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It was definitely a fun trip but it wore me out! I'm not sure I'll get another shot at tog this season so when Joe told me he was going I had to jump on the opportunity. Unfortunately it kept me from fishing the rest of the weekend and I had to cancel some plans.

I made a rookie move and forgot not to wear cotton underwear, I ended up cutting them off later in the day and wished I had hours earlier! Wader season is here anyway but mine have holes and for some reason I felt like squeezing in another trip without them instead of patching... learned that lesson! Another rookie move I made was when we were on our way back in and I decided to toss some metal into some breaking fish. I had a good hit and missed and then was jigging very quickly to get the line back in so I could recast. It was dark by this time and I snagged what I thought was a menhaden. When I went to get the hook out I quickly realized my mistake and that little blue chomped down on my palm and wouldn’t let go! I tried to pry it off but it ended up slicing all the way down as its mouth closed. Needless to say, this blue is no longer swimming and was disbursed to some toads and flounder later that evening.  You have to remember we woke up around 2:50, well some of us... so I was not exactly firing on all cylinders!

Here are some shots of the larger tog next to the flounder. The flounder was just over 17 3/4" and I measured it about 20 times when I was out on the water. I caught a ton of small flounder at the HRBT all on a Pinch jighead with a 7/0 gami octopus trailer. Gulp on the jighead hook then a nice fresh strip of blue (the blues were impossible not to catch!) on top and stinger in the back. It's my go to for flounder now. I also caught about a dozen weakfish and a couple of specs in the 8-11" range which was really cool. I hope this is a good sign of things to come for weakfish!!! I saw a few pods of rock but the boats kept zooming down the light line and put them down every time. It was pretty annoying so I went back to flounder fishing.







We also met the Mid-Atlantic host of Kayak Fishing Radio (I believe that is the name) which was cool since he helped advertise our tournament. He was looking for rock and having a tough go of it also, hopefully he found them after we left!

Last edited by Redfish12 (Oct-11-11 1:31PM)

I know what you mean about those blues.  This past weekend was my first experience catching blues.  They are some vicious little things.