We ran back out after tautog yesterday. It was beautiful day on the ocean. For bait, we had green, Jonah, blue, fiddler, spider, and hermit crabs. We also had clam and conch. What we did not have were any tautog into the afternoon. We found them on the third wreck we tried.
We ended up catching 15 tog. We kept twelve. Six of those weighed in over nine pounds.
I assured him that this would not make it into any report. Of our 15 tautog, Hunter Southall caught 9 of them but who’s counting? Well, Hunter was. Included in his 9 fish were 4 in the double digits including the largest of the day at 19 pounds 8 ounces.
Bernie Sparrer caught his first-ever citation-size “chub”. The only tog I caught all day weighed over 13 pounds. After several years and several back surgeries, Bob Manus finally was able to get back out on the water with us. Josh Jordon wanted to make sure everyone knows that he caught a sea bass (no tautog). There is a nice class of sea bass on the Triangle Wrecks that will hopefully be there when the season opens May 19.
This was the Healthy Grin’s last tog trip before the season closes this week. We ended up with 24 tautog over 9 pounds with our 3 largest at: 19.5, 20, 20.5 pounds. Wes Blow is back out there in his boat right now. If the weather holds, Hunter plans to hit them after school today. The weather does not look very good for the final two days of the season and it will be closed before get the Healthy Grin back out.
