Today Scott’s dad Pop Pop joined us.
Always good to have a good captain and experienced first mate on board. We set out a little later than normal thinking it would be good timing and hoping the winds would die down. I think the weather apps have been more consistently off recently than I can remember. The water was very calm, a low ceiling to the point you may have thought it was fog. There were some rolling 1.5 foot but zero chop which is always an interesting mix. What wind we had was more from the east (which is not the best fishing wind). It started out warmer and got colder during the day.
We headed off to the Smith Point Lighthouse area to see what was happening. Saw nothing in the air or on the sonar so I headed over to the areas I like best there, which are the 3 wrecks just off 63a. It’s deep water but you generally see bait and fish there. We did see a ton of bait and fish in the area. We caught a few fish but they were mostly small or at least nothing we wanted to bring onboard. We finally did catch one 23” fish there but we decided to head to R62 to see what was going on.
Well there it was just a lot of the same. As we moved through the tide change we caught a bunch of 23”. We had two in the boat so we kept throwing back one and catching another. Well finally I decided that we were either catching the same fish or we were in a school of 23” and we just put the 3rd one in the boat and came home with plenty of daylight and time to clean everything.
Overall a really good day. I feel ashamed that you can be dejected with catching limit with nice fish. Spoiled is the only word that comes to mind.
December 29, 2021
| High | Low | Average | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Temperature | 64.0 °F | 48.6 °F | 56.1 °F |
| Dew Point | 59.5 °F | 47.1 °F | 52.0 °F |
| Humidity | 97 % | 80 % | 86 % |
| Precipitation | 0.00 in | — | — |
| High | Low | Average | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wind Speed | 10.3 mph | 0.0 mph | 1.8 mph |
| Wind Gust | 12.5 mph | — | 2.4 mph |
| Wind Direction | — | — | South |
| Pressure | 29.73 in | 29.54 in | — |
Water temp was 45 degs.