HisDoghouse
01-09-2008, 03:04 PM
With the recent heat wave we've been having (and soon to end) around here, my next door neighbor and I decided to head out and brave the traffic at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. We got underway in the late morning and got our lines into the water just across the line separating the Bay from the Ocean (the Bay season closed on 31 December). We were marking a lot of bait and fish, and it wasn't too long before we had our first fish on!
We were trolling on one engine, using the trolling valve to keep our speed through the water between 1.5 and 2.5 knots, and the first fish (a 37") hit on a chartreuse 24 oz mojo that was below a three 4" storms in a daisy chain. Our second fish (36") also hit a mojo, but this one was "bunker" colored, and was below a 3-way swivel and a trailing bucktail.
We couldn't get anything to chow down on our live eel offerings, nor did they want anything to do with our stretch 25.
Here's a photo of the two keepers we brought home (that's not me in the photo). Hopefully the winds won't kick up too much for us to try to do it again this weekend.
Joe
We were trolling on one engine, using the trolling valve to keep our speed through the water between 1.5 and 2.5 knots, and the first fish (a 37") hit on a chartreuse 24 oz mojo that was below a three 4" storms in a daisy chain. Our second fish (36") also hit a mojo, but this one was "bunker" colored, and was below a 3-way swivel and a trailing bucktail.
We couldn't get anything to chow down on our live eel offerings, nor did they want anything to do with our stretch 25.
Here's a photo of the two keepers we brought home (that's not me in the photo). Hopefully the winds won't kick up too much for us to try to do it again this weekend.
Joe