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Finally A Flounder Sandwich

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YoungGun11 View Member Profile	Jun 22 2009, 04:46 PM Post #1
Captain Group: Non Subscriber (FREE) Posts: 247 Joined: 18-April 07 From: Newport News Member No.: 10492 MY BOAT: FBC	Decided to leave the CBBT be for a weekend and ran up to BRR for a change. Enroute I discover I have lost my hand held GPS power supply and we have no batteries. . . so armed with nothing but a depth finder and my memory of where we have caught fish we went to work. I fished just about everything in the arsenal, live pin head croaker, cut croaker, cut mullet, cut flounder belly from last season, and an assortment of gulps. End of business we had 3 keepers 2 right around 19 and one at 20, one throw back and a couple of croaker. No big boys for me yet this year, but good to finally have some fish that I could take home. 2 of the fish came on top/bottom rig with cut croaker and flounder belly combo the other came on a 7" gulp jerk shad and a 2 ounce red jig head, fished north of the buoy about 50 yards or so and drifted most west to east thanks to the light breeze. Nothing touched the pin heads all day. Probably going to hit that area again this coming weekend this time w/ the GPS up and running. -------------------- Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job. ~Paul Schullery Thanks for taking me fishing Dad, hope to do the same for my kids.

Voodoo View Member Profile	Jun 22 2009, 08:11 PM Post #2
Captain Group: Commercial Subscriber Posts: 1243 Joined: 16-November 06 From: Virginia Beach Member No.: 7235 MY BOAT: 21 Sailfish CC.	Nice to see you back and posting congrats nice catch. VooDoo -------------------- Mark Carstens VOODOO VBSF COMERCIAL SUBCRIBER - Tackle Manufacturer

YoungGun11 View Member Profile	Jun 23 2009, 06:00 AM Post #3
Captain Group: Non Subscriber (FREE) Posts: 247 Joined: 18-April 07 From: Newport News Member No.: 10492 MY BOAT: FBC	QUOTE (Voodoo @ Jun 22 2009, 09:11 PM) Nice to see you back and posting congrats nice catch. VooDoo Yeah, home PC is down so I have to post at work, which means either first thing in the morning or right before I head home either way I usually forget. -------------------- Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job. ~Paul Schullery Thanks for taking me fishing Dad, hope to do the same for my kids.

joe sportsman View Member Profile	Jun 23 2009, 07:03 AM Post #4
Captain Group: Supporter Posts: 354 Joined: 14-December 04 From: Chester,Va Member No.: 1155 MY BOAT: Maycraft 2550 Pilothouse	Good job YoungGun! Hopefully things will get better in July! It's been real slow for us and we've been fishing close to port due to the lack of promising reports. Enjoy the flounder sandwich!! DB

Marrdro View Member Profile	Jun 23 2009, 09:49 AM Post #5
Captain Group: Supporter Posts: 1173 Joined: 10-June 06 From: Newport News VA Member No.: 5347 MY BOAT: Angler - 20' C/C	Great report. Thanks. -------------------- Marrdro "Go Vikes"

Marlin Maniac View Member Profile	Jun 23 2009, 10:19 AM Post #6
Captain Group: GOLD Supporter Posts: 2617 Joined: 12-September 04 From: Wilmington NC Member No.: 63	Pretty work and great report! I've done well in the past with both the gulps and the fresh cut croaker strips. I don't use flounder belly for anything but dinner! LOL! And that's one thing I like about live croakers, the small fish tend to leave them alone, or can't get the hook in their mouth. You get less bites, but the ones you get are usually worth the effort. So if you're fishing known nursery areas like the HRBT and Hampton Bar, using live croakers, spot or pigfish should cut down on the numbers of small fish hooked and thus the mortality of small fish. I know a lot of fishermen don't mind catching and releasing small fish, and it is legal. But the way I always looked at it is while my bait is in the mouth of a small fish, a legal sized one can't eat it. So I always try to size my baits to both attact larger fish and dissuade smaller ones. Just a thought. -------------------- 2nd Annual Virginia Frostbite Challenge Not for the faint of heart! January 14th - 17th, 2010 Presented by *Virginia Beach Sportfishing Tournaments Inc* Education-Conservation-Competition www.VAFROSTBITE.com

joe sportsman View Member Profile	Jun 24 2009, 05:37 AM Post #7
Captain Group: Supporter Posts: 354 Joined: 14-December 04 From: Chester,Va Member No.: 1155 MY BOAT: Maycraft 2550 Pilothouse	Hey YoungGun, Was the yellow reef buoy @ BRR replaced? Might be heading out there tomorrow with a friend and he doesn't have the #'s on his gps. I can get the #'s off of the vmrc site but nice to have a visual on the buoy. thanks, DB

YoungGun11 View Member Profile	Jun 24 2009, 11:42 AM Post #8
Captain Group: Non Subscriber (FREE) Posts: 247 Joined: 18-April 07 From: Newport News Member No.: 10492 MY BOAT: FBC	QUOTE (joe sportsman @ Jun 24 2009, 06:37 AM) Hey YoungGun, Was the yellow reef buoy @ BRR replaced? Might be heading out there tomorrow with a friend and he doesn't have the #'s on his gps. I can get the #'s off of the vmrc site but nice to have a visual on the buoy. thanks, DB Yeah the buoy was there on saturday. Wish I could fish tomorrow, probably have the place pretty much to yourselves, good luck. All my fish saturday came on cut bait and gulps no takers on the 6-8" pin heads. -------------------- Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job. ~Paul Schullery Thanks for taking me fishing Dad, hope to do the same for my kids.