Fished southern waters again today, starting to learn what the fish do with varying weather conditions for the area. Jim and Norm joined me on the Mistress and we launched shortly after 7. Based on the amount of trucks at the access and what we were told by a fellow angler headed back in due to an engine alarm we decided to avoid the NY side and troll from Garden Island south and soon found out why nobody stuck around. Greasers! LOTS of them! Big ones, small ones, fat ones skinny ones. By 8:30 I was contemplating hosing down the deck to stay on our feet it was slimed up so bad.I was thinking we would have to pick through a couple dozen of them to get a salmon or two when Matt from Reelax hollered to us and saved our sorry asses again as he had found silver. We picked up, made a quick move and boated our first salmon of the day within 35 minutes of Matt’s call. THANK YOU MATT
We ended up boating 9 salmon, 8 lakers and lost 3 unknowns. We each kept 2 salmon for the freezer plus a Laker and they all ranged from 16”-19”. Longlines and boards are what we ran and the fish hit pretty much everything we offered with slight preference for anything blue, spoons or stick bait.
We came off the water at 1:00, might have stayed longer but ended up downwind from Reelax and Matt was grilling something with bacon and I got hungry!
Another great day on the water and month # 3 checked off for my quest for a salmon in the boat every month of the year.
