Fishing the river saturday 0ct.30,2010

Water 63f,wind SE15 to 20kts, incoming tide, water clarity OK
 Fished 45 minutes for specks caught one 15 in fish. It was so so went looking for drum. No luck. The shrimp are starting to show up in the canal under the lights. Caught one last night and the night before.

Speck fishing the river Oct.27 and 28 2010

My son Taylor fished the river Thursday for about 2 hrs in in light winds except for a bad rainstorm, water 73f, cloudy, incoming tide, he fished in the turning basin and caught 96 fish with 2 keepers 18 inches.
Friday he and a friend fished from 11am to 5 pm and caught one fish. a front had moved thru and it was blowing 30 kts from the north and water temp 65f, incoming lots of weeds and grass and dirty water

Fishing Monday Oct. 25, 2010

Taylor and I went out in the first island and fished from 11:30am to 1:30 pm for tog. Just one small tog. Current was incoming but not really hard. We left at slack tide to go pick up skiff and go speck fishing. Wind SSW20 to 25 kts.  Water 65f. Partly sunny.
Left at 2pm and fished till 5 pm. Cloudy winds SSW25 to 30 kts water 66f outgoing tide. It was very hard to cast but we caught alot of small specks mostly in the turning basin, but as the Tstorms started to get closer we headed back and fished outside my canal and picked 3 more fish.

Speck fishing Oct. 24th, 2010

David and I went and fished the Inlet from 5:15 to 7 pm with light south winds, water 66f the last of the outgoing very dirty water and first of the incoming.We caught somewhere around 40 specks with one 17 in keeper. Air temps were in low 70's or upper 60's. Beautiful evening.

Togs and specks Oct.21, 2010

Fished the morning with Arthur and Jack for togs. Air upper 50's, Water 64 F, West WSW15 to 20 increasing to 25kts by 12:30pm. Fished 1st island where I did good Sunday the last of the incoming and first of the outgoing. It was a little bumpy but fishable. One tog , the bite never turned on.Dropped them off and headed back to the house.
Met Brian at 2 PM and fished the river for specks. We caught at least 50 but no keepers. Gray shrimp gulp and green gulp mullets were the ticket.Back at the house at 5 pm. Water was 66f in the river 25 kt west

Lynnhaven River Oct.19, 2010

David and I went out for an hour and half to find some decent sized specks or pups.Water 66f, light winds, air 50's incoming tide. Nothing was biting so went back to the house and caught a few small specks off the dock. No bait anywhere.

Tog fishing Oct. 17, 2010

Left the house at 10:15am anf started fishing at the first island around 11 am. Water 65 f, Wind SW 15+ outgoing current. Its was not a strong current and and we picked away at them staring in 11 ft picking up small fish then dropping back to 15 ft where we found a better class of fish. We broke off three large fish most likely sheepshead on the rocks and ended up with our 8 fish limit before 1:20pm. Went looking for some decent sized spot but was no in the cards today. Tried for some pups for about 45 minutes off church point but the crabs cleaned the bait very quickly.

Here is a pic of the togmaster himself Dan with a nice mess of togs up to 6 lbs

October 15, 2010

Fished from 8:30 am to 2 pm, Wind at 20 knots west, water 68f and dirty, air 60's. Went to Rudee in the skiff today with Ron Thornburg as he wanted some spot and croaker. Well we did OK on the croaker but it was slow. Fished the incoming tide around the Jetties with the north Jettie being most productive. We caught a few small spot, small sea mullet and a few small specks.Another day off with 20 knots of wind. Maybe I should have run to the triangles today.

October 12, 2010

Left the house with my neighbor Clarence at 6 pm and went o 2nd for some tog and sheep. Had 30 minute window before dark and only managed 15 in tog. wind was light, current was light ebb, water 68f. Tried for croakers after dark but nada at 2nd or 1st. Went in the river to try a favorite spot for pups, Nada! I think th pups are scattered right now with all the bait in the river and won't start feeding on the lights till the temps drop.

Oct 7, 2010 Jonathan' paper sheep 10 lbs 2 oz a little over 24 inches

Fishing Oct. 5, 2010

Merv's son is over from Scotland and he wanted to catch some fish. It's been raining and blowing since he got here and today was no different except we had sun. Winds NW at 20kts, water temp 69F and dirty. The target today was sheepshead and were were not denied. We left at 2pm and he took almost an hour to get to the 2nd island and where I wanted to fish was just unfishable so I got as close as I could and anchored. We fished from 3:15 to 5:15 PM and managed 3 sheeps 20, 22, 25, several togs, some nice pups and a 3 lb trigger.