Monthly Archives: May 2014

Today, I received the first print of Bill Pappas’ original. He said that he wanted the first print to go to the state record holder. Pretty darn cool.

We had a good day bottom fishing yesterday. We caught sea bass, blueline tilefish, golden tilefish, hake, snowy grouper, wreckfish, blackbelly rosefish, and way too many smooth dogfish and conger eels.

2014 Flounder Bowl Flyer The early registration for the Flounder Bowl ends June 14. At this time about half of the 120 available spots have been taken. You can pre-register for the tournament at: www.flounderbowl.com . At this same site, you can … Continue reading →

Drum fishing is excellent. Sometimes, drum bait becomes dinner. Cobia have arrived in the bay. A handful have been caught by anglers fishing for drum. The one we caught was just a pup but larger ones have been caught. More … Continue reading →

One of my intended drum baits turned into a softshell. Tricia ate it. We took the Healthy Grin to the drum grounds, really to use the windless for the first time and to see if the anchor that came with … Continue reading →

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There have been a total of 47 tautog citations registered in Virginia this year. 24 of those were caught on the Healthy Grin.

There was a very nice bite of clear-nosed skate going on when this big black drum crashed the party. The drum was caught near buoy 10. The skate were biting everywhere. Ric Burnley was at Fisherman’s Island where they caught … Continue reading →

Charles Southall and I took his Albemarle out to try for red drum in the Eastern Shore surf after work. We had not been fishing more than 15 minutes when the first screaming bite occurred. Charles caught a really thick, … Continue reading →