Well that’s just how good fishing is right now, Megan, Sara, and Bubba and I went with out this afternoon. We went to the NNK reef like we have for the last several trips and there were a ton of boats everywhere. The boats were thick from maybe just north of the reef to R 62. We found our spot in amongst all of the fleet and started setting out our gear. As we were started the purple striper eater went down. Sarah and Megan had to fight that one on their own because we both had rods in our hands trying to get set. Thankfully, it slowed down just long enough to get the other rods in the water. We were working all the time with really no slow down. We did not go more than about 5 min. between fish. Got mutliples a bunch of the time as well as some doubles that had two big fish on.
The title of this post was created by Megan. We had caught 3 of our 4 fish for limit so we started throwing anything back that was not bigger than 23″. Megan could tell before the fish got over the gunnel that it was not going to be bigger than we were looking for so we got a laugh each time she said the now famous slogan.
We fished our same umbrella rigs. This afternoon was very clear, warm, the water was basically flat so I think the purple with clear silver speckled rig did the best but it was a close call with our white and chartreuse combo contrasting rigs. The water temp was 53 degrees and crystal clear.
The Crew, Megan had not fished very many times but jumped right in and did a great job. Sara is a typical trooper and expert by this time. Bubba as always is completely dependable to keep everything working wonderfully and is great at setting the lines out as well as ensuring we get all the fish in. We ended the day with 4 all 23 – 25″.
Look at this guy Megan is holding, he had been caught so many times his mouth was just destroyed. I’m glad we were the ones that were capable of putting the fish overboard as a keeper. I am not sure how he would survive with no mouth! Give him credit he kept biting the hook (we just had the kind of crew that could actually catch him).