Fishing Log
 

 

April 20, 2000 - I caught a 2lb. 17in. flounder at east notch of C-2, on a jig, during my lunch break, and got free ice from the Ribault Club.  Blackened the fish for dinner.

 

April 24, 2000 - Caught a 16-in. flounder, a 17-in. speckled sea trout, and an 18-in. yellow mouth sea trout:  The flounder (on a jig) at Fox Cove during lunch, and the trout on two back to back casts after work, about 3:15pm.

This week, aboard the USS John F Kennedy CV-60,  I've been paired with Edgardo Dabu, a Pilipino tech-rep from Norfolk, who was impressed with the flounder I caught April 20.  Using a hand line and a jig I gave him, he caught a nice trout next to the carrier.  By this afternoon, he was slamming a bunch of jacks crevalle on a new rod and reel he'd just bought - a very excited guy!

There are also some very big bluefish in the basin right now.  I watched a sailor land one on light tackle that was about 3-ft. long, one of the biggest I've ever seen.  From a distance it looked like a small kingfish.  What a rod-bender!

 

 

 

April 26, 2000 - Midday Wednesday, wind out of the west.  Pulled up to the B/C corner and caught a 16 or 17 inch flounder on my first cast (I never shut the truck engine off) and drove home for lunch.  Gave the fish to (Bob) Fillinger. 

Thursday, April 27, 2000 - Snagged up a small 14 inch flounder at Fox Cove, just after work.  Gave it to Stoddard (Andreu).

April (?). 20000 - Released a medium size Jack at the B/C corner and a small flounder at the western corner of C-2.





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April 1, 2000 - Returned from Charleston, where I'd had no time for fishing.

 

Mon. April 3, 2000 - Before work, I made 3 casts from B/C corner and released 3 trout.  On the first cast I got 3 bumps, but a month's worth of rust on the hook prevented a good hook set.

 

Tue. April 4, 2000 - Carried Mac (my dad) 4 small yellow mouth trout I caught near the bottom of E-Pier at dark.  2/3 of the fish I caught were undersized and had to be released.

Yellow Mouth Trout

Fri. April 7, 2000 - Mild wind out of the SE.  Fishing the bottom if E-Pier was slow at dusk, but picked up with the incoming tide.  Between 8 and 10pm, I'd filled a cooler with some very nice yellow mouth trout - had also released half a dozen others that (that were) of legal length, but skinny.  Of the bigger fish, many were between 18 and 20 in. long.  Raided the ice machine at North Florida Shipyards, and will clean fish in the morning.  Right now I need a shower.

  

 

 

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Wed. March 1, 2000 - Caught a dozen or so yellow mouth trout at the bottom of Echo Pier, all above the legal limit.  Caught one keeper yesterday that I gave Tyler (Greenwell) with a black drum that Andy (Williams) caught Sunday.

Wed. evening at dusk - With a light wind out of the NW, the fish were feeding aggressively on the surface. Using white body plastic jigs with pink tails, the action was so fast that it made my shoulder and forearm ache, with as many 3 strikes per cast. FUN!  Filled the cooler.

March 2, 2000 - Caught another dozen or so trout at the same spot.  Took Dorothy (my mother) a gallon freezer bag full of skinless, boneless fillets.

I'm off to Charleston for repairs to a submarine.  

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Jan. 12, 2000 - Released lots of jacks I'd caught at the bottom of E-Pier, and  kept 3 yellow mouth trout at the same spot; then caught several more trout at A/B Corner, on jigs.  Sautéed them up for Kathy, in olive oil, Old Bay, curry, fresh lemon, celery seed, onion, and black pepper.

 

Jan. 13, 2000 - Hooked 4 flounder at Foxtrot Cove: lost one, tossed one, and kept two (15 and 22 inches long).

 

Jan. 18/19, 2000 - Kept 4 trout and 2 jacks.

 

Jan. 21, 2000 - Caught 3 very large sheepshead at C-2, on fiddler crabs.  Took them and several trout to Gainesville, for (my sister) Sara-Nett's 50th birthday.

 

Jan. 23, 2000 - Left Jacksonville to work on a submarine in Charleston.

 

 

 

 

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Dec. 30, 1999 - I finally got tired of eating ham and turkey, but am thawing a 21-lb. turkey to smoke for Tyler (Greenwell's) 2000 New Year's Eve party, Friday night.
 

Kathy has been working like a dog at her shop.  The double axle trailer I bought her for Christmas should be ready for pick up tomorrow afternoon.
 

I'd looked for some yellow mouth trout at the bottom of E-Pier, on the incoming tide, but only bagged a single jack crevalle. I had several other fish that were break-offs, but nothing to brag about.  Looking forward to fishing in the new century.

 

     

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Saturday, Nov. 20, 1999 - Took Doug Oswald to the base.  He caught 2 back-to-back flounder on jigs, at Fox Cove.  My own first flounder was short (just under 12-in.).  My second fish (flounder) was a 16-in. keeper.

 

Saturday, Nov. 22, 1999 - Picked up a jack on a jig at B/C Corner.  Gave it away.

 

Dec. 5, 1999 - West Wind - We took 4 keeper trout at A/B Corner, and caught 3 mullet and 2 jacks in the cast net, which I plan to smoke.  One mullet measured 23 inches.

 

Thursday Dec. 9, 1999 - I hit Echo Pier just before dark.  The ships were all dressed out in Holiday lights and passing Christmas music over the 1-MC.  I caught 3 large bluefish, a 17-in. trout, and many jacks, which I gave to Stoddard Andreu.  The action was fast and busy.  Using any crummy jig in my box would trigger some very aggressive surface strikes.  Wind was from the southeast.

 

Friday, Dec. 10, 1999 - Jacks were making surface strikes on every cast I made from the bottom of E-Pier.  Too many to keep.

 

Dec. 20. 1999 - Landed 3 jacks and a blue on jigs at the bottom of E-Pier.  Released all of it.

 

  

 

  

 

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Sunday, Oct. 10, 1999 - My first flounder since the rotor cuff operation.  Took it on a green jig off the east end of F-Pier.  Fish-boy Chuck and his flounder posse have invaded the base for the annual flounder run.  The fish I caught was 16-in. long, and we'll have it for dinner.  Kathy and I were talking last night, about how ready we both were for some fresh fish.

 

Oct. 18, 1999 - 15-in. yellow mouth trout taken at B/C corner on a live finger mullet, fished on the  bottom, during the incoming  tide.  The bait was provided by the young captain of one of the sea tugs.

 

Oct. 19, 1999 - Worked the jig and live finger mullet along the corners with no luck.  A 10-lb. flounder was taken at B/C corner, but a construction crew has that spot tied up during working hours.  The Good News is, that the piers outside the fences are wide open to fish, 7 days a week, 24-hr. a day.

Can't find any more Spider Fusion line in the stores, so I've gone to 20-lb. test Fire Line (in smoke grey) @ $14.00 a spool (ouch!).  Seems to be working well enough so far.

 

Oct. 29, 1999 - 19-in. flounder taken on finger mullet just before high tide at B/C corner, with the fish-boy posse looking on.  It weighed 2.5-lb. on a digital scale.  Iced down the fish and drove it down to Big Jim Devaney, down in Winter Haven.  His illness has progressed so far he couldn't eat the fish or pass Halloween candy to the neighborhood children.  Very sad.  We watched the Fla/Georgia game and he won a $2.00 bet from me, he'd placed on UF.