Healthy Grin Sport Fishing

Did some wreck fishing in the bay today. Oyster toad population is good. Caught some tautog and triggerfish, including one which had a tag.

I went out to tag cobia this morning. I caught 4, all small.

I went out to tag cobia again this morning. Got tags in four. Missed more. Pulled the hook on a nice one. Caught another double.

Ran over to the shoals Sunday afternoon. No drum but I saw a cool sky and got into an impressive eagle ray bite. This morning, I went out to tag some cobia. Caught four small cobia and missed a couple more. Had two hooked at the same time. Managed to get both of them in the landing net together.

I took Stan Simmerman out to tag some cobia this morning. We watched the sunrise, went 3 for 8 on cobia, lost a decent one, tagged 3 to 44 inches long. We were back in for lunch.

I had not planned on fishing today but when I got up, it looked too nice not to go. I ran over to the Eastern Shore and watched the sunrise. I tagged a couple red drum, pulled hooks on a couple of others, and came home for lunch.

I got an invite to fish on the Special Kate, it was going to be nice, and the dolphin bite is decent. Then, nope, it’s not going to be nice. Then, “I don’t think it will kill us, let’s go”. It was a bit nautical, and it did not kill us. First bite was not a dolphin. It turned out to be a blue marlin. We did pick up a gaffer dolphin then Hunter wanted a snowy grouper. Quick stop resulted in a couple of tiles and Hunter’s snowy. Back on the troll, we worked north where some tuna were being caught. Our next bite turned into another blue marlin. We released our second blue marlin of the day. We did get a tuna bite but pulled the hook on our one shot.

The kids are visiting for the weekend but…they were asleep and they were going to their grandparents this morning. As long as I made it back in before lunch, they wouldn’t know I’d gone. I quietly left in the dark and ran over to the eastern shore. I think I messed up my stealth mode when I started texting them photos.

The first drum was a beast. In the breakers and a strong current, that fish gave me more than I wanted. I thought about going home then but…

Three rods went off at the same time. I managed to hold onto all of them. When releasing the third, my 4th rod goes off. Got that one also. I’ll call that a triple plus one.

That was my sixth red drum release of the morning, and I really needed to run back across the bay. So, I put out two more baits…because, I had to. One of those goes off but I pulled the hook on that one. I left them biting and ran back across the bay. I managed to beat the kids home.