Rochelle and I went to the outer banks with my brothers family and my Mom. We had a greta time, but I will leave most of them out of the pictures. I fished early mornings 5 of the six days, the first one, spent fishing cut bait, was uneventful, but beautiful.
The next morning I went light, taking off an hour before first light, looking for surface action, I walked 4-5 miles total and soaked up scenes at least as beautiful as this for hours, I cast for a while around a pier, but got nothing, so I hiked back. Later that day I caught two little bluefish off the beach flipping a kastmaster while taking a break from soaking up sun with Rochelle on the beach.
The next morning I was at Avalon Pier an hour before sunrise, and after a little fumbling I learned to work a gotcha lure from the pier - 10 13-16 inch bluefish and I was back by 10 am. Great morning, but the word on the pier was that the day before they were pulling in 18+ inch blues and Spanish mackerel 15-22 inches. A day late and a dollar short, but a hell of a fun morning.
My bro Dan was convinced and we went back to the pier the next morning on my birthday, the fishing was slower, but we had fun, Dan caught his first bluefish, along with 3 or so more, but the fish were small. I caught two under 10 inches, then landed a feisty 14 incher.
I headed back to Gloucester the next weekend to meet up with the guys and get fitted for the tuxes. Greg ended up being the only one that was able to do it. But Friday night I hung out with my parents and my brother's huge low-slung deck he just built. Dan also bought a trampoline "for his kids". We had to practice our front flips. I landed this one perfectly.
Dan looks scared. but actually almost landed it.
Drifting the CBBT with Greg after trying to catch spadefish (I caught a little one) and then losing the wreck anchor when we were trying to pull up. We caught about ten flounder here, but all were 16-18.25 and we were running out of minnows - Greg had yet to catch a keeper (even thought he's cought at least 50 or more flounder this year).
Ha ha - I landed the first fish over 18.5 - this was almost 19, ON MY LAST MINNOW.
That night after hitting the crab deck we hit our favorite docks for some catch and release rockfishing - there were just a few, but the were hitting the surface hard spradically - we caught 8-10 in 2 hours, but all were over 18 (and returned to the water). Each of us caught a 20 incher like this one greg has - violent hits!
Sunday afternoon we fished the York river in front of Greg's and caught a 6 or seven flounder and a pile of croakers, and the Captain finally caught this keeper flounder -his first of the year. On another note, I picked up a 3.3 hp mercury to put on my flatbottom at my parents - I plan on catching some puppydrum this summer - more to come later when I get some days off - fish on.
