Saturday afternoon

[notfishingenough]

I saw the wind readings on the buoys dying down around noon and decided the weather man was wrong. I didn’t get to the NN Reef until a little after three which was just as the wind shifted to out of the NW at 10-20 knots. I put out the chum and didn’t even get a bite, but there were some seriously obnoxious gulls. No bites for an hour and getting rougher. There were other boats there but I didn’t hear much on the radio. My daughter used the wash down hose to keep the gulls away, but one still managed to bite my hook (even with weights).
On the way back to Deltaville a little before 5pm we saw some birds around Windmill Light and thought we’d try casting. Well from about 5 to 6:30 there were a gazillion birds from the WM light to the east end of the bar. Fish everywhere and gulls going crazy. We caught a bunch but only managed to get one small keeper into the boat. A lot of fun with 14- 17 inchers and blues on light tackle. The fish finder showed the bottom covered with fish but they would not all bite. I didn’t get a good look at the bait but they wanted small stuff like ¼ oz. plastic grub and small sting silver. I tried a bigger sassy shad but got not bites. I didn’t want to mess any Storms up on the blues so I didn’t try any.

[Third Child]

It is almost time!
Thanks for the report.

[justkiddin]

Hank- Nice pictures- glad you got some of me on your site- Rocks are coming- looking forward to hooking up soon on my new ride.

Scott

[sailfish25]

Justkidding
dont know if this will help my friend but I keep my boat as close to the reef as you can get but 9 times out of 10 I will run to windmill......never seem to have luck at the reef until it is time. Seems too shallow there and I think chumming is tantamount to punishment. Windmill is by far my place if i have the time.....I am a 'little' superstitious and the reef seems to be an albatros for me, maybe I am just using the wrong tactics at the right place or something?

[capt. dave]

Saturday afternoon at the NN Reef was a b!tch. The tide was running so strong that it was almost unfishable. My guys got about 8 or so keepers between noon and 2:30 fishing close to 150 feet back in the chum line.

Sunday was just the opposite - go figure!