The past couple weekends the summer flounder have been biting very well. We decided to sail on out to the channel and try our luck at a few of these good tasting flatties. We left and headed to the area that had the best write ups in the local fishing news. However, there were so many boats and large vessels moving around, I couldn't believe there would be good fishing with so much activity going on. We gave it a try for an hour or so and moved away from the congestion to a spot where we caught a bunch of fluke.
Once we got to an area that had less traffic we were able to get some strikes on our baits. The first mate "Blue" caught the first two fish and some nice fish he caught. We fished on a drift that took us almost two miles. It was busy with hits and fish along this great drift.
We called it a day and went back to the mooring a couple of happy sailing fishermen.
Monday, July 18, 2011
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
July 3rd and 4th
This holiday weekend started with some great thoughts of sailing everyday, however, mother nature had other ideas. I had to tend bar on Saturday, so that wasn't mother nature's fault, but it started everything in the wrong direction. The weather channel changed it's weekend forecast to rain on Sunday. How dare they do that to me! We still made an attempt to go sailing. We got down to the boat yard around 10:00am and it was raining pretty hard. I suggested we take a ride to Fair Haven to look at another boat I have been eyeing. We got to Fair Haven and the rain had stopped, it even looked like it was beginning to clear. As we stood next to the boat Gary said that this looks a lot bigger than your boat. I said' "Yessssss". It was another ODay, but this one has something called sail drive. It looks like the bottom of an outboard sticking out the bottom of the hull. I need to do some research before I do anything further regarding this boat.
We then drove back to Keyport and stood at the top of the boat ramp looking out at Lil Provo. It was then I noticed one of the guys I had met at the yard standing on his boat in the pouring rain looking around. I immediately noticed he had a white dinghy, not the red one he usually uses. While we stood under the make lift gate of my truck, blocking us from the rain, we watched him come back to shore. When he arrived to the boat ramp he was screaming and yelling about someone had stolen his hand made dinghy last night. We hate to hear things like this! We stood around a little while longer hoping for the rain to stop, but it didn't so we headed home.
Monday was suppose to me a great day. We packed up and left early on Monday and got down to the boat to find the mooring field sitting in a big bowl of pea soup. There was fog, heavy fog! By the time we got the dinghy in the water and loaded up, the fog had begun to thin out. We went a couple miles out and baited some hooks and threw them over the side. We had a great time catching Fluke. We only had two keepers, but it was a fun day fishing. Later on, the sun came up, but the wind stayed at a low breeze. We finished up our day around 2:00 and headed home to take care of our picnic appointments. It turned out to be a really fun day.
We then drove back to Keyport and stood at the top of the boat ramp looking out at Lil Provo. It was then I noticed one of the guys I had met at the yard standing on his boat in the pouring rain looking around. I immediately noticed he had a white dinghy, not the red one he usually uses. While we stood under the make lift gate of my truck, blocking us from the rain, we watched him come back to shore. When he arrived to the boat ramp he was screaming and yelling about someone had stolen his hand made dinghy last night. We hate to hear things like this! We stood around a little while longer hoping for the rain to stop, but it didn't so we headed home.
Monday was suppose to me a great day. We packed up and left early on Monday and got down to the boat to find the mooring field sitting in a big bowl of pea soup. There was fog, heavy fog! By the time we got the dinghy in the water and loaded up, the fog had begun to thin out. We went a couple miles out and baited some hooks and threw them over the side. We had a great time catching Fluke. We only had two keepers, but it was a fun day fishing. Later on, the sun came up, but the wind stayed at a low breeze. We finished up our day around 2:00 and headed home to take care of our picnic appointments. It turned out to be a really fun day.
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