Healthy Grin Sport Fishing

I fished with Wes Blow today. We started at the Bluefish Rock area. No action for a couple of hours when Keith Blackburn anchored up near us. We decided to try another spot and ran to York Spit. As we were putting out the anchor, Keith calls to tell us they had just caught one. We got more calls. They ended up catching 5 with the largest weighing 61 pounds. There were fish caught at York Spit also, just not by us.

When we got back into Wallace’s they had weighed in a number of fish in addition to Keith’s including another in the sixties and one in the seventies. The said all the larger fish were caught chumming.

Today, I received the first print of Bill Pappas’ original. He said that he wanted the first print to go to the state record holder. Pretty darn cool.

We had a good day bottom fishing yesterday. We caught sea bass, blueline tilefish, golden tilefish, hake, snowy grouper, wreckfish, blackbelly rosefish, and way too many smooth dogfish and conger eels.

2014 Flounder Bowl Flyer

The early registration for the Flounder Bowl ends June 14. At this time about half of the 120 available spots have been taken. You can pre-register for the tournament at: www.flounderbowl.com .

At this same site, you can also become a Sponsor of the Flounder Bowl. These great businesses are sponsoring the Flounder Bowl this year:

2014 Flounder Bowl Sponsors

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Dare Marina & Yacht Sales

www.daremarina.com

Multi-Print Inc

www.multiprintinc.com

Dr. K. E. Neill

www.neilldental.com

Michael Surveying & Mapping, P. C.

www.msmva.com

Just Plumbing

www.calljustplumbing.com

Pomoco Auto Group

www.pomoco.com

Thomas E Wilson Insurance Agency

(757) 283-6351

Wanchese Fish Company

www.wanchese.com

Dodd RV

www.doddrv.com

Yorktown Materials

www.yorktownmaterials.com

Harbor Mechanical

(757) 872-4166

C. A. Barrs Contractor

www.cabarrs.com

Pyramid Roofing

www.pyramidroofing.com

Bay Propeller

www.baypropeller.com

Tow Boat U.S.

www.boatus.com

Whitehouse Cove Marina

www.whitehousecovemarina.com

York River Electric, Inc.

www.yorkriverelectric.com

Water Street Grill/York River Oyster Company

www.waterstreetgrille.net

M and M Custom Painting

(757) 879-9860

Green Top Sporting Goods

www.greentophuntfish.com

Douglas Aquatics

(in memory of Eric Arnold)

www.dapoolsandspas.com

Mercury Mulch, Inc.

www.mercurymulch.com

ASI Security

www.asisecurity.net

Randy Blanchard, MD

Plastic Surgery Center of Hampton Roads

www.pschr.com

Parks Orthodontics

www.parksorthodontics.com

Teagle Insurance Agency, Inc.

www.teagleinsuranceagency.com

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Hopkins Gun and Tackle, LLC

www.hopkinshuntfish.com

Zing Zang

www.zingzang.com

Grafton Fishing Supply

www.graftonfishingsupply.com

Rudees Inlet Station Marina

www.rudeesmarina.com

Bishop Fishing Supply

(757) 591-9300

Holland Corp.

www.jhenryholland.com

Sinkerman’s Wholesale Sinkers & Lures

(757) 898-3845

Pig Out BBQ

(757) 879-9100

Hunt Smile Design

www.huntsmiledesign.com

Pop’s Drive In

(757) 898-6870

Oyster Cove Boatworks & Yacht Brokerage

www.oystercoveboatworks.com

Costa Sunglasses

www.costadelmar.com

Yorktown Pub

(757) 886-9964

Joseph C. Jones, Inc.

(804) 815-6343

Parker Piano Outlet

www.pianooutlet.net

Beachcomber Restaurant

(757) 874-9420

Amory Funeral Home

(757) 898-5722

Wayne Harbin Builder, Inc.

www.harbinbuilder.com

Riptide Electric

www.riptidecontracting.com

Coca Cola Refreshments

www.cokecce.com

Reel Fast Tackle

reelfasttackle@gmail.com

Back River Rods

www.backriverrods.com

Geary Family & Cosmetic Dentistry

(757) 898-4661

West Marine

www.westmarine.com

Mountain Breeze Taxidermy

(757) 726-2225

Sea Tow Lower Chesapeake

www.seatow.com

Pankoke Marine Construction

www.pmcmarineconstruction.com

Berkley

www.berkley-fishing.com

Seaford Scallop Company

(757) 898-8512

Oceans East Bait & Tackle

(757) 464-6544

Cycle City Corp.

(757) 595-9721

Sandman Hook & Tackle

www.sandmantackle.com

One of my intended drum baits turned into a softshell. Tricia ate it. We took the Healthy Grin to the drum grounds, really to use the windless for the first time and to see if the anchor that came with the boat was big enough. It was not. It actually held but on the tide swing, it bent like a pretzel, trip over. Before that happened, Charles did catch our first cobia of the year. A little guy that was tagged and released. Chris Boyce is holding it in the photo. It ate a clam. Charles took our hard crabs home with him to turn them into his dinner tonight.

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There have been a total of 47 tautog citations registered in Virginia this year. 24 of those were caught on the Healthy Grin.

There was a very nice bite of clear-nosed skate going on when this big black drum crashed the party. The drum was caught near buoy 10. The skate were biting everywhere. Ric Burnley was at Fisherman’s Island where they caught a nice red drum.

Charles Southall and I took his Albemarle out to try for red drum in the Eastern Shore surf after work. We had not been fishing more than 15 minutes when the first screaming bite occurred. Charles caught a really thick, 53-inch red drum. Not long after, I caught a 49-inch drum that looked rather small after the beast Charles caught. We missed two other bites before heading back in.