picture doesn't do it justice. she was BRIGHT chrome and also gave up a couple of nice skeins of eggs.