7-11 WOW what a day!
Yesterday I had the day to myself and was going fishing. I was called out on the water by a friend and when I got there the water was gin clear and there were puppy drum scattered all over the place. I stood up and made one pass along an area of a flat and saw 15-20 drum! They wouldnt eat anything I threw at them though. Still very exciting. I couldnt make casts fast fast enough. I would see a pod of 3, then a pod of 5, then a single, then a double. After I made my pass the seem to have just dissapeared off that part of the flat. I went to another part and saw one and caught it, 19″. Went to another area and caught another, 21″. then I came across a school of stripers and caught 2 sightcasting! One was about 20″ and the other was a couple inches longer. That was 2 drum and 2 stripers sightcasted to! Right now there is a closed season for stripers in the sound but if it was open they would have both made great meals. Then I met up with another person and the wind picked up a little and the tide was moving hard so it was time to stop sightcasting and start fishing in some shallow water holes. I managed to catch 6 throwback flounder and 6 trout between 14-18″ and were released and the guy beside me caught 10 flounder with 4 keepers. That is a lot of excitement and a lot of fish for less than 5 hours of fishing. A couple times We even had double headers on. My final tally was 2 drum (sightcasted), 2 stripers (sightcasted), 6 trout, and 6 flounder for a DOUBLE SUPER SLAM! I wish I could have taken more photos but its hard to take pictures when you are standing in a kayak and holding a pole in one hand a paddle in another and fighting a fish at the same time.
July 18th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Great pictures! Very incredible indeed…
July 18th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Very nice job, Matt. Awesome pictures!