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I went fishing yesterday afternoon and did well. I started out in the South River at about 2:30 - 3:00, which turned out to be somewhat slow. I only caught a few bluefish and a couple undersized rockfish. The weather was great, with light wind. I decided to go to the lighthouse. That decision really was the right one for the day. Just after getting out beyond the shoal, I started marking fish directly on the bottom. I tied on a 6oz bucktail with a paddle tail and a swim shad as a tandem rig. I no more than put it out, than I caught a fish. I kept going back and forth across that same area, and each time I would catch fish on the tandem rig or on the other rod, which had a crankbait on it. This went on for an hour or so. Then the fish started breaking in about the same area. Up to that time I had the fish all to myself. With gulls starting to work, some boats started to show up. A few times I had two fish on the tandem rig and one on the crankbait. It was a little crazy. I then took the tandem rig off, and replaced it with another crank. I saw Matt (CBkayak02), who came out about this time. The breaking fish went on for a couple of hours. I just kept on trolling around, even when one group would to down, and I was moving to another group. At times there was probably a couple square miles with groups of breaking fish. On a few occasions I would be putting out a bait and have a fish grab the bait as it was going out. I had one rod, with a bait hanging over the side of the kayak, just after taking a fish off. While putting out the other rod, a fish hit the bait hanging just in the water at the side of the kayak. I put first rod in the rod holder, to grab the rod at the side of the kayak, and the rod in the rod holder got a fish. This was incredibly fun. It was catching and not fishing. Sometimes things just go right. All in all for the day, I probably caught 50 - 60 fish. Most were undersized, with a few keepers mixed in. I caught four keeper size fish, 23", 22", and two right about 19". I am sure there were some others at just about 18", but I stopped measuring. Most were 16" - 17". There were also some very small dinks. All were released to fight another day.
The sun was starting to set, so I had to start back to the launch, with fish still breaking. Even when heading back I was steadily catching fish. It was not until I got to the south side of the shoal that the fish started to stop. Luckily I had lights with me. It was a long run yesterday. With fishing and trolling, I used up just about three batteries for the Torqeedo. I posted of few photos. I have some GoPro footage to edit. I will post that when done.
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The sun was starting to set, so I had to start back to the launch, with fish still breaking. Even when heading back I was steadily catching fish. It was not until I got to the south side of the shoal that the fish started to stop. Luckily I had lights with me. It was a long run yesterday. With fishing and trolling, I used up just about three batteries for the Torqeedo. I posted of few photos. I have some GoPro footage to edit. I will post that when done.
feeding.jpgrockfish.jpgMatt.jpgLighthouse.jpgsunset.jpg
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