No trout, Bob....the speckled jaunt is in mid June down in Hatteras...
I did throw your rubber in the Bay in Jersey three nights, but no takers.....not cause of the baits, but cause of the absence of fish. The weakies really haven't showed up yet down there, but should any day now. My buddy Rick did hook into a fish about 2' long one night....it ran and came up betwen us, shook it's head, and came unbuckled, so we will never know if it was a bass or a weakfish, but he said it attacked more like a weakie.
All the fish caught were on clams. I had nothing Thursday night or all day Friday in the surf. Friday I meet up with Glub Glub from SOL and fished IBSP. We went thru exactly 1 clam each....
Saturday was more or less a washout with rain and a strong east wind. I spent that afternoon at Arby's motel drinking some cold ones, eating pizza, watching the NFL Draft, and BS'ing.
Sunday again brought no fish in a fairly heavy surf. Met up with Rick in the PM, and also saw a guy named Mighty Mouse from SOL/SS on the beach with his frat buddies. I give them credit, as they had no waders, just shorts and sandels/sneakers, but waded the surf for about two hours in 45 degree water temps.
Though Mighty Mouse is from Mass, and fishes Plum Island, and said that the water wasn't much colder than they get up there in the middle of the summer.
Sunday night Rick and I went to the backside, and that's when he laid into that fish I talked about....about ten minutes before, I caught the world record striper.....if there is a world record for the smallest striper....it was no more than 4" long.....my first striper of the year.....
Monday morning brought me a 28 1/2", 8 1/2 lb fish on clams, and anotherbefore that which gave me a good run, but being the first real hit of the season, operator error set in.....over anxious...
I'll continue on the next post, as this is probably getting too long for one post.....