J.A. Veil
09-24-2009, 07:58 PM
I had a delightful evening on Weems Creek tonight in my kayak. I had not fished there in a month. After a slow start, I ended up with my best Weems perch performance of the summer. One of the first perch I caught was a dark and large one. I suspect it was 10" -- not real bragging quality but a good pull on my ultralight rod.
A few minutes later I cast out, retrieved and started to lift the lure from the water for the next cast. Then I spied a tiny little perch hanging on for dear life (see the photo). The twister tail is about 2" long, so that fish is 3.5" to 4" long.
Burt - I may have you beat on the small end of the scale!
Ten minutes later I found one stretch of bulkhead that held perch the way I remember them in previous years. I hooked up on 8 of 10 casts, all to the same area. I have not had that experience previously in Weems all summer.
Later, I trolled two light lines behind the kayak as I moved about 1/4 mile to a new location. I never felt a bite, but when I wound in the line, there was a healthy 12" bluefish -- this was upstream of both Weems Cr. bridges.
All in all, I caught about 25 perch and 1 bluefish in 1 hr 40 minutes of relaxing paddling and casting. I sure needed that after a few stressful days at work this week.
A few minutes later I cast out, retrieved and started to lift the lure from the water for the next cast. Then I spied a tiny little perch hanging on for dear life (see the photo). The twister tail is about 2" long, so that fish is 3.5" to 4" long.
Burt - I may have you beat on the small end of the scale!
Ten minutes later I found one stretch of bulkhead that held perch the way I remember them in previous years. I hooked up on 8 of 10 casts, all to the same area. I have not had that experience previously in Weems all summer.
Later, I trolled two light lines behind the kayak as I moved about 1/4 mile to a new location. I never felt a bite, but when I wound in the line, there was a healthy 12" bluefish -- this was upstream of both Weems Cr. bridges.
All in all, I caught about 25 perch and 1 bluefish in 1 hr 40 minutes of relaxing paddling and casting. I sure needed that after a few stressful days at work this week.