You catch the first fish before you can get the second rod out. Yep, Scott and I had an early morning Spanish fish scheduled and we did all the damage we needed in about an hour and a half.
The weather, waves, just about everything was settling in to be a great day. We left the dock at about 6:30 and went straight out to R4 just out of the Great Wicomico River. We started setting out the first number 2 planner with a green flash number 0 Clarkspoon. I had no more than picked up the second rod and that one hit. The bite was steady from that point on. There were a few times we got doubles but for the most part it was just a steady one then another. We did pick up about 5 that were really short, I would estimate maybe 10 inches which for me at least tends not to happen. Of course, sent them on their way and back to more fishing.
I may be wrong but I think we only lost three total the rest of the 15 and one blue came in without an issue. We have started to slow the boat dramatically after a strike to help increase the bag limit. Spanish are traditionally hard to get to the boat because they bounce on the water at high speeds. The line goes slack when they are in the air which risks the planner from setting again, this resetting is very difficult to keep the fish on the line.
Green was the color if you didn’t have this color go back to the dock. I would say about 70% were on this one rig.
Weather:
- Waves were at most a foot but even then it continued to become more calm.
- Air Temp 86
- Water Temp 82
- Pressure 29.74 (Hurricane Henri was in NY by this time)
- Very clear sky
- Low tide 7:06 AM
