Late Report

[Slobber Bob]

A couple late reports from within the last two weeks.

I tried Chincoteague for sheepshead twice for a couple hours between work shifts. One day sucked. The south winds kicked up and turned the water to chocolate milk - total skunk. The next try wasn't on fire but I did catch and release a hard fighting 26" along with some toads.

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On another after work trip I decided to surf launch to search for cobia and spanish mackerel outside Chincoteague Inlet. Conditions turned out to be less than ideal for sight casting to possible cobia. A thunderstorm passed just to the west of my location and kicked up the wind and chop after it passed. I tried casting to some bunker schools hoping to just get lucky, but no dice.

I did salvage the trip with one spanish mack. I had another strike put not stay hooked very long. The frustrating part was seeing scattered spanish sky out of the water around me and I wasn't able to get them to hit anything. Snapper blues were eager to strike though no matter how fast I tried to keep my lure away from them.

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For what it's worth, almost every time I've been to the beach the last month or so between VA and OC (mostly family time so I didn't always have a rod), I've been seeing spanish jump at some point or another. They've been just out of casting range from the beach most of the time though.

[yakscientist]

A couple late reports from within the last two weeks.

I tried Chincoteague for sheepshead twice for a couple hours between work shifts. One day sucked. The south winds kicked up and turned the water to chocolate milk - total skunk. The next try wasn't on fire but I did catch and release a hard fighting 26" along with some toads.

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On another after work trip I decided to surf launch to search for cobia and spanish mackerel outside Chincoteague Inlet. Conditions turned out to be less than ideal for sight casting to possible cobia. A thunderstorm passed just to the west of my location and kicked up the wind and chop after it passed. I tried casting to some bunker schools hoping to just get lucky, but no dice.

I did salvage the trip with one spanish mack. I had another strike put not stay hooked very long. The frustrating part was seeing scattered spanish sky out of the water around me and I wasn't able to get them to hit anything. Snapper blues were eager to strike though no matter how fast I tried to keep my lure away from them.

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For what it's worth, almost every time I've been to the beach the last month or so between VA and OC (mostly family time so I didn't always have a rod), I've been seeing spanish jump at some point or another. They've been just out of casting range from the beach most of the time though.

Great report! I also had similar finicky spanish all around me in Avon NC, lots of hits (sometimes really strong hits taking lots of drag), and then spit hooks. I think I should've sped up and maybe they'd commit more, but who knows. I do know the same lures I was using on the kayak produced spanish on the boat later in the week, so that wasn't the issue. I even had a few spanish (maybe blues) stay on long enough to chew the tails off some z-man diezel minnowz, not easy.

Lets fish again soon SB, I've finally scratched my sheepshead itch and knocked them off my bucket list, but a big one would still be really nice. Or I would always be down for some spanish mackerel action (or chasing them anyway).