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For Mytmouse's 30th bday celebration, we took a kayak fishing road trip. The plan was to head down to the Outer Banks, NC, and work our way back north...kayak fishing over the course of a couple of days. With the weather (wind) forecast), we opted to stay in the Virginia Beach area. We hit the road around 11:45 sunday night, and fished the CBBT the next morning.
The plan was to fish for spades and sheepshead. We fished with clam, and fiddlers. We worked a ton of plyons from the shore, all the way to the first island. From the launch, 1st island doesn't look THAT far. But once we started heading out, and fishing along the way, we began to realize what a journey it is. Luckily we had light current, no chop, and calm winds. Could not have asked for better conditions for this location.
To make a long story short, we didn't catch the targeted species. We saw one sheepie caught by a boat, but not much else for that species. I caught a bunch of nice croaker, 13"+ (10 came home with me). I caught my NEW PERSONAL BEST fish from the kayak, a 27" black drum. This came as a surprise, as I did not even have this species on my radar.
We fished every day of the week in the Va Beach area. It was a blast! We had a nice "base camp" set up in norfolk, at the house of a friend of Mytmouse. It was good having a home to retire to whic allowed us to relax, shower, do laundry, fillet fish, etc. We ended the expedition with a boat trip on the lower eastern shore of VA. Our trip was too long to bore you with great detail of every day, but the list of species caught between us were:
-Black drum
-Striper
-Croaker
-spot
-flounder
-speckled trout
-red/puppy drum
-grey trout (weakfish)
-kingfish/whiting/mullet
What a trip!
The plan was to fish for spades and sheepshead. We fished with clam, and fiddlers. We worked a ton of plyons from the shore, all the way to the first island. From the launch, 1st island doesn't look THAT far. But once we started heading out, and fishing along the way, we began to realize what a journey it is. Luckily we had light current, no chop, and calm winds. Could not have asked for better conditions for this location.
To make a long story short, we didn't catch the targeted species. We saw one sheepie caught by a boat, but not much else for that species. I caught a bunch of nice croaker, 13"+ (10 came home with me). I caught my NEW PERSONAL BEST fish from the kayak, a 27" black drum. This came as a surprise, as I did not even have this species on my radar.
We fished every day of the week in the Va Beach area. It was a blast! We had a nice "base camp" set up in norfolk, at the house of a friend of Mytmouse. It was good having a home to retire to whic allowed us to relax, shower, do laundry, fillet fish, etc. We ended the expedition with a boat trip on the lower eastern shore of VA. Our trip was too long to bore you with great detail of every day, but the list of species caught between us were:
-Black drum
-Striper
-Croaker
-spot
-flounder
-speckled trout
-red/puppy drum
-grey trout (weakfish)
-kingfish/whiting/mullet
What a trip!
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