Last minute trip. No crew, flying solo. Came out of OC @ 7:00 am and saw hundreds of gannets flying north and the few reports from south of Rudee were not good. Well, I followed the birds, and followed, and followed some more. No bait, birds or fish at CH. Kept going. Across the Bay. Felt like Forrest Gump. At Cape Charles they all turned NW, into the bay, so I kept on going North. I figured if I went far enough the fish gods would reward me, right? Well, the fish gods had other ideas. Zilch, nada, nothing! About 10 miles North of Cape Charles, I turned around when I heard that the bite was on at Sandbridge. Went all the way there to find birds working 2 miles off the pier. Droppped a yellow mojo with a bunker storm trailer on one rod and before I could let a yellow stretch 30 all the way out on the other, the line was screaming off the first rod. When I took the rod out of the holder, I thought I had Shamu. It pulled HARD! MAN, I knew I had the biggest striper I'd ever hooked, and I was by myself, too. There had to be 50 lbs. of fish on the line. Well, to make a long story short, Shamu turned out to be 39" and 36" fish on the same rod. Good tug! Got'em both in my big net. It gets better, I reel in the stretch 30 with a 20" flounder on it! He was hungry! The funny thing was that the 25-30 boats that were there, went north, chasing birds and left me by myself. Thanks guys. I stayed in the same place and caught a dozen or so more nice fish. Back in by noon.
Hope to see everyone Friday night!

Nice job Gary!! Two stripers at once and a flounder to boot...you gotta love it!!!

--Don

That's what I call a "Super Sized Combo Meal" Sweet!

You sound like you were on the MegaBite with all the running you did.Its nice having a fast boat.

Spoke tonight with a good source, said they were at Sandbridge as well. 43" Fattie's. Said the bite was great around high noon.

Going Coastal, how much fuel did you burn today?

WAY GO GC!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NICE TWOFURR ONE SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT FIGHT!!!!

Sounds like a lot of fuel but well worth it. Good job.

Its all your fault! I remembered that you followed the gannets across the bay a couple of weeks ago and did really well. I just wanted to be like you. Also, I had never been on the ocean side of Eastern Shore and wanted to check it out. It was like a ghost town. I didn't see another boat after CH. Never did figure out where all the gannets were going. I probably saw several thousand heading towards the High level bridge. I was hoping to find the next new school of BIG ocean fish coming down, before you caught all the big ones out of it. I guess I'll just have to start following you and Gigalot around.

I figure from Owls Creek to 10 miles north of Cape Charles, south to Sandbridge pier, trolling around and back to the ramp was around 95 miles. At 3 miles to the gallon, I used 30-35 gallons x $2.20/gal = $75-80 for the trip. I trade fresh rockfish for dinners at a couple of restaurants. 1 32-36" fish = $50-70 dinner for 2
Do the math. It helps support the habit.

WOW...You are really hooked up with a deal like that. How can you beat that. Nice job on the 2 fer. thats tough solo with 1 fish one. I also had a flounder (4 lbs) hit my umbrella rig with storms on it a week ago.
Mike