Fished the CBBT from 0900-1500. Managed two keepers at 21" and 19 1/2". Both caught on cut tube squid on the ebb current. ONe was caught around the pilings south of the 1st and the other in Thimble Shoals Channel between the 1st and 2nd. Few other throwbacks but for the most part the action was slow.

Hit Cape Henry Wreck on saturday with a live well full od dead bait. . . . Spent all week on my lunch break and in the morning fishing for spot and small croaker keeping them alive in a fish tank at my house(which is post for another day), left my house w/ 17 in the bucket. Hit the dock filled the livewell and loaded them in. . . got greedy and started fishing around the dock for more, not dice so we picked up and started cast netting for mullet, nothing doing there either we decided to check on the bait. . . . no water. . . forgot to turn on the recirculater when wer left the dock. . . turned it on quickly and watched my hard earned bait fish circle around the tank upsdie down. . I was ready to quit and go home, first time in the bay in over a month and I killed a weeks worth of hard work.

Well long story short about 5 of the croaker started swimming again, all the spot including one nice fat 8" one that was supposed to get me my 10lb+ flounder died. Fished with 4-6 other boats, including Dr. Julie Ball around the wreck for about 4 hours. A few sea bass one keeper some oyster toads and one 25" flounder which saved the trip, It looked like we missed a few flounder two myself but the newbie on the boat landed the flounder. Hopefully I can get all my ducks in a row for next week, and find some bait. Alwasy seems to be something.

Bite was slow most of the day there, saw one other nice sized fish come over the side of the boat.

I need to fish with some of you guys that catch 20+ flounder in a trip but no keepers, so I can find some happy medium, I mean a 25" fish is nice, but just two 19 fish is better . . . anyway tight lines everyone.

I took the wife & a bunch of li'l spots to the first island on Sunday. We caught 13 flatties & several oyster toads. Wife boated her 1'st flounder. Even though it was only 13 inches, made her day. Of 13 caught, 4 were over 19" with the largest being 23". Fish were caught in 50-60' of water on a Rappahannock sandwich (live spot & a squid strip) 3oz. of weight.

I feel your pain man i have been catching finger mullet at leasner bridge on the out going tided, there are there if you want to spend the time and pay to park over by the boat ramp. nice size finger mullet from 4 to 8 inchers man so give it a try next time. Some of the schools are large enough where you have enough bait to head out fast to your spot, i have a 6ft castnet and have no problem catching them in the net. # Key note when you come down there, walk to the deck part of the beach axcess and start by the fishing sign and work your way around to the point on the right sided of leasner bridge by the time you get just 20 ft of the power poll you should be in the sweet spot of the mullet if there is any body there, i have been going down there when i get off work during the week seen several people clean house on the mullet there and got my fair share of some myself... my only problem is trying to keep them alive when i had caught them, i have a fish float bucket on the rop and on a sand spike off the beach when i fish down there. It seems like they go in shock and do not come out of it . But give it a try and hope this will help out for you and cut your time down on bait.

Thanks a lot Shawn, I might have to give that a try this coming Saturday if Fay doesn't come knocking. Hopefully I can pick up some spot this week again if work will let me, but sometime mullet seem to work better.

As far as your bait troubles I've spent the last couple years figuring out ways to keep bait alive w/o water access at my house. So I'll tell you what I've experienced as far as mullet go. I've kept them alive for a couple days just in a cooler running a pump round the clock to circulate the water, also I've used a floating trash can w/ holes in it(and a lid of course) and just left that in the water and it works well. They don't seem to survive in any holding devices that does not allow them free access to the top of the water. Don't know if that helps at all but those are my experiences.

Thanks again very much for the info on the mullet, will give it a look this coming Saturday if I get the chance.

Thanks for all the updates. Glad some are still catching a few keepers.

Something i forgot to add yesturday was there shad mixed in over there also finger size. If you go saturday get there be fore 8 am any thing after that is a pain in the butt for parking. I am going out of saltyponds in hampton do have any good spots i can find some flounder or some nice fish to bring home besideds croaker and spot? i have been to back river reef and blue fish rock and the oyster bed nne of blue fish rock just been catching croakers, blues and sharks? I will be staying over night out there weather perments, also so should we drift over the oyster bed or anchor or do both ? Is it wourth going the hrbt and fish there we yet to fish that this year do to the crab pots over there and being a lower bridge than cbbt do to the boat we have with the raido intenae. If you could share some insight would appreatted and good luck to you on the finger mullet and where your are fishing saturday. My mother gose down to the beach there so she give me the update down there on the bait fish and fishing so she fishes also she knows whats up.