We went to the eastern shore of Va yesterday and caught about 80 good size Croaker. Very light tackle. What a great way to spend the day with your sons.

rickheel Wrote:We went to the eastern shore of Va yesterday and caught about 80 good size Croaker. Very light tackle. What a great way to spend the day with your sons.

y'know, i've never been fishing before. People always seem to have fun, even if they don't catch anything. I'm definitely going to do some fishing in college.

I fish all the time, in fact during the summer it constitutes my income. Light tackle fishing is the best, if you can get away with it. I'm not much a saltwater fisherman though, grew up in the mountains instead. I just bought a new boat, which is why i'm rarely on here anymore.


Were you bottom fishing?

rickheel Wrote:We went to the eastern shore of Va yesterday and caught about 80 good size Croaker. Very light tackle. What a great way to spend the day with your sons.

Going w/ my son this Sat. Heading out from Solomon's Island.

Haven't been since I lived in AZ. Good time though.

Yep. We found a nice school which seemed to be moving very slowly. Drifted over it a couple of times and just killed em. What a blast.

Havent been for awhile, the river is right across the street I used to go every day.

DrTorch Wrote:

rickheel Wrote:We went to the eastern shore of Va yesterday and caught about 80 good size Croaker. Very light tackle. What a great way to spend the day with your sons. 

Going w/ my son this Sat. Heading out from Solomon's Island.

Haven't been since I lived in AZ. Good time though.

Soloman's Island--tipped many a glass there. Lived across the bridge for 7 years...had a nice house on the Potomac just up from Pt Lookout and used to crab off the dock.
Memories...
Seafood sucks big time in Ohio. :(

Have to agree Axeme, both the act of fishing and the seafood itself in Ohio can't hold to saltwater fare. I look forward to our trip to the Florida Gulf Coast every year just for the seafood. We usually go out for grouper, snapper and rudderfish at least once a trip.

The problem is that it has ruined my ambition for fishing up here. Walleye and crappie are certainly a distant second to a grouper or snapper fillet. However, I still spend a fair amount of time on Lake Erie for Walleye and Grand Lake for crappie with my sons.

I will soon teach them to walk the rocks of the James River in search of large Small Mouth.

Rick, this past weekend I had one of those moments a father will never forget. I taught my 5 year old to cast and took him large mouth fishing. The look on his face and his screaming "Dad, Dad!" when he caught his first fish "all by himself" was absolutely awesome!