My first "early morning" trip

I decided to go to Nanny Creek instead of Spitzli Creek or the Oxbow off of North Landing River. I made it out on the water around 0730. I noticed a spot driving in, where the road goes over a pipe connecting two bodies of water, where the fish were chasing bait fish pretty hard. That's where I headed for first. I was waiting on my friend, Rob, to show up so I started throwing. I started out with a swim bait, then a Rapala floating jerk bait. Nothing on those two so I switched to a shallow running crank bait. That was the ticket. I boated 7 bass before Rob even showed up! Some were small, the first one was a "keeper", and they kept getting bigger! That first one, once I hooked it, came at me like a freight train (almost) faster than I could crank the reel! The trick was for a little current to be flowing out of the pipe from the other side of the road. If water was coming out of the pipe the bite was on. If it stopped, or started flowing into the pipe, it was like a switch had been flipped.

So, once Rob showed up, for a while we stayed there killing it! Once the bite seemed to have turned off for good I decided to head out for newer waters. I tried the mouth of the creek some, the creek by the boats, all along the grass on the right side of the creek after the boats, the boat docks themselves, the channel. Nothing seemed to work at all! I went all the way up the creek to the big creek on the left. Not one single bite! So, I decided to head back down the creek to where the day started. That's where I found Rob. He had never moved and had been killing 'em all day! He had 3 on a stringer that were nice ones. He said he was heading out, but I convinced him to stay for a little while longer. We went back to our starting spot. They were still chasing bait fish so out came the crank bait. I tied on a spinner bait also just for a change of pace. I got a few more, with one of them being a "keeper" but he jumped out of my hand, while I was there. All total I caught/boated about 18 bass all day from that one spot and kept 2. Man they were good last night! :)

That was a MUCH better day than the last trip I had. I went out to Lake Rudee last weekend on Saturday. I thought I'd timed the tides right, but I screwed that one up for sure. After four hours, or so, I only had 4 bites. Just. Bites! Nothing in the boat whatsoever!

OR better than the day a few weeks ago when Danielle, Peyton, Paul, Rob, and I all headed out to Rudee. Rob was catching a lot of little flounder. I hooked into one flounder, but it came off about 6 inches under the boat! Peyton boated a small Speckled Trout. That was about it, though, all day.

Paul looked at me after about 3 hours and said he was ready to go so everyone but Rob headed out. Once we home I called Rob to see if he was off of the water. He said he was and had been all the way out to the inlet. He boated several larger fish. He caught a legal Speckled Trout, but threw it back. He also caught a few decent flounder also. So asked both Peyton and Danielle if they wanted to go. Peyton called it quits so Danielle and I headed back out to the jetty at 4th Street. We got a parking spot, made it over to the jetty lining the boat channel. I made 3 casts and got my lure snagged! Danielle said, "Just step on that rock to see if you can get it to pop loose." Since it was only 3 feet away I didn't think anything of it. The rock was mud covered, and had some oyster shells on it, but I thought if I was careful I MIGHT get the lure to pop loose. Well, I never got a chance. My foot slipped, I sat down onto my butt, but my right arm went between two rocks and sliced my wrist and palm wide open. After a trip to Virginia Beach General's ER I left with 24 stitches. By the way, the Physician's Assistant was HORRIBLE!!! I was not allowed to speak while she was in the room ONE BIT!!! How's that for a professionalism and bedside manner?!

Anyway, all is well now. back to fishing as many times as I can, and trying to keep my head above water at work and in school. Hopefully more fishing to come, though!