Southern Belle 9-Person Limit Cape Henry

Ron who owns the Southern Belle gave me a ring yesterday while I was fishing and asked if I would run his boat for him today. Weather looked great and he wanted to leave at 9:00 AM. Little late for me but hey I can sleep in. Needed to because my family and I went over to a friend’s house and well my head felt pretty big this morning.

Left Rudee at 9:00 AM and head to the 3 mile line in the fog to look for some bait and fish. Figured to be the safest route due to the fog moving in, boats near shore without radar and most boats would be at the Green Can to Cape Henry. Ran down and found nothing, but had called a buddy boat (Thanks Steve) and he had found some bait. So we made our way to the spot and set in around 10:00 AM. Start catching within a few minutes of lines in and picked at them for the next few hours. We had several doubles and a triple with one rod holding two nice 36” fish. I found that trolling into the current just grassed up our baits so we made a troll and then jogged back slowly in the fog to start another which worked well. I tell you had to watch the radar because folks were trolling every which way but straight.

We ended the day catching 26 fish total. Three were around 30 pounds. We had a ball with Ron’s Family and friends just catching fish like crazy. We also had several bites and 5 fish that disappeared while fighting them. It was great and the sky parted as we decided to head in. Ron thought we only had 16 fish total. So when we made it to the dock to take pictures we actually had 19 and luckily one was still kicking, which swam away free.

Nice working with a bunch of boats out there and hope everyone waxed them.

Saw you heading north this morning! Glad to hear that you had a great day! We fished the Cape Henry area today with success--not as good as yours, but a good day non-the-less.

Yes it was a great day. Kevin put us on them, if anyone can Kevin is the man. Hear photos are to come and the lucky did swim away smiling. From Dave and Chas.

Foodman really enjoyed fishing with you all and you all were great. It was funny after awhile when fish were on and everyone keeps going, "You take it, No you take, No you take it..." Then the fish would disappear and no one was upset becuase they had caught 3 or fish each.

thanks for the call in Kevin...I was with Dave on Billable Ours. We got there later in the bite and did manage to put our five year old guest on his first striper...a nice 35 incher!! Congrats on the day and thanks again!

--Don

No problem and glad you got them on the fish.

Kevin,
Great work and thanks again for the Call In. You know we will try and return the favor!!!
Tight lines.
Dave