Healthy Grin Sport Fishing

I went speckled trout fishing with Stan Simmerman again this morning. Stan has been fishing most every day. Today was my turn. The bite was not hot but we caught some fish. We ended up catching 6 speckled trout and 2 puppy drum. The largest trout was 24.5 inches long and we had a couple of others over 20 inches. Stan caught our smallest trout and our smallest puppy drum. Stan caught both drum so he also caught our largest. He also managed to catch our largest trout.

I received a text from Stan Simmerman last night. He said he was going for a half-day trip in the morning and to be at his house in the dark. It turns out that Stan’s half-day looks a lot like a normal person’s full-day of fishing. It was a lot colder than our last trip and the bite had really cooled off also. We did manage to boat 11 trout. No citations this trip though we had number 20 plus inches with the largest at 22 inches. All were tagged and released except for one that decided to leave Stan’s hands prior to receiving a tag.

It was too windy to go fishing so we went fishing. The luck of the Irish was with us but it is always lucky to get to trout fish with Stan Simmerman. First cast, I got hit and hit again. I didn’t get that fish but there were others to follow. For the first couple of hours, I was getting a bite almost every cast. It was a heck of a morning. Stan said we should have started an hour earlier. It was pretty much done by noon. The bite, not the wind. That was still going strong. We missed fish, pulled off fish and landed 19 nice trout. The smallest was 16 inches. Stan will be the first to tell you that I caught that little fella. We caught a bunch over 20 inches including three large enough to earn citations. I will be the first to tell you that the largest was caught by me. All of the fish were tagged and released. It was their lucky day too.

I went after specks this morning. I caught 5. If I was not sticking tags in them, I would have thought that I was recatching the same fish. All males, 19 inches except for the runt of the litter that was 18.5 inches. I also caught a striper. Didn’t measure it but I’d guess…19 inches. I lost at least as many as I caught. I’ll never be a real speckled trout fisherman…all of the photos of me holding fish have been deemed inappropriate for posting by real speck anglers.

I ran out to the Triangle Wrecks with Johnny Boyd this morning. We caught tautog. We kept some, tagged and released some, and caught four that already had tags in them. The largest weighed 10 pounds on the Boga Grip. I had another that was almost as large.

I went fishing with Stan Simmerman today. We targeted speckled trout. We had some bites and caught a few trout and a couple of puppy drum. We missed some bites and pulled off some fish including something I couldn’t control and we gave chase with the boat until the hook pulled. We tagged trout to 22 inches and drum to 18 inches.

Caught a trout this morning. Got up in the dark, looked fine out the window so went before I could see how much it was blowing. Hooked 4. Lost 3 including a larger fish. The one I managed to tag and release was 21 inches long. water temp 46.