Mid Bay - Launched from Chessy Beach @ 0800. Late start, all star crew included my wife, if you can believe that, and Phils grandson, and neither of them get up " early".
Looked south after we cleared the markers, not a boat in sight on the west side, as far as the Radar Towers. Saw boats on the western side of the main channel. Headed out there to find charters live lining. Tooled around for a few minutes, found some decent marks right next to Capt Buddy. We figured since we had women and children on board, he wouldn't deploy missiles. Only one thing better than catching a keeper on the first cast, pulling it up in front of Buddies clients.
And that was it.. for a long time.... Zig zagged from there to Radar Towers, back to False Channel, over to Parkers, down to PP then over to Gas Docks. A LOT of small peanut bunker and rain minnows on Eastern side, bigger alewife's on Eastern.. Just nothing harassing them.
Wifes not a jigger. So she insisted on dropping soft shells at PP while we fooled around with a few dinks. Surprisingly, she landed three very nice and hefty white perch up to 12".
Then headed south and east to secret flounder locale. First drift, was productive, not with flounder thou. Monster croakers ! We kept five, before crew was becoming overwhelmed by heat. It was hot as balls, and no breeze whatsoever. Took a decent ride back to Parkers to cool everyone down.
Secret intel said Parkers was the place to be. I'm here to say, no it ain't !!!
There wasn;t a boat within a five mile radius of Parkers. Oddly no bait in that area..Little bit a a red tide also. It looked like a Tuesday, rather than a Sunday.
Wife and kid are getting "antsy" at this point. Phil and are scratching our balding heads. Time constraints, mean we had about an hour left. Headed north back to Radar Tower area. And without the help of one god damn bird, we saw some flickering of the water, and rain over. Screen lit up and game was on. Even my darling, grabbed a jig and was hooked up with a nice 24".
Had them all by ourselves for 1/2 hour and then, like so many times this year, there gone. Called it a day, home by 5:00.
Suffice to say, not a bad day, not a great day.
Notes: I'm throwing everything I've learned about rock fishing out the window, for this year anyway. The last three trips, the bite has been without the help of birds, structure or tide./current. Even the clean water theory, right out the window. The entire time we were on the fish, a red tide was all around us... Go figure....
Doing My Part to Save CB Angler, Fishing Report, 6.13.10
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