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Decide to fish St Jerome’s today since I’d have a falling tide from 5 until 9 giving me shots at topwater stripers, trout, and a hunt for flounder. Drove through the tail end of last nights storms but they stopped at the ramp and it was ideal cloudy skies. After I launched I tried trolling a paddle tail on my way to the inlet. Gave up after going 50 yards and having to reel in 3 times with giant wads of grass on the lure. Made good progress with a tail wind and current. I’m about 100 yards from our topwater spot when a guy in a Carolina Skiff cuts across a sandbar and goes between me and the shore to squat on the spot first, man I love weekends. They weren’t there early so after motoring around for about 10 minutes he blasted off, but not before ruining that spot for awhile.
Around 20 minutes later I finally saw some activity, threw towards it and had a couple high teen stripers before they scattered. Couldn’t find any more so decided to try for trout, put on 3” chartreuse Gulp and trolled away from the inlet trying to avoid the giant grass mats flowing out. Very quickly an 11” perch ate the Gulp. About 100 yards later I saw a ripple, cast to it and had a 21” rockfish. Headed back to the inlet where I stopped and started fan casting and hooked up with this fatty. She was released to go lay those eggs,
Soon after, and last thing I hooked was a CNR. Ugh. Headed towards the flounder grounds when current slowed. Spent 45 minutes beating the bushes and fighting the grass but no bites or teeth marks on the Gulp. They’ll be here soon, they’re on the Eastern shore .
Shaping up to be a great speck year. Now hopefully that grass gets done releasing and we can get clean water again.
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Around 20 minutes later I finally saw some activity, threw towards it and had a couple high teen stripers before they scattered. Couldn’t find any more so decided to try for trout, put on 3” chartreuse Gulp and trolled away from the inlet trying to avoid the giant grass mats flowing out. Very quickly an 11” perch ate the Gulp. About 100 yards later I saw a ripple, cast to it and had a 21” rockfish. Headed back to the inlet where I stopped and started fan casting and hooked up with this fatty. She was released to go lay those eggs,
Soon after, and last thing I hooked was a CNR. Ugh. Headed towards the flounder grounds when current slowed. Spent 45 minutes beating the bushes and fighting the grass but no bites or teeth marks on the Gulp. They’ll be here soon, they’re on the Eastern shore .
Shaping up to be a great speck year. Now hopefully that grass gets done releasing and we can get clean water again.
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