Teacher (Jamie Beaty) and Adam are already at Cape Charles and tell me that they are settled in and . . . no reports of fishing success yet. But, I know Teacher and his CPR stuff will occur shortly. Likely too early for the fall striper run, but they are pushing South and now reside off Long Island and New Jersey coasts. The 40 degree weather today off the Northeastern shore will certaily help get them headed South. But for now, I suspect that Teacher and Adam will be fishing the CBBT island 4 and the pilings for resident schoolies with jigs tipped with sand eels or 6 inch BKDs.
JTB is just trying to get his junk at Gainesville packed and also get down to Scottsburg to ready some things for my travel to Kiptopeke, Sunset Beach Resort. The move is coming along and the house closing seems to be on track for Nov 15, move in on Nov17. My new blog: JTBs Lake Anna blog will tell of my experiences and other aspects of learning to fish a new lake for striped bass.
This year, my brother Raymond and two of his sons will be coming in from WY to fish with me for the week of Dec 15. My son Hawley will be coming in during the same week. Bill Fowler may bring his boat this year just in case we have an overflow crowd. He'll be bringing his nephew Matt and another fishing friend and maybe his wife, Lidia. Last year was an awesome year with very pleasant weather all the way to the end of the season on Dec 31. Reviewing the archive posts of this blog will show that it was almost like living the dream. Not like Teacher and Adam, but for us it was a dream season. My brother's first trip had us boating 5 stripers with one a CPR citation for Raymond. We had 5 fish on simultaneously with only two of us on board. What excitement! Of course, the big one pulled drag for more than a hundred yards when it was turned and line was recovered. Unfortunately, the fish decided to make another run and the gil plates cut the line, excitement over. So, the family guests are back to relive their dream catches.
You can tell that I'm anxious and excited . . . unfortunately, I'm not prepared!
oK, December 1, and 2 came and went without boating a fish. The third took the skunk off the boat as Bill caught a 30 or so dink when we shadowed Teacher. The net forgotten at the dock and the lip gaff weren't there and Bill lip boated the dink. That was it for the day.
The 4th was socked in fog, but light seas, so we went fishing. Though Teacher shared the info that the Texaco wreck off Cape Charles was the place, we didn't find it until after the fog lifted. Lots of bait and sonar marks, but no hits . . That is until Bill boated another dink. I went to repair tackle from a tangle when Bill said "fish on". Reluctantly, I took the rod and with great difficulty we boated a 54.1 # COW.
The 5th was a low off in the morning. We hesitated and decided too late to launch. Bills wife came in on Thursday evening and a visit was in order as she was to provide a home cooked meal, camp style. Fri continued really heavy seas for my boat and we did tackle repair and boat maintenance in the 70 degree heat.
Sat was a blow out again and we did tackle and Bill went shopping with his wife. Wanted to clean fish, but it turned bitter cold, too cold to handle an icy fish.
Sun seems like another blow, but the east wind can be fishable. Of courser, Bill and I are not into punishment and don' challenge Mother Nature.
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