Fluke Whisperer
Angler
This report is for yesterday.
Monday my son texted me and wants to know what day during the week is good to head out, I pick Wednesday as the forecast at the time looked good.
Wednesday morning the forecast has changed but I didn't look, it's 30 degrees at 6am as I prep the boat waiting for my son.
Ice in on everything, my son texts me and asks if I'm up, I text back yup, but it's cold out, he proceeds to tell me forecast has changed, going to be
5 knots in the morning and then pick up in the afternoon.
We wait till 7 am to launch the boat, we drop the boat in and head out of milford harbor, no breaze flat calm. my son spots birds working so we head over.
Fish are busting everywhere and I have 2 poles already setup for casting. We started off using a savage popping lures in bone color, fish were swirling behind it but no takers.
I switch over to solid crome deadly dick about 4 " because sand eels are everywhere, first cast I immediately hook up, it's a small schoolie about 20 inches.
I have crimped all the barbs on my trebles hopping to do less damage when catching and releasing fish.
My son Charles is also hooking up and we follow the bass around moving from school to school hoping for bigger fish.
The bass seem to be everywhere we go, they are getting bigger but not anywhere near legal size, great thing about being the only boat out there is no idiots crashing the schools, we had them all to ourselves.
The fish seemed to disappear with an ocasional break here and there so we decided to try out a spot a friend of my son gave us.
We anchored up in 15 feet of water off Milford after finding some nice rock formations.
We were using 1 oz jigs and green crabs, it wasn't long before the first fish hit the deck, 15.5" , back it goes, then I hook up 15" back it goes.
Next fish my son catch's is and 18" fat tog, starting to look good. Tide starts to move and we have to up the weight on the jigs.
My son nails another 17" and now has 2 in the cooler.
I am in the just short of keeper size hole, fish after fish are coming up just shy of legal,then it just died.
We waited it out for about an hour and decided to make a move to middle ground.
It was still flat calm and hopefully we can limit out and get back before the wind picks up.
We arrived at middle ground about 20 minutes later, there were a few boats so we stayed away from the crowd.
We anchored up in 30 feet of water and proceeded to catch cbass with a small tog inbetween.
Made another move and stated to catch tog, still coming up short.
Then the wind picked up and by 3:30 pm it was no fun anymore, the wind wasn't that bad but the way were were anchored it was rocking the boat making it very hard to stand up.
We pull anchor and head back to where we first started, same problem, we fished another 30 minutes, my son was retrieving his jig when he gets hit by a 26 in bass, they are still around.
We decided that was it for the day and headed in, coming into the harbor there are people everywhere and they are catching schoolies inside the harbor, I just hope they are releasing them as a couple we saw that got caught were not released during the time we were watching.
It was a nice day, didn't get to catch a keeper tog but anytime I can get on the water with my son makes it all worth it.
Will be headed out this weekend, hopefully the weather will be good.
Stay safe, stay healthy all.
Jay
Monday my son texted me and wants to know what day during the week is good to head out, I pick Wednesday as the forecast at the time looked good.
Wednesday morning the forecast has changed but I didn't look, it's 30 degrees at 6am as I prep the boat waiting for my son.
Ice in on everything, my son texts me and asks if I'm up, I text back yup, but it's cold out, he proceeds to tell me forecast has changed, going to be
5 knots in the morning and then pick up in the afternoon.
We wait till 7 am to launch the boat, we drop the boat in and head out of milford harbor, no breaze flat calm. my son spots birds working so we head over.
Fish are busting everywhere and I have 2 poles already setup for casting. We started off using a savage popping lures in bone color, fish were swirling behind it but no takers.
I switch over to solid crome deadly dick about 4 " because sand eels are everywhere, first cast I immediately hook up, it's a small schoolie about 20 inches.
I have crimped all the barbs on my trebles hopping to do less damage when catching and releasing fish.
My son Charles is also hooking up and we follow the bass around moving from school to school hoping for bigger fish.
The bass seem to be everywhere we go, they are getting bigger but not anywhere near legal size, great thing about being the only boat out there is no idiots crashing the schools, we had them all to ourselves.
The fish seemed to disappear with an ocasional break here and there so we decided to try out a spot a friend of my son gave us.
We anchored up in 15 feet of water off Milford after finding some nice rock formations.
We were using 1 oz jigs and green crabs, it wasn't long before the first fish hit the deck, 15.5" , back it goes, then I hook up 15" back it goes.
Next fish my son catch's is and 18" fat tog, starting to look good. Tide starts to move and we have to up the weight on the jigs.
My son nails another 17" and now has 2 in the cooler.
I am in the just short of keeper size hole, fish after fish are coming up just shy of legal,then it just died.
We waited it out for about an hour and decided to make a move to middle ground.
It was still flat calm and hopefully we can limit out and get back before the wind picks up.
We arrived at middle ground about 20 minutes later, there were a few boats so we stayed away from the crowd.
We anchored up in 30 feet of water and proceeded to catch cbass with a small tog inbetween.
Made another move and stated to catch tog, still coming up short.
Then the wind picked up and by 3:30 pm it was no fun anymore, the wind wasn't that bad but the way were were anchored it was rocking the boat making it very hard to stand up.
We pull anchor and head back to where we first started, same problem, we fished another 30 minutes, my son was retrieving his jig when he gets hit by a 26 in bass, they are still around.
We decided that was it for the day and headed in, coming into the harbor there are people everywhere and they are catching schoolies inside the harbor, I just hope they are releasing them as a couple we saw that got caught were not released during the time we were watching.
It was a nice day, didn't get to catch a keeper tog but anytime I can get on the water with my son makes it all worth it.
Will be headed out this weekend, hopefully the weather will be good.
Stay safe, stay healthy all.
Jay
