Ol Fashion Sou’Wester

Today I had some repeat clients from last year.  These guys are a trip and know how to fish.  Unfortunately I had a tough time putting them in the right place today.  We started off pretty good with 3 drum in the box in about 30 mins.  Tried another drift along the same area and nadda.  Retied and relocated to a different spot for a different species – but managed 1 more drum out of a deep slough.  Bounced around (and I mean bounced!) with the 20+ SW wind but couldn’t find a trout or flounder either.   Still had a great time  – Thanks for joining me again guys – I’ll see you this spring!!!!

Banana Breakfast

This morning I had Mike and company…. They decided to pay their deposit and not show up.  Thanks for the free $100……  I called my afternoon trip and told them to get on down to the ramp.  They showed up about an hour and a half later.  In the mean time I ran out and caugth a couple drum.

John, Matt, Ed and Ed Jr. hopped on and we headed out.  The wind was still nice and calm so we got straight to drum fishing.  The first stop was a total bust – we covered alot of flat with nothing to show.  Drifted over to one of my favorite little points, and nothing there either.   Time for a new spot…..

Showed up at the next spot and we finally caught one!  John puts a 23″ in the box.   Shortly after Matt hangs into one, but it pulls the hook right at the boat.   We moved back up the flat a little further and finally found some fish.  We ended up putting our limit in the box.  I thought Matt was fishing with a hookless lure, but it turned out he had eaten like 3 bananas for breakfast.   It wasn’t red hot – but we limited out and went on to the next species.

By then – the wind had picked up to 15-20 and it was white capping pretty good.   Tried a drift for flounder – and pulled up 3 throwbacks.  Had enough of the chop and tried a couple spots out of the wind.  No keeper flounder for us – so we headed back to the dock.   Great crew today – we had plenty of laughs!  I hope I can shake this head cold soon – its been kickin ‘my butt.

Thanks for checking Salt Minded Charters!

Awful Arthur is Coming – Pre-Storm Report

And the excellent drum fishing continues!   This fella pulled on a few of these angry drum yesterday.  After fish 3, he had me holding the rod up because his arms were beat.  Great stuff – that smile says it all.  We drifted for flounder for a bit and caught a handful of throwbacks.  Thanks for joining me!

On another note, it looks like Hurricane Arthur hates America.

Stay safe out there – hoping for the best, I know these fish will be hungry after this mess.

Signing off . . . see you guys after the storm!

Goodness gracious

Morning trip I had Brent and Company.  We had the kiddos on this one, so we busted out the bottom rigs and kept the action  hot and heavy.  We ended up pulling a couple keeper flounder during our drifts.  We went looking for drum for the last hour of the trip, and managed 1 bite that came unbuckled.

The second trip today, WOW!   We started out drifting for flounder, with one small one and some bycatch.  We headed over to start looking for drum – and landed 1 sight casting in pretty short order.  Then I got the call that changed everything.  The mother load of drum were piled up and chewing.  We went over there and caught them solid for 2 hours straight.  These boys will have some sore arms!

The lucky doormat

Fished with Timothy and crew yesterday. It was windy, very windy….. NE 20+

Started off the morning on the flats looking for drum.  Didn’t take long and we were bowed up on a double. One pulled.  Put some meat in the box and went looking for flounder. Wind made the fishing challenging so I put the boat on the trailer mid trip , and moved to the backside of the island.  We fished hard for a few bites but one really counted a big ol doormat flounder. Unfortunately he pulled right next to the boat and has another chance at life.  Hopefully we can fry his @$$ next year. Thanks Tim & crew!