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Instead of taking our wives shopping on black friday, mytmouse and I decided to shop for tog at Kiptopeke. It was quite a day to remember. Not so much due to great fishing either.
I hit the road from Maryland at 5:30am, after a few hours sleep from having fun with family on Thanksgiving. My first destination was Richmond, where myt was spending the holiday. I got there early, and we loaded up the kayaks. This was my first time using our yakima stacker for multiple yaks. It worked like a charm. Myself, myt, & foursteps chipped in the purchase this since we fish together all the time. We will save on gas & tolls in a few trips to pay for its cost.
We cruised east until I heard a weird noise from the front of my car. Seeing as though my car is going on 23 years old & 200K miles, weird noises are not uncommon lol. Unfortunately, THIS happened on I-64 east...
Tire blew on the inner sidewall. It was a relatively minor setback. Changed the tire using the spare, and about 15 minutes later, we were back on our mission. Would've been quicker had we not had to empty the trunk. We stopped at Ocean's East and picked up green crab for tog, and eels for striper. We also had blue crab as well.
The weather at kiptopeke was perfect. Calm wind....calm seas. We fished HARD for hours without much to show for it. We fished every hole on every ship...beach side & bay side...north and south. If the fish were there, they had lock jaw. No bait stealers...hardly ANY hits. Blue crab...green crab...same results.
Later on in the trip I managed to get snagged. I worked for a few minutes to free the snag, moving myself all around that point to free it. After it broke free, I finally felt a THUNK on my line. "THATS A FISH!" It felt good to get a little bit of pullage after so much non-action. It was a 14" tog. My first tog ever.
That's the only pic I have...my battery died :-/
As the sun began to set, we switched over to striper fishing. Not much to report here. We fished our eels at the junctions of each ship. No takers. The conservation police rolled up on us to make sure we were safe and alright...blinding us with the spotlights on their boats. But yeah...no love from the rockfish.
On the drive back, THIS happened...
Yeah..."F*CK" was my first reaction. I kinda forgot about the whole tire-blowing incident earlier. After fishing, we were focused on getting Wawa hoagies in our system, and getting back home. The donut was o match for the pot-hole ridden highways of the Norfolk area. This blew in the dark on 64 West.
We got towed to a shopping center outside of Williamsburg. We waited there until James' wife rescued us. Luckily, we found beer at a local grocery store to keep us occupied
I spent the night in Richmond with myt & family. The next morning I got a replacement tire put on the rim. We drove back down, I swapped it out and made my long drive back home. It was definitely a trip to remember!
I'll be headed back down that way soon for fish with Mark Lozier
I hit the road from Maryland at 5:30am, after a few hours sleep from having fun with family on Thanksgiving. My first destination was Richmond, where myt was spending the holiday. I got there early, and we loaded up the kayaks. This was my first time using our yakima stacker for multiple yaks. It worked like a charm. Myself, myt, & foursteps chipped in the purchase this since we fish together all the time. We will save on gas & tolls in a few trips to pay for its cost.
We cruised east until I heard a weird noise from the front of my car. Seeing as though my car is going on 23 years old & 200K miles, weird noises are not uncommon lol. Unfortunately, THIS happened on I-64 east...
Tire blew on the inner sidewall. It was a relatively minor setback. Changed the tire using the spare, and about 15 minutes later, we were back on our mission. Would've been quicker had we not had to empty the trunk. We stopped at Ocean's East and picked up green crab for tog, and eels for striper. We also had blue crab as well.
The weather at kiptopeke was perfect. Calm wind....calm seas. We fished HARD for hours without much to show for it. We fished every hole on every ship...beach side & bay side...north and south. If the fish were there, they had lock jaw. No bait stealers...hardly ANY hits. Blue crab...green crab...same results.
Later on in the trip I managed to get snagged. I worked for a few minutes to free the snag, moving myself all around that point to free it. After it broke free, I finally felt a THUNK on my line. "THATS A FISH!" It felt good to get a little bit of pullage after so much non-action. It was a 14" tog. My first tog ever.
That's the only pic I have...my battery died :-/
As the sun began to set, we switched over to striper fishing. Not much to report here. We fished our eels at the junctions of each ship. No takers. The conservation police rolled up on us to make sure we were safe and alright...blinding us with the spotlights on their boats. But yeah...no love from the rockfish.
On the drive back, THIS happened...
Yeah..."F*CK" was my first reaction. I kinda forgot about the whole tire-blowing incident earlier. After fishing, we were focused on getting Wawa hoagies in our system, and getting back home. The donut was o match for the pot-hole ridden highways of the Norfolk area. This blew in the dark on 64 West.
We got towed to a shopping center outside of Williamsburg. We waited there until James' wife rescued us. Luckily, we found beer at a local grocery store to keep us occupied
I spent the night in Richmond with myt & family. The next morning I got a replacement tire put on the rim. We drove back down, I swapped it out and made my long drive back home. It was definitely a trip to remember!
I'll be headed back down that way soon for fish with Mark Lozier
I am just glad that we broke down where we did, about 1.5 hrs from my wife. It could have been wayyyyyy worse! But Sam Adam's makes everything better! LOL When MetroMan showed me that pic of his first Tog I was dying! Its just a sign of how our day was going. BUT I did mention to capture the ordeal on my Contour. Of course it wasn't my intention so the angle is focused on me, but you can still see it! Just pay attention to him, and view it in HD, it looks much better! 
. Nice catch to both of you.
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