Healthy Grin Sport Fishing

We caught a baby sheepshead and lost two others at the boat. Stan got a big sheep to the surface but broke it off. We caught a handful of tautog, one that had a tag in it. We caught 3 nice puppy drum and went 1 for 2 on big drum. Small sea bass were numerous. It was a nice Thursday on the bay.

Looking at the wind forecast for the coming weekend, it is looking like a lot of fishing from the dock. I walked out there tonight. Caught a nice catch of shrimp in a single throw of the net. Average size was 4 inches or so. There seems to be no trout too small to eat any size shrimp. Aggressive little dudes. My “lunker” for tonight was all of 11 inches long and fat…probably full of shrimp.

I had planned on fishing the oceanfront today. Yesterday, I hit the flats after work with peeler crabs that my wife had picked up for me from Grafton Fishing Supply. Instead of getting just the half-dozen that I asked her to get, she bought every peeler they had…good wife. Not wanting to let peelers go to waste, I fished the flats again today. Fish were still there. I caught a handful of speckled trout and a bunch of puppy drum up to 23 inches long.

Ran out to the flats to turn shrimp into drum. Peeler was actually the best bait. Bigger class of pups this afternoon. Tagged fish from 20 to 25 inches long.

Trolled plugs along the oceanfront. Tagged and released 3 cobia. Back home, caught shrimp and turned them into perch and trout.

The shrimp made a showing at our dock last night. I went out after work today to try to turn last night’s shrimp into today’s puppy drum. It worked for the most part. It turns out that other things like shrimp too. The spot and croaker bite was strong. I did tag and release some puppy drum up to 21 inches and managed to make it home before the thunderstorms.

We had a VMRC meeting today. I don’t think we did anything too controversial. After the meeting, I slipped on out to the flats. I tagged and released puppy drum until I ran out of peeler crab.