Stripers?!

This morning I had Shawn, Jacob, Riley, and Kane with me for some light tackle action.  We started off in the shallows searching for drum.  The water was gin clear – so while we did do  alot of fan casting, I was mainly trying to spot them to sight cast.  We drifted the entire flat that has been very productive lately – not this morning.  Made a move and found stripers?!  We caught a bunch in the 18″ range – which gave the youngins some pullage.  Pulled throwback flounder out of the same spot.  Went back on the prowl for some meaty puppy drum – but no love from them.  They had a blast, and so did I. Thanks for joining me guys

Thad & Company

Had an awesome group of 3 with me this afternoon for a 6hr trip.  We started at 2pm and ran off the beach looking for a Cobia.  We saw a ton of rays, but never saw a cobia so we came back inside.

It didn’t take long until we were on a nice drum bite.  We had a double up shortly after we arrived – and hooked up a third a few minutes later.  We ended up catching a bunch of drum at that spot.

We left them biting in hopes of picking up some flounder or trout.   We bounced around all over the place. Not to mention the wind was SW at about 20mph+  We ended up catching 1 small flounder and pulling off a keeper trout right next to the boat.  Great crew, great trip – see you guys next year!

Fishin’ Tradition

My Pops joined my brother an I for an afternoon of fishing today.  We try to squeeze in some type of fishing every year on Father’s Day.  Last year, we went offshore and caught tuna.  This year – we decided to stay in about a foot of water and chase drum on the flats.  The first stop had a nice slough running down the side of the flat, and the ole man hooks a really nice flounder on his first cast.  We venture on over to another flat and started sight casting to them.  The water was crystal clear!  What a great afternoon with our Pops.

Full moon (2 day report)

I’m searching for excuses as to why the fishing was so slow today…… I am going to go ahead and blame it on the full moon.  I had an awesome group of 5 with me this morning.  I headed to a spot that I really wanted to fish – but I had never gotten my boat in there.  I slowly putted into this shallow flat – that just kept getting shallower.  It wasn’t long before I was in the water pulling the boat off the sand.   It was a rough start.  We ended up catching 1 in there.  The weather was turning, and the radar looked like some of my 6 month olds artwork.  I through out the idea of going to get some breakfast and let it pass.

We headed to TLs together and sat down and stuffed our faces.   We kept waiting for the rain to pass – but it never really did.  It just hung around for a while.  We decided lets just go fishing.

Once we got back out there the weather finally started to clear.  It was still some very tough fishing with only throwback trout and flounder to show.   We grinded hard and bounced around but never really found a good bite.   I very enjoyable morning, and some fish in the box would have just been a cherry on top.  Thanks alot guys – hope to see you next year!

Yesterday I had a split boat trip with Bryan Dehart.  We caught flounder and drum. We found an awesome bite right at the tail end of the trip.