Water Temp: 82-85 deg.
Another year and another donation to OAR. But we got free tshirts and free beer and the captains meeting for our $65 donation.
We practiced hard for the tourney, spending pretty long days on the water. We had a good red bite at Lanark on high tide, and an average bite at the OR river mouth. We also felt we could troll up some nice spanish after a brief but very bumpy ride of Dog Island Reef earlier in the week.
We were up early to drop our lines at the OR river mouth on Friday morn. We quickly hooked up on a nice trout at the white bar. We slid over to the banana bar and caught a nice flounder. Hunter brought this mini doormat in. It was the biggest we had ever caught, approaching 3 lbs., but knowing that last year you needed a 4 lber. to cash a check, we sent the meal for 3 overboard.
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| Flounder on white gulp shrimp |
Hunter lost a really nice trout on the bonkadonk in very shallow water. He fought it around the anchor rope and brought it boat side and suddenly had that light line feeling and I heard "&*$# that" come from the front end of the boat and I knew she had come off.
We caught some blues and lady fish and decided to call it a morning.
Our afternoon trip was a planned troll at two flat and 24. Unfortunately the on shore breeze kicked up and all we got was wet, beat up, and fishless. We didn't even make it to 24.
On Saturday we had the river mouth to ourselves. I landed a nice 21" red on a Zara Spook right away in the dark.
But as the morning progressed we had this feeling:
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| NADA |
I suggested we head over to Alligator Harbor and give it a try at the tip of the point. We caught the tide dead low unfortunately, but we did put together a couple of limits of these guys:
They were fun to catch and we are planning on coming back to get a fish fry together this week.
So, fun was had, sweat was sweated, sleep was lost, advil was taken, and I got to fish with Hunter again.
Not to bad and looking forward to the next BBSWC!
