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Holy Mackeral!!!

Posted: October 10th, 2005, 12:03 pm
by Dr. Jones
Hi Everyone,

My little cousin was in town Sunday and we headed out from the lighthouse around 7:30. After messing around with a flooded engine (oops) we ran over towards the Rock Garden. The trout were on and hitting everything we threw at them - topwater, doas, shrimp under c/t, spinners. We easily both had our limits within a couple hours. The wind was moving us south pretty quickly and we were about to move to the east flats when I noticed mackerals jumping everywhere. We stopped, threw some shrimp in the water to lure them and then immediately hooked into several - one right after another. I ended up with a 25" er (at the fork!) in the cooler caught, of all things, on a muskie lure from up north. When I then caught a 27" shark I decided it was time to go home.

What fun!!!!

You know it's a good day when the 'MAN' who writes you a ticket for not having your vessel registration in the boat (oops) is impressed by the size of the spanish in your box.

-Bill

Posted: October 10th, 2005, 12:59 pm
by GC
:thumbup: Good job!!

:thumbdown: on the ticket.....sounds like it didn't get you down though!

Posted: October 10th, 2005, 1:16 pm
by Dr. Jones
I mistyped. Not a ticket, a warning. He was cool about it. Fortunately everything else was in order and I had renewed the tag, just forgot it at home.

Posted: October 10th, 2005, 5:16 pm
by RodBow
:thumbup:

Posted: October 10th, 2005, 7:39 pm
by birddog
:thumbup: :thumbup:

Posted: October 10th, 2005, 7:41 pm
by tin can
What kind of boat were you in, DJ? I might have seen you at the ramp.

Posted: October 10th, 2005, 8:44 pm
by wevans
That's a danged nice Mack :thumbup: and good to here ta the officer was a gentleman also :beer: :beer:

Posted: October 10th, 2005, 9:15 pm
by noleflyfisher
I bet that mack put a whuppin on you. Nice report. BTW I would have received the same warning. :wink:

Posted: October 11th, 2005, 7:07 am
by dstockwell
:thumbup: cept for the ticket.

Posted: October 11th, 2005, 1:41 pm
by Dr. Jones
boat is a 1991 prosport with an old Johnson 40 on it. 13'. What were you in?

Posted: October 11th, 2005, 2:55 pm
by dbplug
Dr. J, I was out there on Sunday as well with a late start. I had my nonfishing wife and two fishing daughters with me. We caught a bunch of shorts and one 24" Spanish. We stayed mostly in 3-4' SSE of Big Cove.

I would have posted the report, but I am feeling lazy lately.

Posted: October 11th, 2005, 2:59 pm
by Dr. Jones
DB:

Were you sitting at the dock at low tide around 1 PM? There was a boat sitting there with two little girls on it when I was trying to get out.

Posted: October 11th, 2005, 3:03 pm
by dbplug
Dr. J, Not I. We put in at the fort about 0930 and got out about 1530. Much to my surprise we were about #8 to put in at that time in the morning. It was HOT!

Posted: October 11th, 2005, 6:06 pm
by tin can
Dr. Jones wrote:boat is a 1991 prosport with an old Johnson 40 on it. 13'. What were you in?
I was in a white 15' center concole with BBFN stickers on the sides.

Posted: October 11th, 2005, 6:17 pm
by Chalk
tin can wrote:I was in a kinda white 15' center console with crooked BBFN stickers on the sides.
:o :lol: