On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 22:11:24 GMT, Don White wrote:

HarryKrause wrote:
John H wrote:

On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 09:00:53 -0400, HarryKrause
wrote:


wrote:

John H wrote:


We left Deale at 6:30, with the boat running perfectly after a
$1000 (rough
estimate) repair bill!

OldFart brought a bunch of lures and we dropped lines just south of
#83A in
about 32 feet of water. Two rods had umbrellas, one with white
sassy shads, the
other with green. Both of them were loaded with clear Storm Shads
with the
hooks. The other two rods were loaded with a spoon and a bucktail
in tandem.

During the first hour we caught a dink or two, and I showed OldFart
how to lose
one after a good takedown. He then proceeded to show me how to lose
an even
bigger one!

About 8:30, all hell broke loose. Three rods went down in about 30
seconds. He
pulled in a double, with a blue (about 20") and a nice striper
(25") one the
same line. I also had a double, two stripers, one about 22" and the
other about
17". The small one went back, but before we could get both of
OldFart's fish
into the cooler, another rod went down. This was another striper,
about 22" or
so. Wow! Three keepers and a blue almost simultaneously!

I marked the spot and we spent another couple hours doing figure
eights centered
thereon, but caught only a dink and another one that may have made
18" if we
smashed its head a little flatter. Finally, after about another
hour, we caught
our last striper, an 18"er, which got us our limit.

On the way in we saw a bunch of breakers in Herring Bay, and OF
managed to pull
in a 12" striper casting into the baitfish. I managed to snag a
cow-nosed ray in
one of its wings. Cost me a nice lure.

A great day with great company!
--
John H


Yeah, sure. I find it odd that you don't think Harry can find a fish in
all of the bay, but you just slay them every time you go out!!!


Herring leaves his house at 5 am or earlier to clear Deale at 6:30 (I
know where Herring lives), trolls with another guy for hours in sight
of the entrance of Deale's harbor, and catches a handful of
non-keepers, and in siz hours catches four keepers, and injures a
beautiful ray.

That's not slaying them. And towing those heavy metal rigs around at
2 miles an hour on a hot as hell day isn't fishing, it's boredom.

But it doesn't matter.



But...the story is a true one, Harry!

I leave my house about 5:40, so you must not have me totally stalked!
Why should
I go for a long boat ride to catch fish, Harry? Would I be better
saying I ran
down to Solomon's Island and caught my four keepers? Sounds rather
stupid to me.




I don't have to stalk you to know how long it takes to get to Deale from
Franconia. Remember, we had an office a couple of blocks from where you
live. It's about 40 miles from your house to Deale, and you have to
contend with construction and the usual traffic on the Woodrow Wilson
Bridge and speed limits. And once you get to Deale, you still have to
get your stuff aboard and clear the Deale jettie. If you leave your
house at 5:40, you aren't clearing Deale at 6:30.

Oh...of those four keepers, how many did you catch?



That does seem like quite a distance to his marina. If I didn't mind
driving that distance on open highway with a 110 kph speed limit, I
could boat out of beautiful Mahone Bay.
http://www.mahonebay.com/visitor_index.html
note: both the large bay and the town are called Mahone Bay

It *is* more of a drive than I like, but Deale is the closest town to the DC
beltway on the Chesapeake Bay. I allow myself 45 minutes, but usually get there
in about 35. Of course, hitting the wrong light or two can change that by five
to ten minutes.

If I were not into fishing at all, just pleasure boating, I'd just keep the boat
on the Potomac, fifteen minutes away.
--
John H

"All decisions are the result of binary thinking."