Today is Meghan Wells birthday. She wanted to take the day off of work. My ability to do dentistry is greatly diminished when Meghan Wells is not there but it increases my chances to go fishing so today, we all took off to celebrate her birthday. I pretended to be retired and joined Stan Simmerman, who really is retired. We mostly cast topwaters all day. I don’t know how Meghan’s birthday went for her but Stan Simmerman and I enjoyed the heck out of it! Our final catch included 7 speckled trout to 22 inches, a gray trout, 5 bluefish, a puppy drum and 6 ribbonfish. Ribbons do hit topwaters. I pulled off a big trout and Stan lost a monster. We had a lot of bites that did not stay tight. I had one that did. Looked and sounded like a big trout bite but that fish was screaming my drag. I told Stan that it had to be a drum. He said no, a really big trout. We never saw it but if it was a trout it would have been a record. My very next cast got blown up twice before hooking up and it did turn out to be a pup. Not as good of a fight as the fish prior but I think I had just pulled off a drum…and not a record trout…but…we caught nice trout there also. I really liked Meghan Wells birthday. When I’m back in the office tomorrow, I’m going to find out who has the next birthday!
Oh, apparently, I now live in a world where fat trout are released and skinny ribbonfish are kept. I can hear my grandfather now, “what is wrong with you boy?”
After work yesterday, I ran out to the flats and cast the topwater a bit before getting ready for today’s trip. That resulted in a lot of blow ups, a couple of red drum, a couple specks and a bluefish. I’m liking middle-of-the-week fishing!
