AllyKat
Angler
Had to give spring tog a shot after working on the boat and trailer for the upcoming season.
My neighbor Rich was very helpful with everything, and was more than willing to secure some crabs Cow Harbor for a sunday am shakedown with my buddy Billy.
Broke the inlet @8:30 and after running some fuel through the motors, we got the Rhodan in action and settled in a spot at 40 feet with the incoming slowing down and a decent NW wind 10-15.
Didn't take long for the cut greens to attract attention, as Rich came tight to a respectable drag puller. Some back and forth, but I slipped the net under the 18 inch male for the first fish of the season.
We had a couple of quality shorts in the 14.5-15.5 inch range before I had my first ever spring tog keeper at 17 inches. A very different bite compared to fall tog. They were very soft bites. I would feel a little bump, and then nothing...but half the time a swing to set the hook resulted in fish...almost like the crab was in the togs mouth but the fish wasn't swimming away with it.
We called it a day at noon with a 6 fish limit for the three of us. Nothing huge, with the first fish being the largest, but I also noticed no small tiny togs either like we see in the fall. Every short fish was around 14 inches. We figure we had @ 20 fish total.
Hoping to get another shot this coming weekend before we switch to bass and fluke and wait to scratch that fall tog itch again.
My neighbor Rich was very helpful with everything, and was more than willing to secure some crabs Cow Harbor for a sunday am shakedown with my buddy Billy.
Broke the inlet @8:30 and after running some fuel through the motors, we got the Rhodan in action and settled in a spot at 40 feet with the incoming slowing down and a decent NW wind 10-15.
Didn't take long for the cut greens to attract attention, as Rich came tight to a respectable drag puller. Some back and forth, but I slipped the net under the 18 inch male for the first fish of the season.
We had a couple of quality shorts in the 14.5-15.5 inch range before I had my first ever spring tog keeper at 17 inches. A very different bite compared to fall tog. They were very soft bites. I would feel a little bump, and then nothing...but half the time a swing to set the hook resulted in fish...almost like the crab was in the togs mouth but the fish wasn't swimming away with it.
We called it a day at noon with a 6 fish limit for the three of us. Nothing huge, with the first fish being the largest, but I also noticed no small tiny togs either like we see in the fall. Every short fish was around 14 inches. We figure we had @ 20 fish total.
Hoping to get another shot this coming weekend before we switch to bass and fluke and wait to scratch that fall tog itch again.
