Fishbreath
09-24-2007, 03:16 PM
Well, Littlefish and I took a Saturday to get out on the Bay fishing with Lipyourown. In the a.m. there was a little wind by my house so taking no chances, I gave Littlefish a bit of Dramamine so we could weather any water. My bad! That knocked him out for a little while until the fish started hitting. Don't know what I was thinking as he's got very good sea legs....better than me. He is a very good person on a boat. We all got a late start but the weather was gorgeous to start out the day and we met up with Lippy around 11:00 a.m. down at Buzz's. First things first, I stopped and picked up some chicken, chatted with the chicken ladies :) and then went on to the boat.
The game plan was set for the day, do some light action trolling, then later do some casting, and even later in the day try and spot up some breaking fish. As we headed out Matt and I rigged up the rods. Once the lures were in the water it was game on! The rod bent over and line peeled off the reel with the drag screaming. Littlefish was first up and he landed a nice plump little blue. Little did we know, that was to be the smallest fish of the day at around 3 lbs. After that as we made our way across the Bay we started to pick up bigger blues, in the 8 lb. average range....nice feesh, fat like footballs. Matt even managed to pick up (as he called it - a pickeral) a lizard fish.
At one point it was mayhem. First one rod went down so Matt grabbed it, then another went down, that went to Littlefish, then a third line went down so I grabbed that rod. We got two of the three in as it was crazy! Nice fat 6 -8 lb. bluefish, each one of them tailwalking and generally pissed off. Once we set the lines out again, we picked up more blues but by that time we had enough in the cooler so it was all C&R. What fun!!!! Littlefish was having a blast and so were Matt and I. The final run through, we had two more blues on and they got us good, tangled up our lines to the point that we decided it was time to do some casting of artificials to see what we could tease up.
We hit the target ship and started casting plastics. Just like we were bass fishing on the Potomac! Lippy put us on a perfect drift, right behind another boat and BOOM, fish on!! My rod light action casting rod was bent over and when the fish came up near the surface I first thought I had a puppy drum on because of the spots but then realized it was a nice sized speckled trout...about 3 - 4 lbs worth. :eek: Nice fish!! I shouted for the net but Matt was already there with it and that was all she wrote. Trout in the boat!! After a couple more passes, we brought up some fat little sea bass (too small to keep) but they were fun. Matt decided to head back and search for some breaking fish to finish off the three-play but it just wasn't to be that day. Seems the motor had other ideas so we just pointed the boat back toward the marina and limped in. All in all, a fabulous day on the Bay, we caught a nice variety of fish and had a beautiful day weather wise. Brought home several pounds of some nice filets.
Fishing with friends - a blast... :)
Fishing with your son and seeing his face grimace as he tussles with a nice bluefish - PRICELESS!!! :D:D:D
Thanks Matt!!! We enjoyed it and hope to do it again soon. Pictures should be forthcoming in the next day or two.
The game plan was set for the day, do some light action trolling, then later do some casting, and even later in the day try and spot up some breaking fish. As we headed out Matt and I rigged up the rods. Once the lures were in the water it was game on! The rod bent over and line peeled off the reel with the drag screaming. Littlefish was first up and he landed a nice plump little blue. Little did we know, that was to be the smallest fish of the day at around 3 lbs. After that as we made our way across the Bay we started to pick up bigger blues, in the 8 lb. average range....nice feesh, fat like footballs. Matt even managed to pick up (as he called it - a pickeral) a lizard fish.
At one point it was mayhem. First one rod went down so Matt grabbed it, then another went down, that went to Littlefish, then a third line went down so I grabbed that rod. We got two of the three in as it was crazy! Nice fat 6 -8 lb. bluefish, each one of them tailwalking and generally pissed off. Once we set the lines out again, we picked up more blues but by that time we had enough in the cooler so it was all C&R. What fun!!!! Littlefish was having a blast and so were Matt and I. The final run through, we had two more blues on and they got us good, tangled up our lines to the point that we decided it was time to do some casting of artificials to see what we could tease up.
We hit the target ship and started casting plastics. Just like we were bass fishing on the Potomac! Lippy put us on a perfect drift, right behind another boat and BOOM, fish on!! My rod light action casting rod was bent over and when the fish came up near the surface I first thought I had a puppy drum on because of the spots but then realized it was a nice sized speckled trout...about 3 - 4 lbs worth. :eek: Nice fish!! I shouted for the net but Matt was already there with it and that was all she wrote. Trout in the boat!! After a couple more passes, we brought up some fat little sea bass (too small to keep) but they were fun. Matt decided to head back and search for some breaking fish to finish off the three-play but it just wasn't to be that day. Seems the motor had other ideas so we just pointed the boat back toward the marina and limped in. All in all, a fabulous day on the Bay, we caught a nice variety of fish and had a beautiful day weather wise. Brought home several pounds of some nice filets.
Fishing with friends - a blast... :)
Fishing with your son and seeing his face grimace as he tussles with a nice bluefish - PRICELESS!!! :D:D:D
Thanks Matt!!! We enjoyed it and hope to do it again soon. Pictures should be forthcoming in the next day or two.