 Fish Story II 10-28-06
Wanted to go Friday, but the weather was going to be bad so moved the fish day to Thursday. My fish partner was good for Thursday so it was on. Got to the beach around 11pm Wednesday night. Rode by the Wildlife Ramp at Cedar Point and saw 4 trailers, some one was fishing. Rode by another Wildlife spot, the Yacht Club, great crowd for a Wednesday night so I stopped in for a beer. Nursed one beer for a while, the crowd was still good when I left.
Woke at 6:00 Thursday to frost on the boat cover. Went back to bed and got up at 7:30. Fishing partner got over around 8:00. Got the boat ready and was in the water around 9:30, no rush as it was still cold. Slow trolled gulp bait around Bear Inlet with the water still high. Action was kind of slow, a few small flounder and always a bunch of preacher's pricks. Pushed our way around into a small creek with beautiful clear water. Could see the bottom at 5'. Millions of glass minnows, a few sting rays, flounder, and finger mullett swimming around. Caught bait and had lunch. We had our bait, the finger mullett, for the surf action later that afternoon. We pulled some more gulp bait and the live finger mullett around. Got 2 flounder over 14" with the gulp. Nothing hit on the live minnows. Got the boat stuck on a soft sand bar close to the ocean side of the inlet with the water really ripping across it. Had to get out and push the boat, got off the bar after pushing and a lot of sand in the motor. Not really a good spot to be in. Got in deep water again and the hot light came on, no water from the pee hole.
Anchored the boat beside a sand bar and let it cool, worked with it and got some of the sand flushed out. I removed the 2 small cooling outlet hoses from the head that goes back to the thermostats. Water was moving through the head fine, so I guess the sand cleared, the pee stream was really week after this but the motor never got hot again so off to the next inlet for some surf action.
Anchored the boat around the back side and got our gear, put the finger mullett in the cooler with the beer and walked about 200 yds to the ocean side. Surf rods with the cut mullett went out and my fishing partner walked the beach with a gulp bait and caught a few small blues.
After 30 mins my surf rod bent over and it was on. Nice 24" drum, before I got the fish off the other surf rod went off. My partner pulled in a drum just short of the 27" limit. We kept both of these fish. We really should have put the bigger drum back, but you never know if you are going to get another fish. Well we caught a total of 9 drum within an hour and a half. All were in the slot limit with the smallest being the first 24" drum that I had caught first and the largest being the just under 27" drum that was caught second. We kept these 2 fish. Released all the other in good shape, except one that was gut hooked. We hated to throw a dead fish back but no one was around to give it too.
Left around 6:30, had my stern light this time. (See fish story 10-09-06). Cruised the waterway and back at the dock just before 7:30. The next morning, cleaned the fish, flushed the motor, removed the hoses and sprayed water into the thermostat housing, and the pee stream at the housing. Water now comes out the pee stream really strong. Put that fish in 350 degree oil friday night. Cooked fries after the fish in the same oil. We ate good. Thats my fish story, hope to have another after next weekend.
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