Crew: Tim, Andy, Duane, Rick, Patrick
Water Temp: Unsure
Tide: Max Ebb to Slack
Wind: 10 knots
Conditions: A few clouds and 1 foot seas
Fish Caught: Three Stripers (42", 35", 28") and about Ten Bluefish
Reviewing the tides for my favorite “Perfect Tide” scenario, I pin pointed last nights tide from 6-9 as the time I wanted to fish.
A few planned calls ahead of time to Andy, Duane, Rick and Pat secured the crew.We left Galesferry marina at 5:30 to a stiff 15 miles per hour wind.
At the mouth of the river the wind sat down and we flew out to the race to find only a few boats fishing this area.
You have to love this type of fishing during the week days!
I really enjoy evenings on the water. This picture does not do it justice as there was a horizontal rainbow below the cloud line.
(Click to Enlarge)Birds were working the surface with blue fish popping up here and there. It took us a few drifts to find the fish, but then it was none stop blue fish action all night. We kept five to smoke and five for shark bait.Around 8pm we switched to eels.
Giving lessons to Duane, who had never eel fished, we would have some run offs, but I believe they were still blues chomping on the eels.
Then I hear what I was waiting for, “Tim, I got something big!” from both Pat and Duane.
I could tell they were nice fish as Pats pole was bent right over.
Pat lost his fish, but Duane landed this nice 35 inch striper.
(Click to Enlarge)A few more drifts the same words were uttered from Andy, who had caught his biggest striper the week before, a 34 inch fish.
He told me that this was a “Big Fish”
Well, he wasn’t kidding, here is Andy with his biggest striper ever, a 42 inch cow!
(Click to Enlarge)Left the fishing grounds around 9:30 and came home at 20 knots maneuvering to avoid the navigational lobster pot hazards. Boat clean and in bed before midnight!
Another great trip aboard the “Fishing FINattic”!
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