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Mid day quick trip

Saturday, September 05, 2009

Today was one of them days, not quite nice enough to enjoy a day of trolling in a small boat but too nice not to go ocean fishing.  So when that happens I break out my offshore flounder gear! 

I was launching at the boat ramp when I ran into a friend and invited him along. We caught a handful or two of finger mullet and headed for Rich’s inlet.  The wind was blowing from the NNE at about 15mph, so we knew it would be a little bumpy on top of those 3 footers that were rolling in.

There was a nice tide line right outside the inlet so we decide to pull some Yo-zuri deep divers for a little while.  We managed to catch 2 eating size tailor blues in a few short minutes and decided to head out to our destination a few miles offshore.

We anchored up and threw out a couple of mullet on Carolina rigs,  a light line with a cigar minnow and broke out the jigging gear too.  Very quickly I brought up an undersized flounder, then my buddy caught something….....  the first glance we got looked like a hammerhead shark but was too “peaceful” in coming to the boat.  Soon we realized it was a 4’ barracuda latched onto a 20+ inch flounder!  He had the flounder in his mouth side ways so that is why it looked like a hammerhead at first.  We measured what was left (no tail or right side of the fish) and there was over 18” so the flounder was at least 20 or 21 inches long.  Bummer.

Then the blues started hammering our baits, one more blue found its way to the box.  we were getting low on bait by now so we decided to pull anchor and head in and use our last few mullet to try for some red drum.  as soon as I threw over the anchor ball, my line gets hit.  Up comes a nice 18’ flounder.  We decided to use our last couple of baits there.  But blues got them so we headed home.  The anchor chain broke and we lost the anchor - guess it was time for a new one anyway

It was a quick trip (couple of hours) but was nice to get out for a while and also to fish with Rob - we don’t get many chances to fish together.  Now its time to get ready for our club meeting tonight and “debrief” everyone on our KMT.