by VHFC | Apr 28, 2021 | Member Reports
While speaking with Dave Spendiff on Wednesday, he mentioned he would be trying for perch later in the morning and welcomed some company. I arrived at 10:00 and we fished until just past noon. We quickly had 15 for the table. Dave kept 3 and I kept the 12 shown in the...
by VHFC | Apr 28, 2021 | Member Reports
With the honking west winds forecasted to finally slow down, I jumped at the invite for a day of tog fishing with Phil Simon. Our first stop was the Persephone, a tanker torpedoed just north of the Barnegat reef. My line barely reached the bottom before a...
by John Stuebs | Apr 2, 2021 | Member Reports
I was waiting for a call from D&S Marina that my boat was ready for pick up and being a beautiful morning, I started fishing from the dock. Second cast got a good hit, set the hook and snapped the line! Who knows?!? For certain, it was a fish, so I retied and...
by VHFC | Mar 18, 2021 | Member Reports
This is a summary report for the 10 weeks my wife and I spent in Cape Coral in Southwest Florida. The photo shows a decent Spanish Mackerel I caught on a shrimp under a float. After I filleted it, I brushed EVOO and sprinkled blackening seasoning followed by 3 minutes...
by John Stuebs | Feb 25, 2021 | Member Reports
No photos yesterday but a fun mixed bag off the beach at high tide. Kept a keeper sheepshead, pompano & whiting for dinner. Between us we had several sheepshead and three pompano, all keeper size, but kept only one and over a dozen whiting – what we call...
by John Stuebs | Feb 15, 2021 | Member Reports
Fished with my buddy on Tiger Tail Beach. I had been eyeing a spot where the sand bar tailed in towards a small point on the beach. Just looked fishy. So we took our shrimp and waded across the lagoon and through the mangroves to the beach. Due to high winds, we...
