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I had a great time. I was not even going to fish this weekend due to family obligations, but Sunday opened up later in the week. I was going to try a location that Medicyaker and I tried before with good luck a few weeks ago, but when I got the call from Mustafa, I decided to jump in with the group. It was a great day fishing. I started off catching a 23.5 inch speckle trout...darn, just 1/2 inch short of a citation. Keeper rockfish seemed to elude me in the morning hours. Low tide was around 10:30am and high tide was expected to be around 5pm. I noticed that the water temperature was 60 degrees in the morning, but climbed to 64.8 at a max in the early afternoon. It was the early afternoon when I finally encountered multiple keeper rocks in the range of 18 to 20 inches. I could not keep the rocks or the smaller speckle trout off of my line. I even caught a 16 inch blue trolling. I let most of my fish go except for the 23 inch spec, 2 bluefish, and 2 rockfish up to 20 inches after measuring the fish when I got home. I also noticed that inside the belly of the rockfish, I found 3 blue crabs and two baby needle fish or something similar. Pretty interesting. The trout was cooked fresh when I got home. It was baked in foil. It was sprinkled inside and out with garlic powder, black pepper and a little bit of sea salt, stuffed with onions, scallion, thyme, okra, and two thin sliced of lemon.
The spec eluded me until we were in sight of the landing...pretty happy I finally got one at the end of the day. Especially after hearing everyone else catching them....and you getting them one after another.
Weird; we weren't that far apart, using pretty much the same thing, speed, direction...yet I spent the day catching almost all rock and you spent the day catching a mostly of spec.
John Veil
Annapolis
Native Watercraft Manta Ray 11, Falcon 11
Author - "Fishing in the Comfort Zone" , "Fishing Road Trip - 2019", "My Fishing Life: Two Years to Remember", and "The Way I Like to Fish -- A Kayak Angler's Guide to Shallow Water, Light Tackle Fishing"
Took the rod that reel seat failed on Sunday to BPS and they exchanged it for a new one. Make sure you put everything on your rewards card. They asked if I had the receipt, which I don't, but they looked it up on via my rewards card and viola; printed out the receipt.
Took the rod that reel seat failed on Sunday to BPS and they exchanged it for a new one. Make sure you put everything on your rewards card. They asked if I had the receipt, which I don't, but they looked it up on via my rewards card and viola; printed out the receipt.
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