Oyster Bay 11/8
Posted: November 9th, 2014, 6:08 pm
Took advantage of the tides and weather and had a lazy mans fishing trip. Did breakfast with the family and then picked up lunch from the Hilltop on the way down to the coast with FishingRodd and his wife. We launched the boat about noon and it was still pretty skinny after the negative low tide. Water was clear and it was pretty calm. We hit a few oyster bars with no luck and then moved on to one of my favorite sots. We were fishing soft plastics and twitch baits and after catching a few shorts we managed to put 3 solid trout to 19" in the boat. FishingRodd then proceeds to catch 2 nice flounder on consecutive casts and then the bite died. We ate lunch and watched a few ducks and then decided to look at some different real estate. We came over some good looking bottom in 4 feet of water and I saw us move a good fish so we decided to fish it. FishingRodd caught a short with the first cast and then his wife caught 2 18" trout on her next two casts. I had a big fish boil on my twitch bait and miss it. Ms FishingRodd then hooks a good fish and I step forward to net it. As I scoop up the nice spanish, her husband called "fish on! I need the net." I start to unhook the spanish and I can hear his drag screaming. It is obvious he has a different caliber of fish and I can see the tail thumps as this fish is trying to drag the boat around. After about 7 minutes, we can see the cork and the swirls of a big fish. He finally gets him to the surface and it is a monster bull red, but the line is wrapped under his right pectoral fin. The line eventually unwraps and now the close quarters fight is on 36+" bull red swimming back and forth underneath the bow of the boat on 17 lb fluorocarbon on a 7 ft medium light trout rod. I lay down to net the fish, but he sees it coming and is too green and too strong so he escaped underneath it. I back out of the way and two passes later the fish shakes his head at the side of the boat and spits the hook and then gently sinks into the deep leaving three heartbroken fishermen staring at the widening ripples. We ran back to the ramp and pulled the boat and cleaned fish while the no see ums wore us out. I thought they were supposed to be gone by November. Anyway, it was great to be back on the water.
