Fishing Log

Fishing Log

 

St. Patrick's Day, Mar. 17, 1999 - 3 yellow mouth trout, 2 jacks, and a 13 inch flounder, all taken on the clock at work, and given to John Hitchcock.

 

April 3, 1999 - Got married, and off to England.

April 20, 1999 - Wedding preparations, honeymoon, and thank you notes have kept me from fishing, but today I caught a 15 inch flounder with a 'Christmas tree' colored jig on a white .25-oz. head, at A/B corner, high tide.  A bright day with a slight WSW breeze.

 

April 23, 1999 - Caught and released a small grouper @ Foxtrot Pier, during high tide, just after lunch.

 

April 26, 1999 - I was jigging for flounder @ B/C corner when a large school of jacks crevalle showed up.  There were hundreds of them with their tails slicing the surface of the water.  I could hear their heads banging into the steel transom of a moored sea tug, like hard rain on a tin roof.  I dropped my jig below the surface and hooked up with a very large jack immediately.  I alerted a crewman on the tug about the frenzy, but the school was gone before he could get a line in the water.  By the time I finally landed the fish, it had frayed the braided line badly and had almost straightened the hook.  I blackened him over a bed of hot hickory nuts with Jamacian jerk seasoning, and we dined on the porch.  A beautiful evening.

April 28, 1999 - 14 inch flounder taken on 'Christmas tree' colored jig at Foxtrot Cove, on an incoming tide.  Slight wind coming out of the South West.