Healthy Grin Sport Fishing

I got a new “Duke Dog” to try…because I need more topwater lures. I can say that it is the best topwater pufferfish lure I have ever used. It did OK on the trout also

Stan Simmerman was nice enough to pick me up at the dock for a few hours of fishing before returning me in time for the MAFMC meeting. We caught some speckled trout including 4 between 18 and 19 inches long. No really big ones this morning but a good number of decent fish. We also caught perch and a number of gray trout to maybe 14-15 inches long. After dropping me off for my meeting, Stan continues to fish, sending me photos of what I am missing.

Stan Simmerman said that he needed a net man this morning. I thought that was a joke. It was still too dark to see what I was netting with his first trout. I netted 8 nice trout for Stan before I managed to catch my first fish. It was a nice one, the largest of the morning so I had that…until he caught a bigger one. Not counting the dink trout, the gray trout, the puffer fish, and the nice trout I lost at the boat…that Stan won’t let me count…we ended up catching 13 nice speckled trout. I caught two of those. It was embarrassing. We didn’t keep count of the small trout. There were maybe 10 of those. We had three trout over 20 inches with a number 18-19 inches.

I fished with Stan Simmerman this morning. We caught 2 ribbonfish, a puppy drum, a gray trout and good number of smallish speckled trout. No gators today but good action on a windy morning.

Had some topwater action this morning. Held on to 3 trout up to 24 inches long.

Went after trout for a bit this morning with Stan Simmerman.We did not do anything with the trout…a few topwater blowups, a couple of hook ups that we did not land. A school of puppy drum livened things up.

I went out to catch my morning sheep. I caught a morning tautog.

Ran out to the reef for the sunrise. Caught a big sheep. Back home in time to feed the dogs their breakfast.

I went speckled trout fishing with Stan Simmerman this morning. It soon became apparent that I was just there to net fish for Stan. He caught trout up to 24.5 inches long. I did have a huge trout on for a while that turned out to be red drum. I didn’t catch that fish either as the hooks straightened after a long fight. To give Stan credit, he did stay out there until I was finally able to catch a few. It was rather embarrassing for most of the morning. The final was 10 caught trout plus some other trout and drum encounters that were not as successful.