Tautog Weekend

We fished the Triangle Wrecks Saturday for tautog. We caught 20 fish up to 10 pounds. Johnny Boyd caught our largest tog. Wes Blow was out there Thursday and he caught a pair of 10 pounders. We got DNA samples from each tautog. We caught 6 tautog that had been previously tagged. The rockfish were out there. We had gannets diving around us and had big rockfish chasing our sinkers to the surface. There was a charter boat out there catching them pretty good…legally. They had scientists onboard conducting a tagging study.

We went back out after tautog Sunday. We caught some big fish Saturday. We got bigger ones Sunday. The three largest weighed 14, 15, and 19 pounds. We also caught a really big sea bass that, with regret, we tagged and released. Dr. Hamish Small was with us collecting DNA samples from each tautog. He also managed to catch the largest of the day (and of the year…so far).