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#1 Aug-29-23 9:57AM
- drxfish
- Patagonian Toothfish
- From: Sterling
- Registered: Jan-04-14
- Posts: 3023
Late Morning Outing 8/29/23
I was going to go out earlier, but I could not get to sleep until late, so I slept in. Got on the water around 9am. Nice cloudy day. Disappointed to see a large oily sheen all along the shoreline.
Took a while to get bit. I moved quite a ways and finally got one on the little popper. Chunky 14 incher that I did not get a good picture of.
A while later, I got a 12 incher on the same bait. No pic of that one, but nice green color with the clear vertical bars. That one got me in a weed patch and I had to wait for it to free itself before I could get it in on 6 pound test.
I got maybe two more swipes/hits from fish after that, but none hooked. I picked up a little trash before leaving around 11:30am. Lunch at Chik-fil-A.
Last edited by drxfish (Aug-29-23 9:57AM)
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#3 Aug-29-23 2:35PM
- drxfish
- Patagonian Toothfish
- From: Sterling
- Registered: Jan-04-14
- Posts: 3023
Re: Late Morning Outing 8/29/23
Yeah, it is not as critical to be there at 0 dark thirty when it is cloudy and not so hot. Water is super low, but I saw 2 jet boats getting around. The later sunrise makes it easier as the Fall approaches.
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#4 Aug-29-23 2:42PM
- Ernie
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- From: Ashburn VA
- Registered: Feb-03-06
- Posts: 15634
Re: Late Morning Outing 8/29/23
Osprey wrote:
Good job. Nice to know you don't need to be there in the middle of the night to be successful.
That was my same exact thought!
Time to go fishin' again!
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#5 Aug-29-23 2:43PM
- Ernie
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- From: Ashburn VA
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Re: Late Morning Outing 8/29/23
drxfish wrote:
I saw 2 jet boats getting around.
Did they put in at Algonkian?
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#6 Aug-29-23 3:08PM
- drxfish
- Patagonian Toothfish
- From: Sterling
- Registered: Jan-04-14
- Posts: 3023
Re: Late Morning Outing 8/29/23
One did. He went downstream. There was another guy in a big black boat with a pointed hull and big engine. He looked like a guide with clients, and I have seen that boat before. He ran from downstream up inside the islands and stopped a little past the second island. He floated down and I believe went up on the other side of the island, but I did not see.
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#7 Aug-30-23 8:33AM
- hookup
- Patagonian Toothfish
- Registered: Jan-31-12
- Posts: 2348
Re: Late Morning Outing 8/29/23
Ernie wrote:
Osprey wrote:
Good job. Nice to know you don't need to be there in the middle of the night to be successful.
That was my same exact thought!
Ditto
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#8 Sep-05-23 4:11PM
- Oubassman
- Northern Snakehead
- From: West Virginia
- Registered: Jan-11-23
- Posts: 125
Re: Late Morning Outing 8/29/23
Nice job scraping up a few
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