Healthy Grin Sport Fishing

Today, I went trout fishing with Stan Simmerman. We were going to fish where he had caught multiple 20-plus inch fish the day before, including 3 citation-sized fish. We got there early. I caught a needlefish on topwater. It bit me. That was it. Other than the blood dripping from my pinky, there was nothing going on. I’m thinking that Stan is being sneaky. This was not where they caught all of those big trout… Then it turned rather epic. We caught “only” one citation-sized speck and one other over 20 inches but we were on a nice class of fish. We ended up catching 23 speckled trout with the average fish being between 18 and 19.5 inch long. We also caught a couple of gray trout, a puffer fish…and that needlefish.

I ran back out for the sunset bite. I caught 3 specks between 18 and 21 inches long, missed some bites, and pulled off a couple. One was larger than this morning’s fish. The hook pulled as I was trying to net the fish. My net man was off eating dinner or something.

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.