Healthy Grin Sport Fishing

An afterwork bite is not a bad thing. 2 specks, 1 pup and 4 other blowups.

Topwater bites at sunrise before work.

Ran out after sheep this morning. Stayed close to home. Caught black drum, red drum, and a sheepshead. Also caught some tautog and some really impressive oyster toads that I did not take photos of because I didn’t want my fishing buddies to make fun of me. Kept the sheepshead for dinner, released the rest.

Got up in the dark and looked outside. It was raining…back to bed…but the topwater bite is supposed to be better in the rain and it wasn’t raining that hard. Put the raingear on and walked to the boat. Pulled up an un-baited minnow pot that had one minnow in it. Took the minnow and ran to the flats. Put the minnow under a cork drifting behind the boat. It got eaten by a shark. Topwater bites were bluefish, at least the ones I held onto were. When it got lighter, I cast to some water that had some color. It was a big school of drum. My bait was knocked out of the water 4 times before finally being crushed and the fish went screaming across the flats. The thing thought it was a bonefish. These pups fight hard on light tackle. I was awake now. By the time I finally encouraged it to come to the boat, it was time to go in and get ready for work. This work thing…

It was a ribbonfish kind of day. Caught a bunch. No king bites.

Stan Simmerman took me trout fishing this morning “in his back yard”. Threw topwater baits all morning. Floating grass was a pain but that topwater bite is addicting. My first explosion was a nice puppy drum that pulled off after a good fight. That made my morning right there. The next drum, I managed to land. Stan caught a speckled trout and I caught a fat 24-inch trout that crushed the topwater. We caught some bluefish and had a number of bites we did not catch. The most fun was a big speck that hit Stan’s bait four times before getting hooked. That fish pulled off after getting down in the thick eel grass.