1eyefishing
...just joking, seriously.
Trying to grow a stack of trout filets...
Slumming it in fish camp and fishing for a few days.
Yesterday wore me out with a long day for one boxer. Called every kind of trash fish plus short flounder and short sheep's head, short trout, and a short red. Lost a couple good fish and got flat broke off by big fish. Caught a couple black drum but I don't keep 'em...
Tough day by myself with one fish in the Box...
This morning I told myself I wouldn't wear myself out today because I have some people that want to fish with me tomorrow. I thought I would drift the flats instead of spending the day swaping spots around oyster bars. But the flats were unproductive for trout and the water was murky and I could only catch ladyfish. While running to get out of the wind I saw that a couple of my favorite Creek mouth oyster bars were well protected and empty of boats.
Pulled into a slot between 2 bars that was pumping current. The black drum were feeding. Caught several over 20"...
Couldn't find a red fish so I moved on to a different Creek mouth and different oyster bar.
Found the trout active and caught a 23 and a 1/2 inch right off the bat. I normally let the big sounds like that go, but not the 2nd keeper in two day's fishing! My boat rule is ALL over 24" go back and and under that we might keep a big one if the fishing is tough. Only allowed one trout over 19" per day per boat.
Wouldn't you know it, within an hour of icing the big fish, I picked up 2 more around 22" that I couldn't keep.
Just noticed that 1 on the ruler has a 1/2 inch of tail past the 0 mark and his jaw is over 22"...
Rounded out the afternoon with my 4 other keepers between 15" and 19". Forgot the fishbox picture before I cleaned them...
Hopefully I've still got more than a week to fish and build fish stacks!
Slumming it in fish camp and fishing for a few days.
Yesterday wore me out with a long day for one boxer. Called every kind of trash fish plus short flounder and short sheep's head, short trout, and a short red. Lost a couple good fish and got flat broke off by big fish. Caught a couple black drum but I don't keep 'em...
Tough day by myself with one fish in the Box...
This morning I told myself I wouldn't wear myself out today because I have some people that want to fish with me tomorrow. I thought I would drift the flats instead of spending the day swaping spots around oyster bars. But the flats were unproductive for trout and the water was murky and I could only catch ladyfish. While running to get out of the wind I saw that a couple of my favorite Creek mouth oyster bars were well protected and empty of boats.
Pulled into a slot between 2 bars that was pumping current. The black drum were feeding. Caught several over 20"...
Couldn't find a red fish so I moved on to a different Creek mouth and different oyster bar.
Found the trout active and caught a 23 and a 1/2 inch right off the bat. I normally let the big sounds like that go, but not the 2nd keeper in two day's fishing! My boat rule is ALL over 24" go back and and under that we might keep a big one if the fishing is tough. Only allowed one trout over 19" per day per boat.
Wouldn't you know it, within an hour of icing the big fish, I picked up 2 more around 22" that I couldn't keep.
Just noticed that 1 on the ruler has a 1/2 inch of tail past the 0 mark and his jaw is over 22"...
Rounded out the afternoon with my 4 other keepers between 15" and 19". Forgot the fishbox picture before I cleaned them...
Hopefully I've still got more than a week to fish and build fish stacks!
