Fishing Log

Fishing Log

B-C and D-3 (top left) wall and outside
C-2 fence (top right) D-3 (bottom)

April 16, 1997 - Mild wind out of the N.E.  Released two small trout caught at B-C, before work.  Picked up a blue she-crab at lunch on a jig.  Also released a medium jack from B-C, then moved to the dock on Charlie point at dusk.  Released several small trout, gave 3 or 4 away, gave away a small blue, kept 2 blues (14" to the fork of the tail) and a 15-in. trout.  Also released a small whiting and a small flounder.  Action was medium to brisk from dusk to dark-thirty in the halo of a sodium quartz light, falling tide, using a white bodied, pink tailed jig, molded with shrimp scent (by Gotcha) with a 1/4-oz. white jig head.  The water was flat and protected from the wind.





small whiting

April 18, 1997 - Unseasonably cold, 40 something this morning with a wind chill factor in the 30's, an unproductive morning (3 casts).  Nothing at the ICW, and finally, about dark-thirty, the wall outside the fence @ C-2, gave up some trout and blues.  Left 3 fish for the cats and got run off by Base Security - Falling tide.

USS HUE' CITY (CG-66) 

April 22, 1997 - Full moon, nothing much going on.  Wind out of the West, making B-3 my best bet.  Rumors of 6 pound trout being taken from the deck of USS Hue' City, berthed near B-C.  Small croakers taken on dead shrimp were supposedly being used as live bait for the big trout.  I saw the croakers, but no trout.

April 23, 1997 - Rainy - Working too much to get in much fishing.  A soft rod tip, wind, and current making conditions poor.  The water was flat while it rained, but by knock-off the wind was back.






USS JOHN HANDCOCK (DD-981)

April 24, 1997 - Glued a new tip on the 6-ft. Big Lots rod, put the old reel back on it, and immediately nailed a small croaker and sea trout before work at Delta-1, near the bow of the USS John Handcock.

April 28, 1988 - Blues working on baitfish after dark in the halo of a security light, also @ D-1.  Snagged one medium blue and hooked several others, kept none.  Fleet moving out in the morning.  Too much sailor traffic on the pier.