Fishing Log


 

Redfish

June 25, 1999, Friday - Picked up 2 small flounder Monday and Tuesday at C-2-West: the first fish (12.5-in), I released, and the second fish (13.5-in), I gave to Stoddard Andreu.
 

Also caught an oversized (29 to 30 inch) redfish today at B/C corner, behind the tugs, at low tide.  It hit the jig about 18-in. from the bottom then began stripping line so fast that I thought I'd hooked a shark.  After many strong runs and anxious moments, a passer-by rigged my landing net, and the fish went directly from the water to the cooler.  The last 7 or 8 feet of the 10-12# test, braided line had been badly chafed from contact with barnacles.  The fish weighed 9-lb. 7-oz.

 

June 29, 1999 - Landed 3 flounder at Fox Cove: tossed 2, kept one that measured 17-in. and weighed 1-lb. 13-oz.  More grief from Security about fishing from the piers.

 

July 9, 1999 -  A 20 inch flounder

 

July 11, 1999 - A 17 inch flounder

 

July 12, 1999 - 3 seabass taken from the La Cruise dock

July 13, 1999 - moon phase

 

July 14, 1999 - A 22 inch, 4-lb. 1-oz. flounder from B/C Corner and a 16 inch, (unweighed) flounder from C-2 East.

 

July 23, 1999 - Took a 17 inch, 1-lb. 12-oz. flounder from B/C Corner, at low tide today.

July 24, 1999 - A croaker and a jack crevalle, taken on the base; and a sea bass, taken on dead shrimp, from the La Cruise (old Strickland's) dock.

 

 

 



Fishing Log

 

June 6, 1999 - Picked up another 15-16 inch flounder on a gold metal-flake Whiffeltail jig w/ a red head.  Took Dorothy (my mother) a couple of pretty flounder for her birthday.

 

June 7, 1999 - 16 inch flounder taken on a live mullet at C-2 East. A guy who saw me catch was back fishing the same on the next high tide, with a nice flounder and a bluefish already in his bucket before I could get back there.  Wind - ENE.

June 8, 1999 - We got released from work early today so I worked the corners along C Pier hard with no flounder to show for it, but did add some seabass fillets to the (zip lock) bag for Kathy's party.

June 17, 1999 - It's been a slow week.  Lots of seaweed and green crud have drifted into the basin on a NE wind, reducing the water clarity to nothing.  The jacks and bluefish have been tearing up an abundance of baitfish, but I've taken no flounder.  Manatees, sea turtles, and schools of 2-lb. mullet have also moved into the basin.  The porpoises have been putting on spectacular acrobatic displays of catching, killing, and tossing big mullet back and forth to each other in the air.  With so much live bait around, it's probably time to break out the cast net and give the artificial lures a rest.