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Hit the bay bridge this morning. Forecast called for upper 70's air temps, water temps into the 80's, and west winds 5-10 knots. Managed to put a weird little mixed bag together to hold off the skunk.
Left home at quarter after 5 and headed east into an absolutely gorgeous sight: little sliver of a moon rising into the clear starlit sky, with the pinks and purples of dawn just creeping into the horizon as the sun came up right behind the moon. No pics unfortunately but it was stellar.
Got on the water a little after 6 and took off for the rock piles. Worked both rock piles for a while and hooked a couple of rocks (the mineral kind, not the scaled ones). I was about to give in to the skunk and move off when my rod bowed over and I pulled in a monster of an oyster cracker. After that both the wind and tide picked up and I decided to head back inland a bit. I jigged around the western pilings with a blue and silver kastmaster tipped with fishbite. Caught white perch, spot (they were after the fishbites), and another oyster cracker. Highlight of the trip was catching a flounder under one of the pilings. At 10" long, he is the second flounder I have caught within sight of the bridge this year.
Overall a fun morning trip, if not particularly productive. I didn't catch any stripers, and none of the gluttonous micro-croakers that have been so thick of late.
Tight lines everybody, John
Left home at quarter after 5 and headed east into an absolutely gorgeous sight: little sliver of a moon rising into the clear starlit sky, with the pinks and purples of dawn just creeping into the horizon as the sun came up right behind the moon. No pics unfortunately but it was stellar.
Got on the water a little after 6 and took off for the rock piles. Worked both rock piles for a while and hooked a couple of rocks (the mineral kind, not the scaled ones). I was about to give in to the skunk and move off when my rod bowed over and I pulled in a monster of an oyster cracker. After that both the wind and tide picked up and I decided to head back inland a bit. I jigged around the western pilings with a blue and silver kastmaster tipped with fishbite. Caught white perch, spot (they were after the fishbites), and another oyster cracker. Highlight of the trip was catching a flounder under one of the pilings. At 10" long, he is the second flounder I have caught within sight of the bridge this year.
Overall a fun morning trip, if not particularly productive. I didn't catch any stripers, and none of the gluttonous micro-croakers that have been so thick of late.
Tight lines everybody, John
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