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  • CBBT & Kipto 20-21 Oct

    Sat, CBBT

    Southbound HRBT was blocked so I had to take the 664 detour. It delayed me for the waiting fish, but I was on the water before 9 am. HokieDJ joined me later. Turned out to be a nice day.

    Worked the pilings with fiddlers and blue crab as I headed toward the first island. I did get one exciting hook-up. It was big and spooled the reel a bit. Fought it for maybe one to two minutes. It spit out the hook - bait and all. Dang! Maybe it was a big red.


    My catch:
    - many toads
    - too many sea bass
    - 8 puppy drum (only 1 keeper at 18.5", my first ever keeper redfish!)
    - 1 sheepie (17")
    - 2 togs (1 keeper at 20.5")

    About 5 pm, the afternoon was really nice. I wanted to fish more, but was out of bait and was tired anyway. A good day at CBBT.
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    Last edited by tufnik; 10-22-2012, 08:37 AM.
    2015 Hobie Outback (yellow)
    2011 Hobie Outback (yellow)
    2009 OK Prowler Trident 13 Angler (orange)

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    Sun, Kipto

    As I stood on the sand at CBBT looking out at the water at 6 am, I was sorely disappointed. Wind was high and the surf was rough. I called HokieDJ and we decided to go to Kipto.

    I was on the water before 8 am.

    Worked the north wrecks with fiddlers and blue crab. Nada....only sea bass and toads. So I went to the south wrecks. Met HokieDJ there and he was already jigging for flounder. In fact, he caught two, one at 22". Wow, I pretty much given up on them because I thought the flatties were in the deep by now. Good job, Dave. I think you're the Flattie Master.

    I did hook up with a puffer. When I brought it up to the surface, it started inflating and making funny sounds.

    Winds and chops/swells picked up a bit in the pm. It was tough to fish the wrecks. Bang, bang, bang, ..... against the wreck and it did a number on my yak. Current was funny. You turn left and the yak turned right. Wx settled out about 4 pm. I still had lots of bait, but I was tired and ready to go home.

    My catch:
    - many toads
    - way too many sea bass
    - 1 puffer
    - 6 togs (2 keepers at 16 and 17")
    Attached Files
    Last edited by tufnik; 10-22-2012, 08:40 AM.
    2015 Hobie Outback (yellow)
    2011 Hobie Outback (yellow)
    2009 OK Prowler Trident 13 Angler (orange)

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    • #3
      Nice work on at CBBT, it's nice to finally get a slot puppy after so many small ones this year... I got my first this weekend too.

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      • #4
        I think your sheep is a juvinille black drum.
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        • #5
          Oh yeah, alomst forgot....nice going, man.
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          • #6
            Originally posted by RavensDfense View Post
            I think your sheep is a juvinille black drum.
            That is true... I didn't even look at that picture when I read it before

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            • #7
              Originally posted by RavensDfense View Post
              I think your sheep is a juvinille black drum.
              I think you're right. I checked the regs just now, and it turns out to be legal (min is 16"). Phew, for a minute I thought I took home a no-no.
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              2011 Hobie Outback (yellow)
              2009 OK Prowler Trident 13 Angler (orange)

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              • #8
                Nice! Congrats on the keeper puppy.

                I think I may have seen you below the bridge Saturday. I was going over, honked and you signaled back...

                Nice tog!
                Mike S.
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                • #9
                  To add to the report:

                  Saturday:

                  Worked the CBBT all the way to the 1st Island for the time. Caught 14.5 sea bass (too bad I'm a week late for the season) and tons of baby sea bass, toads and under sized reds. On the way back, Tufnik radios that he's found a honey hole where he got a keeper tog and red. When I got there, I managed to get a keeper 16.5 tog before sunset. My day was saved.

                  Sunday:

                  Worked the ships and got a couple of undersized togs and sea bass. Once the outgoing current started moving at a nice clip, I decided to try some floundering. Hooked up a small baby flounder and I knew I had a shot. On the next set of drifts I hooked on something and felt the head shakes and drag pulls. I knew it was either flounder or keeper puppy drum. After a few minutes fighting the drag pulls, I saw that it was a nice sized flounder. I was nervous about landing it because I didn't have a net but I managed to see that I had a nice hookset on him so I leg kicked him in and it measured to be my personal best at 22.5. That should of been my TKAA flounder . Another set of drifts and I got another baby and something keeper size that came off the hook on the way up. I decided to switch in a new set of fresh gulp but this time put on the big boy size mullet (bigger bait = bigger fish?) on the teaser because all the flounders were caught on it. On the drift, another hook set and in came a 18.5 flounder. The current died and so did the bite. I switched back to togging but the 20 mph winds were killing me and I was wet and tired by then so I packed it up at 1pm and went home.

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                  • #10
                    Nice going man, that's a BIG flounder!
                    Mike S.
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                    Chesapeake Bay Kayak Anglers
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                    • #11
                      There were a couple of honking vehicles during that day, Chexone. One of them was an 18-wheeler. I really didn't know who they were, but I just wave back.

                      Did your past flattie bites happen on the higher lure too, Dave? I'm thinking of changing my double lure rig. Right now my lures are about a foot and a half apart. I noticed your lures are about six inches apart. Maybe that's the ticket. Also, would you say flatties prefer the curly tails over the bucktails?
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                      • #12
                        WTG Tufnik!!! Man I need free time like you!!! LOL. The kids don't mind so much... The wife... Whole different ballgame!

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                        • #13
                          All the flounders that day took the teaser and not the bucktail. However it's usually the bucktail that gets most of the hits. Course I have only tried this at the CBBT and Kipto.

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