The three-day weekend started out on the Fishing Tidewater radio show where Ric Burnley and myself talked with Don Lancaster about the SaltWater Sportsman Seminar in Virginia Beach this coming Saturday. After leaving the radio station, it was onto the water.
We started out at the Triangle Wrecks, ran down south, and finished up the weekend in the Elizabeth River.
At the Triangle Wrecks, we caught some tautog. We caught 14, keeper-size, no big ones. Down south, we ran into some rockfish right at the end of the day. Speckled trout action was mostly small fish. We caught a bunch with a few “keepers” in the 19-21 inch range. Hunter Southall caught one that measured 26.5 inches, in the 6.5 to 7 pound range. He had never weighed-in a speck and wanted to keep it. His dad said that it was his fish and he could decide what to do with it. Hunter went to put it in the cooler and then had a change of heart and quickly released the fish (before I could get my camera out). Hunter said that fish has no idea how close I was to keeping it. He said he’ll wait for a bigger one for his first weight citation.
We pretty much let everything go this weekend. Four of the tautog were not so lucky as one of our anglers was hungry (not naming any names Danny Forehand).
