Sunday, October 8, 2017

10/8 - OCT. HARVEST MOON // Unfishable tides!

This weeks full moon is the worst of the year. The local high tides are 6 foot. And when all that water floods into the river on a rising tide......LOOK OUT,
when the tide starts to ebb and has to pour out in 6 hrs.





















( I have never seen the river water this high at the Dames Point Bridge. That water is over the top of boulders that surround the bridge pilings, and creeping up over the sign!)


It could be the same scenario that will be  the new "every day", when they dredge the river another 10 feet and destroy it once again.

But of course, every year, people want to go fishing. And the fishing, physically anchoring, and trying to catch decent fish. Can be really tough. I have to search for the least of the flowing current areas. And many of those are the same ones we get kicked out of. Yes, there's many areas we can no longer fish. 

Wes, got really lucky when he was out with me on Friday Oct. 6th. We were at the "old" Little Jetties area the tide was slack, he was pitching a jig & shrimp combo meal and got what he though was a Mangrove Snapper bite.

Well folks, this surely wasn't the usual little pesky Snapper!

A TRUE "DOOR MAT" at 11 POUNDS!
""VIDEO COMING""



We got lucky that day and fished the "US Navy Fish preservation zone", without being harassed for several hours, and also caught approx. 20 small Trout, two Sheepshead a small Redfish another Flounder, and a perfect sized Black Drum!  It's just a "cat & mouse game", because YES, that's where the fish are, and YES I'll play their game.