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  • CBBT & Lynnhaven Fri/Sat 8-9 Aug

    CBBT 8-8-14, Fri

    I met ComeOnFish and HokieDJ at the CBBT launch site. I was on the water after 0800 hrs. Nice day, mostly sunny with low winds.

    We headed toward the first island. I soaked frozen sand fleas and clams. Joe and Dave used fiddlers. Our targets were sheeps, spades, triggers and flounder. We also jigged, and I used a tandem rig with white Gulp and white bucktail.

    By late morning I had a 19” flounder, and caught it hanging a sand flea. Yep, that surprised me.

    During early afternoon, nobody had a trigger, sheep or spade. These fish just didn’t seem to be around. We all caught a lot of toads and croaker, and Dave also had flounder. Then after 1 pm, I dropped a sand flea, and within five seconds, BAM! I get a big hook up.

    I thought it was a sheepshead, but it was funny. It didn’t feel like a sheep. I caught citation sheeps before, and this beast did not feel like a sheep.

    It spooled my reel, so I tighten the drag. It had pretty good pull. In fact, I played it until I was almost 100 yards from the bridge piling from where I hooked the fish. I got it to the surface, and wow, a black drum! It was my biggest black drum ever at 26”. (Last year I caught a couple black drums around 17”)

    My catch:
    - Lots of croaker and toads
    - 1 short weakfish
    - 1 keeper flounder (19")
    - 1 keeper black drum (26”)

    More to come: Joe and Dave will be telling their stories.


    Lynnhaven 8-9-14 Sat

    Joe and Dave said to fish CBBT again, but I wanted to check out the puppies and flounder at Lynnhaven.

    In short, puppy catching sucked. I didn’t fish very long, so I caught only croakers and black sea bass. I watched many yakers and saw one guy pull up some small fish. I talked to several other yakers, and nobody caught puppies or flounder. Slow day.

    I should have gone to CBBT. On the other hand, if I went to CBBT and caught nothing, I would have said I should have gone to Lynnhaven….lol..


    CBBT pics below.
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    Lynnhaven pics
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    2011 Hobie Outback (yellow)
    2009 OK Prowler Trident 13 Angler (orange)

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    • #3
      Nice drum! Probably still good too eat that size. Thanks for the report
      Ryan
      Blue 2016 Hobie Outback
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      • #4
        I had one 17" flounder and Dave caught 3 nice flounder on Friday and came home. We didn't fish on Saturday.
        I fish hard on Friday. I didn't know how to fish for flounder near bridge columns. Now I know.

        I ran out of Gulp swimming mullet because I didn't bring enough. After Dave gave me his Plano container with full of Gulp Swimming Mullet, I caught on flounder at 17".
        Next time I will bring white bucktails and a bunch of Gulp Swimming Mullet. I will be doing what Dave did.

        I filleted the 26" black drum before Michael's wedding (Redfish12). The meat looks good. But the meat toward the tail looked very tough. I came home this morning, and I will cook it some time this week.



        joe
        Last edited by ComeOnFish; 08-10-2014, 12:15 PM.
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        • #5
          It was a good trip at the CBBT finally. The tide was perfect timing on the outgoing and I ended up getting a 16" flounder then 23" and finally a 21.5". The 23" ripped the rod off my hand. I thought it was black drum or something. When the tide finally slacked around 4pm, I decided to try for spades. Went to a spot where I thought there should be spades and after about 30 minutes of trying, I finally hooked my first spade but he was a tiny one. Time ran out for me and I had to head back in. I wish I had more time to fish the slack for sheepies and spades.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by HokieDJ View Post
            It was a good trip at the CBBT finally. The tide was perfect timing on the outgoing and I ended up getting a 16" flounder then 23" and finally a 21.5". The 23" ripped the rod off my hand. I thought it was black drum or something. When the tide finally slacked around 4pm, I decided to try for spades. Went to a spot where I thought there should be spades and after about 30 minutes of trying, I finally hooked my first spade but he was a tiny one. Time ran out for me and I had to head back in. I wish I had more time to fish the slack for sheepies and spades.

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            It was fun...gotta go again. And that 23 incher looked really good. BTW, what size hook and bait did you caught the spade on?
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            • #7
              Awesome gents! Dave, I see you finally got your flounder this season!
              -Mustafa
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              • #8
                Did you eat the spade? Ive always wondered what they taste like, along with sheepshead.
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                • #9
                  I let the spade go because he was too small. He was chunky though.

                  I used the same 2 oz bucktail setup with a 2/0 teaser hook. All the fishes came on the bucktail.

                  Joe, your video is set to private.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by HokieDJ View Post
                    I let the spade go because he was too small. He was chunky though.

                    I used the same 2 oz bucktail setup with a 2/0 teaser hook. All the fishes came on the bucktail.

                    Joe, your video is set to private.
                    All fish on the bucktail? Even the small spade? That's impressive.
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                    • #11
                      Joe, what's at 2:54? A porgy?
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by tufnik View Post
                        Joe, what's at 2:54? A porgy?
                        Pig fish. I caught many in the rock plies at HRBT and CBBT. They grunt. I think that's why they are called pig fish

                        Joe
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                        • #13
                          the 26" black drum tasted good

                          I ate the 26" black drum.
                          It was little difficult to fillet the drum because of the large and thick scale. I kept the meat between head and vent because the meat from vent to tail looked tough. So I had about 2.3-3 lb of fillet.

                          The fillet look very close to that of red drum. My wife made paella with additional ingredient, shrimp, mussel, calamari. Well, black drum was pretty good.

                          I still have a half of the fillet. I am planning to to grill it tommow

                          joe
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                          • #14
                            All flounders were on the bucktail that is. The spade was on a carolina rig with a 1/8 jighead with Joe's shrimp. I wish I could of worked on the spades a bit longer but the outgoing tide kept going and going and I just ran out of time. I have to see if I can stay longer next time and fish with you warriors.

                            That peddle back was brutal. The fish and motor drag only allow me to go 2.2 mph. I had to peddle and paddle just to get up to 3.0 but I couldn't keep that up for long.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by ComeOnFish View Post
                              Pig fish. I caught many in the rock plies at HRBT and CBBT. They grunt. I think that's why they are called pig fish

                              Joe
                              Are you sure? It doesn't quite look like this.
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