I had the opportunity to fish on Friday and Monday of the long Labor Day week-end. Neither day went as planned but that’s fishing!
On Friday I went with Andrew on his 21’ Sea Hunt, we were on the hunt for some big kings. We went to the first set of box cars and jigged up some nice baits then headed for our first stop. Wasn’t much happening there so we headed to the main area we wanted to target. About a mile a way the GPS and Sonar started to act up. So we decided to “Blind” navigate to where we thought the spot would be (it’s actually a large patch reef versus a small ledge) and try trolling. After an hour of that with no luck we decided to use the compass to get us back to within sight of shore.
Then we used our knowledge of the coast line to find some ledges and fished there. We caught one medium sized Spanish before the engine alarm went off. Andrew killed the motor and we began to look for the cause. Everything we could check seemed okay so we restarted the motor with no problems. We decided not to chance staying out and headed for the inlet. Oh yeah, first thing in the morning before we left the dock I noticed that one of the lenses on my prescription sunglasses was missing. I guess that was a harbinger of things to come….......
On Monday I went fishing with my buddy Alan in the New River. I wanted a big speck, that was out goal as there had been several caught in the past week. Before we left the ramp we went to a spot nearby and cast for some live shrimp and a few mullets. It didn’t take long to fill up our baitwell. We launched the boat and headed for a spot where we know some big trout where caught earlier in the week. We fished for an hour and half in that creek with nothing but some small blue fish to show for it.
So we decided to head for the mouth of a creek where a friend of Alan had caught some gator trout on Thursday. We fished for a couple of hours in different spots with nothing but some small flounder as a result. Alan called the friend and we got an exact location on the creek and tried that. Soon after we anchored there I caught a keeper flounder. Then a red drum. Two thirds of the way to an inshore slam, now all I needed was that speck I set out to get in the first place.
It wasn’t meant to be. We caught more flounder, a skate and some more blues. Then we moved. Finally ending the day where we began with the same results. It was a beautiful day, a lot less wind than predicted. No speck but had a good time and relaxed. Alan even gave me some more flounder he had gigged earlier to go with the one I caught. What a friend! Thanks Alan.
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