Three trips – one report!

Posted on October 15, 2014 by VHFC

Last Monday, September 29th, my neighbor and I went to my favorite middle ground area to fish for weakfish. We threw soft rubber baits on 1/4oz jig heads on the outgoing tide and had shredded plastic baits and a handful of small bluefish to show for our efforts. The following day I made a shorter trip to the ship bottom bridge area, again for weakfish. I arrived early in the morning and immediately stared catching small bluefish. I bounced my BKD off of the bottom in 10 – 13′ of water and caught a baby fluke and his 201/2″ big brother on one of the drifts away from the bluefish and on a subsequent drift , caught a lizard fish. What an ugly, mean looking dude he was! Like yesterday, the water was 65 to 67 degrees and clean. On one of the last drifts of the tide, I kept getting hits, right off the bottom, with semi circle chunks missing out of my plastic – the calling card of a blowfish! I caught 5 using Fishbites, put the largest in the live well and couldn’t catch another decent fish. Today, in spite of the forecasted heavy South winds, I headed back to the middle grounds for weakfish. The water was 58 – 60 degrees, almost a 10 degree drop from last week and still very clean. Four and a half hours of fishing produced only one small striper…NO WEAKFISH!!!
I’ll keep trying!
Dave Spendiff

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