Alec Newell's Fishing Log

Trout Hole at E-3

Dec. 30-31, 1996 - Night fishing, foggy.  No accurate count of how many yellow mouth trout I caught and released at E-3.   Used solid white, or white w/pink tailed jigs - both very productive.  Action slow at low tide.  An oil spill from a ship near the trout hole killed the action during the early part of the night.  A 3-lb. YMT was taken by a fisherman near me at appx. 11:00-pm.  He was using a plastic, shrimp tail grub.  A very nice fish.

New Year's Eve, night fishing - Caught and released  11 yellow mouth trout at E-3.  Also saw hundreds of lookdown fish schooling in a slow clockwise pinwheel in the halo of a security light pointed at the water. A rare and eerily impressive sight.

lookdown fish (web image)

web image

New Year's Day, 1997 - Caught 6 YMT at E-3.  Released one, gave one away, and took home 4 very nice fish.  A good start to the new year.





Alec Newell's Fishing Log

Dec. 24, 1996 -  Full moon

yellow mouth trout or weakfish

Dec. 25, 1996 - 6 yellow mouth taken in last 2-hr. of daylight at the corner of Echo-3.  Falling tide, moderate wind NE, bright weather.  Taken on 3/8-oz. jig heads, white (soft plastic twisty tail) bodies w/pink tails.





twisty tail jigs (photo by Newell)

Dec. 26, 1996 - 11 yellow mouth trout 13-16" during lunch and after work @ Echo-3.  Used white bodied/pink tailed jigs during lunch.  Green bodied jigs (1/4-oz. heads) produced better after work.  Overcast w/fog. 


Dec. 27. 1996 - 5 more yellow mouth trout at E-3.


Dec. 28-29 1996 - Foggy, 11 (fish caught) during the day and a cooler full last night, lost count.  Singleton's Restaurant cooked us up a mess for free & got the rest (of the fish) in exchange - too many to clean!
PS: Total 32 YMT, all at E-3

The Trout Hole