Now today is why we fish. Today was just one of those special days. We had my friend Brandon and his two sons Asher and Sage added Mitch to help keep everything straight and we went fishing. We knew early morning there were more waves than the two boys were going to want to handle so we didn’t leave the dock until about 10 am. We got as far as the R2 buoy just outside of the Great Wicommico before it got too rough to motor but not too rough to fish so we set out our four lines.
We started trolling north toward 63 and Smith Point. There was just tons of bait and fish on the sounder but I could not get anything to bite. A little discouragement on the boat setting in but we started seeing some birds gathering so I knew it was not going to be long now. I would say around 11:15 or so we caught the first 20”. Looking back we should have thrown it back but I wanted to have at least one for the boys to take home. There was a massive birdnado behind us (from exactly where we had been) so we turned around. From that point on crazy fishing was the tag of the day. Just one nice fish after the next got on. The boys and Brandon had a nice time and Mitch and I were glad to have a good luck charm on the boat.
The weather turned out to be great even with an early cold start the sun was out in full feature so it felt warm regardless. This certainly reminded me of great fishing we have had in the past. I have not had this success so far this year and glad to have this come up today.
Most any bait would have worked today but our blue, purple, white, and chartreuse umbrella rigs worked.
Water temp finally got below 50 at 49.5, very clear water color.
