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#1 Apr-22-10 12:13PM
- Curly
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4-22-10 DC Rockfish Trip - over 300 fish caught - and PICS
Jeff English and I were on the water and fishing by 6am. Started out with some fish market shad for bait while we tried to catch some fresh herring. Caught 6 blue/channel cats in the 1st hour. Moved and caught some herring.
Went back and used some live and cut herring. Jeff lands this 23 lb blue cat.
Then the herring arrive in massive schools. We are catching them at an unbeleivable rate. Doubles, triples. Quadruples...........and whatever 5 at a time are. 
Easily caught over 300 herring and got tired of reeling them in every 10 seconds. And caught plenty of shad as well............
Then the rock fish started to cooperate, but only on cut herring. Here is Jeff with a nice 19"
Then I get a nice 24"
Then a 19" that looks sick.
We loose our good anchor around 12:30 and decide to head home. On the way we see a couple of fellas struggling to land a big cat. Its big! WE motor over to see if they have scales but do not. We lend them my home-made gaff and they weigh it in at 35 lbs and 42 inches. Nice fish.
Not a bad day on the water. Trying to talk my wife into going tomorrow morning.
Hell or High Water...........I'm Fishin!!
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#2 Apr-22-10 12:20PM
- AndrewDo124
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Re: 4-22-10 DC Rockfish Trip - over 300 fish caught - and PICS
Wow! I'm jealous! Wish I could get a day of fishing like that! Sounds like it'd be a lot of fun with a fly rod!
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#3 Apr-22-10 3:07PM
- Thai
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Re: 4-22-10 DC Rockfish Trip - over 300 fish caught - and PICS
sweet! Good to see the action heating up! Dan and I were there on wednesday and saw a guy pull in a nice striper up past chain bridge on soft plastic
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#4 Apr-22-10 4:11PM
- Dominion Dan
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Re: 4-22-10 DC Rockfish Trip - over 300 fish caught - and PICS
Nice fish...ALL OF THEM!
yeah, that striper that guy caught at Chain Bridge was a nice one!
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#5 Apr-22-10 5:31PM
- Ernie
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Re: 4-22-10 DC Rockfish Trip - over 300 fish caught - and PICS
What a day! Congrats guys!
I will have 4 kids form the "Family Ties" program on board with me tomorrow!
Time to go fishin' again!
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#6 Apr-22-10 6:06PM
- redskinsfan360
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Re: 4-22-10 DC Rockfish Trip - over 300 fish caught - and PICS
What gives the fourth picture (shad) that coloring in the middle?
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#7 Apr-22-10 6:09PM
- Dominion Dan
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Re: 4-22-10 DC Rockfish Trip - over 300 fish caught - and PICS
What was the shad caught with?
Also, I'm assuming you have to add weight to the sabiki rigs? How do you add weight to a sabiki rig and how much weight do you generally use?
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#8 Apr-22-10 6:11PM
- Ernie
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Re: 4-22-10 DC Rockfish Trip - over 300 fish caught - and PICS
redskinsfan360 wrote:
What gives the fourth picture (shad) that coloring in the middle?
That is a Hickory shad, that is what they look like. The American (or white) shad has less coloring and are bigger. Their jaws are different too but I can't remember which is which.
Time to go fishin' again!
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#9 Apr-22-10 6:14PM
- Ernie
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Re: 4-22-10 DC Rockfish Trip - over 300 fish caught - and PICS
Curly likes to throw his sabiki rig, usually with 2-3 ounces. That way, he covers the entire water column as the weight takes it down.
The weight is on the bottom clasp on a rubber band (#2 I think) so than when you get snagged (you WILL), you only lose the weight.
Time to go fishin' again!
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#10 Apr-22-10 6:20PM
- Dominion Dan
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Re: 4-22-10 DC Rockfish Trip - over 300 fish caught - and PICS
ok, I know what a sabiki rig is but I've never used one so I wasn't sure how a weight could be fastened to it. I might have to try that.
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#11 Apr-23-10 3:56AM
- AndrewDo124
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Re: 4-22-10 DC Rockfish Trip - over 300 fish caught - and PICS
This is what simon told me:
hickory have an underbite
americans have even lips and are usually bigger
herring are like hickories but smaller
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#12 Apr-23-10 7:03AM
Re: 4-22-10 DC Rockfish Trip - over 300 fish caught - and PICS
Dominion Dan wrote:
ok, I know what a sabiki rig is but I've never used one so I wasn't sure how a weight could be fastened to it. I might have to try that.
Sebiki rigs have a swivel on the top and bottom of the rig and you attached the weight at the bottom with a rubber band so you can break it off in the event it gets stuck without losing the rig.
If it were easy, they'd call it catching!
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#13 Apr-23-10 9:21AM
- Dominion Dan
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Re: 4-22-10 DC Rockfish Trip - over 300 fish caught - and PICS
AndrewDo124 wrote:
This is what simon told me:
hickory have an underbite
americans have even lips and are usually bigger
herring are like hickories but smaller
There was a guy fishing near me and my friend when we caught them and he was calling the fish that we were all catching hickories.
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