Keaton 9/18/08
Posted: September 19th, 2008, 2:23 pm
I have a colleague and good friend who is retired but still works over 40hrs/week. He loves to fish so I've been wanting to take him fishing for quite some time now. He's a freshwater fisherman but told me that someone took him to Keaton once years ago. So, I took him and Baohua to Keaton yesterday for a little cork slinging.
We found the porgies swimming near the dock at the marina. I made two casts with my castnet and we were ready to go fishing.
We started fishing at around 10.30 am. Call it the beginners luck - first cast and he was hooked up.
He proceed out fished Baohua and I. Here's another one he put in the box.
He also caught a barely keeper seabass, and this nice size spanish, which put up quite a fight.
I, of course, did what a good captain would do - catching bait, netting fish, and weeding out all the junk fish so that the guests can catch all the good fish. One of my catch:
and this; needle fish? Don't know they get this big.
We quit at around 4.00 pm with a mess of fish.
Wayne admiring his catch.
The water around Keaton has cleared up nicely. Most of the fish were caught in around 5' water, surprisingly during slack low tide and the beginning of incoming. The bite was slow when the current was running strong, probably because the current and wind were going the opposite directions. Despite the 10 mph wind, we were drifting at a blazing speed of 0.3 knots. Needless to say, we covered less than a foot ball field in over 1 hr of drifting.
We found the porgies swimming near the dock at the marina. I made two casts with my castnet and we were ready to go fishing.
We started fishing at around 10.30 am. Call it the beginners luck - first cast and he was hooked up.
He proceed out fished Baohua and I. Here's another one he put in the box.
He also caught a barely keeper seabass, and this nice size spanish, which put up quite a fight.
I, of course, did what a good captain would do - catching bait, netting fish, and weeding out all the junk fish so that the guests can catch all the good fish. One of my catch:
and this; needle fish? Don't know they get this big.
We quit at around 4.00 pm with a mess of fish.
Wayne admiring his catch.
The water around Keaton has cleared up nicely. Most of the fish were caught in around 5' water, surprisingly during slack low tide and the beginning of incoming. The bite was slow when the current was running strong, probably because the current and wind were going the opposite directions. Despite the 10 mph wind, we were drifting at a blazing speed of 0.3 knots. Needless to say, we covered less than a foot ball field in over 1 hr of drifting.
