Marlin Maniac
May 28 2007, 05:40 PM
Fished Watchapreague Friday, Saturday and Sunday for flounder for the 12th consecutive Memorial Day Weekend. Limited out on Friday and Sunday, had 4 keepers on Saturday. Friday was the day. It really didn't matter what you were dragging, the fish were slammin'. I did best with a squid strip/minnow combo on a 3 foot 25 lb florocarbon leader with a Kahle wide gap hook and three red beads and a gold spinner. No skirt. All told we had almost 100 lbs of fillets between 5 boats and 13 anglers. Took 15 lbs over to the Island House Restaurant and they cooked 'em up. That's as good as it gets. Heres a couple of tips: a lot of people were catching only short fish. If that happens to you, upsize your baits and fish deeper water. Also if you're fishing the Watchapreague area, let the wind direction determine which channel to fish. You want your baits to have some action and the spinners to spin. Hold your bait at the surface by the boat. If the bait just hangs there, drifting with no action and the spinners aren't spinning, you need to change your drift. That may mean relocating or setting a sea anchor. If your boat is drifting at 4 knots speed over ground, and the current is 4 knots, then your bait's speed relative to the surrounding water is zero and it has no action, no life. CHANGE IT UP TO CATCH MORE AND BIGGER FISH! Tight lines and good luck!