Record Breaking VA Striper

73 lb Record Striper. Dang.

Mullet Toss

Throw a 1 lb mullet from Alabama across the state line to Florida?
Alabama/Florida Interstate Mullet Toss.
Enough said.

GWNF and Early Backpacking Trout Trip Announcement

It was thirty six degrees with a bitter wind when I got home and hour ago, now its thirty one. I bet this sweet looking trout hole is pretty damn frozen up in GWNF.
I'm planning on going back to WV somewhere around March 15-21 (hopefully). Anyone want to go? The bears won't be out of their dens for at least another 2-3 weeks if thats your concern.
It will be cold, the weather could crush the trip as it is a week and half earlier this year, so its a bit more iffy but the license info should be about the same (Wait until the last minute to buy the license in case the weather puts the trip out of the question). Look at last years planning to get more info - this trip will be more laid back in terms of planning - I don't know if I will put lure kits together, but I can just get a bunch of the lures that work and you can buy the individuals off me until Mike and Sean lose them all. There should be even less people out fishing and camping, or we can hike up and camp on one of the tributaries.
Be a man this spring, whose in?

An eerie calm...

Everything has been strangely quiet with the Monkey bubbas it seems. The end of rock season ended without much fanfare or action. My last night was at the last possible moment New Years Eve - Casting a bucktail furiously from the bridge at the Jamestown/Scotland ferry as said ferry approached. Dozens of good (18-36") stripers sat in the current, noses to the shadow line. No luck.
I did manage a day of trout fishing in George Washington National Forest in between Christmas and New Years, I landed four small rainbows. Sunday before last I wondered up there again, intending on fishing a pond that ended up being frozen over, and ended up back on the same creek, a bit icy at the edges, but good fishing. I landed four more and learned a new way to fish a micro jig.
I ordered one of the Virginia Wildlife Calendars for 10 bucks, and got it in 5 days - its loaded with info about fish runs and wildlife habits based on the calendar, as well as fishing times, moon phases and a tide chart. A good investment in our environment.