Intercoastal Fluke 17, 18 July 2014, Russ Denton

Posted on July 19, 2014 by VHFC

Went out at 9:00 am in the intercoastal, with Dennis, to catach the start of incoming. Started just north of 112 pole. Got a couple shorts, and a 19″, west side in 20′. Fished the whole incoming without a fish. WX was was great so it was not a hardship. Around 4 pm started to pickup a few more shorts. Pal Dennis got a small dogfish, [bait]. then we got two more keepers another 19″ and a 23″ which weighed 4.5#. Pal Dennis then managed to hook up with a dogfish that was over 4 foot.
Next day Dennis was replaced by Bill Dabney. Went through the same routine, but fished all day with no keepers, only a few throwbacks. Dabney did manage to land a nice horseshoe crab. There were hardly any boats out fishing. We had great WX two days, moderate temp, low humidity, but the fishing boats are few and far between, in this normally very busy section of the ICW. Russell Denton

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