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.
Yesterday afternoon I tried for speckled trout. I did not catch any. Stan Simmerman also fished for speckled trout. He caught fish. This morning, I fished with Stan. We tagged and released a number of fish in the 17-to-19-inch range. I pulled the hook on two larger fish right before Stan could net them. Stan caught our one puppy drum that was also tagged and released. We caught some smaller trout that were just released without tags.
The past couple of mornings have been windy but we found some fish in protected waters.
Pretty sunrise and multiple topwater explosions. Caught trout to 25 inches long and you should have seen the one that got away. Left them biting to go to work. Stan Simmerman is out there, different location (he is retired). He just caught a 26-inch trout that weighed 7 pounds on his boat scale.
Fished the skinny water early today. Caught speckled trout, gray trout, and puppy drum. When the sun got up, tried Back River Reef for a sheep. Caught oystertoads Had something bigger than a sheep on. My guess was that it was a big red which it probably was. Next drop, I brought up another toad and it was followed to the surface by a bull red.
