Well today was much like the postal services motto, “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds”, though I think today that only applies to junk mail not letters or important items. But anyway, Scott and I decided to brave the elements of rain, cold, not fog but I was expecting a cloud to descend too low for comfort any time. It could have been miserable but leaving late (maybe 3:30) in the afternoon we knew we had precious time to waste so we stopped just at the entrance of Cockerells creek and started to troll with our last year’s most reliable baits.
We trolled out of the river into the Bay just a bit but the further we went out the warmer the water and the less bait we saw on the sonar. Even though it was mostly calm we did have a 1 foot swell that was headed in the wrong direction plus a lot of other factors we just decided to turn back to the river.
Overhead we could see a few birds gathering up high just inside the creek so we headed there. It was pretty close to the opening of the creek into the river where we had the first rod go down. Scott grabbed that one and you guessed it, the two other rods bent. “Panderlearim” was on, we had two fish per rod and it was such a good feeling to see the fish on. That happened multiple times from there to the end of the journey. We ended up catching 19 in pretty quick succession. We didn’t measure them all because we were far more interested in getting them back in the water but a few would have been 17 but the majority were likely 19 and a few over 20.
We did bring one back so I could have lunch tomorrow but it is such a good time to go out and grab a bunch of healthy fish and put them right back to grow.
Lures, I just need to go grab some pictures but this time of year I pull 4 or 6 arm umbrellas with varied color combinations. Check that link out and you will at least be close. The best color last year and seems great this year is purple head and blueish clear silver flecked 5 inch swim shad.
Water temp in the river was 60.1 and out in the bay was 61.5. Based on upcoming weather I expect it to drop quickly which should help the fishing pick up.
November 2, 2021
| High | Low | Average | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Temperature | 54.6 °F | 43.3 °F | 49.4 °F |
| Dew Point | 49.4 °F | 40.6 °F | 46.3 °F |
| Humidity | 95 % | 66 % | 89 % |
| Precipitation | 0.19 in | — | — |
| High | Low | Average | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wind Speed | 6.5 mph | 0.0 mph | 1.4 mph |
| Wind Gust | 11.9 mph | — | 1.9 mph |
| Wind Direction | — | — | NNW |
| Pressure | 30.11 in | 30.01 in | — |
