Three blow-ups after the sun went down. One came completely out of the water…big fish. It was still light enough and the water very clear that I could see the fish turn and come back to look at the lure. As I twitched it, it bumped it twice with his nose but did not mouth it. The next fish just clobbered it. A beautiful, fat, 26-inch speckled trout.
Today, I went speckled trout fishing with Stan Simmerman. It was speck-tacular. There was a period where it was literally a nice trout on every cast. A lot of fish in the 17-19 inch range. I have no idea how many we caught but we had seven over 20 inches. We each had a 23.5-inch fish but I’m sure that mine was larger. I couldn’t keep track of all of the trout but I was able to count the two puppy drum.
Afterwork bite. Three blowups. Held onto one. 22.5 inches.
Quick trip before work produced a sunrise. Trip after work produced a couple of trout. Both were 22 inches.
Friday, I fished for specks with Stan Simmerman. We caught a bunch of small ones, some nice ones, and lost some big ones. Stan lost a really big speck by the boat. Before Stan tells you that he caught the three largest trout, just know that I caught the largest puppy drum, bluefish, striped bass, and houndfish (9 inches or so). Back at it again tomorrow in my boat so I will know where I am. Stan took me someplace I’d never been to before. He still hasn’t told me where we were.
I fished Saturday morning with Stan. We did not do much. I hooked two fish. One was a nice one, the other was big. I lost both. This morning, I ran back to try again. I caught a nice one, and a big one. The “dink” speckled trout was 20 inches. The big one was 28.5 inches. Both were topwater explosions but the big fish took 4 blow-ups before hooking up. I was sure it was a drum. I didn’t get nervous until I first saw the fish. Then, I was sure that I was going to lose it. When I finally got it to the net, it came unhooked. Being lucky is good. The fish weighed in at 7.6 pounds.
