Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Something different today! Out of Delaware, dragging for oysters ..

The skipper had the intel and “windyTY” promised an amazing day, well windy was a couple of hours late and the nasty off shore chop and wind was cold as it had being all winter. Had a tow out the front off Pepin resulted in 3 horse mussels.

So with the off shore wind pushing the chop up to a meter we bailed and headed close to shore looking for shelter, we snuck around to find a sheltered bay and set to cod bashing. Well a couple of drops and unbelievably we had our limit..big fat blues…

About then the wind eased dramatically so we ventured out a bit wider and set a burley soaking in reasonably steady current. VC being a bloody good barstard broke open the tucker box and gave me my first taste of whitebait in a couple of years. Delicious!

Carrots arrived and we had a nice run of luck, had a pod of dolphins scream past us heading for destinations unknown…they went up the coast about another mile the turned and headed straight out to sea…man the were going flat out .

My Spikiey avoidance device then got taxed, and VC wrangled a good half dozen southern sailfish we chucked it in and went back to oyster dragging, with the a calm sea and not much else to do we dragged horse mussels , shells , sea cucumbers and blow me down a feed of oysters.

Energy levels ran low as the bloody clip on the buoy wouldn’t hold the dredge on the surface and we had to haul the barstard thing up each time.

So enjoyed a bit of sun on our backs as we steamed for home. Arrived at the ramp to find old mate import had being out in his kayak and enjoyed some success as well with a feed of carrots in his bag.

Perfect ending to a great day of recon and trying something different, sounder showed up a couple of solid bait schools and marked what we hope / think maybe kingis or good snaps .

Thanks VC another day of excellence!