Friday evening I ran to the flats with Tricia and Casey. They hooked 3 puppy drum, pulling the hooks on 2 with Casey landing one.
Saturday, Tricia and I went to the ODU football game, meeting up with freshman Hunter Southall and some of his classmates. Brent Meadors, on the Breike, trolled inshore for king mackerel. They caught a 27-pound fish ( angler Kendel Blankinship).
Sunday, we ran offshore for billfish. Weed mats were everywhere and so were the dolphin. Without trying for them, we ended up with 36 nice dolphin on the troll. When we first set out, we put out a little spoon the see if the baby bluefin were here for Dr. John Graves. We caught a jack right away, the spoon broke so that was that. We did catch a couple of white marlin and should have had 3 or 4 more. We did collect DNA samples from the ones we caught for Dr. Graves’ grad student, Nadya Mamoozadeh. For information on her research or to volunteer to help her collect fin clippings of the marlin you catch: [email protected] . We also had a sailfish hooked up briefly.
Monday morning, Gabe Sava and I trolled the oceanfront for king mackerel. We caught one. When I called home to see if they wanted me to bring home lunch, they said no and that they were going fishing. Tricia and Casey caught a variety of bottom fish at Poquoson Reef. Hunter Southall took one of his new college friends to the flats and she (Tori) caught a nice puppy drum.
